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

[William Redpath]

Yes.  Bill Redpath

On 2019-07-02 00:21, Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business wrote:
> 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
> 
> Sent from my Mobile Device
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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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>> >>
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