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

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

As I was quite alarmed and concerned that Ms. Mattson claimed falsehoods
against her (which I would hope that everyone would give everyone else the
benefit of the doubt that incorrect statements, if any, are
miscommunications or inadvertence) - I went and reviewed the convention
documents sent to me and only one item in my report may be something
provided - and that is a motion template - if that is the only one used,
then I have that.  The only other documents provided to me were word
versions of the region formation agreement, presidential ticket nomination
certification, and sample election tally sheet.  That is not the entirety
of forms and spreadsheets used.  For instance, there are spreadsheets shown
on screen for state by state election results and individual state ballot
sheets given to the delegation chairs to name a few.

*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 4:48 AM Caryn Ann Harlos <caryn.ann.harlos at lp.org>
wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>