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    <p>Just updating the subject on this interesting discussion thread.
      <br>
    </p>
    <p>To clarify, briefly, there were only two full-time staffers
      located on site at LPHQ. Currently, we're at 3 full-time plus
      two-halves (not exactly split down the middle) located at LPHQ.
      The others work off-site. <br>
    </p>
    <p>When Robert's at the office by himself, answering the phone,
      door, and doing routine work gets a bit overwhelming. It doesn't
      happen too often. <br>
    </p>
    <p>Thanks,<br>
    </p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/4/2017 2:46 AM, Alicia Mattson
      wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CA+Jr9xH5XNuNn_NR3VCpS5FFoH5-jOxSF6c-8nxNrXk0rU3yUg@mail.gmail.com">
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            <div>With an LNC meeting approaching, I'm scanning my emails
              for loose ends, and I meant to reply to this.<br>
              <br>
            </div>
            <DH>I think that probably gave Robert the impression
            we(COC) wanted him to sign it THEN.  I did want it signed
            ASAP after the vote was completed as December in NOLA starts
            to get busy and things can shift.  I think it resulted from
            my poor communication coupled with that same "thing" that
            makes email such a lousy means of deliberating.</DH><br>
            <br>
          </div>
          Even if you communicated imprecisely, and the impression was
          that the COC wanted it signed immediately, the COC has only
          been delegated authority over contracts for national
          conventions.  This was a contract for an LNC meeting, and was
          not under the purview of the COC.  Even if the COC did have
          such authority, the COC can be overridden by the LNC, and the
          LNC had an ongoing email ballot on the question at the time,
          so there's no grounds to argue that the COC's opinion
          mattered.<br>
          <br>
        </div>
        -Alicia<br>
        <br>
        <br>
      </div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:20 PM,
          Daniel Hayes <span dir="ltr"><<a
              href="mailto:danielehayes@icloud.com" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true">danielehayes@icloud.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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              <div>Alicia,</div>
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              </div>
              <div id="m_6784598534260075199AppleMailSignature">I fully
                agree with your point of us not executing a contract
                until after the vote is completed.  It's been a while
                but I do recall having an "antacid" moment during this.
                 </div>
              <div id="m_6784598534260075199AppleMailSignature">Nick had
                OKed for Robert to sign. I had some emails back and
                forth with Sandy with Helms-Briscoe.  There was one in
                which she said "she was standing by" and I wrote her
                back to make sure she went ahead and finalized the
                contract TO be signed so that once the vote was done we
                could sign it.   I had mentioned that we had passed the
                minimum threshold and it was pretty much a done deal and
                to get things ready to sign right away.</div>
              <div id="m_6784598534260075199AppleMailSignature"><br>
              </div>
              <div id="m_6784598534260075199AppleMailSignature">I think
                that probably gave Robert the impression we(COC) wanted
                him to sign it THEN.  I did want it signed ASAP after
                the vote was completed as December in NOLA starts to get
                busy and things can shift.  I think it resulted from my
                poor communication coupled with that same "thing" that
                makes email such a lousy means of deliberating. That
                lack of instantaneous and contemporaneous communication
                when one person is talking to another and the other
                person "jumps in" somewhere in the middle and then loses
                some of the context.</div>
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              </div>
              <div id="m_6784598534260075199AppleMailSignature">In any
                event as I said, I think it fell on my lack of clarity. 
                In this case it's all good though in the future we need
                to certainly make sure to wait until a vote is completed
                before fully executing a contract contingent on that
                vote.</div>
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              </div>
              <div id="m_6784598534260075199AppleMailSignature">On
                matters of larger sums it requires the chair's signature
                with counsel's review if I am not mistaken so that
                protects us against a larger ongoing potential faux
                pas.  That said, we do need to be more careful.  I will
                be more diligent in the future.</div>
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              <div id="m_6784598534260075199AppleMailSignature">Daniel
                Hayes</div>
              <div id="m_6784598534260075199AppleMailSignature">LNC At
                Large Member<br>
                <br>
                Sent from my iPhone</div>
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                  <div><br>
                    On Jul 17, 2017, at 6:24 PM, Alicia Mattson <<a
                      href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com" target="_blank"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">agmattson@gmail.com</a>>
                    wrote:<br>
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                              <div>I do need to point out that p. 8 of
                                the New Orleans contract shows that we
                                executed that contract on 4/27/17.<br>
                                <br>
                              </div>
                              We approved the date/location for that
                              meeting with email ballot 2017-08, which
                              began on 4/21/17 and ended on 5/1/17. 
