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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I apologize for sending this to the
business list. I meant to forward it to Robert Kraus, but sent the
email while I was talking to him at the same time. <br>
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<div class="moz-signature">Wes Benedict, Executive Director<br>
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On 9/22/2014 9:32 AM, Wes Benedict wrote:<br>
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<pre>Jim,
It is 9:30 pm EDT.
There are unlikely to be negative consequences. Likely outcomes are
either winning and the court forcing objective standards and/or
putting Patterson in the debate or losing with the court deciding this
wasn't enough to be discrimination under the Arkansas precedent.
There is a chance that the court would try to make a broad ruling that
public TV stations are allowed to pick and choose candidates
arbitrarily. I doubt that highly, and if that did happen, we could
make a lot of hay with it and get ACLU and other organizations
involved nationally.
However, I will ask Ken to ask the attorney or give me the info to
contact the attorney to double check in advance of the EC call.
-Nick
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:52 PM, James Lark <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jwl3s@virginia.edu"><jwl3s@virginia.edu></a> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Sarwark:
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> I hope all is well with you. Thank you for your message. Since it is
> not specified in the message below, please confirm the time of the meeting
> on Tuesday. Based upon our discussion on Sunday, I assume the meeting will
> take place at 9:30 p.m. EDT.
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> I do not recall our discussing the issue of the possible impact of an
> adverse ruling in the lawsuit. Since you did not mention this issue, are we
> justified in assuming you consider it unlikely an adverse ruling will
> produce serious negative consequences?
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> As always, thanks for your work for liberty. I look forward to speaking
> to you and our colleagues on Tuesday evening.
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> Take care,
> Jim
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> James W. Lark, III
> Advisor, The Liberty Coalition
> University of Virginia
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> Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee
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> On 9/21/2014 10:53 PM, Nicholas Sarwark wrote:
>>
>> All,
>> I spoke to Ken Moellman by phone today regarding the Kentucky lawsuit.
>> I presented the plan of having the LNC sign on as a plaintiff and that
>> my intent was that each plaintiff would commit to raising a target of
>> $4000, but a minimum of $3000 for support of the lawsuit. Ken was on
>> board with that as well as the expectation that he would vouch for
>> David Patterson's commitment to following through (i.e., we'd expect
>> Ken to raise at least $6000 if David didn't follow through). I
>> committed that the LNC would provide donor call lists to LPKY and the
>> Patterson campaign to support that effort.
>>
>> I gave him the go ahead to file as soon as possible with the intent to
>> do two depositions, rather than one, since deposing different people
>> is more likely to lead to discrepancies that would improve our chances
>> of winning the lawsuit.
>>
>> I subsequently heard from Mr. Patterson that Tuesday would work best,
>> so I would ask the Secretary to announce the call on the business
>> list, cc: to Ken Moellman <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ken.moellman@lpky.org"><ken.moellman@lpky.org></a> and David Patterson
>> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:david@david4senate.com"><david@david4senate.com></a> on the LNC Business list with the call-in
>> information.
>>
>> I believe the call should not last more than an hour and should be
>> significantly shorter, since the motion to encumber funds has already
>> been made, so it's mostly a matter of laying out the logistics and
>> getting questions answered from Ken and David. If there's something
>> else I'm missing that needs to be covered, please let me know.
>>
>> As it is litigation to be filed, we should be circumspect on the call
>> about specific allegations, deposition strategy, etc. As a
>> co-plaintiff, I'll ask for copies of the briefs and be able to ask
>> specific questions of the attorney handling the case, so if there are
>> such questions or concerns by EC members or LNC members, I can field
>> them.
>>
>>
>> Thanks again for being available for this call and let me know if
>> there's anything I can answer ahead of time or ask Ken or David to
>> prepare in advance that would make it go more smoothly.
>>
>> -Nick
>>
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