[Lnc-business] Libertarians doing great things in Florida

[Wes Benedict]

Here's a photo of the Miami Libertarians (plus me and LNC Alt. Steven 
Nekhaila of Fl Keys) on election night:

Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
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On 10/27/2017 1:56 PM, Wes Benedict wrote:
> The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to 
> list here.
>
> Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after 
> having attended the OAI event yesterday.
>
> I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our 
> newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the 
> office.
>
> One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess 
> from Florida.
>
> I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things 
> happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time to 
> do that right now.
>
> Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives oxygen 
> to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
>
> I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering 
> between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of 
> alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that 
> which is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
>
> I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state, 
> anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a 
> libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist 
> libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the 
> way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate 
> libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the 
> way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and 
> re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad 
> policies--I'm often a team player.
>
> Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short, 
> let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around 
> them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them 
> and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them 
> and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them.
>
> There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high 
> office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and 
> damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never 
> publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I 
> treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was 
> accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the 
> convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news 
> or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start 
> writing about how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found 
> out about him.  I shall not say his name here either.
>
> Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see 
> more of.
>

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