[Lnc-business] General thoughts on this whole convention issue

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

I am coming to the conclusion that we are going about this entirely wrong,
and that any "online convention" should not even be on our radar.  Our
bylaws ALREADY provide a solution if there is no nomination at a
convention.  Why are we trying to find an end-run around that?  If the
delegates in the past wanted to change that they could, and they did not.
No convention, the LNC votes on the nomination.  It leaves us free to vow
to follow the will of some poll of the delegates (which I would highly say
we must) but we are creating a problem that does not exist - at least not
for that issue.  I am very uncomfortable with that.

Second, I believe there is a conflict of interest issue here. Some of us,
myself included, have a vested interest in this proceeding as we are
running for internal office and may have personal reasons for preferring
one to another that is about our best interest and not that of the party.
RONR does not require recusal for anything but that doesn't lessen the fact
that there is a conflict of interest here.

I will not go against our bylaws which provide the solution already.  We
either have an in-person convention or the LNC picks the nominees (using
whatever criteria we decide upon).

Would I personally prefer something else?  Yes.  But that is not what my
duty here is.

*  In Liberty,*
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