[Lnc-business] Appeal the ruling of the chair

[Francis Wendt]

To my fellow LNC members:

I would like to followup with this appeal with a brief point on 
procedure. Regional agreements are dictated in Bylaws Article 7.2(c)

"c. any additional members as specified below:
Any affiliate party with 10% or more of the total national party 
sustaining membership
within affiliate parties (as determined for delegate allocation) shall 
be entitled to one
National Committee representative and one alternate for each 10% of 
national sustaining
membership. Affiliate parties may, by mutual consent, band together to 
form
"representative regions," and each such "region" with an aggregate 
national party
sustaining membership of 10% or more shall be entitled to one National 
Committee
representative and one alternate for each 10% of national party 
sustaining membership.
"Representative regions" may be formed or dissolved once every two years 
during a
period beginning 90 days before the beginning of and ending on the 
second day of the
National Convention, and notice of new formations or dissolutions must 
be given in
writing to the national Secretary prior to the close of the Convention 
at which they take
place."

By my reading the I was also wrong in the second day deadline. The 
second day of the convention is the final point at which regions can be 
"formed or dissolved" This gives an indication that all regions are a 
going concern to co-op a business term. Thus, unless there is clear 
indication that a new region will form or dissolve, the Bylaw is silent 
on existing regions.

Also of note is that notice to the Secretary is not due until close of 
convention. I do believe there was a misunderstanding on the deadlines, 
and I understand it to be that the formation is now done, and the 
paperwork needs to be to the Secretary by July 10.

Should this require an appeal to the ruling of the chair either here or 
in convention this morning, I implore you to overturn the chair's 
ruling.

Best Regards,

---
FRANCIS WENDT
LNC Region 1 Alternate
  406.595.5111

On 2020-05-24 07:24, Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business wrote:
> Friends,
> 
> I would like my other regionals to consider joining me in appealing the
> ruling of the chair in which he stated that regional agreements were
> expected to be turned in end of day yesterday, the 23rd.
> 
> My basis for argument is that while the bylaws do indicate that 
> agreements
> must be turned in by the second day of convention, many of us found 
> that
> out 10 or so days, maybe less, before the agreements were due which, 
> under
> normal circumstances are completed at the regional caucus. Because of 
> this
> pressure and the stressors of getting the e-convention put together, I
> think there was a sufficient time constraint put on us.
> 
> Due to to the emergency circumstances, we agreed to have this meeting 
> for
> the sole purpose of electing our President and Vice president. All 
> other
> business was to be put off to our in person. Regional formation should 
> be
> no different. The idea is that the region forms at the close of 
> convention,
> not the beginning.
> 
> I held off on my appeal to see if there would be an issue. Reading the
> secretary's email from this morning, we technically may now have 
> several
> states that are orphaned because a signed contract was not turned in on
> time.
> 
> I would like the chair's ruling overturned that agreements were due 
> last
> night and, if the chair insists that they are due before our in person,
> that he give a date to complete the agreements by a reasonable time in 
> the
> future but before our in person gathering. The unusual circumstances 
> that
> affected the separation of our elections and caused our election to 
> become
> something other than expected should also be considered for regional
> agreements.
> 
> Richard Longstreth
> Region 1 Representative (AK, AZ, CO, HI, KS, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY)
> Libertarian National Committee
> richard.longstreth at lp.org
> 931.538.9300
> 
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