[Lnc-business] New Committee does not resolve the problem

Sun Apr 16 23:18:33 EDT 2017

Larry is right.

I see an agenda here to strike at making a "centrist" party once again.

All I can say is that I see it and will strenuously oppose.

We are NOT centrists.  We are Libertarians and pushing the edge IS part if
our job.

-Caryn Ann

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:15 PM Larry Sharpe <lsharpe at neo-sage.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Just an opinion to take into consideration: The reason for the huge
> backlash on the Satanic post was timing.
>
> As many of you have heard me preach, emotion and culture matter. We just
> came off the "pro-choice on everything" event, that made many people feel
> unhappy. They saw it as an attack on their culture. And then we responded
> with logical reasons for its validity. Logical responses to emotional
> concerns rarely work. Accordingly, many of them were still emotionally raw.
> Then during Easter week the Satanic Pic was posted. And of course, many
> people again responded with logical reasons as to why it was acceptable.
> This felt like more disrespect and a pile-on attack to their culture.
>
> If this Satanic pic had come out in July or August (and we had no similar
> instances in the meantime), this would have been a minor blip.
>
> Again, just my opinion. I hope it's helpful.
>
> PS - Yes, Joshua, that 5% was a nice gesture and I am pleased. Thanks for
> acknowledging my emotions. :)
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I agree with roughly 3/4 of Steven's email.  (To please Larry Sharpe, I
>> will increase it to 80%.)  I will leave it as a mystery which 3/4 it is.
>>
>> Joshua A. Katz
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Steven Nekhaila <
>> steven.nekhaila at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The APRC is beyond its scope of duty if it is going to be monitoring
>>> posts, creating a marketing strategy, etc. That is why this committee was
>>> founded and it will tally up our shortcomings and identify our
>>> opportunities while allowing us to double down on our strengths. This is
>>> not a committee to investigate the APRC, this committee will review all of
>>> our social media practices and evaluate our current strategies which will
>>> come back to the LNC as a report so we can take meaningful, effective
>>> action in the proper direction.
>>>
>>> If we were to simply put the staff in charge of vetting posts it would
>>> be an undue burden, and more importantly it may not yield the effective
>>> results we are looking for. Social media is very complex and involves
>>> proprietary algorithms, while also varying from platform to platform, we
>>> need to keep our aces in their places while also looking for opportunities
>>> to improve brand protection and messaging.
>>>
>>> By having a committee study our social media assets and procedures and
>>> returning a report to the LNC we will be able to uncover opportunities that
>>> we may not know exist and expound on solutions. I hope you can have
>>> confidence in us to bring something substantial to the table come next
>>> meeting or before, this will not be taken lightly.
>>>
>>> Instead of attacking the situation with a hatchet, let's approach it
>>> with a scalpel, keep our teams motivated, and use this as a learning
>>> opportunity. I just ask you to trust our judgement and understand that we
>>> share your concerns.
>>>
>>> In Liberty,
>>>
>>> Steven Nekhaila
>>> Region 2 Representative Alt
>>> 305-393-6412 <(305)%20393-6412>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
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>>>
>>> On April 16, 2017 at 5:11:26 PM EDT, Ken Moellman <lpky at mu-net.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> All -
>>>
>>> After my family events today, I returned to watch the last segment of
>>> the LNC meeting, which includes the creation of the committee to review how
>>> we're using Facebook.  I continue to have grave concerns about this.  We
>>> are not changing the status quo.  When most organizations make a giant
>>> mistake due to some sort of internal failing, they send in a "crisis
>>> management" team to take immediate action to handle the situation - to
>>> handle the external marketing and the internal procedure improvement.
>>> Apparently, we just create yet another committee to study it.
>>>
>>> 1.  We have "only" had 2 posts with very negative response, but there
>>> have been other bad posts as well. This motion does not prevent this from
>>> continuing. Nothing has been done to stop this behavior.
>>>
>>> 2.  We have FB volunteers communicating directly with people via FB
>>> private messaging, responding to negative comments. There is, to my
>>> understanding, no APRC oversight or approval on these communications that
>>> come across to the recipient as from "Libertarian Party".
>>>
>>> 3. We have no marketing strategy. There's no messaging. There's no
>>> marketing.
>>>
>>> 4. We have no specific social media strategy.  The first step would be
>>> to have a messaging and marketing strategy, and then to apply that strategy
>>> within the realm of social media.
>>>
>>> Simply put, creating a committee to review an existing committee (APRC)
>>> who reviews another committee (FB Admins) who reviews another committee (FB
>>> Volunteers) is not a solution.  It is an attempt to punt and gloss over a
>>> glaring problem with the party.
>>>
>>> I can spend hundreds of hours pushing ballot access. I can spend
>>> hundreds of hours doing IT projects. No amount of foundation work matters
>>> when we intentionally allow the negligent burning down of the structure
>>> upon which its built.
>>>
>>> I am currently re-evaluating my role in the party and the amount of time
>>> I dedicate to the organization.  Maybe it's my political mid-life crisis. I
>>> just have to question why I kill myself for an organization that kills
>>> itself by refusing to not allow itself to be killed.
>>>
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*Caryn Ann Harlos*
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Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
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