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

[Alicia Mattson]

Attached is a voicemail message that Mr. Wagner left for Mark Hinkle on
6/02/11.  At the end he said, "At this point in time all options are on the
table, and I may wish to remind you that ballot access in Oregon would cost
approximately three to five hundred thousand dollars for you to gain if we
were to yank it from you."  (The numbers are bit exaggerated for dramatic
effect, which is part of the game.)

Mr. Wagner has used this same threat over the past three years to try to
manipulate people, but if he were to actually carry out his threat, it
would end all his fun.  He has cried, "Wolf!" many times before.

I will repeat myself to say I do not understand why we are trying to
appease someone who is blackmailing this board.  We're not debating motions
of apology/regret on other procedural mistakes that some people think were
made during the convention.  We're only spending the first month of our
term on this one because of the threat.

I have already explained several of my objections to the details in this
motion.  I will repeat myself and again say that in a situation with
litigation, we should not be passing anything fuzzy and subject to
interpretation.

-Alicia




On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:35 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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