Hi Gail;
I’ve been p----d at the Libertarian Party of CA for all the reasons you mention and then some. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was their holding the CA State Convention this year out of state. I didn’t renew my membership although that means that I am no longer a voting member of the LPSF to which I still feel a lot of attachment. I’ve also had it with National. It make me sad to see it come to this but at some point belonging to the Party is a waste of time and effort. We can still be small L libertarians and vote and take action in the direction of our beliefs without party membership.
Francoise
Subject: Fwd: Why not attend an LPCA convention?
From: GkLtft@aol.com
Date: Sun, April 10, 2011 3:47 pm
To: GkLtft@aol.com
From: lindadegroat@aol.com
To: GkLtft@aol.com
Sent: 4/8/2011 4:14:12 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Fwd: Why not attend an LPCA convention?Gail, please forward my response to those you sent the message to originally.
Gail makes good sense. It seems the party is falling into the same abyss the Republican, Democrats and Federal Government have fallen into. Bigger would be great for the party but over-regulation/too many bylaws is where the others have failed. Why aren’t we focussing on one issue that would affect every American: flat income tax with no deductions?
That would allow the American people to be out of the control of an overspending government. We would then be able to hold the governments (federal and state) accountable to a budget. What they get from the flat income tax is all they would get.
I agee the federal government should be held to its definition in the Consitution, and the States to control intrastate affairs.
I don’t see that these issues are spoken to at the convention. Too much time is spent on bylaws rather than prioritizing the issues for which the original party members founded the party. Take the tax issue and hammer it into the public the value of a flat tax so they will each tell their representatives how they should vote both at the Federal and State levels.
WE are a small party but WE can start a ground swell for a grass roots effort to make significant change. I don’t want a Tea Party I want real change.
Linda
From: GkLtft <GkLtft@aol.com>
To: GkLtft <GkLtft@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 6:22 pm
Subject: Why not attend an LPCA convention?This is an open letter to the LPC XC listing my reasons for not attending a convention since the LPC went to Sea.
- Changing and inconsistent dates prevent advance planning.
- Locations are out of the way for air, train and bus.
- Locations isolated so you must stay at the hotel and cannot use a less expensive lodging.
- Having to pay a hefty fee to vote as a Delegate.
- Allowing and encouraging even the newest members to be Delegates over the time honored [by all political parties] of having Delegates represent a county [or region] so they have been ‘vetted’ as being familiar with LPC history, Bylaws and Platform prior to serving as a Delegate.
All of these insult long time party members, activists and candidates such that they see no need to waste time watching the LPC dissolve into nothingness.
If we do not provide a political home for the radicals for Liberty, we have no reason to exist.
If we do not reward the hard work of our activists and candidates, they will soon give up the battle for more productive means of getting out from under too much ‘other gov’t’.
Liberty,
gail lightfoot
PS: I just read some dialogue from a Blog that discussed several other issues related to conventions. I must agree that we should not need a long list of Bylaw changes year in and year out. gkl
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