<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Elizabeth,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The original correspondence was sent to a bunch of LNC members as individuals. If you did not receive the original letter, it's probably because the sender was working from an older list of LNC members that did not include you. When I receive messages on which lots of LNC members are copied, I generally respond to the senders and copy the LNC email list (rather than the "cc" list which may be missing some members, and which won't be seen by people reading the reflector list or the archives), for transparency purposes.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> </div><div> ((( starchild )))<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div>At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</div><div> <a href="mailto:RealReform@earthlink.net">RealReform@earthlink.net</a></div><div> (415) 625-FREE</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jan 12, 2018, at 7:06 PM, Elizabeth Van Horn wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><p>I only see this as Starchild replied. Did the incoming communication go to an old LNC list? As none of this came through to my inbox. </p>
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</div><p>On 2018-01-12 22:08, Starchild wrote:</p>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In the message below, I misnamed an LP committee – the correct name is the Employment Policy & Compensation Committee. What I said there was also poorly worded; I was not suggesting the members of that committee should necessarily remind staff to be mindful of their public comments, but just posting that suggestion on my own behalf in the knowledge that our executive director who directly manages staff reads this list. </div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Also in another recent message responding to several members who wrote with concerns about post(s?) made by LP vice chair Arvin Vohra, I inadvertently left one of those members, Michelle MacCutcheon, off the recipient list. Fortunately she managed to receive my message via some other route.</div>
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<div>On Jan 12, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Starchild wrote:</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thank you for writing to members of the Libertarian National Committee and sharing your concerns. In the email from you Ben, I see a message below from a Cara Schulz – we have a Candidate Recruiting Specialist by that name on staff (see <a href="https://www.lp.org/staff/">https://www.lp.org/staff/</a>). Is this the message to which you are referring Adam, or are there others?</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>On the face of it, this would seem to me to be a very questionable comment for an LP staffer to make about one of our candidates. On the other hand, it's not clear to me where this comment appeared. If it was made on behalf of the LP, or in a Libertarian Party forum, that would I think be much more objectionable than if it was simply a staffer speaking her opinion as an individual, outside of her role in working for the party. There is a fine line to walk, I think, between seeking to avoid LP staff unfairly slandering our candidates on one hand, and respecting their right to free speech under their own names on the other. I don't recall offhand what staff rules or the LNC Policy Manual may say on this topic, but I would encourage members of the Employee Compensation Committee to look into the matter, and remind staff to be mindful when speaking in public forums that what you say may be taken by some to reflect on your employer the Libertarian Party.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thank both of you again for bringing the matter to our attention, and for your efforts on behalf of the Libertarian Party and the cause of freedom. We definitely need more Libertarian candidates who are willing to actively run for public office on a radically libertarian message, and I appreciate you for doing this Adam, as well as for your courage in repeatedly sticking your neck out for the libertarian cause by engaging in pro-freedom civil disobedience at significant risk to your own life and liberty. Anyone who does these things is a hero in my book.</div>
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<div>P.S. – I would like to add for the record that the Libertarian Party in no way condones the initiation of force, in domestic relationships or otherwise. We also champion the principle of innocent until proven guilty. In light of these occasionally conflicting values, we must all seek to be shrewd and fair judges of character, weighing carefully our reactions to rumors or reports that we may hear secondhand about other people's alleged actions, and looking for overall patterns of behavior, integrity and values when forming our opinions about people and regulating our personal speech and conduct toward them.</div>
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