Mr. Nekhaila,
I speak to New Mexico regularly, and have great respect to their executive team, who has courageously dealt with this problem for years without much real help from the LNC. You know full well that I want the LP to help LPNM, and lobbied hard for action supporting
NM since my election. I also know that New Mexico is not happy that the leadership in the LNC has been playing political football with their state affiliate's survival-fight. This is not even the first time that legal aid for New Mexico has been corruptly
leveraged in LNC politics this month. You and Mr. Hall have both tried to hold this over the Region 1 team to gain a tactical advantage.
All I've asked for is meaningful dialogue so that we can make informed decisions. Instead, we are on a constant railroad, and my attempts to simply do my job have been met hostility, procedural crunches, and with open retaliation.
It's a damn clownshow.
Mr. Hall still refuses to answer many important questions previously raised, and some of them are directly related to the New Mexico matter. The attorney in question is now in the middle of a substantial scandal with multiple instances of misconduct occurring
in full view of this board. There is credible evidence which indicates ongoing legal sabotage and coverups in the LNC. When called out on this misconduct, the issue of New Mexico and the potential destabilization of Region 1 was deployed against the R1 reps
as leverage to discourage our inquiries.
New Mexico DESERVES better from the LNC; they deserve for us to be diligent in how we handle this matter.
The critical legal questions being shoved aside via email ballot appears to be intended to stifle discussions which you knew needed to take place. Railroading this item
seems to benefit Mr. Hall and those protecting him from professional accountability, not the LP, and not LPNM.
I agree that we need to take swift and decisive action for NM's sake — but we also have a duty to understand the nuance and implications of a legal decision. We have not been fully advised. In addition to this, our counsel has already proven negligent in his
duties to advise the LNC of liability and potential consequences of prior courses of action which he took part in. It has been shown that we need to exercise extra care in our deliberations on legal questions — yet here you are circumventing deliberations.
How could bum-rushing this item past discussion possibly benefit New Mexico?