<div dir="auto">TL; DR - I vote nay on email ballot 2017-16.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My thoughts: I find myself in the same situation as I did when the Wicks motion was presented. At that time, promises to come up with a procedure we made (and we even delayed considering a request from Senator Ebke for that procedure to be in place), yet action has yet to materialize. I believe that our first duty is to win elections, and without a process to vet funding requests, we are ill-equipped to determine which campaigns should receive our limited funds. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As both Arvin and Sam have outlined my concerns, I don't feel the need to reiterate them. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I appreciate Dr. Buchman's many years of service to the Party and as an activist, and I think very highly of him. I also enjoyed seeing his debate performance online, and I think he did a tremendous job of offering a different perspective in that debate. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Unfortunately, I believe that we will never create a process for these type of requests if we continue to fulfill them in the ad hoc manner from our limited funds. As such, I must cast a nay vote. I will continue to do so for all candidate funding requests until we've established a process to vet such requests. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Brett C. Bittner </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Region 3 Representative </div><div dir="auto">Libertarian National Committee </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="mailto:brett.bittner@lp.org">brett.bittner@lp.org</a> </div><div dir="auto">317.537.8344 <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">**This message sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos.</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 17, 2017 07:17, "Patrick McKnight" <<a href="mailto:patrick.joseph.mcknight@gmail.com">patrick.joseph.mcknight@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I vote no.<font color="#888888"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Patrick McKnight</div><div dir="auto">Region 8 Rep</div></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="elided-text">On Jul 17, 2017 12:07 AM, "James Lark" <<a href="mailto:jwl3s@eservices.virginia.edu" target="_blank">jwl3s@eservices.virginia.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="elided-text">
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Dear colleagues:<br>
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I hope all is well with you. I am writing in my capacity as
Region 5 representative to vote "nay" on the motion.<br>
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As always, thanks for your work for liberty.<br>
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Take care,<br>
Jim<br>
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James W. Lark, III<br>
Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering<br>
Applied Mathematics Program, Dept. of Engineering and Society<br>
Affiliated Faculty, Dept. of Statistics<br>
University of Virginia<br>
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Advisor, The Liberty Coalition<br>
University of Virginia<br>
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Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee<br>
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<b><u>Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by July 25, <span class="m_-584628419545511697m_-8908769494307930683gmail-m_6324776411065130667gmail-m_1398300420053645662m_3190443451192923416gmail-m_-3236448625161631958gmail-m_-8379118852138647182gmail-m_-6417268801349296248gmail-m_1986229171992062500gmail-m_1181632840545237343gmail-m_5539741857281978456gmail-m_3269739548110022274gmail-m_-7417594590945562825m_-3106942960241565296gmail-m_2797144110872258469gmail-m_7277579120155508541gmail-m_9149391285218628846gmail-il"><span class="m_-584628419545511697m_-8908769494307930683gmail-m_6324776411065130667gmail-m_1398300420053645662m_3190443451192923416gmail-il">2017</span></span>
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<u>Co-Sponsors:</u> Harlos, Bilyeu, Demarest, Starchild<br>
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<u>Motion:</u> for the LNC to contribute $5,000 to support
the Congressional campaign of Joe Buchman (Utah)<br>
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