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

[Daniel Hayes]

The alternate from Region 7 concurs with the “Nay" from  the Region 7 Representative.

Daniel Hayes
On Jul 20, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Jay Estrada <estrada00claudio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I vote no on email Ballot 2014-10: Oregon Resolution v2.
> 
> On Jul 20, 2014 1:36 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> Whereas, a motion was made to amend the Credentials Committee report to include three individuals as delegates within the Oregon delegation, and
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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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