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

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Nice!

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 10:49 AM Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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> Indianapolis IN 46260
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-- 
*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
<http://www.lpcolorado.org>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee

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