We have an LNC email ballot. Votes are due to the LNC Business List on this email thread by 11:59 pm Pacific Time on September 13, 2024
Motion: Shall the ruling of the chair be sustained? (A no vote overturns the ruling)
The ruling was that a motion to rescind the JFC due to drastically changed circumstances of RFK openly endorsing Trump and telling everyone to vote for Trump in every state was dilatory
Co-Sponsors: Darr, Harlos, Nanna, Redpath
Vote Threshold Required: Majority of negative
You can track the progress of votes here:
Explanatory notes: Votes on appeals have no relevance on whether one supports the underlying motion. Only whether the rules allow the motion even if one opposes the underlying motion.;
Please advise me of any discrepancies.
In Liberty, Caryn Ann Harlos
LNC Secretary and LP Historical Preservation Committee Chair ~ 561.523.2250
No
Respectfully,
Paul Darr, Region 3 South Representative
Libertarian National Committee
I did not receive an answer so I will take my one opportunity. The main motion can be voted down if people do not agree. This is a misuse of a point of order. Regular LNC Parliamentarian Richard Brown weighed in publicly on this, but I could have asked anywhere. I asked him privately and kept that to myself but now that it is public. The basic answer is “we are the majority; you guys should just be quiet.” That is not how parliamentary law works, points of order work, or frankly a functioning board. Of course,
I will repeat Mr. Brown only what he said publicly already:
Writing on FaceBook, Keith Thompson, addressing LNC Parliamentarian Richard Brown, posted (slight reformatting relative to FaceBook):
Richard Brown –in my pretty firm opinion, the motion is not out of order, regardless of whether there have been changed circumstances. But, the fact that circumstances have changed adds credibility to the motion. I’ve already told CAH it is not out of order, but Angela has not asked, and I have not said anything to her. A motion can be renewed (made again) at any future session, regardless of whether there have been changed circumstances. There are no sessions with E-mail ballots, so I think under the bylaws renewing the motion at any time is in order. The bylaws put no limit on the ability of LNC members to submit email motions as long as they have the requisite number of co-sponsors. However, if you want to take the position that it’s not in order unless there have been changed circumstances, I believe that requirement has been met by the changed circumstances, namely, RFK suspending his campaign. He not only suspended his campaign, but has endorsed Trump.
So I think the motion is in order and is not dilatory. See 8:15 and 38:1 in RONR (12th ed).
Voting “yes” just because a voting bloc does (can’t prove that, it certainly looks like that way) is horrid. It has NOT been voted down twice (irrelevant see above but I just wouldn’t do that personally).
One recission before these greatly changed terms was voted on and completely improperly amended against all rules and logic of parliamentary process.
This motion is clearly in order. You can always vote the main motion down but you are not doing anything at all to assurethe membership that the rules matter and desires just want to be rammed through.
Thank you.
PS: “Just go along with the majority when there are off list coordinations and bloc voting without debate is not good board governance and not giving those intricacies to our trainder did her a huge disservice. I know many of you. I know your boards. And I know on your boards this would be (properly) perfectly in order, and I know you know it.
Only the Chair remains to vote.
Voting has ended for LNC EMAIL BALLOT 20240906-02 APPEAL
The appeal was SUSTAINED with a vote count OF 12-5-0-0.
Voting Aye: Bost, Dassing, Ford, Garcia, Haman, Hays, McArdle, McGee, Nekhaila, Vinson, Watkins, Yeniscavich
Voting No: Darr, Harlos, Nanna, Redpath, Rutherford
Express Abstentions: None
No Vote Recorded: None
In Liberty, Caryn Ann Harlos
LNC Secretary and LP Historical Preservation Committee Chair ~ 561.523.2250