                              That means the contract was signed 4 days
                              prior to the end of the email ballot which
                              authorized it.<br>
                              <br>
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                            That should not have happened.<br>
                            <br>
                            We would have been up a creek had the votes
                            shifted before the end of the email ballot,
                            and the LNC ultimately did not approve the
                            date/location motion.  We would have already
                            been legally obligated.<br>
                            <br>
                          </div>
                          What was the reason for the premature contract
                          execution before it had been approved?<br>
                          <br>
                        </div>
                        -Alicia<br>
                        <br>
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                          <div>
                            <div><br>
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                      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at
                          2:51 PM, Wes Benedict <span dir="ltr"><<a
                              href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org"
                              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>></span>
                          wrote:<br>
                          <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
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                            <br>
                            If I thought this information would be
                            useful for an upcoming decision, I'd make
                            sure we bumped other things back and moved
                            this forward.<br>
                            <br>
                            Robert has kept a spreadsheet detailing the
                            LNC meeting costs. It's significantly out of
                            date and will take time to update.<br>
                            <br>
                            If I get a sense from a significant number
                            on the LNC that it is important enough for
                            us to stop other work and get that
                            spreadsheet updated, we could certainly do
                            that.<br>
                            <br>
                            Or, if the LNC would be satisfied to get a
                            list of meetings from the past just to get a
                            sense of the costs, Robert has provided that
                            and it's attached.<br>
                            <br>
                            I don't personally see much coming from
                            providing that information urgently, but
                            again, we could certainly get it done if it
                            was a top priority.<br>
                            <br>
                            In general, staff has usually included in
                            our suggestions and research low-cost
                            options like Oklahoma and Alexandria, and
                            the LNC has chosen places that were not the
                            lowest cost options staff has provided. I
                            point that out, because I want to make it
                            clear that, if the costs of LNC meetings is
                            your concern, I don't want our membership or
                            the LNC to think that staff requires
                            expensive meetings. We go with the flow of
                            the LNC. Of the 5 to 10 times I've suggested
                            a specific location for an LNC meeting, I
                            don't think the LNC has taken my suggestion.
                            I don't mind. I've thought most of the
                            places we've had meetings were reasonably
                            decided.<br>
                            <br>
                            I think Robert has shown many of the
                            contracts to you in person when you've
                            visited LPHQ.<br>
                            <br>
                            I believe Robert has offered to email all
                            the contracts to you if you sign the
                            standard Non-Disclosure Agreement. I believe
                            you have so far chosen not to sign the
                            non-disclosure agreement for certain reasons
                            that you're in a better situation to explain
                            than me. It's not a big deal to me
                            personally, just has been our practice
                            related to contracts.<br>
                            <br>
                            I don't think there's anything especially
                            interesting or "secret" in any of the
                            contracts we've had with hotels to have LNC
                            meetings. Payments to hotels can be found in
                            detail on the FEC website.<br>
                            <br>
                            I think sometimes vendors offer "discounts"
                            and sometimes put in their contracts terms
                            requesting confidentiality, but I'm not
                            going to go through and dig up a bunch of
                            contracts to see for myself unless I get a
                            sense from the LNC that that is what they
                            want staff to spend time on.<br>
                            <br>
                            If the LNC could pass a motion requesting
                            staff to provide all the LNC meeting
                            contracts to Starchild and other LNC members
                            without requiring an NDA, I'd feel more
                            comfortable stopping other work and doing
                            that, and not requiring an NDA.<br>
                            <br>
                            We did not find the word "Confidential" in
                            the upcoming LNC meeting in Kansas City and
                            New Orleans. Those contract are attached.<br>
                            <br>
                            <br>
                            Wes Benedict, Executive Director<br>
                            Libertarian National Committee, Inc.<br>
                            1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314<br>
                            <a
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                              href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org"
                              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">wes.benedict@lp.org</a><br>
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                                On 7/13/2017 10:03 AM, Aaron Starr
