<div dir="ltr"><div>Dan:</div><div>I will co-sponsor your motion.</div><div>Vicki Kirkland</div><div>Region 2 Rep</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Daniel Wiener <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wiener@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">wiener@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I move to adopt the following resolution, and request co-sponsors for an email ballot:<br><div><div><br>
<blockquote style="margin-right:0px"><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that “delegates to a
Regular Convention shall be selected by a method adopted by each affiliate
party” (Article 11, 3 (b)), and</i></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>
</i></b></font><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that “each state-level
affiliate party shall, in accordance with its own Bylaws and these Bylaws,
determine who shall be its delegates to all Regular Conventions.” (Article 6,
3), and </i></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>
</i></b></font><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that “the autonomy of the
affiliate and sub-affiliate parties shall not be abridged by the National
Committee or any other committee of the Party…” (Article 6, 5), and</i></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>
</i></b></font><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Whereas, a dispute over the Oregon delegation was placed before the
Credentials Committee, which subsequently presented a report to the Libertarian
Party National Convention on June 27, 2014 which did not describe the details
of that dispute, and</i></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>
</i></b></font><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Whereas, a motion was made to amend the Credentials Committee report to
include three individuals as delegates within the Oregon delegation, and</i></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>
</i></b></font><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Whereas, in response to a Point of Order the Chair of the National
Convention ruled that the proposed amendment was in order, the Chair’s ruling
was appealed, the Chair’s ruling was sustained by a vote of the assembly, and
the assembly subsequently approved the amendment, and</i></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>
</i></b></font><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Whereas, the 11th edition of Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised, which is
the Parliamentary Authority for the Libertarian Party as stated in Article 16
of its Bylaws, states (p. 483) that “In any event, no action of the board can
alter or conflict with any decision made by the assembly of the society, and
any such action of the board is null and void (see p. 577, II. 23-33).”, and </i></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>
</i></b></font><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Whereas, the Libertarian National Committee nevertheless regrets the
situation wherein <font face="Times New Roman">some</font> delegates believe the above decision was incorrectly
decided, therefore</i></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>
</i></b></font><p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b><i>Be it resolved that it is the sense of the Libertarian National Committee that
it wishes to convey those regrets to the Libertarian Party of Oregon.</i></b></font></p></blockquote><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><span><font color="#888888"><div>Daniel Wiener</div><div>
Region 4 Representative</div></font></span><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br></div>
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