[Lnc-business] states eligible to appoint to 2018 Platform Committee

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Thank you!  This affects several states in my Region.  I will be alerting
those Chairs.

-Caryn Ann


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:30 AM Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> As Sam already cited (he gets a brownie point) the bylaws prescribe that
> the Platform Committee is comprised of:
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>    1. One member by each of the five
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>       affiliate parties having the greatest per capita sustaining
>       membership as
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>       determined for Convention delegate allocations at the most recent
>       Regular
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>       Convention.
>       2. One member by each of the ten
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>       affiliate parties having the largest sustaining memberships,
>       excluding
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>       those affiliates from (a), as determined for Convention delegate
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>       allocations at the most recent Regular Convention.
>       3. Five members selected by the
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>       National Committee.
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> The cutoff date for determining delegate allocations for the most recent
> regular convention (2016) was 10/31/15, however you can't just use the data
> that Robert sends in the monthly membership reports.  It's close, but not
> complete.  It is a snapshot on that day.  However, Bylaws Article 10.4.a
> says that any sustaining membership donations postmarked by that date also
> count towards these allocations.  When that date arrives, Robert hits the
> proverbial pause button and processes only items postmarked by that date
> until we have received them all, sends me the updated data specifically for
> this calculation, and then resumes normal processing of the mail.
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> The population figures used for the per capita calculations come from the
> 2010 census.
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> The top five per capita states which get to appoint for 2018 are:
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> 1 - New Hampshire
> 2 - Alaska
> 3 - Colorado
> 4 - Nevada
> 5 - Virginia
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> The top ten ranked by sustaining membership excludes those affiliates
> included in the top-five-per-capita ranking.  Both Colorado and Virginia
> qualify by either ranking method this time, so that means the 11th and 12th
> ranked by sustaining membership get pulled into the top ten list for 2018
> as follows:
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> 1 - California
> 2 - Texas
> 3 - Florida
> 4 - New York
> 5 - Ohio
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> 6 - Virginia
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> 7 - Pennsylvania
> 8 - Illinois
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> 9 - Colorado
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> 10 - Michigan
> 11 - Indiana
> 12 - Washington
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> This year the postmarked-by adjustments did not change the top-ten ranking
> relative to what was published for 10/31/15, though I think there was a
> rank shift for the prior convention due to that factor.
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> After the LNC makes the appointment of an interim chair for the committee,
> I contact the chairs of the affiliates entitled to make appointments and
> provide them all the details such as the appointment deadline, who they
> should notify when the appointment is made, dates of the convention, etc.
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> -Alicia
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