<div dir="ltr">My response to Mr Petersen's solicitation letter today:<div><br></div><div>Dear Austin,<div><br></div><div>Please remove me from your email list as I would never support a</div><div>candidate of the party of Big Government. Your move shows just</div><div>how serious you were in the run for the LP's POTUS nomination and </div><div>I hope you do well with your new party and won't try to return to the </div><div>LP when the Republicans trash you and and reject you this year.</div><div><br></div><div>Try to LIve Free,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Sam Goldstein<div>Libertarian National Committee</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Sam Goldstein<div>Libertarian National Committee</div><div>Member at Large</div><div>8925 N Meridian St, Ste 101</div><div>Indianapolis IN 46260</div><div>317-850-0726 Phone</div><div>317-582-1773 Fax</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Daniel Hayes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielehayes@icloud.com" target="_blank">danielehayes@icloud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>CON-FUSION.</div><div id="m_5207756117461834857AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_5207756117461834857AppleMailSignature">Ahm just saying.</div><div id="m_5207756117461834857AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_5207756117461834857AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_5207756117461834857AppleMailSignature">Daniel Hayes</div><div id="m_5207756117461834857AppleMailSignature">LNC At Large Member<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jul 4, 2017, at 5:21 PM, Ken Moellman <<a href="mailto:lpky@mu-net.org" target="_blank">lpky@mu-net.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">As long as our name appears on the ballot line, I'm okay with fusion. Internally, a party could create rules to limit how often it is used by requiring some mathematical formula to limit its use based on the number of other L candidates running, if they were worried about simply becoming an endorsement clearing house. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Sean O'Toole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@kingfieldcapital.com" target="_blank">sean@kingfieldcapital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px">Yes, Caryn Ann. </div><div id="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><br></div><div id="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px">There was a fusion bill put forth by a libertarian-leaning republican in the Missouri legislature a couple of years back. LPMO played a large role in it never making it out of committee. We took the Jeffersonian position of p<font face="American Typewriter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(55,58,62)">eace,</span><span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);font-variant-ligatures:normal"> commerce and honest friendship with all but entangling alliances with none. </span></span></font></div><div id="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><font face="American Typewriter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br></span></span></font></div><div id="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003bloop_customfont" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><font face="American Typewriter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);font-variant-ligatures:normal">There needs to be a party of principle and principles are the first thing to be thrown away when crafting political alliances.</span></span></font></div><span> <br> <div class="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003bloop_sign" id="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003bloop_sign_1499193063444805120">______________________________<wbr>__<div>Sean O’Toole</div><div><a href="tel:(816)%20739-2737" value="+18167392737" target="_blank">(816) 739-2737</a></div></div> <br></span><div><div class="m_5207756117461834857h5"><p class="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003airmail_on">On July 4, 2017 at 1:28:03 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos (<a href="mailto:carynannharlos@gmail.com" target="_blank">carynannharlos@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="m_5207756117461834857m_2204426475384139003clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
<div dir="ltr">I think accepting fusion sends the same signal, no?
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<div>I can't speak to Austin's motivations, but when we repeatedly
nominate ex-Republicans for president, it does kind of signal to
potential candidates that they need not worry about leaving the LP
for the GOP since they can come to the LP from that party whenever
they want without hurting their chances of being nominated by
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Austin Petersen to run for senate as a republican</span></div>
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