[Lnc-business] Clearing the air

[Alex Merced (LNC Vice Chair)]

This is my final opinion on this matter, I abstain from anything else regarding this matter. I’m absolutely done, livid and frustrated with the continued deterioration of a group I felt very optimistic and hopeful about not long ago.

I think with the dual contract fiasco the statement has been sufficiently made of the concerns at least re: the contract. The good news, is people can book their rooms and people can plan on a convention, I don’t see what good can come of any further fight in that issue other than blowing the whole thing up with such limited time. If the Operations Director signed the contract, I’m satisfied with that as I do trust our staff.

Now if there is any kind of surprise regarding cancellation in the next few weeks the gambit thus far will have been vindicated and the next LNC can put in the proper controls being aware of our failure. (Although I doubt some would want that gambit to be vindicated and many of us would just prefer to have a convention, so win win if we make it to Orlando successfully)

Further escalation will only result in undermining the true fundamental goal here, have a convention and transfer power to the next LNC. All other fights will not be resolved between now and then and the record is clear where you all stood and stand.

Now regarding the shifting deck chairs on the CoC I have less to say on and I’ll leave it to you all to discuss. (Although I do think Turney is a spectacular choice and the simplest thing would be for the CoC meet with him and if satisfied then reaffirm his appointment with a formal recommendation to keep the policy manual precedences in check)

My recommendation:

- Plan a convention
- Start putting together a compendium to give the next LNC of governance issues THEY should undertake, I’m sure they’d appreciate such a document
- plan for Orlando, as I plan to be there and preside over what I hope will be a much better and hopeful climax to my time on the LNC that this last chapter has been.

Reach out if you want to talk about the planning and execution of the convention, as I am deck to help and make this great. As far these pending disputes, I’m done, just leave me out of it.


Alex Merced
Vice Chair of the Libertarian National Committee/LP

> On Jun 2, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
> 
> And I find out Oliver Hall was in on this plan.  Oliver represents the
> LNC.  Not the chair.  This explicitly goes against the LNC.
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:18 PM Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business <
>> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Also, why did staunch Sarwark supporters on Facebook seem to know which
>> version had been countersigned 2 hours before even the COC had received a
>> copy?  We were being told that nobody had it yet.  But someone did have it
>> and had time to share it with social media warriors.
>> 
>> -Alicia
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:54 AM Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hmmm..  As I was sending that message, I received a countersigned copy of
>>> the contract.  It was executed by our Operations Director, who is not
>>> authorized to sign the contract, and it is not the version approved for
>>> signing by the COC.  I presume the chair directed him to sign in order to
>>> protect himself?  What a weasel move.
>>> 
>>> -Alicia
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:46 AM Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Mr. Sarwark, did you have a staff member to sign the unauthorized
>>>> contract, so that what you wrote would be technically correct, that YOU
>>>> would not sign a contract in bad faith?  I ask because I've seen an
>> email
>>>> from a staff member who seems to say that he signed it, which of course
>> is
>>>> also not authorized.
>>>> 
>>>> -Alicia
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:05 AM Nicholas Sarwark via Lnc-business <
>>>> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have never in my life executed a contract in bad faith and will not
>> be
>>>>> starting today with the contract that will be executed with the Rosen
>>>>> Hotel
>>>>> Group for the second sitting of the convention in Orlando.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I appreciate the openness and candor with which certain members of the
>>>>> LNC
>>>>> have publicly shared their beliefs and opinions about myself, special
>>>>> counsel, and Libertarian Party staff. If nothing else, it's been
>>>>> illuminating.
>>>>> 
>>>>> See you in Orlando,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nick
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
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> 
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> 
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