[Lnc-business] urgent error correction - Platform and Credentials appointments

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Mr. Longstreth, Montana is aware.  Please read above.

I made sure my list of states matched Ms. Mattson's list on October 2 and
said at that time, that such data should have been passed along rather than
each secretary re-creating the wheel.  I hope that all of that data will
now be making its way to me.

Our preservation on an entity-wide level of records and documents is
abjecting appalling.  There should be little to nothing only in the
possession of one individual.  I have been saying this until I was blue in
the face this term, and now we have a great object lesson on why I
requested all of the past data and am still requesting it.  Mr. Fishman and
I have discussed a central repository so that nothing is dependent upon
whoever the secretary is at the moment.  Our goal should be to make
ourselves replaceable with little harm to the organization.

*In Liberty,*

* Personal Note:  I have what is commonly known as Asperger's Syndrome
(part of the autism spectrum).  This can affect inter-personal
communication skills in both personal and electronic arenas.  If anyone
found anything offensive or overly off-putting (or some other social faux
pas), please contact me privately and let me know. *



On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 4:43 AM Caryn Ann Harlos <caryn.ann.harlos at lp.org>
wrote:

> Ms. Mattson, I look forward to the rest of your comments.  I only
> discussed you in one portion, and if there is anything false in that
> section, I will obviously correct, but I am not going to guess at what you
> might think that is.  I have re-read it and it is as I recalled.  I would
> be delighted to hear that a bunch of 2018 convention documents were coming
> my way.  If that is the case, please send them sooner rather than later.
>
> I am going to set forth the bottom line first on the issues in this
> email.  In the report text, I say this for Platform:
>
> "*Results:* Alaska, *California*, *Colorado*, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
> Michigan, *Montana*, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, *Pennsylvania*,
> Texas, Virginia, and Washington."
>
> The correct states have been notified of their appointments.
>
> I have not spoken with any states regarding credentials, that was next on
> my contact list.
>
> *So no states have to make any corrections.*
>
> Now for the details:
>
> 1.  2016 BSM numbers versus 2018 BSM numbers.
> I had multiple charts as I was working this out - and mentioned to you in
> that October 2 email when you gave your figures that this was exactly the
> information that should have been passed on and was not.  I double-checked
> my list to yours and it matched.  In preparing this report, I copied the
> older chart that used the 2016 calculations rather than the 2018 one.  This
> is a perfect example again how how a handbook and data needs to be passed
> along.  In retrieving all of this information, there was jumping between
> 2010 census data (which is in both the 2016 and 2018 delegate allocation
> manuals); 2016 Presidential vote data (which is in the 2018 Delegation
> allocation manuals), and 2017 membership data.  I was double checking my
> census data from 2016 and because the BSM data is right next to that, in
> this version of the chart, used those figures.  Later I discovered that and
> created a different chart, but failed to discard my prior work due to the
> scrambling that took place after Mr. Dixon's death in which I was working
> on this data, which inadvertantly got copied here but the states notified
> were from the correct one.  Since I had not contacted states about
> Credentials with that deadline being farther out, I quickly jotted down the
> top five from the chart here - but that is not the top five I have in my
> final data.  In version 2, I will include the updated chart.  And while
> doing these, I was providing the states with prospective "if the deadline
> for delegate allocations were today, these would be your numbers"....   In
> a future handbook a great big caveat will be listed about the date-jumping
> and the potential for confusion.
>
> 2.  Nevada v. Montana Platform seats
> Montana had been notified not Nevada - that was an old chart which I did
> not mean to copy here.  Montana had been notified months before and were in
> fact the first to give me their appointment.
>
> 3. Indiana v. Georgia Platform seats
> Ditto to above.
>
> 4. Ohio v. Virginia Credentials
> I have not made any contact and that was list jotted quickly for this
> report from the old chart.
>
> 5. Nov v Dec deadline.
> That is what I get for calculating appointment deadlines for both the
> Colorado state convention and the national convention at the same time.
> The Nov deadline is for the LPCO and they wanted to be sure to take care of
> all of their appointments at the same time.  I will make sure everyone
> knows they have an additional month.  This is where the auto-calculate
> spreadsheet I am preparing for future secretaries will take care of all of
> these calculations for them after which I am going to propose a policy
> manual change similar to colorado that critical dates be listed in each
> secretary's report.
>
> *Thus as far as the states are concerned, no harm no foul.  The correct
