They are back. Sound is better. There is a lot of reverberation. Late blogging will cover several days.
Communications Director:#1) Communicate current Platform.
#2) Many of the things we talk about eradicating will, e.g., remove people’s incomes. We can’t just communicate that we are tearing down, we have to communicate that we are building. Make the future sound positive. Members have taken umbrage. We need to draw members back. We want to send that we are defending families, people, and entrepreneurship.
#3) Want to have a positive culture. We want to shift our reputation. We are the young party. This is a good time to make the shift.
#4) Public message: We are the bright future.
#5) Parental rights. We stand for individuals.
#6 Libertarians are focused on what can be done now. We need instead to send the big promise. We need other people to buy into it.
Wants to build out the idea that our philosophy guarantees a better future. Guarantee that we will help people have better mental states, for a bright future, Wants Libertarian thinkers to build content of a brighter future. Republicans would take us back to a time when families had one job and one car. Talks very fast. Remove the heavy hand on the market. He sounds to be reading.
Libertarian party: Built different and builds different.
Help candidates. Build evergreen assets. If people see professional ads, and we can send templates, they will give money. Asks if non-specific advertising is intended. We need people who are convinced of the message without reading Rothbard, etc., because they trust us. We want to become the party of the resistance, the cool party, the party of the future. Be unapologetic.
Conversation is hard to follow.
Wants to circulate strategy to a small group of thinkers who will take our position to the next level. Create more stakeholders in our positions.
LNC Member: Want to speak to the nonvoters, not to the polarized active voters. Don’t specifically target Democrats or Republicans. Worries about the proposed Libertarian ‘America first’ line.
Getting Oliver Hall on the phone. He spent a good deal of time advising state parties on legal issues and contract for convention hotel in 2026.
They reach policy manual amendments. There are four of them.They are discussed. Don’t want communications to hit death by committee. Want to align policy manual changed to match our needs.
The proposal is: Section 1.06 Legal Matters 2) Authorization and Management of Lawsuits Prior to the filing of a lawsuit, or the joining of a lawsuit filed in any court, in which the LNC or the national Libertarian Party is proposed to be a named plaintiff, to the preparation and filing of a friend of the court brief, or to providing material (costing in excess of $1,000) financial support for the litigation, the Chair shall:
• Advise all LNC members (including alternates) of the proposed lawsuit, its purpose, and its estimated cost;
• Confirm, or seek and obtain approval for, the budgetary authority for the expenses of the lawsuit as provided elsewhere in this policy manual; and
• Seek and obtain approval with a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Executive Committee for participation in the lawsuit.
Add: Once a lawsuit is filed or joined, including lawsuits filed against the Party or the LNC, the Executive Committee shall manage the details of the lawsuit subject to the budgetary instructions above. The Executive Committee mav delegate this task to an empowered Litigation Committee. The LNC shall be kept advised of the progress and goals of the suit.
Chair: Executive Committee is not required to delegate to a litigation committee. Treasurer: LNC appropriates money. ExComm decides how to spend. Extend by 15 minutes. LNC would do overall management; committee would do day-to-day management. Harlos emphasizes LNC must approve any proposed settlement or dismissal of the entire lawsuit.
We are 1 hour in and will get to the rest later.
