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

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

Thank you Joe Bishop-Henchman.   As I stated in one of my previous 
emails, I think the language of "Silence is consent" is bad optics.

Even if changed to, "Silence is seen as consent", the optics aren't 
good.

I shall again recommend that the LP website be reworded.  My 
recommendation is:  "Not voting is seen as consent."

For the Twitter account, a deletion of the offending tweet.

This is addressing concerns from members, and to those who might look to 
the LP for a potential political home.  The LP needs to be responsive.

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Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)



On 2019-07-01 11:01, Joe Bishop-Henchman via Lnc-business wrote:
> 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
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>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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