> states received notification for platform and will for credentials.  I
> simply copied an older chart in this report which I had already corrected.
> I thank you profusely for your timely review for *
>
> Please let me know your other concerns as I would like to address them all
> in one revision but regardless, by Tues morning I will issue draft 2 with
> the proper chart.
>
>
> *In Liberty,*
>
> * Personal Note:  I have what is commonly known as Asperger's Syndrome
> (part of the autism spectrum).  This can affect inter-personal
> communication skills in both personal and electronic arenas.  If anyone
> found anything offensive or overly off-putting (or some other social faux
> pas), please contact me privately and let me know. *
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:55 AM Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business <
> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>
>> A few hours ago we received the Secretary's report for the upcoming LNC
>> meeting.  Though there are other errors (and outright falsehoods about me)
>> which I will address separately, there is one error in need of
>> particularly
>> urgent correction.
>>
>> The Secretary's report lists states entitled to make appointments to the
>> 2020 Platform Committee and to the Credentials Committee.  What first
>> caught my eye was that the report says that the 2020 seats are determined
>> by the delegate allocations for the 2016 convention.  That's not correct.
>> Bylaw Article 11.3 says they are based on the sustaining memberships "as
>> determined for Convention delegate allocations at the most recent Regular
>> Convention."  That would be the 2018 convention, not the 2016 convention.
>>
>> The lists of states in the Secretary's report have been simply copied from
>> my 2018 delegation chair's manual, which contained a listing of states
>> entitled to appoint for 2018 (based on 2016 membership levels).  There is
>> a
>> lot of overlap with the states entitled to appoint for 2020, but a few
>> states will be different this time, and those states need to know of their
>> right to appoint before the approaching deadlines.
>>
>> The delegate allocations I sent out for 2018 (not 2016) contain the
>> sustaining membership counts which should now be used for the 2020
>> rankings
>> for purposes of committee appointments.
>>
>> About the Credentials Committee, the Secretary's report states,
>> "California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Ohio have each earned one seat
>> and must name their appointments by January 31, 2020."
>>
>> According to the sustaining membership counts for 2018 delegate
>> allocation,
>> the top 5 sustaining membership states were instead:  California, Texas,
>> Florida, VIRGINIA, and New York.  Ohio was not in the top 5, but Virginia
>> was.  Has Virginia been notified that they're entitled to an appointment
>> to
>> the Credentials Committee?
>>
>> Bylaw Article 11.4.b says of the state appointments to Credentials
>> Committee, "These shall be selected by each of the affiliate parties no
>> later than
>> three months prior to the Regular Convention."  With the convention
>> calling
>> to order on May 22, 2020, the appointment deadline of three months prior
>> would be February 22, rather than the stated January 31.
>>
>> About the Platform Committee, this report lists:  NH, AK, CO, NV, VA as
>> the
>> top-5-per-capita for 2020 appointments.
>>
>> However, taking the sustaining membership counts for 2018 delegate
>> allocation and dividing by 2010 census populations, that list should
>> instead be:  AK, NH, CO, MT, VA.  Nevada was not in the top-5-per-capita,
>> but Montana was.  Has Montana been notified that they're entitled to an
>> appointment?
>>
>> Also about the Platform Committee, this report lists the other
>> top-10-sustaining (excluding VA and CO who were in the the
>> top-5-per-capita) as:
>> CA, TX, FL, NY, OH, PA, IL, MI, IN, WA.
>>
>> However, the sustaining membership counts for 2018 delegate allocation
>> show
>> the top 10 sustaining membership (excluding VA and CO who were in the
>> top-5-per-capita) as:
>> CA, TX, FL, NY, PA, OH, IL, MI, WA, GA
>> Much overlap, but IN is not in the top-ten, and GA is.  Has Georgia been
>> notified that they're entitled to an appointment?
>>
>> Bylaw Article 11.3.d says of the Platform Committee appointment deadline
>> that they shall be selected, "no later than the last day of the fifth
>> month
>> prior to the
>> Regular Convention."  With the convention calling to order on May 22,
>> 2020,
>> that appointment deadline would be the last day of December, so December
>> 31
>> rather than the stated November 31 (I presume you meant November 30).
>>
>> At least the three affected states have a little more time to recover and
>> make their appointments than was stated in the Secretary's report.
>>
>> Region reps for Virginia, Montana, and Georgia please make sure that those
>> state chairs know of their appointment entitlements.
>>
>> When Mr. Bishop-Henchman inquired about the Platform Committee states on
>> this email list on October 2, this is the list I gave him based on the
>> sustaining membership info that was published in 2018.  This is the first
>> time I have seen the Secretary's listing of the states entitled to
>> appoint,
>> so it wasn't possible for me to notice the discrepancy sooner.
>>
>> -Alicia
>>
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