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

[Alicia Mattson]

Yahoo/AOL sets spam flagging policies that sometimes result in Yahoo/AOL
email addresses not playing nicely with our email list.  Today that problem
bit Jeff Hewitt.  He attempted to send a message to us on this thread, but
many domains including GMail rejected it due to flagging from Yahoo/AOL.
Below is Jeff's message.  It may have made it through to a few of you, but
it did not make it to my inbox, and I think many others did not receive it.

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From: From Jeff Hewitt <hdigger2004 at aol.com>
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Cc:
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 10:06:16 -0400
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-15: Censure John Moore

We, as a party, as a national committee, as a group of intellectually
honest individuals, are abhorred at the actions of a politician who we put
our faith and our financial backing into.  Representative Moore offered a
tantalizing chance to have one of "us" at the table in a state house. This
opportunity rarely occurs. But like so many times before, we feel we have
been played by someone who took advantage of an eager wallflower who just
wanted to be asked to dance.  After humiliating us in front of our peers,
we just want to key his car and make sure he can never do this again.  Why
stop at censure?  Why not immediately kick any elected "libertarian"
official out of the party for voting against anything in our platform?

I hate the term "crony capitalism" much like the term "fair share" because
it generalizes to the degree of being devoid of any real substance.  These
are the terms used by torch carrying mobs to incite passion.  When we point
out specific wrongs like the effect a hotel tax has on transient groups, we
assign real harm and moral morass to a specific action.  I believe our
party has a very high bar for not only principles but also character.  The
other two major parties, at this point in time, show no bar at all in the
acceptance of two national candidates who will do or say anything to get
elected.

I have been a city councilman for 6 years and have had libertarian values
all of my life.  I have made protest votes at certain times and I have
voted statist in more than a few situations.  There were difficult votes
that I stayed true to my values, especially on private property rights.
Every elected needs to make these decisions on their own.  I had a
conversation with John yesterday and after hearing his side I told him I
would probably have voted differently than he did.  Whether or not he gets
re-elected, he has to live with his vote.

Regardless of the outcome, I will continue to engage with not only
Representative  Moore, but with other disgruntled "duoplicrats".  Remember,
when you take away the ability to fail, you take away the ability to
succeed.

 Let's give him a chance to succeed.  I would hope he is wiser from his
experience.

I vote "no" on censure.         Jeff Hewitt    Representative Region 4



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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