<div dir='auto'>If that is what the bylaws say, excellent, however that was not what we were told before, so I for one would appreciate some clarity.<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 24, 2020 9:21 AM, Tim Hagan 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">Nevada split away from Region 4 and joined Region 1. According to the
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Bylaw that Mr. Wendt quoted, California, having more than 10% sustaining
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membership, is entitled to a representative and alternate without
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joining a region. The rest of the bylaw does not say that the Secretary
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has to be informed by the end of the second day of the formation
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regions. The bylaw is met if the states had agreed among themselves to
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form or remain a region by the end of the second day, and the paperwork
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given to the Secretary by the close of the convention.
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Tim Hagan
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Treasurer, Libertarian National Committee
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On 2020-05-24 06:44, Francis Wendt via Lnc-business wrote:
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> To my fellow LNC members:
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>
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> I would like to followup with this appeal with a brief point on
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> procedure. Regional agreements are dictated in Bylaws Article 7.2(c)
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>
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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
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> sustaining membership
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> within affiliate parties (as determined for delegate allocation) shall
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> be entitled to one
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> National Committee representative and one alternate for each 10% of
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> national sustaining
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> membership. Affiliate parties may, by mutual consent, band together to
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> form
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> "representative regions," and each such "region" with an aggregate
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> national party
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> sustaining membership of 10% or more shall be entitled to one National
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> Committee
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> representative and one alternate for each 10% of national party
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> sustaining membership.
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> "Representative regions" may be formed or dissolved once every two
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> years during a
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> period beginning 90 days before the beginning of and ending on the
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> second day of the
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> National Convention, and notice of new formations or dissolutions must
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> be given in
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> writing to the national Secretary prior to the close of the Convention
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> at which they take
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> place."
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>
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> By my reading the I was also wrong in the second day deadline. The
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> second day of the convention is the final point at which regions can
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> be "formed or dissolved" This gives an indication that all regions are
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> a going concern to co-op a business term. Thus, unless there is clear
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> indication that a new region will form or dissolve, the Bylaw is
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> silent on existing regions.
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>
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> Also of note is that notice to the Secretary is not due until close of
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> convention. I do believe there was a misunderstanding on the
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> deadlines, and I understand it to be that the formation is now done,
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> and the paperwork needs to be to the Secretary by July 10.
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>
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> Should this require an appeal to the ruling of the chair either here
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> or in convention this morning, I implore you to overturn the chair's
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> ruling.
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>
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> Best Regards,
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>
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> ---
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> FRANCIS WENDT
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> LNC Region 1 Alternate
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> 406.595.5111
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>
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> On 2020-05-24 07:24, Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business wrote:
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>> Friends,
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>>
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>> I would like my other regionals to consider joining me in appealing
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>> the
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>> ruling of the chair in which he stated that regional agreements were
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>> expected to be turned in end of day yesterday, the 23rd.
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>>
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>> My basis for argument is that while the bylaws do indicate that
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>> agreements
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>> must be turned in by the second day of convention, many of us found
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>> that
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>> out 10 or so days, maybe less, before the agreements were due which,
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>> under
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>> normal circumstances are completed at the regional caucus. Because of
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>> this
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>> pressure and the stressors of getting the e-convention put together, I
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>> think there was a sufficient time constraint put on us.
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>>
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>> Due to to the emergency circumstances, we agreed to have this meeting
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>> for
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>> the sole purpose of electing our President and Vice president. All
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>> other
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>> business was to be put off to our in person. Regional formation should
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>> be
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>> no different. The idea is that the region forms at the close of
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>> convention,
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>> not the beginning.
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>>
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>> I held off on my appeal to see if there would be an issue. Reading the
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>> secretary's email from this morning, we technically may now have
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>> several
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>> states that are orphaned because a signed contract was not turned in
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>> on
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>> time.
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>>
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>> I would like the chair's ruling overturned that agreements were due
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>> last
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>> night and, if the chair insists that they are due before our in
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>> person,
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>> that he give a date to complete the agreements by a reasonable time in
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>> the
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>> future but before our in person gathering. The unusual circumstances
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>> that
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>> affected the separation of our elections and caused our election to
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>> become
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>> something other than expected should also be considered for regional
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>> agreements.
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>>
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>> Richard Longstreth
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>> Region 1 Representative (AK, AZ, CO, HI, KS, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY)
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>> Libertarian National Committee
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>> richard.longstreth@lp.org
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>> 931.538.9300
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>>
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>> Sent from my Mobile Device
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