[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-10: Rescind Contract Authority

[Joshua Katz]

We gave the chair binding authority to negotiate and execute a contract.
Negotiation, naturally, is just that.  You don't get everything you want
because both sides of a negotiation want to get things.  Asking someone to
negotiate for you is asking them to navigate those trade-offs for you, to
make these decisions.  I don't think we should have done that.  When we
were waiting for a contract, I would have supported a rescission - not
because I thought the chair was doing a bad job or I was worried about the
terms, but because the long wait suggested to me that there was a
stalemate, and sometimes you can break a stalemate by putting in a new
person.

That isn't what we're talking about here, though.  Instead, after giving
this task to the chair, this is an effort to turn around when the task is
done and criticize the priorities chosen and decisions made and say "you
could have gotten a better deal without giving anything up."  How do we
know that?  We don't, but we'd be banking on it, because if not, we're not
going to get a new deal anytime soon.

I find it very aggravating that we pushed this task onto the chair, and now
want to say "you should have done it differently."  I also see no plan for
what will come next here.  Do we select a new negotiator?  What if the LNC
doesn't like what they come back with, either?  Surely no one expects this
entire body to negotiate a contract, which is not too many cook spoiling
the broth - it's 20 cooks trying to flip a pancake.

I vote no.

Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Starchild <sfdreamer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Or just have a contract without the secrecy provision. I don't think the
> campaign is going to want to spend these four or five weeks resisting
> having a signed contract because they demand secrecy on a document which,
> if it isn't signed, they would have no guarantee would not be publicly
> released anyway. Especially because we've seen no evidence that they *are*
> demanding secrecy. It seems quite possible there was just some legal
> boilerplate text put in or something.
>
> Yes, I guess I am saying pass it so that we can see what's in it!    :-(
>
> Love & Liberty,
>                                ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>                             (415) 625-FREE
>
>
> On Sep 25, 2016, at 2:15 AM, Aaron Starr wrote:
>
> I vote No.
>
> If this motion were to be adopted, we will have no contract at all. The
> campaign is not going to spend the last four or five weeks of this election
> cycle trying to negotiate a contract with seventeen people.
>
> Aaron Starr
> (805) 583-3308 Home
> (805) 404-8693 Mobile
> starrcpa at gmail.com
>
> *From:* Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Alicia Mattson
> *Sent:* Friday, September 23, 2016 11:20 PM
> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> *Subject:* [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-10: Rescind Contract Authority
>
> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>
>
>
> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by October 3, 2016 at 11:59:59pm
> Pacific time.*
> *Co-Sponsors:*  Harlos, Hayes, Starchild, Demarest
>
> *Motion:*  to rescind the authority granted to the Chair to negotiate and
> execute a campaign contract and the Joint Fundraising Agreement and rescind
> any signatures already executed.
> -Alicia
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