Comments on: Our chatroom for the LP Convention http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/05/our-chatroom-for-the-lp-convention/ Covering America's third parties and independent candidates since May 2008 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:57:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: trinman http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/05/our-chatroom-for-the-lp-convention/comment-page-1/#comment-474 trinman Sun, 25 May 2008 06:54:34 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=90#comment-474 would love to review the chat; not possible at present; i sther a trick teo moving the bar? would love to review the chat; not possible at present; i sther a trick teo moving the bar?

]]> By: trinman http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/05/our-chatroom-for-the-lp-convention/comment-page-1/#comment-466 trinman Sun, 25 May 2008 03:42:17 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=90#comment-466 I HATE chatrooms, would rather use email. Justrs got in from a night's work and caught only the closing comments of each debater. Now watching and taping the Chair debate so have no perspective yet on the prescon one. Impressions so far of this one: Ernie has the key in his hand if people are brave enough to consider it; Ruth is barely less a topdown bureaucrat than Redpath is;l and Bill R. is still the wrong answer. As I recall it now, I worked fairly hard during my LNC stint to bring about four things: (1) a move away from the "member club" model and toward the "donor/contributor/pledger" one; (2) a shift from general revenues to project-based fundraising and spending [Note: we complain that there's no accountability or control over where your money goes in tax dollars, yet the LP runs the same way?); (3) a break with the "revenue sharing" model of UMP; and (4) a compartmentalization of spending, so that money donated for a specific purpose could not be diverted to something else, leaving obligatory functions unfunded ... From the day he was appointed (not elected) to take over the Treasurer's seat, Bill Redpath opposed pretty much all of this, and when he got tghe chance he basaically sabotaged the plrojectd model concept, ny demanding repayment for ballot access debts incurred while that project was supposed to be self-funding. I would never support him for anything again. Listen to Ernie; he makes greats sense! We CAN become a self-governing entity, but only if we are willing to let the organization take a backseat, and become only a clearinghouse (not a command center ... anyone recall when I ran for LNC At Large?) I HATE chatrooms, would rather use email. Justrs got in from a night’s work and caught only the closing comments of each debater. Now watching and taping the Chair debate so have no perspective yet on the prescon one. Impressions so far of this one: Ernie has the key in his hand if people are brave enough to consider it; Ruth is barely less a topdown bureaucrat than Redpath is;l and Bill R. is still the wrong answer.

As I recall it now, I worked fairly hard during my LNC stint to bring about four things: (1) a move away from the “member club” model and toward the “donor/contributor/pledger” one; (2) a shift from general revenues to project-based fundraising and spending [Note: we complain that there’s no accountability or control over where your money goes in tax dollars, yet the LP runs the same way?); (3) a break with the “revenue sharing” model of UMP; and (4) a compartmentalization of spending, so that money donated for a specific purpose could not be diverted to something else, leaving obligatory functions unfunded …

From the day he was appointed (not elected) to take over the Treasurer’s seat, Bill Redpath opposed pretty much all of this, and when he got tghe chance he basaically sabotaged the plrojectd model concept, ny demanding repayment for ballot access debts incurred while that project was supposed to be self-funding. I would never support him for anything again.

Listen to Ernie; he makes greats sense! We CAN become a self-governing entity, but only if we are willing to let the organization take a backseat, and become only a clearinghouse (not a command center … anyone recall when I ran for LNC At Large?)

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