<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 13px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Dan, if you intend to wield that binder (Caryn's 42-page regional report!) as an instrument of smacking, you better start working out!<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Joking aside, I share Caryn's desire for active communication here. While I think Joshua raises some valid concerns about email as a medium for communication and voting, it is what we have at present. No approach is perfect, and in-person meetings have their own drawbacks. I hope we can get videoconferencing implemented as a viable means for meeting more frequently though.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I think online communication would work better for us if we had a better interface. A tool to visibly show the status of current motions and votes, maybe even current threads and who has and has not weighed in on them.</div><div><br></div><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> ((( starchild )))</div><div>At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</div><div> RealReform@earthlink.net</div><div> (415) 625-FREE<br><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: #0000ff 2px solid; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Daniel Hayes <danielehayes@icloud.com>
<br>Sent: Jul 18, 2016 9:57 AM
<br>To: lnc-business@hq.lp.org
<br>Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Participation on LNC email list
<br><br><zzzhtml><zzzhead><zzzmeta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></zzzmeta></zzzhead><zzzbody dir="auto"><div>Ms. Harlos,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">As you have voluntarily agreed to being open to being smacked down, we will only use the implement included in the picture in this email to do so.<br><img src="cid:8B685FA2-B95A-4120-9CF7-8725EFF1AE6A" alt="image1.JPG" id="8B685FA2-B95A-4120-9CF7-8725EFF1AE6A"></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Daniel Hayes</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">LNC At Large Member</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 18, 2016, at 11:21 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:carynannharlos@gmail.com">carynannharlos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>All, <div><br></div><div>I brought this up multiple times in the meeting and wish to revisit here and hope my comments are not out of turn - either as a new member or inappropriate for my position. I reiterate my concern and chagrin that we do not, as a body, participate in these discussions often and consistently. </div><div><br></div><div>We are the national governing body of the third largest political party in the US. Party business does not occur only 4 times a year. I realize we have staff and committees but this simply is not enough. There was at least one motion this time of mine was put on the table because I was desperate that there simply wasn't enough interaction here. We could dispose of a lot and do a lot more effectively if we committed to the fact that we need to be nearly constantly interacting as a governing body. I find the idea that we have had only one email vote this year quite astounding.</div><div><br></div><div>I will be (or I hope other more experienced members will be so that we <span></span>newer members can learn will be) bringing some motions that were spun off from our meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Let's please commit to actively communicating and leading as a body between meetings through this resource.</div><div><br></div><div>If I need to be smacked down for being out of turn here, please be gentle.<br><br></div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>In Liberty,</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Caryn Ann Harlos</b></font></div><div><font size="1">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </font><span style="font-size:x-small">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a target="_blank" href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications Director, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lpcolorado.org">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Colorado State Coordinator, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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