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<p>All,</p>
<p>I'm spoken to several people over the past 48 hours about my
proposed motion to appoint Jim Humay to a vacant position of
Deputy Director, a role that has been long vacant in both of my
tenures as Political Director.</p>
<p>I appreciate the response, whether in support, in concern or in
outright indifference. It's not a secret that my incessant rants
about a certain faction of the party have gotten me in trouble
with this board in my last tenure, and this was an attempt to
rebuild bridges that I burnt down in the wake of my sudden
departure the last time around.</p>
<p>The Libertarian Party of Illinois is one of the sanest state
affiliates in the country without resorting to nonsensical
edgelord messaging. I pride my division, as much as any other
director in this party, that factional malarkey has no place in
this party. When you're a divisional leader or a divisional
worker, we have two major primary objectives: 1) To represent the
best interests of the Libertarian Party of Illinois, its members,
and financial backers and 2) To elect Libertarians to office in
the State of Illinois with the same message that has prevailed
since 1971 which, despite the national platform, still states that
bigotry is irrational and repugnant and that we respect ALL
individual and fiscal freedoms, including the ones that were wiped
out from the National platform.<br>
</p>
<p>I've been alerted to some events that unfolded at a recent
Libertarian Party of Chicago meeting that has now proven that Jim
would rather want what's best for the Illinois and National
chapters of the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus than the
Libertarian Party of Chicago, Cook County Libertarian Central
Committee, and most importantly, the Libertarian Party of
Illinois.</p>
<p>I want people to serve in my division that can put all
factionalism aside and put the Libertarian Party of Illinois first
on their mind, not blind loyalties and kow-towing to irrelevant
caucuses and factions.</p>
<p>Yes, I'm aware that Jim has a political resume that would benefit
this division, but I cannot, in good faith, continue to keep this
motion on the board when my potential candidate now has a
reputation of putting caucus before party, which clearly isn't
flying with some members on the board and it certainly won't fly
with me.</p>
<p>I hereby withdraw my motion as of 10:38 a.m. CDT on Saturday,
March 18, 2023.</p>
<p>Respectfully,<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-signature"><font size="3">
<b>Jake Leonard</b></font><br>
<font size="2">
<b><font color="black">Interim Chairman and Executive Director</font>
| <font color="#12AD2B">ChrisMont Libertarian Central
Committee</font></b> (<i>Christian County, Montgomery County</i>)<br>
<i><b>Congress</b>: 15</i> | <i><b>Montgomery County</b>:
Illinois Senate 54/55, Illinois House 107/108/110</i> | <i><b>Christian
County</b>: Illinois Senate 48/54, Illinois House
95/96/107/108</i><br>
<br>
<b><font color="black">Political Director</font> | <font
color="#12AD2B">Libertarian Party of Illinois</font></b><br>
800 Capps Ave. | Nokomis, IL 62075-1415<br>
<b>Mobile</b>: <a href="tel:2175659709">(217) 565-9709</a> | <a
href="tel:2175659273">(217) 565-9273</a> || <b>Work</b>: <a
href="tel:2175694230,700">(217) 569-4230 ext. 700</a> | <a
href="tel:2177185281">(217) 718-5281</a> || <b>Fax</b>: <a
href="tel:2177178079">(217) 717-8079</a>
</font><br>
<br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/17/2023 10:44 AM, Ken Mattes
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:129b2a8aa7225a4994cc057cb1c1c5ef@lpillinois.org">Received,
thank you.
<br>
<br>
On 2023-03-15 18:39, Jake Leonard via Lpil-bod wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Whoops! I only replied back to Ken and
didn't Reply All in this
<br>
instance!
<br>
<br>
Jake
<br>
<br>
On 3/15/2023 6:38 PM, Jake Leonard wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">The Political Division is calling for
the following agenda item for
<br>
our upcoming meeting on Tuesday, March 21:
<br>
<br>
1) Motion to appoint Jim Humay as Deputy Director of the
Political
<br>
Division.
<br>
<br>
RATIONALE: It is no secret that I've had difficulty getting
<br>
volunteers since then-Chair Bennett Morris appointed me to the
role
<br>
in an interim capacity in early November 2019 before the Board
of
<br>
Directors unanimously approved my official appointment a
couple of
<br>
weeks later. I lost the majority of the division during the
<br>
transition, losing pretty much everyone with the exception of
Kevin
<br>
Kauzlaric at the time, as Kevin and I were essentially running
the
<br>
division without the active presence of a divisional director
for
<br>
roughly 18 months.
<br>
<br>
Then, for understandable reasons, Kevin had to step down. For
the
<br>
majority of my first tenure as Political Director, the
Division was
<br>
pretty much run by Campaigns Director Jon King (at least for
part of
<br>
it) and Ballot Access Director Bill Redpath outside of myself.
<br>
<br>
The fact that Jim reached out to me on February 20 meant
something.
<br>
This is the third time in both of my tenures as PD combined
that
<br>
someone has actually reached out to me about helping out in
the
<br>
division (including the short time that I had Bennett as
Legislative
<br>
Director, which was definitely appreciated at the time).
<br>
<br>
I need to make up for lost time in the Division and having a
Deputy
<br>
Director will help ensure that I can finish some unfinished
business
<br>
that will better equip our candidates moving forward, not only
local
<br>
but also statewide. We have eight established counties going
into
<br>
the 2024 election cycle, four of which we would really need to
<br>
retain our status in this cycle due to not running countywide
<br>
candidates in those counties in 2022. We also have
Congressional
<br>
races exclusively within Cook County, as well as General
Assembly
<br>
races where districts are exclusively within Cook and Peoria
<br>
counties to focus on, on top of our lone statewide ballot
campaign
<br>
for the presidential race.
<br>
Jake Leonard
<br>
Interim Chairman and Executive Director | ChrisMont
Libertarian
<br>
Central Committee (_Christian County, Montgomery County_)
<br>
_Congress: 15_ | _Montgomery County: Illinois Senate 54/55,
Illinois
<br>
House 107/108/110_ | _Christian County: Illinois Senate 48/54,
<br>
Illinois House 95/96/107/108_
<br>
<br>
Political Director | Libertarian Party of Illinois
<br>
800 Capps Ave. | Nokomis, IL 62075-1415
<br>
Mobile: (217) 565-9709 [1] | (217) 565-9273 [2] || Work: (217)
<br>
569-4230 ext. 700 [3] | (217) 718-5281 [4] || Fax: (217)
717-8079
<br>
[5]
<br>
<br>
On 3/15/2023 1:48 PM, Ken Mattes via Lpil-bod wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I am calling for any agenda items for
the Board of Directors
<br>
meeting 3/21 at 7:30.
<br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
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