[Lnc-business] Let's change the tone of our discussions

[Sam Goldstein]

For those of you not addicted to FaceBook:

Just to post something positive for a change, following is a excerpt from
the current LPIN Liberty Beacon newsletter describing a new member's first
visit to our state convention. John Pickerill
<https://www.facebook.com/john.pickerill.5?fref=mentions>, by the way, is
the former Chair of the Montgomery County (IN) Republican Party:

Being a fairly new Libertarian, John Pickerill headed to Evansville on
Friday, May 5th, with hopeful curiosity about how his own first LPIN
convention would unfold. John happily reports that while driving home on
Sunday, "I felt more politically energized than I had been in a long time.
My sense of mission was restored."

John came to the LPIN after dismay at major-party state conventions, whose
agendas he describes as being "just-for-show". Having seen no real-time
input at those gatherings, nor substantive on-floor debate, he
characterizes their delegates as simply "expected to rubber-stamp top-down
decisions" made in advance.

In Evansville John saw the Libertarian contrast. He says, "The genuine
political party experience was apparent on Friday when I witnessed a State
Chair debate presented for the attendees. And on the convention floor
Saturday, delegates were given the opportunity to speak for and against
candidates" competing for LPIN office.

John liked seeing for himself that "it was the LPIN delegates who elected
their state officers and who voted to amend bylaws and rules -- as is
supposed to happen at a convention. It wasn't just that the LPIN follows
the rules, but also that guest speakers all focused, not on propaganda or
personality, but on advancing the cause of liberty."

"One speaker stressed bringing liberty topics to the media at every
opportunity. Another spoke on ensuring that people attracted to the LP can
be confident that we'll do what we say and say what we mean." A highlight
for John was hearing an elected office-holder describe in detail "what it
means to legislate as a Libertarian."

John even appreciates that "the Chair and State Central Committee (SCC)
held an ad hoc fundraiser Saturday evening, raising money yes, plus
important confidence and energy." On Sunday he stayed to observe the
post-convention SCC meeting and notes that it made "several key decisions
to put the new Chair's plans into action."

John summarizes our 2017 event in Evansviile: "I found a political party
that is well-organized, that faithfully follows its own rules, and that
passionately adheres to its cause of liberty. As said by our Libertarian
National Committee member Sam Goldstein publicly to me on this convention's
floor -- 'John, welcome home.'"
Sam Goldstein
Libertarian National Committee
Member at Large
8925 N Meridian St, Ste 101
Indianapolis IN 46260
317-850-0726 Phone
317-582-1773 Fax
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