<div dir='auto'><div dir="auto">Dear colleagues,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I vote no on this motion. Following is my reasoning.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I believe the chair was within his authority to remove Mr Hayes, even if I also believe it was an abuse of that authority and his publicly stated reasons were garbage and not entirely factually correct.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I believe that the people who observed that customarily in such a situation that the person so removed is removed entirely are correct. This is so for many good reasons.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">HOWEVER.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I also believe that the people who observed that the chair does not unilaterally appoint to the committee have a valid point, if not a decisive one.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What I do find to be a decisive point is Mr Sarwark's entirely inappropriate appointment of Mr Turney to that committee. This is not anything against Mr Turney. I have great respect for everything I know of Mr Turney. Despite this Mr Sarwark was completely in the wrong to;</div><div dir="auto">A. Ignore this appeal.</div><div dir="auto">B. Ignore the very valid wishes of the committee to delay during this vote.</div><div dir="auto">C. Because of that appoint without following procedure.</div><div dir="auto">D. Following custom when it suits what he wants to happen and disregarding it when it does not, which has become a consistent habit.</div><div dir="auto">E. His attempt to stifle this appeal, which is completely inappropriate, and goes along with the point above.</div><div dir="auto">F. Attempt to bully and pressure the COC, and issue inappropriate directives and demands to them through the new chair to force them to act on something that could have easily waited.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While appeal on a separate point might technically be more appropriate, in the interest of expediency moving ahead with this one seems to be the correct action.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I also feel compelled to point out that, while it has little bearing on this appeal, his choice for chair of the COC was clearly made in order to be someone he can bully and be his "yes person" rather than efficiently do the job, clearly because he has already used this. Ms Ryan is I am sure a good person, but has already proven her inability to handle the job in many ways, including her inability to stand against that behavior.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I urge you all to vote no on this and allow what has been a very successful committee before now to work together as they should.<br><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><br><div class="elided-text">On Jun 6, 2020 2:01 AM, Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I vote no.
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On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 1:18 PM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <
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> EMAIL BALLOT 200531-1 APPEAL FROM THE RULING OF THE CHAIR CONCERNING
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> REMOVAL OF DANIEL HAYES FROM THE COC
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> Motion: The Chair has ruled he can not only remove Daniel Hayes as CoC
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