                                wrote:<br>
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                                  "Do you agree with Alicia and I that
                                  the LNC should be provided with data
                                  on<br>
                                  our meeting costs as I've been
                                  requesting? Going forward, I would
                                  like to<br>
                                  see those costs disclosed upfront,
                                  before a meeting site is selected, and
                                  I<br>
                                  would also like to see the our past
                                  costs for each meeting this term,
                                  within<br>
                                  some reasonable frame of time."<br>
                                  <br>
                                  While I am not personally fixated on
                                  the costs of meetings, I do believe<br>
                                  that it is perfectly reasonable for a
                                  member of this committee to request<br>
                                  past data on our meeting costs and
                                  copies of contracts. That information
                                  was<br>
                                  requested on June 6 and should have
                                  been provided by now.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  <br>
                                  Aaron Starr<br>
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                                    moz-do-not-send="true">(805)
                                    583-3308</a> Home<br>
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                                    value="+18054048693" target="_blank"
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                                    404-8693</a> Mobile<br>
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                                    target="_blank"
                                    moz-do-not-send="true">starrcpa@gmail.com</a><br>
                                  <br>
                                  -----Original Message-----<br>
                                  From: Lnc-business [mailto:<a
                                    href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org"
                                    target="_blank"
                                    moz-do-not-send="true">lnc-business-bounces@h<wbr>q.lp.org</a>]
                                  On Behalf Of<br>
                                  Starchild<br>
                                  Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 1:22 AM<br>
                                  To: Nick Sarwark<br>
                                  Cc: Libertarian National Committee
                                  list<br>
                                  Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] The
                                  Libertarian Party only has 2 full-time<br>
                                  staffers?!<br>
                                  <br>
                                  <br>
                                          Thanks Nick. So I guess the
                                  question remains, who is answering the<br>
                                  phones and handling routine office
                                  tasks? Austin Petersen says that
                                  during<br>
                                  his time in the office, he developed a
                                  strong intern program. If so, I'm<br>
                                  wondering what happened to that
                                  program. Do we have any written
                                  records of<br>
                                  it, and if so, can those records be
                                  sent to the LNC?<br>
                                  <br>
                                          My understanding - correct me
                                  if I'm wrong - is that we don't<br>
                                  currently have any interns, but if we
                                  have names and contact info of past<br>
                                  interns, I'd volunteer to call them
                                  and ask about their experience working<br>
                                  as interns for the LP. That could help
                                  us rebuild a program and start<br>
                                  getting more bodies in the office
                                  getting stuff done, including routine<br>
                                  tasks.<br>
                                  <br>
                                          Do you agree with Alicia and I
                                  that the LNC should be provided with<br>
                                  data on our meeting costs as I've been
                                  requesting? Going forward, I would<br>
                                  like to see those costs disclosed
                                  upfront, before a meeting site is<br>
                                  selected, and I would also like to see
                                  the our past costs for each meeting<br>
                                  this term, within some reasonable
                                  frame of time. Do you have any
                                  objection<br>
                                  to this, and if not, what time frames
                                  seem reasonable to you?<br>
                                  <br>
                                  Love & Liberty,<br>
                                  <br>
                                                                     
                                  ((( starchild ))) At-Large<br>
                                  Representative, Libertarian National
                                  Committee<br>
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                                    href="mailto:RealReform@earthlink.net"
                                    target="_blank"
                                    moz-do-not-send="true">RealReform@earthlink.net</a><br>
                                                                   
                                  (415) 625-FREE<br>
                                                                     
                                  @StarchildSF<br>
                                  <br>
                                  <br>
                                  On Jul 12, 2017, at 9:08 PM, Nicholas
                                  Sarwark wrote:<br>
                                  <br>
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                                    Starchild,<br>
                                    <br>
                                    At present, the LNC has Wes
                                    Benedict, Eric Dixon, and Robert
                                    Kraus<br>
                                    full-time and based out of the
