<div dir='auto'>With all due respect, the change may even be worse than the original. "Silence is seen as consent" is the whole damn problem. Changing it to that fixes not a goddamn thing, if anything it makes it worse. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All the strong disagreements we have had and this is the first time I am actually ashamed to be a part of this group.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">John Phillips<br>Libertarian National Committee Region 6 Representative<br>Cell 217-412-5973</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 5, 2019 11:32 PM, "Nicholas J. Sarwark via Lnc-business" <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I vote no.
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The language in the FAQ that could be misconstrued has been changed and deleting a tweet weeks later is worse than useless, given the nature of Twitter.
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> On Jul 5, 2019, at 9:13 PM, John Phillips via Lnc-business <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:
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> Gotcha, seen a few of those too
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> On Jul 5, 2019 11:00 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Gracias- I got scrambled html and trying to read between the symbols I saw a no. Thank you!
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> -Caryn Ann
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> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 9:05 PM John Phillips <john.phillips@lp.org> wrote:
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> Since apparently there is some issue with the list again ... My vote is YES.
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> Not nay as was recorded.
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> John Phillips
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> Cell 217-412-5973
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> On Jul 5, 2019 6:42 PM, William Redpath via Lnc-business <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:
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> Yes. Bill Redpath
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> On 2019-07-02 00:21, Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business wrote:
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> > I will vote yes.
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> > Richard Longstreth
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> > Region 1 Representative (AK, AZ, CO, HI, KS, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY)
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> > Libertarian National Committee
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> > richard.longstreth@lp.org
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> > 931.538.9300
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> > Sent from my Mobile Device
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> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 08:46 Elizabeth Van Horn via Lnc-business <
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> > lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:
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> >> Thank you Joe Bishop-Henchman. As I stated in one of my previous
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> >> emails, I think the language of "Silence is consent" is bad optics.
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> >> Even if changed to, "Silence is seen as consent", the optics aren't
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> >> I shall again recommend that the LP website be reworded. My
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> >> recommendation is: "Not voting is seen as consent."
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> >> For the Twitter account, a deletion of the offending tweet.
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> >> This is addressing concerns from members, and to those who might look
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> >> the LP for a potential political home. The LP needs to be responsive.
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> >> ---
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> >> Elizabeth Van Horn
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> >> LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
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> >> On 2019-07-01 11:01, Joe Bishop-Henchman via Lnc-business wrote:
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> >> > I vote yes.
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> >> > I'm torn. The message on the website and the tweet promoting it aren't
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> >> > good messaging, although I question whether many are actually upset by
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> >> > it instead of just scenting blood in the water to attack the LP for
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> >> > its marketing efforts yet again. This is also a matter the APRC and
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> >> > the Executive Director can deal with instead of it being rushed to the
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> >> > LNC. But if we are sending mixed messages through our failure to adopt
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> >> > a marketing strategy and identify who is responsible for it, and we
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> >> > are, it is up to us to resolve the conflicts that come from those
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> >> > crossed wires. I do worry about the LNC-micromanagement-of-staff
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> >> > implications of this: I am a firm believer that the LNC sets the
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> >> > vision and goals, hires staff to develop a strategy that we approve,
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> >> > and the staff executes. But we haven't done our part yet, so things
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> >> > like this will keep happening until we do.
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> >> > I will be coming forward, perhaps at the next meeting, with some
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> >> > sketches for reconstructing our committee structure, a process for
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> >> > long-range planning and goal-setting, and ideas for staff objectives
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> >> > and accountability. I recognize there is a problem here and want to
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> >> > help the LNC pursue constructive solutions rather than a bunch more
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> >> > votes like this one.
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> >> > But since the question has been put to me as whether the tweet should
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> >> > be deleted and the language rewritten, yes, both of those things
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> >> > should happen. It's tough to be accurate while being pithier than
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> >> > Burke's "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
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> >> > men to do nothing" but "silence is consent" didn't hit the mark.
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> >> > JBH
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> >> > Joe Bishop-Henchman
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> >> > LNC Member (At-Large)
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> >> > joe.bishop-henchman@lp.org
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> >> > www.facebook.com/groups/189510455174837
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> >> > On 2019-06-28 12:05, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
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> >> >> BALLOT 20190628-1: DIRECTIVE REGARDING SOCIAL MEDIA POST AND WEB PAGE
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> >> >> We have an electronic mail ballot.
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> >> >> Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by JULY 5, 2019 at 11:59:59 pm
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> >> >> Pacific time.
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> >> >> Co-Sponsors: Harlos, Longstreth, Phillips, Smith
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> >> >> Motion: Move that the tweet made on the Party on the official Twitter
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> >> >> account including the quote that “silence equals consent” be deleted
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> >> >> that the corresponding text on LP.org be removed. The Executive
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> In Liberty,
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