<p dir="ltr">In my capacity as Region 3 Representative, I vote Nay on Email Ballot 2016-10.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Brett C. Bittner </p>
<p dir="ltr">Region 3 Representative <br>
Libertarian National Committee </p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:brett.bittner@lp.org">brett.bittner@lp.org</a> <br>
317.643.2566 </p>
<p dir="ltr">**This message sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 24, 2016 08:32, "David Demarest" <<a href="mailto:dpdemarest@centurylink.net">dpdemarest@centurylink.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:lime">Alicia</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">: I vote YES on the: “</span><u>Motion:</u> to rescind the authority granted to the Chair to negotiate and execute a campaign contract and the Joint Fundraising Agreement and rescind any signatures already executed.”<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:lime">Starchild</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">: Thank you for providing the “early draft” of the LNC/campaign agreement in question. I did a quick 10-minute perusal of the draft. I have no formal legal training or experience. From a common sense perspective, nothing jumped out that suggested the need for confidentiality. However, drafts are drafts and we don’t know what we don’t know leaving us groping around in a murky, uneasy information vacuum. While I do not see this motion as a nuclear option, pursuing such an action this late in the campaign raises the risk threshold. Nevertheless, now is the time to get our LNC transparency bylaws house in order and take back our responsibility as a committee to authorize the chair to execute contractual agreements that put the LNC as a body at risk. Accordingly, I vote YES on the “Motion to Rescind” in order to correct our earlier abdication of our fiduciary responsibilities regarding contract approval.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Libertarianism – Principle and Transparancy Before Party </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">~David Pratt Demarest</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Secretary, Nebraska Libertarian State Central Committee<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Region 6 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (IA, IL, MN, MO, ND, NE, WI)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Nebraska State Coordinator, LP Radical Caucus</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Cell: <a href="tel:402-981-6469" value="+14029816469" target="_blank">402-981-6469</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lnc-business [mailto:<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business-bounces@<wbr>hq.lp.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Arvin Vohra<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 24, 2016 5:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-10: Rescind Contract Authority<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p>I vote no<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 24, 2016 5:35 AM, "Starchild" <<a href="mailto:sfdreamer@earthlink.net" target="_blank">sfdreamer@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">There is apparently an early draft of the contract between the Libertarian Party and the Johnson/Weld campaign online here:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hq.lp.org/pipermail/lnc-business_hq.lp.org/attachments/20160220/4654436e/attachment-0001.pdf" target="_blank">http://hq.lp.org/pipermail/<wbr>lnc-business_hq.lp.org/<wbr>attachments/20160220/4654436e/<wbr>attachment-0001.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I'm curious whether anyone sees anything in this draft agreement that they think ought to be kept secret, and if so, what and why? If you think material may have been added later that ought to be kept secret, what kinds of topics do you think it addresses and what is it about that material that demands secrecy, in your opinion?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Love & Liberty,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> ((( starchild )))<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> (415) 625-FREE<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 23, 2016, at 11:23 PM, Starchild wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Alicia. <b>I vote yes.</b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Love & Liberty,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> ((( starchild )))<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> (415) 625-FREE<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 23, 2016, at 11:19 PM, Alicia Mattson wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">We have an electronic mail ballot.<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"> <br><b><u>Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by October 3, 2016 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.<br></u></b> <br><u>Co-Sponsors:</u> Harlos, Hayes, Starchild, Demarest<br><br><u>Motion:</u> to rescind the authority granted to the Chair to negotiate and execute a campaign contract and the Joint Fundraising Agreement and rescind any signatures already executed.<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-Alicia<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>Lnc-business mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">Lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><br><a href="http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org" target="_blank">http://hq.lp.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.<wbr>org</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>Lnc-business mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">Lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><br><a href="http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org" target="_blank">http://hq.lp.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.<wbr>org</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>Lnc-business mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">Lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><br><a href="http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org" target="_blank">http://hq.lp.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.<wbr>org</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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