<div dir='auto'>I would co sponsor simply on technical issues and time constraints on everyone. State chairs were prepping their delegations for a new process, most of the regional reps were heavily involved in several ways in business last night that ran well past expected time, including conducting the business of the convention.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have statements from all my state chairs that they agreed to regional formation and 2 had some technical issues including also being heavily involved in the convention.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We are already being flexible on rules by having the online convention, not following that policy evenly is questionable at best. Not following these things evenly also seems to be a trend that has been brought up several times before, including just yesterday. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I also ask our fellow representatives to join us in appealing this ruling.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">John Phillips<br>Libertarian National Committee Region 6 Representative<br>Cell 217-412-5973</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2020 8:24 AM, Richard Longstreth 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">Friends,
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I would like my other regionals to consider joining me in appealing 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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My basis for argument is that while the bylaws do indicate that agreements
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must be turned in by the second day of convention, many of us found that
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out 10 or so days, maybe less, before the agreements were due which, under
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normal circumstances are completed at the regional caucus. Because of 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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Due to to the emergency circumstances, we agreed to have this meeting for
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the sole purpose of electing our President and Vice president. All other
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business was to be put off to our in person. Regional formation should be
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no different. The idea is that the region forms at the close of convention,
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not the beginning.
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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 several
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states that are orphaned because a signed contract was not turned in on
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time.
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I would like the chair's ruling overturned that agreements were due last
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night and, if the chair insists that they are due before our in person,
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that he give a date to complete the agreements by a reasonable time in the
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future but before our in person gathering. The unusual circumstances that
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affected the separation of our elections and caused our election to become
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something other than expected should also be considered for regional
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agreements.
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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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Sent from my Mobile Device
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