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<p>Here's a photo of the Miami Libertarians (plus me and LNC Alt.
Steven Nekhaila of Fl Keys) on election night:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part1.FCE4EEDE.62555202@lp.org" alt=""></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
Join the Libertarian Party at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lp.org/membership">http://lp.org/membership</a></pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/27/2017 1:56 PM, Wes Benedict
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:7861554f-a34f-65e6-638d-fa05a2547106@lp.org">The amount
of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to list
here.
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Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after
having attended the OAI event yesterday.
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I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of
our newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and
visit the office.
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One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic
job--Jess from Florida.
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I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting
things happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take
the time to do that right now.
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Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives
oxygen to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
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I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering
between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect
of alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing
that which is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
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I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state,
anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a
libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist
libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the
way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate
libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by
the way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and
re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad
policies--I'm often a team player.
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Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls
short, let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to
rally around them and support them. Let our second instinct be to
rally around them and support them again. Let our third instinct
be to rally around them and support them again. And let our fourth
instinct be to ignore them.
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There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high
office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and
damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never
publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I
treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was
accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to
the convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached
the news or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email
groups and start writing about how this guy was going to embarrass
us if others found out about him. I shall not say his name here
either.
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Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see
more of.
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