<div dir="auto">I'm personally in favor of trying to run an initiative and a smaller state to try to get instant runoff voting put in place somewhere beyond city councils.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I do not believe that this necessarily should fall solely on the shoulders of the libertarian party, however if an opportunity should arise I would hope that the lp would consider assisting such an effort.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 10, 2017 1:15 PM, "David Demarest" <<a href="mailto:dpdemarest@centurylink.net">dpdemarest@centurylink.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-2478784905190116222WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Bill,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your heartfelt advocacy of electoral reform. I am all for fighting the good fight to improve our electoral system and achieve broad-base Libertarian refulatory relief. You may want to collaborate with two leaders in the electoral reform movement, Larry R. Bradley of Kansas City (<a href="mailto:larry@thecenterstrikesback.org" target="_blank">larry@thecenterstrikesback.<wbr>org</a>), (non-partisan) and Libertarian Mike Shannon of Chicago (<a href="mailto:michael_p_shannon@yahoo.com" target="_blank">michael_p_shannon@yahoo.com</a>), who is fighting the good but uphill fight in the swampland of Illinois politics. But let’s not put the cart before the horse.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Reality check: Regulatory relief, including electoral reform, is fighting a losing battle in the face of ever-growing cronyism fostered by our NON-COMPETITIVE governance system. In this scenario, the ‘cart’ is regulatory relief, including electoral reform. The ‘horse’ is governance reform. To make electoral reform and broader regulatory relief a reality, we must reform our governance system to reduce the cronyism that currently has regulatory relief on the ropes.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Despite the predations of government, our COMPETITIVE free market minimizes cronyism. Why? Without interference from government, cronyism simply is not competitive in the free market. Let’s rejuvenate our governance by injecting the fresh air of competition that will help make regulatory relief and electoral reform possible.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Raising the stakes, history demonstrates that non-competitive governance systems predictably go bankrupt due to cronyism in 100 to 300-year life cycles, if they do not collapse before then due to revolution and failure in expansionist wars. Let’s see now. We are about 250 years down that path. Maybe it is time to put the governance reform horse before the regulatory relief cart with a sense of urgency.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">~David Pratt<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1f497d">May 25-27 2018 Omaha Roads to Freedom UnConvention<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1f497d">Freedom, Nothing More, Nothing Less, For All People<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">~David Pratt Demarest<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Roads to Freedom Foundation, Founder<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">LNC Region 6 Representative (IA, IL, MN, MO, ND, NE, WI)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">LSLA Vice-Chair<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">LPNE State Central Committee, Secretary<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">LPRC Board Member, Nebraska State Coordinator<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:David.Demarest@LP.org" target="_blank">David.Demarest@LP.org</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Secretary@LPNE.org" target="_blank">Secretary@LPNE.org</a> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:DPDemarest@centurylink.net" target="_blank">DPDemarest@centurylink.net</a> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:DPrattDemarest@gmail.com" target="_blank">DPrattDemarest@gmail.com</a> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:David.Demarest@OmahaUnConvention.com" target="_blank">David.Demarest@<wbr>OmahaUnConvention.com</a> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cell: <a href="tel:(402)%20981-6469" value="+14029816469" target="_blank">402-981-6469</a> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Home: <a href="tel:(402)%20493-0873" value="+14024930873" target="_blank">402-493-0873</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Lnc-business [mailto:<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business-bounces@<wbr>hq.lp.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Redpath<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 10, 2017 7:18 AM<br><b>To:</b> Libertarian National Committee List <<a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [Lnc-business] Joe Scarborough column in today's Washington Post<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tuesdays-election-proves-it-american-politics-are-a-disaster/2017/11/09/5ed37e84-c599-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.35ff9f84b6db" target="_blank">Opinion | Tuesday’s election proves it: American politics are a disaster</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="m_-2478784905190116222ydp309f2617enhancr_card_0518185136"><table class="m_-2478784905190116222MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width:300.0pt"><tr><td width="400" style="width:300.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><table class="m_-2478784905190116222MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width:300.0pt;border:solid #e0e4e9 1.0pt"><tr style="height:131.25pt"><td valign="top" style="border:none;background:black;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:131.25pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><img width="396" height="175" style="width:4.125in;height:1.8229in" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D35A17.CC35C560"><u></u><u></u> <u></u></p><br clear="ALL"><table class="m_-2478784905190116222MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;border-radius:2px 2px 0px 0px;min-height:175px"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><span><span style="width:400px;height:179px"><img width="400" height="179" style="width:4.1666in;height:1.8645in" src="cid:image003.png@01D35A18.A59E3440" alt="Text Box:
"></span></span><u></u><u></u><u></u></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;border-radius:0 0 0 2px"><div align="center"><table class="m_-2478784905190116222MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width:300.0pt;background:white;border:none;border-top:solid #e0e4e9 1.0pt;background-size:auto auto;border-radius:0px 0px 2px 2px"><tr><td valign="top" style="border:none;padding:12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 9.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" height="36" style="height:.375in" id="m_-2478784905190116222_x0000_i1025" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV2/23/logos/washingtonpost.png"><u></u><u></u></p></td><td width="99%" style="width:99.0%;border:none;padding:9.0pt .25in 12.0pt 9.0pt;border-radius:0 0 2px 0"><h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.25pt;word-break:break-word"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:#26282a">Opinion | Tuesday’s election proves it: American politics are a disaster<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p class="m_-2478784905190116222ydp309f2617card-richinfo-primary" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:#979ba7">Joe Scarborough<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-2478784905190116222ydp309f2617card-description" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.0pt;word-break:break-word"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:#979ba7">The only way to escape the cycle is to break apart the hyperpartisan two-party duopoly.<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">Dear Colleagues: I am involved in the Libertarian Party not only because I want to live in a libertarian society, but to, as Joe Scarborough puts it, "break apart the hyperpartisan two-party duopoly" that most certainly is a "disaster" for this nation. Please take three minutes to read this excellent column. In my opinion, for this to be accomplished, the voting system will need to be changed from the Single Member Plurality rules now in effect. It's not ballot access, or campaign finance rules, or anything else that relegates the LP and other minor parties to their second class status in the United States. It's the voting system, and I hope the LP will do more to change those laws that really bind us. Bill Redpath<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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