<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>For my part, I must give credit to the Libertarian Party of Nevada and whoever wrote their resolution for them. Their original language noted that the stadium tax will fall on constituents including poor persons renting motel rooms by the week. I did add the reference to the billionaire stadium owner to make the injustice more explicit. A $750 million subsidy at the expense of the taxpayers would be "unfree at any speed" (to paraphrase Ralph Nader), but this particular measure appears even less defensible than most similarly priced government expenditures. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Anyway, thank you as always Mike for your vigilance and willingness to stand up and be heard. By the way, I regularly use that Alice Walker quote, which I believe you first brought to my attention!</div><div><br></div><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> ((( starchild ))) </div><div>At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</div><div> (415) 625-FREE</div><div> @StarchildSF</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. – Can't recall whether I already said this or not, but I'm puzzled as to how, if it's acceptable for LNC members to deliberately lobby each other directly, it would somehow be deemed inappropriate to encourage others to lobby LNC members. As a rule, I feel that the more involvement there is in the party's governance by folks not on the LNC, the healthier our party's culture is.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 22, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Thank you Mike. I was quite - chargrined- as you know - but that "concerted email campaign by friends" comment. I encourage ALL members to write and have made that a goal even prior to my service on the LNC.<div><div><br></div><div>Starchild authored that language - all credit to him.</div><div><br></div><div>PS I did not ask Mike to write.<span></span><br><br>On Saturday, October 22, 2016, Mike Shipley <<a href="mailto:mikester420@gmail.com">mikester420@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;color:#000000"><div>I saw that there is <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lncvotes/QlFM6diPz8U/hAo-BdJmAwAJ" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">a motion before the LNC</span></a> that has some povertarian flair, containing the phrase "<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5">" ... a billionaire-owned sports stadium at the expense of, among others, indigent persons renting weekly rooms in motels ... " and wanted to drop you a quick note of thanks for </span><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5">highlighting the way crony subsidy deals harm the people who can least afford it the most.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5">So there you have it: THANK YOU!!</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:#1d2129;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">PS ... This message was NOT solicited by my "friends" on the LNC whom to be quite honest I keep at arm's length these days specifically to preserve the integrity of our voices (I'd rather have no friends than crony friends). However, I have personally suggested that others write you and if they do, I hope you treat them with respect. I'm alarmed by the idea that some members are more equal than others.</span></span></div><div><div>--</div><div>Mike Shipley</div><div>Phoenix, AZ</div><div><br></div><div>"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."</div></div></div></blockquote></div></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 href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>