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

[Alicia Mattson]

I vote no.

This whole situation makes me cringe.  I'm as unhappy about the stadium
vote as the rest of you.  Sadly, the communication from Mr. Moore to the
LNC made me cringe more, not less.

I share some of the concerns voiced by Ken and Joshua.  Unfortunately I
have been WAY too busy to follow up further on my potential alternative
motion.

It is routine in an LNC meeting to hear someone say that their personal
opinion on a motion is "no", but they are voting "yes" because their region
wants it, or because they feel the membership at large wants it.  Then we
censure Mr. Moore for doing the same thing?  I agree that there was an
awfully basic libertarian value trampled by his vote, but I sometimes think
that about some votes cast by my LNC colleagues, too.  :-)

Every donor to a political campaign is doing so on faith that the candidate
will perform as expected.  It is painful to have those hopes dashed.

I'd rather not turn the LNC into the elected Libertarian policing agency.
The LPNV censured him already, and I think that is sufficient.

-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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