<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Mark,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I vote to co-sponsor your motion. My reason for doing so is very simple -- I don't think we should raise dues at all. At least not until membership dues are decoupled from voting rights. As I've often said, we should not be a "pay-to-play" party. Nor do I think tinkering with our dues structure is a high priority, especially if it's going to cost us even $20,000, let alone $50,000. If a bad idea can't be defeated, better that it at least be delayed. Time that the previous LNC spent developing the dues increase proposal is water under the bridge and should not influence our decision one way or the other, since deciding that we don't want to implement their plan after all will not cost us any additional time, nor will moving to put it into effect give us back any of the time already spent.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Love & Liberty,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> ((( starchild )))</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On May 8, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Mark Hinkle wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear LNC,<br><br>I move that the LNC delay implementation of the previously adopted membership dues structure until August 1, 2014.<br><br>Please RSVP with your willingness to co-sponsor this motion.<br><br>FYI & RSVP..................Mark Hinkle,<br>LNC At-Large & Retired LP Chair<br><br>-- <br>"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."<br> - Samuel Adams<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Lnc-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lnc-discuss@hq.lp.org">Lnc-discuss@hq.lp.org</a><br>http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-discuss_hq.lp.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>