[Lnc-business] Fwd: Ohio petition too slow. Help! Get paid $2.50 each!

[Starchild]

	My general view is when the Libertarian Party hires or pays people for work, giving some precedence or preference to hiring libertarians over non-libertarians and Libertarians over non-Libertarians makes good sense. LP members, and people who believe in libertarianism (hopefully people in the former set will also be in the latter set!) are more likely to have the interests of the party and the movement at heart.

	In the case of elected representatives doing paid work, this should be weighed against the downsides that conflicts of interest can bring. An LNC member who is being paid (or expects to be paid in the future) to work on a ballot access drive, for instance, has a financial incentive to vote in favor of funding that drive. That's a fairly obvious conflict of interest, but some conflicts of interest created by LNC members doing paid work may be less straightforward and less easy to ameliorate. For instance, even if a member were to recuse themselves from voting in the case of any such direct conflicts, their colleagues' votes might be influenced by knowing the member's preferred outcome on the vote.

	 But if we take transparency seriously enough to ensure that job openings are widely publicized, and we hire on an equal-opportunity basis, with no kind of advantage or favoritism for insiders, my concerns about LNC members doing paid work for the party are greatly lessened. It's hard to justify prohibiting an LNC member from doing paid work that needs doing and nobody else wants to do, merely on the basis of theoretical ethical concerns.

Love & Liberty,
  
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On Apr 10, 2018, at 9:06 PM, Dustin Nanna wrote:

>   I WOULD do this without pay but no one else is doing it FOR pay. The
>   LPO never even asked for this last round of money. In fact I was upset
>   that it was allocated at first. The agreement mentioned made in 2017
>   was long before I was an officer in Ohio. We paid Constitution Party
>   members and several non libertarians with LNC funds before me. If the
>   LNC likes hiring non Ls over Ls that's cool, just don't expect that
>   money to come back into the party.
>   Dustin Nanna
>   LNC Region 3 Alternate
>   Vice Chair/Deputy Communications Director
>   Libertarian Party of Ohio
>   (740) 816-9805