[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-16: Joe Buchman Donation

[Brett Bittner]

TL; DR - I vote nay on email ballot 2017-16.

My thoughts: I find myself in the same situation as I did when the Wicks
motion was presented. At that time, promises to come up with a procedure we
made (and we even delayed considering a request from Senator Ebke for that
procedure to be in place), yet action has yet to materialize. I believe
that our first duty is to win elections, and without a process to vet
funding requests, we are ill-equipped to determine which campaigns should
receive our limited funds.

As both Arvin and Sam have outlined my concerns, I don't feel the need to
reiterate them.

I appreciate Dr. Buchman's many years of service to the Party and as an
activist, and I think very highly of him. I also enjoyed seeing his debate
performance online, and I think he did a tremendous job of offering a
different perspective in that debate.

Unfortunately, I believe that we will never create a process for these type
of requests if we continue to fulfill them in the ad hoc manner from our
limited funds. As such, I must cast a nay vote. I will continue to do so
for all candidate funding requests until we've established a process to vet
such requests.

Brett C. Bittner

Region 3 Representative
Libertarian National Committee

brett.bittner at lp.org
317.537.8344

**This message sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos.

On Jul 17, 2017 07:17, "Patrick McKnight" <patrick.joseph.mcknight at gmail.com>
wrote:

I vote no.

Patrick McKnight
Region 8 Rep

On Jul 17, 2017 12:07 AM, "James Lark" <jwl3s at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:

> Dear colleagues:
>
>     I hope all is well with you.  I am writing in my capacity as Region 5
> representative to vote "nay" on the motion.
>
>     As always, thanks for your work for liberty.
>
>     Take care,
>     Jim
>
>     James W. Lark, III
>     Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering
>     Applied Mathematics Program, Dept. of Engineering and Society
>     Affiliated Faculty, Dept. of Statistics
>     University of Virginia
>
>     Advisor, The Liberty Coalition
>     University of Virginia
>
>     Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee
> -----
>
> On 7/15/2017 4:15 AM, Alicia Mattson wrote:
>
> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>
>
> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by July 25, 2017 at 11:59:59pm
> Pacific time. *
> *Co-Sponsors:*  Harlos, Bilyeu, Demarest, Starchild
>
> *Motion:*  for the LNC to contribute $5,000 to support the Congressional
> campaign of Joe Buchman (Utah)
>
> -Alicia
>
>
>
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