                                    Alexandria office. My understanding
                                    is<br>
                                    that Nick Dunbar and Mat Thexton are
                                    also based out of that office,<br>
                                    though not full-time.  We also have
                                    a number of contractors working<br>
                                    remotely, including Andy Burns,
                                    Lauren Daugherty, Jess Mears, Denise<br>
                                    Luckey, Bob Johnston, and Elizabeth
                                    Brierly.<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Wes and I are in the midst of
                                    interviewing candidates for Press<br>
                                    Secretary, which is anticipated to
                                    be full-time, and will be moving on<br>
                                    to interviewing candidates for a
                                    Candidate Support Specialist
                                    shortly.<br>
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                                    Yours in liberty,<br>
                                    Nick<br>
                                    <br>
                                    On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:05 PM,
                                    Starchild <<a
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                                      Thank you, Alicia. Coupled with
                                      the Convention Oversight Committee<br>
                                      experience you mention, this does
                                      raise questions. But beyond the<br>
                                      issue of getting the requested
                                      information, I was honestly
                                      shocked to<br>
                                      hear that only Wes and Robert are
                                      usually in the office full time.
                                      If<br>
                                      their time is valuable enough to
                                      justify what we're paying them,<br>
                                      surely we should not be having
                                      them routinely spend that time on<br>
                                      tasks that lower-paid staffers, or
                                      volunteers, could be handling.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      I would like to hear what Nick
                                      Sarwark as chair thinks about both
                                      the<br>
                                      data request compliance and how
                                      staff hours are apparently being<br>
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                                      Love & Liberty,<br>
                                      <br>
                                                                       
                                        ((( starchild ))) At-Large<br>
                                      Representative, Libertarian
                                      National Committee<br>
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                                      On Jun 7, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Alicia
                                      Mattson wrote:<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Starchild,<br>
                                      <br>
                                      I have a lot of disagreements with
                                      your other ideas about how we<br>
                                      should find meeting locations and
                                      what arrangements are workable.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      However, I do agree with you that
                                      it should not take so long to<br>
                                      provide the LNC with basic data
                                      about the routine costs of our<br>
                                      meetings, and provide copies of
                                      the meeting space contracts
                                      showing<br>
                                      which of those expenses are
                                      required performance.  You've been
                                      asking<br>
                                      for some time, and it's not that
                                      large of a data request.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Recently, the Convention Oversight
                                      Committee was not in agreement<br>
                                      about whether to again use an
                                      outside professional to assist
                                      with the<br>
                                      2020 site search, or whether to do
                                      it in-house with Robert Kraus as
                                      the<br>
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                                      When the issue of asking a staff
                                      member to take on such a<br>
                                      time-consuming job was discussed,
                                      the COC was told that when Wes<br>
                                      tells the LNC that staff is
                                      overloaded, that characterization
                                      does<br>
                                      not necessarily include Robert
                                      Kraus, and he was willing and able
                                      to<br>
                                      add such a large project to his
                                      plate.  If that's the case, then I<br>
                                      don't see why there isn't time to
                                      fulfill this data request of yours
                                      in a<br>
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                                      -Alicia<br>
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                                      <br>
                                      On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 4:34 PM,
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                                        Maybe I just haven't been paying
                                        attention. That's what LP<br>
                                        operations manager Robert Kraus
                                        suggested when I spoke with him<br>
                                        today and expressed surprise at
                                        his statement that he and Wes<br>
                                        Benedict are the only paid staff
                                        working full time at our office.
