It’s inappropriate for any request for the bylaws committee to serve the LNC and answer to the LNC. It is inappropriate to use a privileged position to do so. When the chair was chairing the issue and the meeting was adjourned to continue - it was not ended - the chair is still presiding and cannot remove his duty of impartiality. If the meeting was ended and terminated it would be a different matter. It was not. What he is doing is improper. There was also an inappropriate comment to members that he just might not chair the next convention. This is clearly an emotional manipukation tactic. If our chair feels someone else should chair next convention he should have told us, not play games on social media. I know it’s not popular to call out the chair. I learned that when the serious concerns brought by a significant number of LNC members met with stony silence by the rest of the LNC. However my duty is not to be popular. I’m concerned and it is my duty to express them. On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:03 PM Tim Hagan via Lnc-business < lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:
While the presiding officer is to appear impartial during a motion at a meeting, the Chair does not lose his rights as a member. It's not inappropriate for a member to make a request to the Bylaws Committee.
--- Tim Hagan Treasurer, Libertarian National Committee
On 2020-05-03 11:11, Nicholas Sarwark via Lnc-business wrote:
I made the following request of the Chair of the Bylaws Committee on a social media post announcing today's Zoom meeting:
“I'm not sure if I will be able to attend, but what I would like from the committee is a recommendation for how we could hold an online convention hewing as closely as possible to our current bylaws and convention rules over Memorial Day weekend.
Specific things like what form a motion ratifying the proceedings should take, suggestions for how to facilitate deliberation over that motion and a motion to amend the agenda to only consist of elections for LNC, President, Vice President, and Judicial Committee. Also, how to make a motion at the end to adjourn to a physical convention should there be a certain time, date, and place to consider at the end of the session.
I would like this recommendation to be communicated to the Convention Oversight Committee, the entire LNC, and staff.”
I stand by it.
Yours in liberty, Nick
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:57 PM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business < lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:
I also hear of interference with the work of the bylaws committee. This is way beyond the bounds of propriety.
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:49 AM Caryn Ann Harlos <caryn.ann.harlos@lp.org> wrote:
I would ask respectfully that the chair resume the impartiality required of a presiding officer. Including on social media. The lobbying to change votes seems highly improper.
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 7:34 AM Nicholas Sarwark via Lnc-business < lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:
Dear All,
This article may be of interest to you in advance of our adjourned meeting this coming Saturday.
https://hbr.org/1987/03/knowing-when-to-pull-the-plug
Yours in liberty, Nick
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* Personal Note: I have what is commonly known as Asperger's Syndrome (part of the autism spectrum). This can affect inter-personal communication skills in both personal and electronic arenas. If anyone found anything offensive or overly off-putting (or some other social faux pas), please contact me privately and let me know. *
-- *In Liberty,* * Personal Note: I have what is commonly known as Asperger's Syndrome (part of the autism spectrum). This can affect inter-personal communication skills in both personal and electronic arenas. If anyone found anything offensive or overly off-putting (or some other social faux pas), please contact me privately and let me know. *