<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">After reviewing the proposed Presidential Agreement which Nick sent out earlier tonight, I have several suggested edits: </font><div><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-aa3ab35f-0217-3aa3-a28a-ce415692a51e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000"><b>3(c)(ii):</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000">Upon signing this Agreement, the Candidates and Campaign Committee shall promptly provide to the LNC their "campaign" lists, i.e., their most current lists of contributors, inquiries and volunteers and the mailing and e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of those persons, and their "media" lists, i.e., their most current lists of media contacts and the mailing and e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of those persons. </font><u><font color="#0000ff">This requirement shall only apply to names on those lists which were obtained after the Candidates announced that they were seeking the LP nomination.</font></u><font color="#000000"> The Candidates and Campaign Committee shall provide to the LNC promptly as and when they are received, and at least weekly, any additions or updates to those lists. The Candidates and Campaign Committee intend that these lists shall be added to and merged with the lists owned and maintained by the LNC, so that the LNC shall have the unrestricted ownership and use of the lists in the future in order to advance the interests of the LP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Candidates shall retain a limited license to use those lists following the Campaign for their own </font></span><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-decoration:line-through;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font color="#ff0000">personal noncommercial</font></span><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:line-through;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000">use </font><u><font color="#0000ff">insofar as such use does not conflict with Libertarian Party objectives</font></u><font color="#000000">. </font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000"><b>3(c)(5):</b></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><span id="docs-internal-guid-aa3ab35f-021b-b095-ea68-2b7226177966"><span style="font-size:21.3333px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><b><font color="#000000">The Candidates and Campaign Committee shall direct all inquiries </font><u><font color="#0000ff">about the Libertarian Party</font></u></b><font color="#000000"><b> from interested voters, media representatives and others, to telephone numbers, mailing and e-mail addresses and persons designated by the LNC.</b> </font></span></span><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><div><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">My rationale is that I don't think it's reasonable to demand a Candidate's entire list of contacts and supporters, many of which were accumulated long before that Candidate sought the LP nomination. But once a Candidate has announced a run, all subsequent contact information should be fair game for the LP.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">It's also unreasonable to limit the Candidate's use of such data to "personal non-commercial use". Candidates should be able to freely utilize all of the data which they themselves collected, unless there is a direct conflict with LP objectives (e.g., using that data to help another political party or other non-LP candidates).</span></div><div><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Finally, Candidates and their Campaign Committees should be able to respond to inquiries about themselves without having to redirect those inquiries to the LP, unless the inquiry is specifically about the LP.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dan Wiener</span></div></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Nicholas Sarwark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chair@lp.org" target="_blank">chair@lp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As mentioned, the attached contract incorporates almost all of the<br>
proposals suggested by Mr. Hall.<br>
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-Nick<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><i>"In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we compute the consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if this law we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare the computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works.<font size="2"><b> If it disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key to science.</b></font> It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”</i> -- Richard Feynman</font> <font size="1">(<a href="https://tinyurl.com/lozjjps" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/lozjjps</a>)</font><br></div></div>
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