This is an open letter to the LPC XC listing my reasons for not
attending a convention since the LPC went to Sea.
1. Changing and inconsistent dates prevent advance planning.
2. Locations are out of the way for air, train and bus.
3. Locations isolated so you must stay at the hotel and cannot use a
less expensive lodging.
4. Having to pay a hefty fee to vote as a Delegate.
5. 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