<div dir='auto'>Dammit Jeff. At least you waited until after Dan was here to keep me apprised of where the Karaoke is.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Good luck brother, you'll be missed.<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 Aug 6, 2019 11:00 AM, Jeff Lyons 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"> Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Colleagues, Friends;
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Let me start by saying that it has been *quite* an illuminating
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experience this past year that I have served on the Libertarian National
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Committee as its Region 8 Alternate, serving the Northeast- New York,
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New Jersey, and the New England States. I have enjoyed the work we do,
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the time we have spent doing it, and the nature in which we do it!
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I'm incredibly thankful to be a part of this movement with you all. I
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have met libertarians from every corner of this country and seen the
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work that they do to fight for the liberty of others. I have traveled
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to numerous meetings and conventions, even helped plan a convention or
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two of my own in Massachusetts while serving as the state chairman. I
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visited the Sarwark for Mayor campaign offices in Phoenix, Arizona. I
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knocked doors for County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt's campaign, got to see
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the genius of Boomer Shannon at work. I phone-banked for the Building
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Fund at our very own LPHQ building. I have visited State Conventions in
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Texas, California, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
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and an UnConvention in Omaha. Everywhere I've gone, I have seen selfless
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volunteers fighting in complete defiance of the stated odds, because win
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or lose- principles matter.
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Often unacknowledged and unrewarded, the Libertarian Party continues to
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fight for your rights. In American culture, when we meet a military
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service-member, people usually say "Thank you for your service," because
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we believe that the military fights and defends our rights. As I have
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grown into an anti-authority, non-obedient, and anti-war military
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veteran, I've always suppressed the urge to discuss the underlying
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issues packed into that phrase like a "woke" social justice warrior, and
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I just respond "Thank YOU!" But I would like to share with you all who
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feel the world pays little mind to this work and doesn't appreciate us,
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among most of my military buddies I frequently get compliments out of
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the blue and support from them about the work they see me doing in the
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Liberty movement.
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Think about that - active duty troops thanking a libertarian for their
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service, thanking them for the work they do to fight for freedom, and
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wishing they could do the same. I have said it before and I'll say it
<br>
again - Military Veterans are the key to liberty, they were willing to
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die to defend it when they signed up, and we can tell them they don't
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have to die for this, they can fight alongside us for peace, prosperity
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and freedom. So on behalf of me and my military brethren who are out
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their fighting and dying for this country because of the policy mistakes
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of our government, I want to let all the libertarians out there know
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they are counting on us, and most of them support us. This work is
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important, it is recognized and it is deeply appreciated by many.
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I have been honored time and time again that Libertarians have turned to
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me for leadership, as Campaign Manager for Dan Fishman's Auditor
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Campaign, as a delegate to the National Convention, as Chair of LPMass,
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and as one of the most active alternates on the Libertarian National
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Committee thanks to Mr. O'Donnell's Senate Campaign. I have learned a
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lot about this business of fighting for liberty, and it has been an
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honor to fight along side the likes of you. I will continue to fight
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for liberty, but I must now shift the capacity in which I do so.
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I have been offered paid work in liberty movement at a non-profit that
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has requested that I relinquish all partisan affectations and titles. As
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many hardworking libertarian volunteers well know, this is a dream come
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true for most of us, and I would be remiss to turn this opportunity
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down. My goal has been and will always remain fighting for increased
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liberty for all, by any means necessary, and I must now make a decision
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about how best to apply myself.
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Region 8 Representative O'Donnell and I discussed this possibility and
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planned contingencies for when this time arrived before I accepted an
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internship in the Development Field which lead me away from New England.
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Regardless of my future employer's request which was foreseeable, I
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will now reside in Texas and though my roots in the Northeast run deep,
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I will not be present to be involved in the organization of grassroots
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activities and I will not be accessible in the way the region needs me
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to be, and therefore Mr. O'Donnell and I decided when that time came it
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would be necessary for me to be relieved of this post.
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Therefore, effective immediately, I hereby resign from all partisan
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roles, positions, and committees within the Libertarian Party. As a
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Lifetime Member of the LP, I will remain a friend and a resource to the
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party in my personal capacity whenever I can. Mr. O'Donnell is
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preparing to send out notice of vacancy and the State Chairs in the
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Region will begin the process of soliciting applications and voting on a
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replacement in the coming weeks. Mr. O'Donnell and I expect no
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interruptions in representation will occur in the interim. It will
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probably just get a little quieter on the e-mail list for a while.
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Thank you for all you do to fight for the liberty of others.
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In Liberty,
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Jeff Lyons
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Former Region 8 Alternate
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https://www.lp.org/wethepeople/?f=jly
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Libertarian Assoc. of MA
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Former State Chair
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http://www.lpmass.org/join
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