[Lnc-business] Motion: Assemblyman Moore - request for co-sponsors

[Starchild]

Daniel,

	Thank you Dan for having the principled dedication to do what's right for the libertarian movement and party even in the case of a friend might consider it unwelcome. Hopefully this resolution will, by sending a strong message, help avert more of us avoid experiencing disappointments like yours in the future. I wish John Moore the best in coming to his libertarian senses, and urge him to take this in the spirit of an "intervention" by friends who don't want to see their friends in power abusing their bodies politic by drinking too much statism. 

	I will also co-sponsor the motion.

Love & Liberty,
                               ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
                            (415) 625-FREE
                              @StarchildSF



On Oct 20, 2016, at 6:27 PM, Daniel Hayes wrote:

> John Moore is someone I have grown to consider to be a friend.  He slept on the sleeper sofa in my villa during the LNC meeting in Phoenix when he came down from Las Vegas to first address the LNC. He spoke at the Louisiana State Convention in April of 2016 and I personally ran an impromptu fund raiser for his campaign that garnered close to $2500. I believe I have personally donated somewhere near $500 to his campaign.  I strongly advocated for giving his campaign $10,000 from the LNC.   I am so disappointed in his current actions that I can not possibly convey how deep that disappointment goes.  It leaves me immensely saddened.  His actions in these votes don't even line up with how he performed in the past as a Republican assemblyman much less with how he should vote now as a member of the Libertarian Party.
> 
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> I WILL CO-SPONSOR THIS MOTION.
> 
> 
> Daniel Hayes LNC At Large Member
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> On Oct 20, 2016, at 05:46 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Multiple party members including region 1 members have acted that the LNC take action regarding Assemblyman Moore. While normally, I would say that is solely an issue for the state party to handle, unless possibly, a Federal candidate, but in this case, we spent National Party member's direct monies, and thus I do agree this is our responsibility.  As someone who advocated for the funds allocation, I believe it is my responsibility to address this once members raised a concern:
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>> Whereas Nevada Assemblyman John Moore, a former Republican who in January 2016 switched to the Libertarian Party while in office, has during the past month voted not once but twice in the span of as many days to raise taxes on his constituents, including a vote to support a "More Cops" tax which the Libertarian Party of Nevada has tirelessly and thus far successfully opposed, and a vote to provide a $750 million subsidy to finance a billionaire-owned sports stadium at the expense of, among others, indigent persons renting weekly rooms in motels; and
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>> Whereas the elected leaders of our state affiliate party in Nevada have rightfully voted to censure Assemblyman Moore for these egregious votes; and
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>> Whereas we wish to convey a strong message to all and sundry that while we welcome sitting legislators in the Republican or Democrat parties who decide to switch to the Libertarian Party as an act of conscience, we do not welcome them if they intend, as members of our party, to continue voting and acting like Republicans or Democrats;
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>> Therefore be it resolved that the Libertarian National Committee hereby censures Assemblyman Moore for his recent votes in support of tax increases, requests that he return the $10,000 campaign contribution which the LNC this season voted to send him, and admonishes him to henceforward be a better champion of the values held by members of the political party with which he has chosen to affiliate if he intends to remain a Libertarian.
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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
>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
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