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

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

Thank you Jeff,

We're fortunate to have both Lauren Daugherty and Daniel Fishman working 
on behalf of the LP and the cause of Liberty.

Cheers,
EVH

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Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
Chair-Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana
Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus
http://www.lpcaucus.org/


On 2019-03-27 11:27, Jeff Lyons via Lnc-business wrote:
> Good Morning,
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>      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.
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> 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
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> 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".
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> Very Respectfully,
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> -Jeff Lyons
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> LNC-8A
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> https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157131157557277&id=571392276
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> Wednesday, 12:01 am
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> Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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> My Dear Friends,
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> I regret the necessity that caused my writing to you to be delayed
> when so many of you messaged me Monday.
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> 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.
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> And with that in mind, I humbly prepare to move to Washington D.C. and
> take up the great labor of my life.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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