[Lnc-business] Outreach to Log Cabin Republicans

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

The fact is that, like Norm's prior motion, most of these do not have a
specific direction to a person or to a deadline (and I suspect such would
be meant with strenuous 'micromanagement" objections), but that doesn't
mean that they should just fall through the cracks. We don't have any
procedure in place that I see to make sure that they don't.  We should.

As far as clumsy wording or request in this regard: Guilty as charged.  I
am learning.

I am asking publicly since the motion was public, the Region 1 member's
request was public and I believe in public communications on public
directives.
And it is an example that we have a failure in our process.

I realize you don't agree that we *should* be making directions such as the
one above but we *did* and I expect when I go back through several years of
minutes, I will find many others.

This isn't to finger point or blame or do any other completely
nonproductive and useless thing.  It is to note an issue and call upon US
to correct it with a collective responsibility to the LNC.

And FWIW I see the same issue in my own state party at times, and am
working on that level to correct.  This is a common institutional thing.
And because it is common and is an accountability thing, I think it needs
to be on list.  I realize you may disagree, but you and I have different
views of institutional transparency *on some things* (certainly not all).

Members notice we don't follow through.  Members deserve to see the follow
through and the discussion when we fail.



On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The LNC gives directions; it, in general, doesn't carry them out.  In most
> organizations, if a board direction is not followed, the person involved
> will be approached privately to find out if they are following it, or
> what's going on.  Sometimes it turns out that too much was loaded onto a
> person; sometimes it turns out that a direction just isn't being followed
> for whatever reason, sometimes it turns out it was followed and there
> simply wasn't a report about it.
>
> In this case, though, we have a motion that doesn't give any particular
> direction.  It just expresses the sense of the LNC that the Chair should do
> something.  If I were the Chair, and  I had a different sense, I'd probably
> follow my sense.  On the other hand, if the LNC had directed some action of
> me, I'd probably do as directed.
>
> I don't know if the individuals involved were approached privately, but
> I'd suggest starting there if not.  If that doesn't resolve the follow-up
> issue, I'd suggest bringing it back to the board with a specific action in
> mind, such as turning this into a directive.
>
> Finally, I'd suggest that, in the future, motions of this sort be
> directives, and give a date on which the directed individual is to report.
> More generally, I'd suggest the board consider higher-level strategic
> actions in place of such specific directives, but when the need to be
> specific is felt, that it be clearly expressed.
>
> Joshua A. Katz
> Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos <
> carynannharlos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I remind the LNC that this too was allowed to lie fallow with no
>> followup.  No response was ever made to this inquiry.
>>
>>
>> --
>> *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 Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos <
>> carynannharlos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> At our 7/17/16 meeting, this was stated:
>>>
>>> Mr. Sarwark yielded the gavel to Mr. Vohra. Ms. Harlos moved that it is
>>> the sense of the LNC that the Chair should make efforts to reach out to
>>> the Log Cabin Republicans. Mr. Sarwark resumed the gavel. Following debate,
>>> the motion was adopted without objection.
>>>
>>> Has there been any effort to reach out to this group>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *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 <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>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *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 <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>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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-- 
*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 <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>
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