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

[Richard Longstreth]

I will vote yes.

Richard Longstreth
Region 1 Representative (AK, AZ, CO, HI, KS, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY)
Libertarian National Committee
richard.longstreth at lp.org
931.538.9300

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On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 08:46 Elizabeth Van Horn via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ---
> 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
> >
> > ------------
> > 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.
> >>
> >> Co-Sponsors:  Harlos, Longstreth, Phillips, Smith
> >>
> >> =============================================
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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