[Lnc-business] LP Puerto Rico motion

Sat Aug 13 00:01:39 EDT 2016

David if the current group does not wish to affiliate that should not stop
us from encouraging a group to affiliate.  Why wouldn't we extend the
invitation?  The National Facebook Page gets regular inquiries about a
potential affiliate in Puerto Rico.

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Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:59 PM, David Demarest <dpdemarest at centurylink.net>
wrote:

> Ditto Caryn, I support encouraging a Puerto Rico affiliate but agree with
> Brett that we should first check with Puerto Rico to see if they want one.
> Whether or not that has already done was not clear to me.
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> *From:* Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Caryn Ann Harlos
> *Sent:* Friday, August 12, 2016 10:15 PM
> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Lnc-business] LP Puerto Rico motion
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> I agree with Alicia's concern on the Bylaws request for members outside of
> affiliates.  That whole bylaws section is problematic and I have an issue
> with the LNC directing an independent committee in that manner.
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> I have no issue with encouraging a Puerto Rico affiliate.
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> *In Liberty,*
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> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
>
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
> Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
> Harlos at LP.org
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> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> <http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
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> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>
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> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -Alicia
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> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Patrick McKnight <
> patrick.joseph.mcknight at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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*In Liberty,*
*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
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