<div dir='auto'>Yep, which is why my second choice plan has been and continues to be - postpone, with the option to poll the delegates and use that result to pick the candidates.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">John Phillips<br>Libertarian National Committee Region 6 Representative<br>Cell 217-412-5973</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 30, 2020 5:20 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I am coming to the conclusion that we are going about this entirely wrong,
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and that any "online convention" should not even be on our radar. Our
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bylaws ALREADY provide a solution if there is no nomination at a
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convention. Why are we trying to find an end-run around that? If the
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delegates in the past wanted to change that they could, and they did not.
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No convention, the LNC votes on the nomination. It leaves us free to vow
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to follow the will of some poll of the delegates (which I would highly say
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we must) but we are creating a problem that does not exist - at least not
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for that issue. I am very uncomfortable with that.
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Second, I believe there is a conflict of interest issue here. Some of us,
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myself included, have a vested interest in this proceeding as we are
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running for internal office and may have personal reasons for preferring
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one to another that is about our best interest and not that of the party.
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RONR does not require recusal for anything but that doesn't lessen the fact
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that there is a conflict of interest here.
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I will not go against our bylaws which provide the solution already. We
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either have an in-person convention or the LNC picks the nominees (using
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whatever criteria we decide upon).
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Would I personally prefer something else? Yes. But that is not what my
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duty here is.
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