[Lnc-business] Transparency of LNC Subcommittees

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Mike, thank you for writing.  As your Regional Representative I am
absolutely committed to transparency and will keep my campaign promise to
fight for it.  I urge my fellow Regional Representatives to be in touch
with grass roots Party members.  I am, and do not find that they support
opacity.

cc: LNC Business List

-- 
*In Liberty,*
*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>



On Sunday, August 14, 2016, Starchild <sfdreamer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Thank you for your passionate support for Libertarian Party leadership
> transparency! You make excellent points, and I sure wish we did have a
> committee filled by representatives for whom all this was a no-brainer. The
> fact that we as a party are still prone to elevating people based on their
> having some degree of fame, establishment credentials or deep pockets
> rather than on their commitment to and ability to communicate libertarian
> ideas and positions, *is* a weakness, although our opponents in the
> already-fatally-compromised cartel parties may not necessarily recognize it
> as such. If the LP survives over time as a sustainably libertarian
> organization, it will be because of the efforts of committed young
> activists like yourself. Thanks again for keeping it real!
>
> Love & Liberty,
>                                  ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>                                (415) 625-FREE
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Mike Shipley wrote:
>
> I am a Life Member of the LP and an extremely active participant, working
> many hours every single day for the cause of liberty in our lifetimes and I
> saw the recent dialogue among the sitting LNC regarding the transparency of
> party activities.
>
> I hate to point out the obvious, but it will never be a secret that the LP
> supports its candidates in competitive races, nor that the opposition is
> doing the same. The names of the candidates are not only being publicized
> widely by their campaigns, for obvious reasons, but their existence is
> already transparent through the electoral process since public statements
> of organization and campaign financing are filed in their jurisdictions,
> nearly all of whom use digital technology to make them available online.
>
> How is it possible that a party which claims to stand for good government
> would seek to be less transparent than the corrupt bureaucracy it seeks to
> dismantle?
>
> In related news of the obvious, if the opposition is looking for a
> weakness of ours to exploit, they need look no further than the public
> archives of CSPAN, where there is a transparent record of a man who had not
> even read our platform being nominated for the second highest office in the
> land. There is no need to outmaneuver us by spying on a subcommittee when
> the entire world already knows an old party member can gain access to our
> ticket by paying $25 and citing their establishment connections as a
> qualifier.
>
> By thinking its subcommittees are so skilled at intrigue that opacity can
> shield them from a corrupt political establishment that has built an empire
> it maintains by coopting peoples' movements, opponents of transparency show
> themselves to be so incredibly naive as not to be trusted one bit further
> with strategic decisions. And they also show themselves unworthy to lead a
> free people.
>
> I urge the LNC to preserve the existing transparency and expand it,
> confident in the understanding that secrecy can never deliver on its
> promised benefits. It cannot prevent competitive races from being
> competitive, the only thing prevents is members of this party from learning
> what is being done in our name.
>
> Libertarian leadership must exemplify the principles we intend to bring to
> government or we cannot hope to implement them in office. Thank you for
> your time and service.
>
> --
> Mike Shipley
> Phoenix, AZ
>
> "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't
> have any."
>
>
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