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

[Whitney Bilyeu]

I ABSTAIN from the vote to censure John Moore.

I accept the responsibility for my vote on the original motion to fund, and
I recognize the need for more investigation in the future when such
requests are made.

I don't support any measures by any legislators/elected officials to grow
government or diminish freedom.

I don't think censure is appropriate.  Not because he doesn't "deserve it",
but because he isn't a part of this group, and it would be nothing more
than a symbolic (and redundant) gesture.

I would like to have the $10,000 back, sure...but that ship has likely
sailed.  That is something this body has to live with, since it was our
choice to give the money, based on the information we had at the time.

As a volunteer staffer on another campaign that received LNC funds, and
having voted in favor of that disbursement, as well as the one for
Assemblyman Moore, I prefer to abstain on this particular vote.

I think a NO vote would imply that I see nothing wrong with Moore's
actions, and that is not the case.  However, I don't agree with the motion,
as written, either.

Whitney Bilyeu
Region 7 Representative

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I vote no.
>
> I think our affiliate has handled this and that it does not rise to the
> level of the national board.  Certainly, it is relevant that we gave money,
> but that was our decision, not Mr. Moore's, and I don't think it purchased
> us any rights.  We should think about the lessons for the future, in many
> ways.
>
> Joshua A. Katz
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:20 AM, 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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