[Lnc-business] EPCC - Paladin Strategies - Fwd: RE: Omaha Un-Convention Proposed Logo Copyright Question

Mon May 8 13:05:28 EDT 2017

You bring up something I didn't notice in the motion - I think we were all
worn out by the social media discussion.  I am  not so sure this was a
conflict, but any concern about a conflict should ALWAYS BE brought up.

But if the motion said "develop a messaging strategy" that goes beyond what
the committee's scope was supposed to be which was tied to the Johnson
campaign post-moterm.

Thank you for brining it up Wes.

-Caryn Ann

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:

> Dear LNC:
>
> I recently sought advice from Jim Lark in his role as chair of the
> Employment Policy and Compensation Committee, and he indicated that I
> should bring this matter to the attention of the LNC.
>
> At the April 15-16, 2017 LNC meeting in Pittsburgh, a company, Paladin
> Strategies was considered for hire. From the draft LNC minutes, there was a
> motion  "to allow the Chair to initiate a contract with Paladin Strategies
> to create a general messaging strategy for up to 6 months." That motion
> failed 4-10.
>
> In any case, before the vote, when various LNC members asked the body who
> the firm was or who were some of their other clients or projects, the
> responses were along the lines of "we don't know or we can't disclose due
> to non-disclosure agreements".
>
> I was surprised that no one spoke up and mentioned that Paladin Strategies
> was a firm working on the "Omaha Un-Convention". The excerpt from an email
> received below discloses that fact.
>
> Perhaps others mentioned in the email below are bound by non-disclosure
> agreements or did not notice the connection, but I am not bound by any
> on-disclosure agreement with Paladin Strategies or the "Omaha
> Un-Convention" event. Therefore, I feel obligated to disclose the situation.
>
> I am not familiar with Paladin Strategies beyond what has been in emails
> about the Nebraska event and what occurred at the LNC meeting as far as I
> recall. They very well may be a fine organization. As a former management
> consultant myself, I'm acutely aware it's not uncommon for staff members to
> be uncomfortable about bringing in outside consultants for services. Here I
> am on the other side of that equation. Before the LNC meeting, I did inform
> the chair that I was not particularly in favor of the LNC hiring
> consultants for messaging for various reasons and the chair suggested it
> was not a good idea for me to bring that up in the LNC meeting. I agreed
> with the chair that it was not a good idea for me to bring up my opposition
> to hiring the consultants at the LNC meeting.
>
> I'll also mention that recently one of my staff members told me they were
> recently offered to provide training at the Nebraska event as well as to
> have expenses paid for that staff and staff members' family to travel to
> attend the Omaha Un-Convention.
>
> In bringing this matter to the LNC, I wish to emphasize that I am not
> alleging any untoward behavior.  As a matter of proper procedure I believe
> it would have been appropriate for those LNC members with knowledge of
> Paladin Strategies and its association with the proposed Nebraska event to
> provide this information to the LNC during the discussion.
>
> > Subject:
>> >
>> >     RE: Omaha Un-Convention Proposed Logo Copyright Question
>> > Date:     Thu, 6 Apr 2017 11:23:07 -0500
>> > From:     David Demarest <dpdemarest at centurylink.net>
>> > To:     'Wes Benedict' <wes.benedict at lp.org>
>> > CC:     'Nicholas Sarwark' <chair at lp.org>, 'Robert Kraus' <
>> robert.kraus at lp.org>, 'Brett Bittner' <brett.bittner at lp.org>, 'Vohra
>> Vohra' <vicechair at lp.org>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Joe Hedlund, our Publicity Committee Chair, is about to launch an
>> aggressive and carefully targeted publicity and branding campaign that
>> leverages the services of Paladin Strategies, the political messaging
>> strategy firm built on skills of John Engle and Mike Fishbein. Paladin is
>> the same pollical consulting firm that Larry, Trent and I have selected and
>> will present for LNC approval in Pittsburgh to proceed with the targeted
>> messaging technique strategy goal of the EFC committee. John and Mike will
>> have a significant role in our event at multiple levels, including
>> workshops, seminars and publicity messaging strategies. While Paladin is a
>> for-profit firm, Mike and John and their liberty-conscious pricing approach
>> continue to impress me as dedicated Libertarians that share my primary
>> Libertarian motivation - freedom, nothing more, nothing less.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>
>
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