[Lnc-business] Appeal the ruling of the chair

[Tim Hagan]

Nevada split away from Region 4 and joined Region 1. According to the 
Bylaw that Mr. Wendt quoted, California, having more than 10% sustaining 
membership, is entitled to a representative and alternate without 
joining a region. The rest of the bylaw does not say that the Secretary 
has to be informed by the end of the second day of the formation 
regions. The bylaw is met if the states had agreed among themselves to 
form or remain a region by the end of the second day, and the paperwork 
given to the Secretary by the close of the convention.

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Tim Hagan
Treasurer, Libertarian National Committee

On 2020-05-24 06:44, Francis Wendt via Lnc-business wrote:
> 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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