[Lnc-business] Oklahoma Resolution (and I concur entirely)

[Sam Goldstein]

No, Mr. Wendt, the Chair is destroying the party with his refusal to 
sign a contract for an in person convention which was the will of the 
LNC.

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Sam Goldstein, At Large Member
Libertarian National Committee
317-850-0726 Cell

On 2020-05-14 02:06, Francis Wendt via Lnc-business wrote:
> you are destroying the party. Stop!
> 
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> FRANCIS WENDT
> LNC Region 1 Alternate
>  406.595.5111
> 
> On 2020-05-13 23:40, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
>> Resolution 20-1
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a situation interrupting the
>> ability of organizations and individuals to conduct business as usual;
>> 
>> Whereas many states have laws requiring political parties to submit 
>> the
>> names of their candidates for office and/or Electors for the offices 
>> of
>> President and Vice-President of the United States at a date before 
>> which it
>> would be practical to hold an in-person nominating convention;
>> 
>> Whereas it is a fundamental right of a body to deliberate on matters 
>> that
>> affect the body as a whole;
>> 
>> Whereas The Libertarian Party Bylaws require a Regular Convention 
>> every two
>> years, at a time and place selected by the National Committee, to be 
>> held
>> sometime during the period of July of an odd-numbered year through 
>> August
>> of an even-numbered year, and all business is required to be conducted 
>> at
>> Regular Conventions and shall be conducted at Regular Conventions 
>> only;
>> 
>> Whereas the Chair of the Libertarian Party ruled that “place” in the 
>> Bylaws
>> can mean a virtual convention in a situation where it is impossible 
>> for the
>> vast majority of the selected delegates in the party to travel to a
>> physical location, and was subsequently overruled by the members of 
>> the
>> Libertarian National Committee convened in a meeting on May 9, 2020;
>> 
>> Whereas the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party do not specifically allow 
>> a
>> Regular Convention to be held online;
>> 
>> Whereas an online forum to be used for the purposes of conducting a 
>> Regular
>> Convention should allow each participant, accessed through his or her 
>> own
>> computer or other device, the ability to view the current list of all
>> participants—with an indication of which member has the floor or which
>> members are seeking recognition by the chair—and can seek recognition,
>> submit motions in writing, view the text of pending motions, vote, and 
>> view
>> the results of a vote;
>> 
>> Whereas previous attempts to hold online meetings which would simulate 
>> an
>> online convention have not adequately allowed participants the ability 
>> to
>> view the current list of all participants, have not adequately 
>> indicated
>> which member has the floor or which members are seeking recognition by 
>> the
>> chair, have not adequately shown how motions may be submitted in 
>> writing
>> nor how current or pending motions are to be viewed;
>> 
>> Whereas the sanctity of the secret ballot must be preserved as well as 
>> the
>> transparency of the results upheld;
>> 
>> Whereas Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised, being the governing 
>> document
>> in the absence of specific Bylaws or Special Rules of Order state that
>> action taken by officers, committees, delegates, or subordinate bodies 
>> in
>> excess of their instructions or authority must be ratified by the body
>> during a subsequent in-person meeting to carry out decisions made at 
>> an
>> electronic meeting of a body for which such meetings are not 
>> authorized;
>> 
>> Whereas the Libertarian National Committee decided to hold a 
>> bifurcated
>> Regular Convention to nominate candidates for President and 
>> Vice-President
>> of the United States in an online “first sitting” on Friday, May 22, 
>> 2020,
>> with an in-person “second sitting” to be held July 8 – 12, 2020, in
>> Orlando, Florida, for all other remaining convention business;
>> 
>> Whereas the Chair has shown a lack of impartiality as well as intent 
