Well I guess I could afford to miss 2 days of work, drive up to
Nashville, pay 75 dollars a night to stay in the hotel where the
state convention is going to be held and if I go to Portland that
will be more worked missed, the plane ticket out there plus all the
other expenses. Of course I could attend the Sat business meeting in
Nasville, drive up that morning and back that evening, then get up
Sunday Morning and go to work, but all that sounds either like a big
unnecessary headache or expense. Just drving up to Nasville and back
I'm still probally going to spend at least 20 dollars which could be
going to something more
productive.
I think my state party will pretty much let and member go to
the national that wants to, they aren't elitest, still there has go
to be a better way. I think it is a good idea to discuss
options.
In the mean time I am counting on most of those who attend the
nation to turn down the reformers proposals. Looking at the recent
issue of LP it looks like Dr. Carl S. Milstead and his friends are
going to make their move, they need to be
outvoted.
For the honest classic liberals politicans you will be
welcomed either with the Republican Liberty Cacucus or the DEmocrat
Freedom Cacucus, it best for all concerned that you move on, if you
are running for office or holding office you really have no place in
the LP, you will be more productive with the DFC or the RLC and the
LP will be more productive without you.
--- In [email protected], Harland Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> on 3/14/06 12:11 PM, David Macko at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The people who attend the conventions are the people who care.
> > It is quite proper to give them more decision making power
> >
> > For life and liberty,
> > David Macko
> >
>
> Although I care about my country and about the Libertarian party, I
could
> not go to our LP of California convention. They held it on a
cruise ship,
> so that nobody who could not give up about four days and $600 could
be
> there. Only 91, self-selected, delegates made the decisions for
the entire
> LP of California.
>
> Although California law allows election of Central Committees by the
> registered party voters, the LPC has chosen to make anybody a
Central
> Committee member who pays $50 per year, and the Chair cancels the
elections.
> A Central Committee member does not even have to live or work in
California.
>
> Not surprisingly, many rank-and-file members feel that the party
leadership
> does not represent them, nor represent the RegLibs. With
membership in the
> national LP becoming free, and activism in the LPC becoming ever
more
> costly, the disputes can only worsen.
>
>
>
> Harland Harrison
> Vice Chair, Libertarian Party of San Mateo County, CA
> Candidate for Congress 12th District (San Mateo-San Francisco, CA)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://Harrison2006.LPSM.org
>
>
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:52 PM
> > Subject: [Libertarian] The LP and Conventions
> >
> >
> >> Ok, From what I understand the major decesions of the party is
made at
> >> state
> >> and the national conventions. What is the membership of the LP,
maybe
> >> 35,000
> >> to 40,000, how many attend the conventions, maybe 5%, maybe 10%?
> >>
> >> There are some things best not to modernize, the jury system, the
> >> Constitution but doesn't making major decesions by a few
attending
> >> Conventions belong to the horse and buggy days?
> >>
>
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