[Lnc-business] BALLOT 190628-1: DIRECTIVE REGARDING SOCIAL MEDIA POST AND WEB PAGE

[Joe Bishop-Henchman]

I vote yes.

I'm torn. The message on the website and the tweet promoting it aren't 
good messaging, although I question whether many are actually upset by 
it instead of just scenting blood in the water to attack the LP for its 
marketing efforts yet again. This is also a matter the APRC and the 
Executive Director can deal with instead of it being rushed to the LNC. 
But if we are sending mixed messages through our failure to adopt a 
marketing strategy and identify who is responsible for it, and we are, 
it is up to us to resolve the conflicts that come from those crossed 
wires. I do worry about the LNC-micromanagement-of-staff implications of 
this: I am a firm believer that the LNC sets the vision and goals, hires 
staff to develop a strategy that we approve, and the staff executes. But 
we haven't done our part yet, so things like this will keep happening 
until we do.

I will be coming forward, perhaps at the next meeting, with some 
sketches for reconstructing our committee structure, a process for 
long-range planning and goal-setting, and ideas for staff objectives and 
accountability. I recognize there is a problem here and want to help the 
LNC pursue constructive solutions rather than a bunch more votes like 
this one.

But since the question has been put to me as whether the tweet should be 
deleted and the language rewritten, yes, both of those things should 
happen. It's tough to be accurate while being pithier than Burke's "The 
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do 
nothing" but "silence is consent" didn't hit the mark.

JBH

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Joe Bishop-Henchman
LNC Member (At-Large)
joe.bishop-henchman at lp.org
www.facebook.com/groups/189510455174837

On 2019-06-28 12:05, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> BALLOT 20190628-1:  DIRECTIVE REGARDING SOCIAL MEDIA POST AND WEB PAGE
> 
> We have an electronic mail ballot.
> 
> Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by JULY 5, 2019 at 11:59:59 pm
> Pacific time.
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> Co-Sponsors:  Harlos, Longstreth, Phillips, Smith
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> Motion: Move that the tweet made on the Party on the official Twitter
> account including the quote that “silence equals consent” be deleted 
> and
> that the corresponding text on LP.org be removed.  The Executive 
> Director
> is instructed to rewrite that text to address member and LNC concerns 
> and
> submit to the LNC for final approval/amendment.
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