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

[Whitney Bilyeu]

Is someone in particular extending an invitation to him to speak for
himself?

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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