[Lnc-business] Vice-Chair

[Patrick McKnight]

I totally agree with Larry. For me the lack of remorse is astounding. I
personally sent Arvin an email about this and received no response. We
can't grow by making offensive generalizations and calling people names.
This is unacceptable behavior.

Therefore I must, with a heavy heart, make a motion to remove Arvin Vohra
from his position as Vice Chair under Article 6, Section 7 of our Bylaws.
Who will second this motion?

Thanks,
Patrick McKnight
Region 8 Rep


On May 18, 2017 10:12 PM, "Larry Sharpe" <lsharpe at neo-sage.com> wrote:

Dear LNC,

The idea that we as the LNC should do nothing as a committee regarding
Arvin Vohra's comments is alarming to me.

If a Board Member or member of the Executive Team at Pepsi ever said
anything negative about Pepsi customers publicly he/she would be relieved
immediately, regardless of whether they were on the clock, off the clock,
on Facebook, in a crowd or announced that is was only their PERSONAL
opinion that "X" group of people are bad. This would happen even after an
apology. If you choose to take on a public role, there WILL be constraints
on your private life. If you don't like that, you shouldn't take on this
role. The LNC is NEVER off. Our words will always be used to hurt the cause
whenever possible. I have been an officer of a public company and I was
never "off". I could never publicly say disparaging things about our
customers. That's the price I agreed to pay to take that position. Ours is
no different.

What if the comments were about divorced women? Or were race related? Would
we just say, "Oh well, that's his personal opinion? Yeah, I know he's a
racist, but you know, what are you gonna do, right?" I hope not, because no
other organization, private, public, profit or nonprofit would stand for
it, and neither should we.

Arvin blatantly insulted veterans. That is about 20 million voters and
their supporters (maybe another 25 -50 million?).

After multiple lengthy notes explaining why he was right, he finally
provided a weak "I'm sorry that you are so sensitive" apology hidden in
another self-righteous diatribe. There is still no real apology for the
actual insult. Then he went on to insult teachers, another 3 million
voters!  Then he went on to call our candidates tricksters and lairs.
Obviously, he doesn't feel like he's done anything wrong and he has no
intention of stopping.

He has poor judgement, no remorse and a severe lack of empathy. He is
making it harder for us to grow, that's one of our primary goals, and he's
not stopping.

Because of his actions, it is harder for us to get volunteers, donations,
members and candidates! And the volunteers and candidates that we have must
spend more time doing damage control instead of being productive with the
precious time they give us.

Everyday the damage continues and the pain festers. And some of you want to
wait until 2018!? No waiting until 2018. We must lead and we must handle
our own. We need to act now.

As soon as we start consistently winning at the State level and become a
threat, our enemies will comb through our data and use this against us.
What story will we tell?

"Yes, he called our veterans murderers and we did nothing about."

They will hear that we agree with him:

   - Our veterans are murders
   - Our teachers are enemies
   - Our candidates are liars and trickster

It is what voters will think and that is what matters for a political
party. That will come back to haunt and crush us once we have several
candidates that are about to win.

Or we can say:

"Yes, he called our veterans murderers and we acted quickly and decisively.
We do NOT agree with that, and that's why we acted."

He has every right to his voice and opinion, just not publicly while he
represents the LP.

This is not about disagreeing on an issue or platform point. It is about
insulting millions of voters and purposely, actively, continually hurting
our efforts to grow and win which is in direct violation of article 2 of
our bylaws.

I am a huge proponent of second chances, but he has had many and refuses to
adjust his behavior.

Any officer in any organization, public or private, profit or non-profit
who created and continues to create this much damage would be removed. So
should he.

Those of you who know me know that I rarely stand my ground on an LNC
issue. I usually say my opinion, respect the answer, do damage control as
needed and then continue my work. Not this time. For my brothers and
sisters who were called immoral murders here, I will not fall back.

I initially was going to ask for a motion to officially ask Arvin to
apologize, or maybe for a censure. But that time has passed. Because I am
an Alternate, I cannot propose a motion, so I request for any At-Large LNC
member or my Regional Rep, Patrick McKnight, to propose a motion to remove
Arvin Vohra from his position as Vice-Chair under Article 6, section 7 of
our Bylaws.

Let him fight for liberty outside of LP leadership.

-- 

Larry

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