[Lnc-business] EFC Update and Extension

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

I believe Alicia is starting an email ballot, either way, without objection
or vote takes ten days.

-Caryn Ann

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is no reason for a special committee, in my opinion, to have a
> name.  Nor is any nickname worthy of extended discussion.
>
> If we have this much trouble doing something we all agree on (waiting
> longer for bids), I shudder to picture the first Libertarian Congress.
>
> Alternatively, we could just keep running in circles about the extension
> until, oh, January 30 or so.
>
> Joshua A. Katz
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Demarest, David P. <
> David.Demarest at firstdata.com> wrote:
>
>> Since we are considering Alicia’s wise suggested amendment to the
>> original motion at the December LNC meeting, this would be a good
>> opportunity to include in the amendment a clear, concise name for the
>> committee agreeable to all. Then we can get on with the more important
>> challenge of getting stuff done.
>>
>>
>>
>> To start the ball rolling, I suggest “Messaging Technique Committee”
>> (MTC) or “Messaging Mode Committee” (MMC) as an improvement on the present
>> “Name Unknown Committee” (NUC). Others?
>>
>>
>>
>> ====================================
>>
>>
>>
>> Caryn Ann, I understand and agree with your concerns about committee
>> scope creep and backdoor circumvention of the principle and message content
>> approval responsibilities of the Platform Committee and convention
>> delegates. There is wide-spread disagreement within all levels of the LP on
>> whether LP outreach message content is or should be based on platform
>> content that is too timid, too bold or as many variations in between as
>> there are individual Libertarians. However, many would agree that the voice
>> of the LP would benefit from a major overhaul of our messaging
>> *technique* strategy that has an undeniably poor track record.
>>
>>
>>
>> Like you, I am inclined to think that passive-aggressive attempts to
>> promote a false-dichotomy Libertarian conflict between principles and
>> getting stuff done is both divisive and subversive to our LP platform,
>> messaging strategy and freedom goals. At the same time, blind allegiance to
>> static historical imperatives does a disservice to our intellectual
>> abilities. Reality suggests that LP consensus on Platform disagreements is
>> not likely to occur in the foreseeable future, with or without a “night of
>> the long knives” strategy proposed by a small cadre of “Libertarian”
>> Machiavellian authoritarians with latent statist motivations.
>>
>>
>>
>> Institutions, by their very nature as groups of individuals, suffer from
>> inertia and internal disagreements. Institutions are great focal points but
>> their size and diversity often results in diminished productivity returns
>> unless they are dominated by top-down dictatorial authoritarians that
>> offend the liberty-oriented sensibilities of most Libertarians.
>> Accordingly, I propose that we embrace our internal institutional
>> disagreements and leverage our diversity to refocus our Libertarian
>> institutions as inspirational focal points designed to lead by example,
>> empower and motivate individual Libertarians to strike out on their own and
>> do the bulk of getting Libertarian stuff done.
>>
>>
>>
>> I love the LP and LNC as inspirational focal points and gatherings. There
>> I can network with talented action-oriented Libertarians with an admirable
>> variety of persuasions. That diversity is directly responsible for a wealth
>> of food-for-thought ideas on bottom-up personal opportunities to move the
>> needle in the direction of freedom. Those ideas naturally lead to
>> self-starter collaborations within smaller groups of like-minded
>> Libertarians that share similar principles and can get Libertarian stuff
>> done without institutional distractions.
>>
>>
>>
>> One exciting purpose of the upcoming October 20-22 2017 Omaha Libertarian
>> Strategy UnConvention is to facilitate a dialog on how to embrace
>> Libertarian institutional disagreements and inspire individual Libertarians
>> to emerge from their institutional cocoon comfort zones and seize the
>> initiative to accelerate getting Libertarian stuff done.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> ~David Pratt Demarest
>>
>> LNC Region 6 Representative
>>
>> Cell:      402-981-6469 <(402)%20981-6469>
>>
>> Home: 402-493-0873 <(402)%20493-0873>
>>
>> Office: 402-222-7207 <(402)%20222-7207>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Caryn Ann Harlos [mailto:carynannharlos at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 11, 2017 11:04 AM
>> *To:* Libertarian National Committee list
>> *Cc:* Demarest, David P.
