[NorCalLibertarians] Need for an LNC Executive Committee?

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Mark,

  Thanks for your input. Yes, voting by email does allow an "up to 7 day voting period", but if the necessary number of people vote within an hour, two hours, four hours, etc., then a vote can be concluded within that amount of time. And members can always call up other members by phone and say "Your vote is needed ASAP, please get on email and send it now". And I would prefer allowing a shorter time for email votes in time-sensitive situations to altogether denying the LNC a vote in such situations. So respectfully no, the argument you've made here is not enough to convince me of the necessity of an Executive Committee. How often does a situation like the Treasurer resigning without notice come up anyway? Besides which we now have an Assistant Treasurer.

  The fact that the 7-member LNC Executive Committee was just given authority to negotiate a contract with the Gary Johnson campaign without the full Libertarian National Committee even being allowed to *see* that contract before it goes into effect, did nothing to make me more comfortable with the ExCom's existence. It seems to me that its main function is to take away some of the full committee's power and put it into the hands of a smaller number of insiders.

Love & Liberty,
                                 ((( starchild )))

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I agree with Starchild.

I do not see how a 7 member Executive Committee is any more efficient
or quick acting than a 19 member LNC.

Also, Executive Committees tend to do dirty deals that the full
committee would never agree with.

For example, It was a five-member Executive Committee of the Manhattan
and New York Libertarian Parties that banned and expelled me and Tom
Stevens for no reason at all, when we were the most active and
productive members of those groups. That is the reason why we both had
to move over and join the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party. You may have
wondered why that was. Now you know the reason.

Soon, if not already, the New York Libertarian Parties will ask you
for another $25,000 or $50,000 for "ballot access". I request that you
deny them. They are a do-nothing group. They just use the money to
hire paid petition gatherers (which is illegal in New York by the
way). Instead, the LNC can just go ahead and hire the paid petitioners
yourself. Why give money to them just to support an anti-Libertarian
scammer like Warren Redlich, which is what happened two years ago? You
can just form your own New York slate. Do not give them a dime.

Sam Sloan