[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2014-10: Oregon Resolution v2

Marc Allan Feldman marc at openivo.com
Sun Jul 20 14:12:37 EDT 2014


I vote yes.


Marc Allan Feldman

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>
> Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by July 29, 2014 at 11:59:59pm
> Pacific time.
>
> Co-Sponsors:  Dan Wiener, Vicki Kirkland, Tim Hagan, Guy McLendon
>
> Motion:
> Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that "delegates to a
> Regular Convention shall be selected by a method adopted by each affiliate
> party" (Article 11, 3 (b)), and
>
> Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that "each state-level
> affiliate party shall, in accordance with its own Bylaws and these Bylaws,
> determine who shall be its delegates to all Regular Conventions." (Article
> 6, 3), and
>
> Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that "the autonomy of the
> affiliate and sub-affiliate parties shall not be abridged by the National
> Committee or any other committee of the Party..." (Article 6, 5), and
>
> Whereas, a dispute over the Oregon delegation was placed before the
> Credentials Committee, which subsequently presented a report to the
> Libertarian Party National Convention on June 27, 2014 which did not
> describe the details of that dispute, and
>
> Whereas, a motion was made to amend the Credentials Committee report to
> include three individuals as delegates within the Oregon delegation, and
>
> Whereas, in response to a Point of Order the Chair of the National
> Convention ruled that the proposed amendment was in order, the Chair's
> ruling was appealed, the Chair's ruling was sustained by a vote of the
> assembly, and the assembly subsequently approved the amendment, and
>
> Whereas, the 11th edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, which is
> the Parliamentary Authority for the Libertarian Party as stated in Article
> 16 of its Bylaws, states (p. 483) that "In any event, no action of the board
> can alter or conflict with any decision made by the assembly of the society,
> and any such action of the board is null and void (see p. 577, II. 23-33).",
> and
>
> Whereas, the Libertarian National Committee nevertheless regrets the
> situation wherein some delegates believe the above decision was incorrectly
> decided, therefore
>
> Be it resolved that it is the sense of the Libertarian National Committee
> that it wishes to convey those regrets to the Libertarian Party of Oregon.
>
>
> Alicia Mattson
> LNC Secretary
>
>
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