                                        He<br>
                                        said that if I'd read the report
                                        Wes presented at the last LNC
                                        meeting,<br>
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                                  I would have been aware of the
                                  situation.<br>
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                                        Robert told me this by way of
                                        explaining why he has not yet
                                        sent the<br>
                                        LNC the details of how much we
                                        are paying for hotel meeting
                                        space,<br>
                                        food and beverage obligations,
                                        staff airline flights, shipping<br>
                                        costs, etc., in connection with
                                        LNC meetings. At the last LNC<br>
                                        meeting in Pittsburgh in April,
                                        he told me in response to my
                                        asking<br>
                                        him for this information that he
                                        would send it within a week or
                                        so.<br>
                                        When I spoke with him today, he
                                        said that if I wanted him to
                                        stop<br>
                                        what he was doing and send the
                                        information now, he would have
                                        to<br>
                                        stop working on updating donor
                                        information to help us raise
                                        money,<br>
                                        because he was the only person
                                        in the office right now. When I
                                        asked<br>
                                        whether he could get us the
                                        meeting information prior to the
                                        next<br>
                                        LNC meeting on August 19 (over 2
                                        months from now, and 4 months
                                        from when<br>
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                                  he originally said he'd provide it),
                                  his response was "possibly".<br>
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                                        We have 11 people listed on our
                                        staff page<br>
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                                        not even counting individuals
                                        like our<br>
                                        legal counsel and our FEC
                                        consultant who are kind of "on
                                        call", and<br>
                                        although political director
                                        Carla Howell's contract wasn't
                                        renewed,<br>
                                        the chair recently proposed
                                        adding an additional lower-level<br>
                                        staffer. With that many folks on
                                        the roster, I don't understand
                                        why<br>
                                        the two highest-paid individuals
                                        on staff are the only ones who
                                        are<br>
                                        being paid full-time salaries
                                        and asked to staff the office
                                        largely<br>
                                        by themselves. If this is true,
                                        it means that our highest-paid<br>
                                        staffers are likely spending a
                                        significant part of their time
                                        doing<br>
                                        routine office tasks like
                                        answering phone calls which
                                        could be handled<br>
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                                  by lower-paid staffers or even by
                                  volunteers.<br>
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                                        Robert did say he agreed with me
                                        that staff should not be asked
                                        to<br>
                                        monitor or be involved in the
                                        party's social media outreach,
                                        which<br>
                                        would potentially take a lot of
                                        their time away from other
                                        tasks. I<br>
                                        also suggested that volunteers,
                                        instead of staff, could be the
                                        ones<br>
                                        to research LNC meeting
                                        locations and present options to
                                        the LNC.<br>
                                        Local activists in the cities
                                        where we're considering holding<br>
                                        meetings would be the logical
                                        people to do this. If we don't
                                        have<br>
                                        any local activists in a
                                        particular area able to help us
                                        find free<br>
                                        or low-cost meeting venues there
                                        and help with details such as<br>
                                        coordinating local
                                        transportation and folks able to
                                        host out-of-town<br>
                                        visitors, it would beg the
                                        question of why we are meeting
                                        in that<br>
                                        location instead of somewhere
                                        there is an active local
                                        Libertarian<br>
                                        organization that can support us
                                        and which we in turn can support
                                        by<br>
                                        seeking to arrange to have
                                        visiting LNC members make press
                                        appearances,<br>
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                                  attend local campaign events, do
                                  fundraising, etc., while in town.<br>
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                                        But if what Robert says is
                                        correct, it seems to me that we
                                        are not<br>
                                        running our office efficiently.
                                        It also seems to me that LNC
                                        members<br>
                                        being made to wait months and
                                        months after an LNC meeting to
                                        see<br>
                                        what the actual expenses were
                                        for that meeting is
                                        unreasonable.<br>
                                        Actually, we should be seeing
                                        such expenses listed before each<br>
                                        meeting, since expenses like
                                        hotel meeting space fees, food
                                        and<br>
                                        beverage obligations, staff
                                        airline flights, and shipping
                                        costs are<br>
                                        in most cases known in advance.
                                        And we should be seeing
                                        estimates of<br>
                                        these costs prior to even making
                                        a decision on where to meet,
                                        since such<br>
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                                  costs ought to factor into our
                                  decisions.<br>
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                                        Love & Liberty,<br>
                                        <br>
                                                                       
                                             ((( starchild ))) At-Large<br>
                                        Representative, Libertarian
                                        National Committee<br>
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