[Lnc-business] Publishing links to candidate articles with some platform deviations
Alex Merced (Region 8 Alt)
alex.merced at lp.org
Tue Mar 27 16:28:37 EDT 2018
I agree with Whitney, a simple disclaimer should address the problem for examples like in the OP.
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> On Mar 27, 2018, at 3:56 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos <caryn.ann.harlos at lp.org> wrote:
>
> During the Johnson campaign in which there were blatantly off platform
> and off principle positions we asked for a disclaimer. One of them was
> about welfare. It can be done politely.
> With such a disclaimer, I have no issue with linking the piece (with a
> caveat that we are talking about a deviation or two). If a candidate
> goes way off the rails, they should not be surprised that we don't
> promote it.
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Whitney Bilyeu
> <[1]whitney.bilyeu at lp.org> wrote:
>
> What if we just ask staff to include in the blog post a
> disclaimer of
> sorts with any such link....acknowledging that there may be
> specific
> opinions held by the candidate that are not 100% our own...?
> Whitney
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Wes Benedict
> <[1][2]wes.benedict at lp.org>
> wrote:
> Dear LNC:
> I'm bringing this to your attention now, because it has not been
> an
> issue for several months, but likely will come up again soon given
> that we have lots of candidates and will be writing lots of blog
> entries about candidates this year.
> Staff works to publish articles that comply with the LNC Bylaws
> and
> Policy Manual. The Advertising Publications and Review Committee
> is
> tasked with ensuring publications comply.
> I'd like to point out that I think Staff and the APRC have had a
> pretty good working relationship for at least 3 years and perhaps
> even longer than that if I think about it. So, this is not meant
> as
> a complaint in general about the APRC, Staff, or the overall
> procedures. Most things are fine in that area, in my opinion. I
> just
> want to focus on one issue.
> Nevertheless, it should come as no surprise that various members
> of
> the APRC and various staff don't always agree with each other on
> what constitutes a violation.
> A particular area of uncertainty has been articles with coverage
> of
> candidates where the articles include some positions that violate
> platform.
> I'll use public schools as a hypothetical, and the article below
> from the imaginary "Alexandria Beach Times."
> ====start article====
> [Sentence 1] John Doe, Libertarian candidate for Congress, says he
> wants to cut taxes, cut spending, end the war on drugs, and bring
> our troops home from overseas.
> [Sentence 2] When asked about public education, John Doe says "I'd
> like to use some of the savings from those cuts to increase
> spending
> on public schools."
> ====end article====
> I think most of the APRC and Staff would feel it's okay to write a
> blog and to quote Sentence 1 of the article above. Most of the
> APRC
> and Staff would probably feel it's NOT okay to quote Sentence 2.
> The area of likely disagreement is whether or not we could include
> a
> link to the source article in our blog entry.
> If there was an article where 50% or more of the content about the
> Libertarian candidate had platform violations, probably most of us
> wouldn't want to publicize it.
> There can be a great article about one of our candidates where 90%
> of the coverage is positive, but if 10% of the article includes a
> platform violation, we maybe should not link to it, or maybe we
> should.
> I used public school spending as an example above, but all kinds
> of
> things have come up in the past, such as opposing legalization of
> hard drugs (or letting the states decide on that), the Fair Tax,
> welfare, some regulations, and so on.
> I would like direction from the LNC on whether or not it is okay
> to
> publish things like blogs that links with some positions that
> might
> violate the platform.
> Based on feedback, I might float a suggest amendment to the Policy
> Manual for you all to consider at the upcoming LNC meeting.
> I can work comfortably with whichever direction the LNC might go
> on
> this particular issue, but I think it's an important enough issue
> that has come up quite a bit in the past, that it should be
> considered by the LNC.
> If the LNC prefers to leave the decision up to the APRC, that is
> another option I'm comfortable with. In fact, I think that's the
> status quo right now, however, given recent changes in the APRC, I
> could not tell you how they'd rule on the above issue.
> Thanks,
> --
> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
>
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> --
> --
> In Liberty,
> Caryn Ann Harlos
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska,
> Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington)
> - [13]Caryn.Ann. Harlos at LP.org
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> 1. mailto:whitney.bilyeu at lp.org
> 2. mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org
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> 5. http://facebook.com/libertarians
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> 10. mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org
> 11. http://facebook.com/libertarians
> 12. http://lp.org/membership
> 13. mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org
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