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

[Tim Hagan]

I'm not sure that jibes with Article 14, Section 1, which says, 
"Nominations of candidates for President and Vice-President of the 
United States may be made only at the Regular Convention immediately 
preceding a Presidential election."

The LNC can fill a vacancy created by the death or resignation of a 
nominee, but I read the bylaws as that the initial nomination can be 
done only at a convention.

---
Tim Hagan
Treasurer, Libertarian National Committee

On 2020-04-30 15:20, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> 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.
> 
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