[Lnc-business] FWD: Daniel Fishman's Message

[Jeff Lyons]

Good Morning,




     Mr. Fishman posted this note on Facebook last night, and I thought I would share it with the business list for the LNC and our gallery of viewers.




I'm not familiar with these religious practices, but I understand that with the unfortunate passing of his mother last week, there was a mourning period which he chose to observe until it's expiration at midnight last night which would have prohibited him from responding immediately.




As always, thanks for all you do for the Liberty of others, especially Ms. Daughterty for her efforts over the past several months.  I look forward to our HQ team being at full strength and gearing up for the next "Most Important Election of Our Lifetime".




Very Respectfully,


-Jeff Lyons


LNC-8A








https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157131157557277&id=571392276




Wednesday, 12:01 am


Woods Hole, Massachusetts.




My Dear Friends,




I regret the necessity that caused my writing to you to be delayed when so many of you messaged me Monday.




You may have heard the news that I have had the very great honor to have been selected as the next Executive Director of the Libertarian Party. I am committed to a world set free in our lifetime and to ensuring the blessings of liberty for more than just ourselves.




And with that in mind, I humbly prepare to move to Washington D.C. and take up the great labor of my life.




The endgame of Libertarianism is the end of politics as we know it. Libertarians believe that depowering government means empowering people. Although I did not know it would lead me here, my commitment to empowering people goes back to my earliest working days in Liberty Hill Texas when I worked in Special Education. Learning that the individual is the smallest minority became the root of my understanding that true liberty is the freedom to control your own destiny. To dissent, especially against those who may mean you well, is your right. Every effort we put into empowering people is a de facto weakening of the power of government.




Years later, when beginning my second career as a computer scientist, I became involved in a discipline that required people to be empowered to allow their work as individuals to become something that was greater than the sum of their parts. I believe we the people can prosper in a similar manner. The more the people of the country are empowered, the greater our productivity will be. The more liberty the people possess, the more inclined they are to ensure that others are also free. I believe all power derives from the people, and I wish to restore it there.




I am grateful that in becoming Executive Director, I am becoming a colleague to some true liberty warriors who have a history of empowering others. First and foremost of those is Lauren Daugherty, who has accomplished some remarkable things while acting as Executive Director during the search process. In addition to solving a fiscal black hole, Lauren provided the model of professionalism that the staff emulated and kept the ship upright when the waters were not steady. When there were serious questions about the LP and operations in the last 6 months, those questions were answered by Lauren through hard work. I want to publicly acknowledge the great work that she did.




I am thrilled to be able to call Lauren a colleague as we strive to become a team in sync. I envision a functioning party apparatus that is professional, brilliant and goal orientated. Lauren being a part of that team is critical to achieving that vision and reaching those goals. If I have one skill, it is knowing when to shut up. Lauren is smart. I'm going to listen and take notes.


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On a personal note, in taking this job, my life will change. There are many actions that I have engaged in prior to taking this job that I deem inappropriate for the Executive Director of a party.  As an example, I will no longer be expressing any preference as to whom will represent the party in the Presidential election in 2020, nor in internal LP elections.




I also will be removing myself from many social media conversations where imho the ED should not voice an opinion. You can expect the volume of my facebook posts to drastically decrease, and I will also be trimming many people from my facebook friends list - I would encourage people to follow my new facebook page: Daniel Fishman. If we've met irl I'll still be here of course, but for most of the thousand friend request I have received in the last few days -- I think the page makes more sense.




And in a 8 month stretch of heartache that so many of you have helped me with, one more now bites at me. I need leave Massachusetts, my home of the last 25 years. To my Massachusetts posse: Leaving you guys is so hard, I almost didn't chase this. I know our friendship is more than proximity. You guys know who you are (and half of you aren't on facebook, but Christine Brennan will make sure you see this), but I still need a special shout out to my great friend Mike Monteiro. 




And my Massachusetts Libertarians who trained and sustained me? I intend to continue to lean on you.  Particularly Cris, Jeff Lyons, George Phillies, Heather Mullins David Blau. And especially Cris. You guys might not notice I am gone. Random shout out to George Carpenter and the hobbits.




My friends Greg Arsenault and Bob Stubbs and Charles Connelly and Mark Bates, whom I have worked with for 20+ years -- you have made me a better engineer and a better person over the years. I know we will code together again. And a special shout out to my first software engineering partner Darsono Sutedja!


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I've been in Boston for 25 years -- I moved here in April of '94.  In that time the Pats and Red Sox and Bruins and Celtics have all won.  You're welcome. And I have a few friends from all the way back to '94.  Kristin Keegan and Rebecca DeAquair and Crystal Bodin Casey and Ed Casey -- thanks for all those years.


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I would be remiss if I did not thank a few people who have seen me through even more to this day. Chad Harrison and Lawrence C Phipps and I spoke 35 years ago of a job like this for one of us. I wandered in the world. I don't regret any time I spent in the past seeking fame and fortune, but those days are now behind me. I now pursue the most noble goal I can think of.  I am proud to soon be engaged in the great political struggle of our days. We work to decrease the oversight of authority in our lives. 




And I'm proud of my colleagues and allies I gain in this fight. I will be busily preparing for the move to Washington, but I will of course have time for contact -- please feel free to post questions.  I will try to answer them all.




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Dan




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