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Lnc-business] EFC Update and Extension
>>
>>
>>
>> I too agree (I am not a co-sponsor but just giving my thoughts) to
>> Alicia's points on the wording.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alicia also touched upon an objection I had early on.  The Committee name
>> does not reflect what was passed or what the Committee is actually doing in
>> the narrow confines of what was passed.  I continue to object to expansion
>> via naming.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *In Liberty,*
>>
>> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
>>
>> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska,
>> Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
>> Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
>>
>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.lpcolorado.org_&d=CwMFaQ&c=ewHkv9vLloTwhsKn5d4bTdoqsmBfyfooQX5O7EQLv5TtBZ1CwcvjU063xndfqI8U&r=POfq57_C0OM3236VPm9_N_9MhP1EEP_0raNPnh6qDnw&m=3iwVVz9Ld5uWndgb4jc7RADVjb3vIYGWRpVVgCcHCsY&s=l9ldp5ZqGOxWyd6MYAtQkJOf2-E4LKIVC8dHZs98CCs&e=>
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>> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.lpradicalcaucus.org_&d=CwMFaQ&c=ewHkv9vLloTwhsKn5d4bTdoqsmBfyfooQX5O7EQLv5TtBZ1CwcvjU063xndfqI8U&r=POfq57_C0OM3236VPm9_N_9MhP1EEP_0raNPnh6qDnw&m=3iwVVz9Ld5uWndgb4jc7RADVjb3vIYGWRpVVgCcHCsY&s=yCHF0ZH2t5XzCG1wO4R3TIUp6bvy3782CAphJ68hkSA&e=>
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>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:47 AM, David Demarest <
>> dpdemarest at centurylink.net> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with Alicia’s thoughtful suggestion on how to make the “EFC”
>> motion simple and technically correct.
>>
>>
>>
>> Trent, Larry and co-sponsors: Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> ~David Pratt Demarest
>>
>> LNC Region 6 Representative
>>
>> Cell:      402-981-6469 <(402)%20981-6469>
>>
>> Home: 402-493-0873 <(402)%20493-0873>
>>
>> Office: 402-222-7207 <(402)%20222-7207>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] *On Behalf
>> Of *Alicia Mattson
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 11, 2017 2:11 AM
>>
>>
>> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Lnc-business] EFC Update and Extension
>>
>>
>>
>> There are 5 co-sponsors of this motion, which is more than enough to
>> sponsor an email ballot, however there are two technical problems with the
>> wording, one of which is fairly important to note.  I want to make sure the
>> co-sponsors are aware of this before I send it out for a vote.
>>
>> 1)  This motion references "EFC", but if someone is not reading these
>> threads as we are, and they're just reading our minutes later, they'll have
>> no clue what this motion is talking about.  At the time we created the
>> committee, we didn't specify any name for the committee at all, but it was
>> under an agenda heading about reviewing the 2016 campaign.  Following the
>> meeting when I needed to have staff add this committee to our website, I
>> merely had them designate it as the Committee to Solicit Bids for Reviewing
>> 2016 Campaign.  That way it would be easy to find in our minutes what that
>> committee was.
>>
>> The committee members themselves nicknamed it the Empowered Future
>> Committee (? I think ?), but that name appears nowhere in our minutes, nor
>> does the acronym EFC.
>>
>> The name confusion will will leave readers in the dark about what it was
>> this motion did.
>>
>> 2)  The bigger technical issue with this motion is that it actually
>> imposes new requirements on the committee and doesn't accurately represent
>> what the date in the original motion was for.  This wording says nothing
>> about changing the due date for the bids, which is what the January 10th
>> date was.  However, the wording now says the committee is to present us a
>> report by the date of January 30, though the original motion required no
>> report from the committee to the LNC in January.  If we mean to make the
>> bid deadline January 30, the committee would presumably need some time
>> after the bid submission deadline to come up with any recommendations and
>> make any sort of report back to us about the bids.
