[Lnc-business] LP Puerto Rico motion

[Alicia Mattson]

I guess I don't see the point of the portion encouraging a Puerto Rican
affiliate specifically, and I don't agree with the clause which would
direct the Bylaws Committee to create delegate slots for members outside of
affiliates.

Over the past two years, at least two and perhaps three times I was asked
for a copy of the approved form to use for forming a new affiliate and was
told the request was for Puerto Rico.  I never communicated with anyone
actually from Puerto Rico, though, as the requests came to me through staff
and a state chair.  So I don't know if someone in Puerto Rico actually
wants to do it, or if other people just want someone there to do it.
Regardless, no group has yet submitted an application to become an
affiliate, and if they do so, we'll charter an affiliate.

If there aren't the required handful of interested people there, I don't
want to encourage creation of something that will would promptly atrophy.

Regarding delegate apportionment for members outside of affiliates:

1)  As of the official date for calculating delegates for the 2016
convention, there were only 61 sustaining party members outside of
affiliates.

2)  Those members are spread all over the world, not grouped in close
proximity in a region which could reasonably form some sort of functional
organization and choose delegates to represent them.

3)  There are plenty of affiliates whose rules would permit those 61
members to be seated as convention delegates already if they are so
inclined.

-Alicia






On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Patrick McKnight <
patrick.joseph.mcknight at gmail.com> wrote:

> I make the following motion on behalf of Dr. Phillies:
>
> "Whereas, our Bylaws provide "The National Committee shall charter
> state-level affiliate parties from any qualifying organization
> requesting such status in each state, territory and the District of
> Columbia (hereinafter, state)" and
>
> Whereas no affiliate is currently recognized from any of the inhabited
> Territories of the United States,
>
> Therefore, Be It Resolved that the Libertarian National Committee
> encourages the Partido Libertario de Puerto Rico (Libertarian Party of
> Puerto Rico) to prepare for and apply to become an affiliate of our
> Libertarian Party, and
>
> Be It Further Resolved, that the Libertarian National Committee encourages
> the Libertarians in America's other Territories to organize themselves as
> Libertarian political groups that advance to apply for affiliate status,
>
> and Be it Further Resolved, that the Libertarian national Committee
> directs its appointees to the 2018 National Convention Bylaws Committee to
> create and support a Bylaws amendment establishing delegate representation
> for all Party Sustaining members who do not live in a current affiliate."
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick McKnight
> Region 8 Rep
>
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