[Lnc-business] Appeal the ruling of the chair

[Joe Bishop-Henchman]

I just had an exchange with the Chair in the meeting on this topic. He 
specifically said "Mr. Hagan is mostly correct" and that while 
agreements had to be made by yesterday, the deadline to get paperwork 
into the Secretary is not until close of convention "so let's get it 
in."

The Secretary said she is continuing to accept paperwork.

JBH

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Joe Bishop-Henchman
LNC Member (At-Large)
joe.bishop-henchman at lp.org
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On 2020-05-24 10:59, Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business wrote:
> Given the Chair's clarification at the econvention, I would like to 
> turn
> this appeal over to the body and no longer be considered a sponsor. 
> Thank
> you for making it clearer to us Mr. Sarwark as there was a certain 
> level of
> confusion.
> 
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 7:30 AM Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> I will join an appeal.
>> 
>> -Alicia
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:24 AM Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business <
>> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> 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
>>> 
>>> Sent from my Mobile Device
>>> 
>>