>>
>> Is that what the co-sponsors intended to do?  Impose a new reporting
>> requirement on an unreasonable time frame?
>>
>> My suggestion to fix both issues is that you take Joshua's idea to merely
>> amend the motion we adopted in December to change the date, and leave the
>> rest of the wording alone.  (Okay, technically Joshua said just to change
>> the "1" to a "3", but this representation is just a little more readable.)
>> Amend the motion we adopted in December as follows:
>>
>>
>>
>> "that the Libertarian National Committee establish a committee to take
>> bids from political consultants for the task of extensively reviewing and
>> making recommendations for the Libertarian Party’s messaging (and modes of
>> messaging), inclusion in the debates, fundraising and campaign finance,
>> campaign mechanics, and state and local affiliates. Said agency will agree
>> to present their findings to the public before December of 2017. The
>> committee will take bids until the 10th*30th* of January."
>>
>>
>>
>> I need to hear from the co-sponsors what you want to do.
>>
>> -Alicia
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Demarest, David P. <
>> David.Demarest at firstdata.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am seeking co-sponsors for the following motion:
>>
>>
>>
>> Extend deadline from 1/10/2017 to 1/30/2017 for EFC presentation to LNC
>> of report on political consultant bids, analysis and recommendations.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> *2017 Omaha Libertarian Strategy UnConvention Oct 20-22*
>>
>>
>>
>> ~David Pratt Demarest
>>
>> LNC Region 6 Representative
>>
>> Cell:      402-981-6469 <(402)%20981-6469>
>>
>> Home: 402-493-0873 <(402)%20493-0873>
>>
>> Office: 402-222-7207 <(402)%20222-7207>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* David Demarest [mailto:dpdemarest at centurylink.net]
>> *Sent:* Monday, January 09, 2017 11:02 PM
>> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org
>> *Cc:* Demarest, David P.; 'David Demarest'
>> *Subject:* RE: [Lnc-business] EFC Update and Extension
>>
>>
>>
>> Larry or Trent,
>>
>>
>>
>> If you can provide the desired wording, I will offer the motion unless
>> someone has already done so.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> ~David Pratt Demarest
>>
>> LNC Region 6 Representative
>>
>> Cell:      402-981-6469 <(402)%20981-6469>
>>
>> Home: 402-493-0873 <(402)%20493-0873>
>>
>> Office: 402-222-7207 <(402)%20222-7207>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org
>> <lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org>] *On Behalf Of *Joshua Katz
>> *Sent:* Monday, January 09, 2017 7:35 PM
>> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Lnc-business] EFC Update and Extension
>>
>>
>>
>> My recollection is that we chose January 10 so that the bids would be
>> presented on my birthday.  I'm disappointed we won't be able to receive
>> them on that auspicious occasion.
>>
>>
>>
>> I will cosponsor a motion with Sam, however, to amend our previously
>> adopted motion by substituting a 3 for the 1 in "10."
>>
>>
>> Joshua A. Katz
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Larry Sharpe <lsharpe at neo-sage.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi LNC Team,
>>
>> Happy New Year.
>>
>> We have found four possible vendors for proposals. Each has our request
>> and is scheduled to provide us with a plan/proposal by the end of this week.
>>
>> We will whittle these down and perhaps have a Q & A and/or a 2nd round
>> before selecting 2 or 3 of them to present (heir plans with details) to the
>> LNC.
>>
>> As I mentioned in a previous note, we will need to extend our deadline.
>> It was challenging to get the right vendors who are the right size, with
>> the right backgrounds, that are willing to help us with flexible pricing
>> options. And when you add on the Holiday Season, this was even tougher.
>>
>> Therefore, with respect, the EFC requests an extension to January 30th to
>> confidently be able to present options to the LNC.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Larry
>>
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>> *In Liberty,*
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>> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
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*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
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Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
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