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

[Joshua Katz]

Because I thoughtlessly put my vote at the bottom, I will repeat it.  I
vote no.

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

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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