<div dir='auto'>Regarding this, is their any requirement we use the national zoom meeting space or can we set up our own?<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 May 12, 2020 9:56 AM, Nicholas Sarwark 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">Dear Ms. Harlos,
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The convention begins on May 22, 2020, so regions would need to be formed
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no later than May 23, 2020. The fact that there is a second sitting planned
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in the motion passed by the LNC does not change that the initial gavel is
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of a convention and May 23 is the second day.
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I would also note that regional agreements can be formed now and the
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national staff would be happy to facilitate any regions that would like to
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have a regional meeting in the virtual convention space in the time prior
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to the convention, as long as it doesn't conflict with testing, planning,
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or debate events that are using the space.
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Yours truly,
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Nick
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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:14 AM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <
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lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:
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> Our bylaws state this:
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> 2. The National Committee shall be composed of the following members:
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> a. the officers of the Party;
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> b. five members elected at large by the delegates at a Regular Convention;
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> c. any additional members as specified below:
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> Any affiliate party with 10% or more of the total national party sustaining
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> membership
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> within affiliate parties (as determined for delegate allocation) shall be
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> entitled to one
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> National Committee representative and one alternate for each 10% of
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> national
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> sustaining membership. Affiliate parties may, by mutual consent, band
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> form "representative regions," and each such "region" with an aggregate
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> national
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> party sustaining membership of 10% or more shall be entitled to one
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> Committee representative and one alternate for each 10% of national party
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> sustaining membership. "Representative regions" may be formed or dissolved
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> once
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> every two years during a period beginning 90 days before the beginning of
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> ending on the second day of the National Convention, and notice of new
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> formations
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> or dissolutions must be given in writing to the national Secretary prior to
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> the Convention at which they take place.
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> And the convention rules say this:
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> 4. In the event a region has not otherwise provided for the election of its
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> Committee representation then the delegates from the region shall elect its
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> regional
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> representative and alternate, provided there are at least five delegates
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> present. Each
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> Region's delegates may elect their representative and alternate in whatever
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> choose, provided all delegates present from that region are given equal
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> Mr. Goldstein has let regionals know that they need to take care of this by
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> this online convention. I do not believe however that is the only
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> interpretation here and I lean towards the other one since the convention
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> referred to is the physical convention and election of the LNC is at the
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> physical convention. Though I could argue both ways. But since LNC
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> elections are put off until then as there is not yet impracticability for
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> those, I think the regionals fall there too. I think requiring the
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> regionals this month is not the fairest to the regional elections and could
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> result in some of our regional reps being off the LNC during this critical
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> time between sessions. An exception was carved out ONLY for the top of the
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> ticket, thus I do not think it is the best interpretation to put the time
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> clock for regionals in that time frame.
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> Mr. Chair can you please advise on this ASAP? I need to resend the
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> regional formation manual to the state chairs and I would like to clarify
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> this situation with them.
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> * In Liberty,*
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