[Lnc-business] Reporting an event

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

Dan, These emails aren't visible on either the 'Lnc-business Archives"
(which can be found from links on the LNC page of our LP website), or on
the Google groups reflector list. 

Which is where most people will look to see LNC communications.  

Please ensure that the communications reach 'lnc-business at hq.lp.org'   
As I wished to direct an LP member to communications/explanations, but I
don't see it on either list I've mentioned above.  

(Note:  I've included the business list in to "To", so it now should
appear. ) 

Thank you! 
EVH

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

On 2019-09-27 09:06, Daniel Fishman wrote:

> I appreciate the sentiment, but I also understand the point and wish to be more transparent. I will seek advice from the LNC beforehand should such a scenario arise again.
> 
> To that end, as the Representative of the Libertarian Party in Washington, I was invited to attend a planning meeting for CPAC, which I attended about 3 weeks ago. Many of you may remember the LP has been at CPAC before, famously displaying a "Republican Wall of Shame" at one event.
> 
> I made it past the first planning round and intend to participate in the second round. I have been advocating for a Libertarian speaker on the main stage (I suggested Boaz) as well as some Libertarian events like "budget trivia" where people guess how much money is in the budget for item Y, to go along with our 22trillion.org [1] campaign. I feel like being in the room makes the event more Libertarian, and is specifically what I should be doing.
> 
> Let me know what you all think. 
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> Daniel Fishman
> Executive Director
> The Libertarian Party
> Join Us [2] 
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 8:37 AM Dustin Nanna <dustin.nanna at lp.org> wrote: 
> I don't believe you've done anything inappropriate. This is just politics. 
> 
> On Sep 27, 2019 7:17 AM, Daniel Fishman <dan.fishman at lphq.org> wrote:
> 
> On the heels of the state primary controversy from yesterday I wanted to report something else to the LNC.
> 
> Last week Bill Weld was in DC and had a small gathering at a bar. I attended firstly because as you all know, I know Bill personally, but also because in my now never ending quest for money, I thought a few people would be there I could ask for donations.
> 
> When I got there, it was a very informal event, Bill actually thought it was a fundraiser for the LP. Marshall, Bill's son asked me if I would introduce Bill. I said "can I talk about the Libertarian candidates running for President?" He said "sure say whatever you want."
> 
> So I got up. I don't remember my exact words as I was winging it, but made a "our country has never been so divided, we have never had such an imperious president, here's someone who's running to change that" sort of speech and brought Bill up.
> 
> And then after his bit, I addressed the room again by saying "I'm sure Bill would agree you should research all the candidates, I'd I like to encourage you to find out about all the Libertarian candidates running, and I'm happy to talk to everyone about them."
> 
> And then I worked the room, talking about the LP and our candidates. I also asked people to become members and asked people to donate to help ballot access.
> 
> Erin Adams made me aware last night she felt this conduct was inappropriate. 
> 
> My $0.02.  I'm trying to represent the LP in Washington, and I feel like I got to do so in a visible way to very select crowd. Afterwards I spoke at length personally to many people about the LP candidates and I believe encouraged many check out the LPMA debate to see the candidates in action. People asked me if there were any new candidates since then and I mentioned the Jo Jorgesen campaign.
> 
> Conscious of my position, I was careful to not endorse any particular LP campaign, and of course at no point did I suggest that I was supporting Bill Weld. However in talking with Erin Adams, she conveyed to me that she feels even introducing Bill Weld to the room was inappropriate. I feel it was me taking advantage of a personal connection to talk about Libertarians to people I could influence and enhanced the prestige of the LP with some people who may support us. As it turns out there were many people in the crowd, including congressional staffers who later showed me their LP membership card.
> 
> Regardless, based on my conversation with Ms. Adams, and in the interest of transparency, I wanted to make you all aware of the event and her concern.
> 
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> Daniel Fishman
> Executive Director
> The Libertarian Party
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