>> to
>> carry out all of the business of the Libertarian Party in the form of 
>> a
>> Regular Convention online; and
>> 
>> Whereas a Bylaws-mandated standing Judicial Committee was not properly
>> elected at the previous Regular Convention and therefore cannot be 
>> called
>> for review; now, therefore, be it
>> 
>> Resolved, that the Oklahoma Libertarian Party:
>> 
>>    1. recognizes the extraordinary circumstances in which we find 
>> ourselves
>>    during this COVID-19 pandemic;
>>    2. acknowledges a potential need to conduct business remotely in
>>    extraordinary times;
>>    3. rejects the authority asserted by the Libertarian National 
>> Committee
>>    to hold a bifurcated convention in which a “sitting” is held 
>> online, and
>>    calls this event by its true function: a caucus;
>>    4. acquiesces to a limited online caucus for the specific purpose 
>> of
>>    nominating candidates for the offices of President and 
>> Vice-President of
>>    the United States, respectively;
>>    5. recognizes that, while the intent is that the result of this 
>> vote
>>    will be ratified at a later in-person convention, this vote will be
>>    non-binding, per our party’s rules and historical precedent;
>>    6. retains the Libertarian National Committee’s decision to 
>> overrule the
>>    Chair, declaring that a “place” as defined by the Bylaws of the 
>> Libertarian
>>    Party cannot mean a virtual convention;
>>    7. censures the Chair of the Libertarian Party, and urges the
>>    Libertarian National Committee to join us in so doing, for failing 
>> to
>>    maintain the impartiality required of his office, acting outside 
>> his scope
>>    of duties by circumventing the decision of the Libertarian National
>>    Committee to hold an in-person convention, attempting to influence 
>> outcomes
>>    and opinions, and subverting the will of the members of the 
>> Libertarian
>>    Party;
>>    8. affirms that the rights of members to debate and make motions 
>> cannot
>>    be suppressed and are paramount to order and transparency;
>>    9. remains obstinate in adhering to the Bylaws of the Libertarian 
>> Party;
>>    10. declares any business conducted during the online caucus to be 
>> out
>>    of order;
>>    11. holds that any attempt to make impossible or unnecessary an
>>    in-person convention of the delegates of the Libertarian Party at a 
>> Regular
>>    Convention, as required by the Bylaws, to be subversive and the 
>> meeting in
>>    which such attempt is made to be in violation of the Bylaws and 
>> therefore
>>    illegal;
>>    12. deems any decisions made in an illegal meeting to be null and 
>> void,
>>    unless subsequently ratified by the delegates at an in-person 
>> convention;
>>    13. plans to convene its State Convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 
>> June
>>    27-28, 2020; and
>>    14. pledges to nominate its own candidates for the offices of 
>> President
>>    and Vice President of the United States, and for those names to be
>>    submitted to the Oklahoma Secretary of the Election Board as 
>> required by
>>    Oklahoma state law, if the online caucus moves to conduct any 
>> business
>>    outside of the limited purpose as specified herein.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This resolution shall be ratified by at least a two-thirds (⅔) vote of 
>> the
>> State Executive Committee.
>> 
>> We, the undersigned, being officers and delegates of the Oklahoma
>> Libertarian Party consent and agree that the following resolution was 
>> made
>> on May 13, 2020, at 10:38pm during a Special Meeting hosted on Zoom.
>> 
>> Chad Williams, Chair
>> 
>> Kevin Hobbie, Vice Chair
>> 
>> Cherise Norton, Secretary
>> 
>> David Greer, Interim Treasurer
>> 
>> Erin Adams, North Central Regional Chair
>> 
>> Victoria Whitfield, Southeast Regional Chair
>> 
>> Todd Hagopian, Northeast Regional Chair
>> 
>> Richard Prawdzienski, Central Regional Chair
>> 
>> Rex Lawhorn, Delegate
>> 
>> Drew Cook, Delegate
>> 
>> Kalon Wiggins, Delegate
>> 
>> Kaleb England, Delegate
>> 
>> Frank Robinson, Delegate
>> 
>> Jay Norton, Delegate
>> 
>> 
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