[Lnc-business] Request for email ballot co-sponsors for Oregon resolution

[Vicki Kirkland]

Dan:
I will co-sponsor your motion.
Vicki Kirkland
Region 2 Rep


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Daniel Wiener <wiener at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I move to adopt the following resolution, and request co-sponsors for an
> email ballot:
>
> *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.*
>
>
> Daniel Wiener
> Region 4 Representative
>
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