[Lnc-business] LP Presidential Debates c/o Arvin Vohra

[Sam Goldstein]

I actually disagree with Mr Merced on this issue.  I can envision 
situations where staff decides not to link to or list some debates and
then experiences strong criticism for excluding some while including 
others.  Libertarians are perfectly capable of advertising their 
pre-convention
debates over social media and broadcasting links to them for future 
viewing.

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Sam Goldstein
Libertarian National Committee
317-850-0726 Cell

On 2019-03-30 16:53, Elizabeth Van Horn via Lnc-business wrote:
> I'm with Alex Merced on this. There's no need for the LNC to
> micromanage what's put onto LP national social media.
> 
> If there are debates that are audio, video, and/or both, they can be
> submitted for consideration and a decision made by the ED and/or other
> staff.
> I see no reason to mandate a policy that covers debates other than the
> debates that will be officially sponsored by the LP.
> 
> EVH
> 
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> Elizabeth Van Horn
> LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
> 
> On 2019-03-30 14:30, Alex Merced (LNC Vice Chair) via Lnc-business 
> wrote:
>> I agree with all the sentiments against this motion.
>> 
>> At best, candidates may be listed somewhere at LP.org and only if they
>> meet the same list of requirements the candidate support committee
>> created (or some other standard, but easier to use standards that
>> already exist) for requesting LNC support. Those candidates websites
>> should have the burden of listing where people can find more info.
>> 
>> Although whether we do this or anything else I don’t think it needs an
>> action of the LNC (as far as I’m aware I don’t think the LNC is
>> required to micromanage LP.org content), I assume that this can be
>> handled at the discretion of the ED with input of Staff and the
>> Committee of what is proper and equitable.
>> 
>> Alex Merced
>> Vice Chair of the Libertarian National Committee/LP
>> 
>>> On Mar 30, 2019, at 12:45 PM, Lauren Daugherty via Lnc-business 
>>> <lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In response to Tim's question: this could take a lot of staff time. 
>>> It is difficult to predict because we don't know how many such 
>>> debates there might be. I am indeed concerned about staff time. Our 
>>> workload is going to increase by orders of magnitude on into 2020.
>>> 
>>> On a slightly different note, if the quality on any of the debates is 
>>> bad (bad quality audio, bad quality video, etc), guess who will get 
>>> blamed by a lot of folks: staff. Even if we make it clear that a 
>>> given debate was hosted by some other entity, LP staff will get 
>>> blamed if the execution is less than excellent. And then we'll get 
>>> emails from folks canceling their memberships etc because they think 
>>> we are not running a polished, quality operation.
>>> 
>>> Lauren Daugherty
>>> Interim Executive Director
>>> Libertarian National Committee
>>> 
>>>> On 3/30/2019 11:51 AM, Tim Hagan via Lnc-business wrote:
>>>> How much staff time will this take? The way the motion is written, 
>>>> someone on staff have to take their time to hunt for all of the 
>>>> debates, review the debate criteria for inclusion, view the debates 
>>>> for quality, secure a copy of the files, and download the files. 
>>>> What if the podcast has the debate file copyrighted? Will we have to 
>>>> pay to post the debate?
>>>> Will this also include vice presidential debates?
>>>> 
>>>> I can see providing links to debates hosted by state affiliates. 
>>>> Anything else needs to be carefully examined for unintentional 
>>>> consequences.
>>>> 
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>>>> Tim Hagan
>>>> Treasurer, Libertarian National Committee
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2019-03-30 06:43, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
>>>>> It is asking for us to post the final debate files - it doesn't 
>>>>> impose
>>>>> requirements on anyone else, it is requirements if we are to post.  
>>>>> It is
>>>>> not to advertise debates - this takes place AFTER the debate took 
>>>>> place.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 7:26 AM Justin O'Donnell via Lnc-business <
>>>>> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The request isn't for the LNC to host debates, I would support 
>>>>>> that. Odds
>>>>>> for the LNC to promote and advertise debates hosted by private 
>>>>>> podcasts and
>>>>>> Facebook pages not affiliarlted with us, amd to impose rules on 
>>>>>> them.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Justin O'Donnell
>>>>>> LNC Region 8 Representative
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> 
>>>>> *  In Liberty,*
>>>>>