[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-15: Censure John Moore

[Tim Hagan]

I let Assemblyman Moore know about the motion and offered to forward any response from him to the LNC. He said he will get his thoughts together in the next couple of days.

Tim Hagan
   

   From: Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
 To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org 
 Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 10:23 PM
 Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-15: Censure John Moore
  
I am sure that some are chomping at the bit to hurry up and vote on this so that they will feel like they've made a statement.

However, I strongly recommend that we should not vote until Assemblyman Moore has been offered the chance to send us a statement to defend his actions.  If you were the target of a censure motion, wouldn't you want a chance to defend yourself BEFORE people voted?

-Alicia




On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

We have an electronic mail ballot.

Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by October 31, 2016 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.
 
Co-Sponsors:  Harlos, Demarest, Hayes, Vohra, Starchild, Goldstein, Redpath

Motion: 

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

Whereas the elected leaders of our state affiliate party in Nevada have rightfully voted to censure Assemblyman Moore for these egregious votes; and

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;

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.


-Alicia




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