[Lnc-business] I assume this is Liberty Hangout's Republican Lies

[Nicholas Sarwark]

What I sent to the list is what I have sent to individual members who
have asked me to comment.

-Nick

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos
<caryn.ann.harlos at lp.org> wrote:
>    Nick do we have an official statement that I can send to members who
>    ask?  Or something you summed up?
>
>    On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Nicholas Sarwark <[1]chair at lp.org>
>    wrote:
>
>      “A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.”
>      Andy Craig from Wisconsin summed up the situation in a Facebook post
>      (
>      [2]https://www.facebook.com/Andrew.Craig.Dixie.Pug/posts/
>      947442695418584
>      ) that I've copied and pasted below:
>      "No, Ron Paul wasn't banned or rejected from speaking at the LP
>      convention.
>      Some folks with no real agenda other than causing a stink, spoke to
>      Paul's booking agent, who expressed interest if Paul's usual
>      speaking
>      fee was paid ($35,000), because that's the job of a booking agent.
>      (The same agent also reps Judge Napolitano, and mentioned that).
>      This
>      group then went to the folks handling the convention for the LP,
>      demanded Paul be put on the agenda, and claimed they'd later raise
>      the
>      money to pay him. LP didn't bite, for obvious reasons. Even if they
>      could have done it (dubious), the party's not particularly
>      interested
>      in seeing Libertarian donors diverted to pay for an exorbitant
>      speaking fee with no real benefit. If the Mises [sic] Caucus would
>      like to raise and spend that much money and rent a room in New
>      Orleans
>      and have Paul speak... well, good luck with that. There's nothing
>      stopping them, though I know a lot of Libertarian candidates who
>      could
>      better spend that money in the 2018 elections. There are races that
>      could be won on less money than that.
>      And if he desires it enough to say he's coming regardless, I have
>      little doubt Paul would be given a slot on the main-stage. It was
>      just
>      at the last convention that we gave him an award that he accepted
>      via
>      video message, after all. (An award given with some fair internal
>      grumbling over his lack of support for the party or any of its
>      candidates, while still often endorsing and supporting Republicans).
>      Short version: much ado about nothing. Ron Paul himself expressed no
>      interest in wanting to speak in New Orleans, and he still hasn't.
>      The whole point of this exercise was never to actually have him
>      speak,
>      but rather to frame a purely manufactured controversy, and that
>      intention is absurdly transparent. I've had plenty of gripes about
>      the
>      party's management and operations and convention-planning, but this
>      whole thing is nonsense. Speaking slots at the convention don't
>      really
>      matter that much (I had one last time!), and nobody from the LP told
>      Paul he was unwelcome in New Orleans."
>      -Nick
>
>    On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 3:32 PM,  <[3]arvin.vohra at lp.org> wrote:
>    > But since people are asking, I thought I'd seek clarification.
>    >
>    > [4]http://libertyhangout.org/2018/02/libertarian-party-
>    wont-let-ron-paul-speak-national-convention/
>    >
>
> References
>
>    1. mailto:chair at lp.org
>    2. https://www.facebook.com/Andrew.Craig.Dixie.Pug/posts/947442695418584
>    3. mailto:arvin.vohra at lp.org
>    4. http://libertyhangout.org/2018/02/libertarian-party-wont-let-ron-paul-speak-national-convention/