<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">I will co-sponsor this motion. It addresses some concerns I have with the original motion. The original motion can be extrapolated to conflict with action of the convention delegates, since the delegates sustained the ruling of the Chair.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br><span style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">Tim Hagan<br style="" class=""></span></div><div
style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <hr style="" class="" size="1"> <font style="" class="" face="Arial" size="2"> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Daniel Wiener <wiener@alum.mit.edu><br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> lnc-business@hq.lp.org <br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, July 12, 2014 10:12 AM<br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Lnc-business] Request for email ballot co-sponsors for Oregon
resolution<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" original_target="http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org"><div style="" class="" id="yiv9540082152"><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">I move to adopt the following resolution, and request co-sponsors for an email ballot:<br style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><blockquote class="" style="margin-right:0px;"><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">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></div><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">
</i></b></font><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">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></div><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">
</i></b></font><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">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></div><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">
</i></b></font><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">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></div><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">
</i></b></font><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">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></div><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">
</i></b></font><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">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></div><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">
</i></b></font><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">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></div><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">
</i></b></font><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">Whereas, the Libertarian National Committee nevertheless regrets the
situation wherein <font style="" class="" face="Times New Roman">some</font> delegates believe the above decision was incorrectly
decided, therefore</i></b></font></div><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">
</i></b></font><div style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b style="" class=""><i style="" class="">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></div></blockquote><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><font style="" class="" color="#888888"><div style="" class="">Daniel Wiener</div><div style="" class="">
Region 4 Representative</div></font></span><br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><div style="" class="" dir="ltr"><br style="" class=""></div>
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