[Lnc-business] 168 Emails

[Sam Goldstein]

Craig,

You are a better man than I!  I just deleted most of them without 
wasting my time reading them.  What
a colossal waste of time for everyone for a resolution that has no 
impact on anything to do with
getting Libertarians elected to office.

---
Sam Goldstein
Libertarian National Committee
317-850-0726 Cell

On 2018-08-15 21:20, Craig Bowden via Lnc-business wrote:
> To all:
> 
> When I woke up this morning to check this email account, I found 168
> unread messages. Mostly people attacking each other over variations of
> similar beliefs with multiple individuals taking things personally and
> going after each other. I find this to be very unbecoming of our body.
>  While I am not perfect in this regard, and sometimes slip myself, we
> really need to hold ourselves to a higher level of professionalism.
> 
> Unless one resigns, we have to find a way to work together for the
> next two years. This will include in person meetings. The last thing
> we should be doing is going for each other's throats.
> 
> It took me almost two hours to get through everything in the inbox.
> Most of it, totally unimportant to party business.
> 
> Do I think we can kill two birds with one stone by completing other
> tasks and working on a resolution? Yes. But this is entering the realm
> of ridiculous.
> 
> Several members of this board are active candidates campaigning on top
> of our duties. If we merely cut back on the backbiting and personality
> conflicts alone, we would have likely had half of the emails.
> 
> I have zero problem with stating your opinion in regard to a motion. I
> do so regularly. However, it is not going well in this forum. And even
> if you do not mean to go after someone personally, you cannot inflect
> tone through an email in a quip against another person's thoughts,
> which can be taken personally, and spiral from there.
> 
> In Congress, they limit the time for argument for a reason. You are
> given time to state where you stand, and we do so in our own
> conventions, but there honestly needs to be a limit to how much you
> are putting out there. I am not advocating for new rules, but we
> should be able to self-govern on this, yes?
> 
> I cannot afford to put two hours every day on this sort of thing. We
> are a volunteer board, and we all have lives outside of the LNC. The
> two hours I spent going through these emails could have been making
> calls for my campaign for fundraising, finding more clients for my
> business, etc.
> 
> I personally will only be checking this email once per day, because we
> are in the final stretch before the election. I am occupied with many
> things every day and I have to draw the line so that I do not affect
> my family life, business, or campaign any more than I already have.
> 
> Please, try to get out what you have to say in your first emails. What
> I am typically seeing is the same arguments circling, which go nowhere
> until the tally is counted. If you have already made the same argument
> once, saying it again isn't likely to advance your side any further,
> something learned from personal observation in life.
> 
> I also ask this as a point of personal privilege. I have a traumatic
> brain injury, which does cause things to process a little slower for
> me in regard to so much information going back and forth constantly.
> 
> Love you all and hope you understand where I come from with this.
> 
> In Liberty,
> Craig Bowden
> Region 1 Alternate