IPR has learned that Mr. David Blau has been selected to fill the open secretary position on the Libertarian National Committee. The position became available in January after the resignation of Ruth Bennett.
James Lark, who has been Acting Secretary, posted the following notice:
As of the close of the voting period at 12:00 p.m. EST today
(Wednesday, Feb. 20), the vote totals are as follows (candidates listed
in decreasing order of vote totals):Blau: 10 votes (Blau, Cloud, Hinkle, Kirkland, Lark, Mack, Neale,
Pojunis, Visek, Wiener)Moulton: 6 votes (Frankel, Hagan, Olsen, Starchild, Vohra, Wrights)
[NOTE: Please see comments below.]Abstention: 1 (Redpath)
This information was reported on the LNC Business list. You can read the motion and discussion of using Paul Frankel’s vote instead of John Jay Myers’ here .
David Blau has been serving as a regional alternate to the LNC, and is also currently the chairman of the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts. We posted his application letter on IPR earlier .
8 responses so far ↓
1 Krzysztof Lesiak // Feb 20, 2013 at 9:44 pm
I wish Chuck had won, but regardless good luck to Mr. Blau.
2 From Der Sidelines // Feb 21, 2013 at 6:15 pm
@1: He’s gonna need it.
3 Kevin Knedler // Feb 22, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Congratulations David. He’s up to the task. Solid member of the LNC.
Kevin Knedler
State Chair Ohio LP
4 Mark Axinn // Feb 22, 2013 at 5:20 pm
Agree with Kevin.
David has worked hard as a state chair and as an alternate region member in both this and the preceding LNC.
5 Jill Pyeatt // Mar 4, 2013 at 12:17 am
> From: Dave Blau blau.liberty@gmail.com>
> Date: February 20, 2013 9:40:30 AM PST
> To: lnc-business@hq.lp.org, lnc-discuss@hq.lp.org
> Subject: [Lnc-discuss] Thank you
> Reply-To: chair@lpmass.org, lnc-discuss@hq.lp.org
>
> All:
>
> Thank you for selecting me to be the new Secretary of the Libertarian National Committee. I am honored to take on this important role. I will separately send an email to the LNC regarding the current state of affairs regarding my secretarial duties, but before that I would like to thank a number of people.
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> I first thank everyone who ran in this election: Robin Blakey, Mark Cooke, Gary E. Johnson (TX), Bill Lester, Bill MacElroy, Alicia Mattson, Jim McDermott, Jake McDowell, Chuck Moulton, Anthony Pellegrino, Robert Reynolds, and Shadrack Roberts. All of these men and women offered to volunteer their valuable time, money, and skills to help our national party in this time of transition, and I am grateful to them.
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> I especially want to thank Alicia Mattson and Chuck Moulton. I had the privilege to see Alicia execute the duties of national Secretary during the last LNC. Her performance of those duties was remarkable, in that she was so effective that no one felt a need to remark upon it! Chuck, like Alicia, is an outstanding parliamentarian, and a dedicated Libertarian activist. I consider both Alicia and Chuck to be friends of mine, and I hope to see Alicia at the LNC meeting in Chicago. (Good luck in Reno at your chess event, Chuck!)
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> I also want to thank the LNC. Chairman Neale devised, and the LNC approved and executed, a transparent search and voting process. Despite the rather urgent need to fill the vacancy, rather than taking hasty action, the LNC acted cautiously and deliberately for the benefit of the party. I would like to especially thank Dr. Jim Lark for his pro tempore performance of the Secretary’s duties.
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> In connection with my thanks to the LNC, I especially thank John Jay Myers for his service. As you all know by now, last night Mr. Myers resigned his position on the LNC due to having too many other commitments. In honor of his support of the headquarters building, I pledge to redouble my efforts to get the national party situated into the best new space we can find.
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> I also thank Vicki Kirkland and Mark Hinkle for their tireless efforts to campaign for me. I spoke with Vicki almost every day throughout the election process, from deciding whether to run all the way through to the final day of voting. Mark was an excellent lobbyist on my behalf, and provided insights into campaign strategy that served very well.
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> Finally, I want to thank someone you probably don’t know: my girlfriend. She didn’t give me permission to use her name here, so for now she’ll have to remain anonymous. But she provided me clarity of thought and the encouragement to run. When I told her about the pros and cons of seeking this position, and that I was having trouble making up my mind whether to run, she asked me two questions: whether I wanted to run, and whether I could do a good job. When I answered yes to both questions, she said, simply: “So what’s stopping you?”
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> I won’t let anything stop me from being an outstanding national Secretary. Thank you all.
>
> Best regards,
> Dave
6 Waylon T. Freebird // Mar 22, 2013 at 5:10 pm
Look on the bright side.
Better than Mattson or Bennett!
7 Jill Pyeatt // Mar 22, 2013 at 5:20 pm
I wish David the best of luck, I’m sure he’ll do a great job, and yes, he’s far more appropriate in the position than Mattson would have been.
8 paulie // Mar 22, 2013 at 5:24 pm
He seems pretty well organized. Meetings and mail ballots are running smoothly now, and he’s getting caught up on old minutes.
I still think Chuck would have been better but the election is over and we are doing better than we did earlier this term in the sense of timeliness and organization, and better than last term in the sense of factional partisanship. So far so good!
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