<div dir='auto'>I thought maybe there was a last minute audible. I appreciate the quick response.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 17, 2020 5:34 PM, Nicholas 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">We executed a contract with the company recommended by the Convention
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Oversight Committee after due diligence.
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-Nick
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 5:24 PM <dustin.nanna@lp.org> wrote:
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> As a point of clarification do you mean we are contracting with the in
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> house or with the other company?
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> On Jun 17, 2020 5:19 PM, Nicholas Sarwark via Lnc-business <
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> lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:
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> Dear All,
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> After the review of the bid from the in-house A/V provider from the Rosen
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> Shingle Creek, edits and approval from Special Counsel Oliver Hall, and
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> the
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> decision of the Convention Oversight Committee not to move forward with an
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> addendum for remote sites in other states, I approved the contract with
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> the
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> Audio Visual Group and directed Mr. Kraus to execute it on behalf of the
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> Libertarian National Committee.
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> As a point of personal privilege, I didn't appreciate receiving over 100
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> emails sent to the business list over the weekend while I was visiting
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> Minneapolis to work in the community with the state chair and activists
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> from the Libertarian Party of Minnesota. Getting a message that my Gmail
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> storage was full while in the middle of a protest march and hours away
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> from
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> being back to a computer was particularly inconvenient. The same few
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> members of this committee have been exceedingly inconsiderate to their
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> fellow members in using a list intended for party business as their water
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> cooler and sending tens of messages on the same topic, rather than
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> collecting their thoughts into one or two emails. Perhaps this strategy of
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> flooding the list is persuasive to others, but it has not been persuasive
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> to me.
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> Also, a LNC member of the Convention Oversight Committee apparently
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> thought
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> it was appropriate to share exact figures of two contracts to the public
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> list, something I find ironic, given that the same member has often been a
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> strong proponent of confidentiality of contracts and their details. In the
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> future, I would ask all members of the LNC to use good judgment in not
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> sharing confidential information publicly.
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> As the days grow shorter between now and the second sitting of convention,
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> I would ask members of this committee to focus on the work of the
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> Libertarian Party rather than a flurry of emails and motions in the waning
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> weeks of the term, especially since there will be a new LNC in less than a
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> month.
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> My flight and room are booked and I look forward to seeing those of you
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> who
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> will be attending in person in Orlando.
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> Yours in liberty,
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> Nick
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