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January BoD Meeting Minutes
by Donny Henry 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

BoD- I forgot to send January’s meeting minutes earlier. See attached. In Liberty, -Donny

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Election Results
by Donny Henry 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

LPIL- Attached and below are the results from last night's elections. One minor issue occurred in the 16th District. The election link did not go out to two of the Precinct Committeeman in the 16th Congressional District. I rectified this by sending them the link this morning and allowed them to vote. I have compiled their results with the other 16th District Votes. I am available for questions if there are any in regards to this process. Please accept my apologies for the mistake. Chairman: Chase Renwick Vice Chairman: Matt Piron Treasurer: Russ Clark Secretary: Brett Ryan SCC 1: Jason Decker SCC 3: Danny Lewis SCC 5: Kevin Kauzlaric SCC 6: Bob Blair-Smith SCC 7: Jim Humay SCC 9: Adam Balling SCC 11: Jon Harlson SCC 12: NOTA SCC 15: John Phillips Jr. SCC 16: Bennett Morris SCC 17: Donny Henry Congratulations to all of new members of the Executive Committee and State Central Committee. It has been an absolute honor representing you the past two years. I believe the State party is in very capable hands and in a good place to achieve immediate success if we put in enough work over the next 3 months. As for me, I am not going anywhere. I will be here for advice as the SCC Rep in the 17th District and was reelected for my 4th Term as Libertarian Party of Peoria County Chairman. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me at HenryForLiberty(a)gmail.com or at (630)877-1390 In Liberty, Donny Henry Vice Chairman (Former), Libertarian Party of Illinois Sent from my iPhone

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Update and Farewell
by Steve Suess 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Hello everyone, This will be my last email from chair(a)lpillinois.org. I wanted to address two things. First, many of you have probably heard that our Secretary of State candidate Jesse White withdrew from the race before the signature inspections began yesterday. While we can't say much about how this decision was made, here's what I am able to tell you. We made this decision for three primary reasons... 1) It became apparent there was a high likelihood that we would lose the objection. This was the gut feeling from our attorney and others close to the process. I want to be absolutely clear - We had enough valid signatures as required by law. Unfortunately, the objection process is politicized, and we were going up against the largest, most well-funded political machine in the state. I won't talk about specifics regarding *why *we thought we would lose. Those details may come out when we know what we can and cannot say. With a high likelihood that we would lose and facing the possibility of spending thousands of dollars to continue, we decided to pull the plug. 2) It's the opinion of our legal counsel that Jesse achieving 5% would not get us statewide ballot access. Illinois election law is vague and contradictory (purposefully). Again, I'll spare you the dirty details and legal arguments (although I'd love to have that conversation with you if you'd like to have it), but our lawyer believes only our Governor candidate can achieve statewide ballot access. While this is not the only interpretation of the law, it is consistent with the language in law. With the possibility of spending thousands of dollars defending signatures for a candidate who possibly wouldn't even get us ballot access, we decided it was not a worthwhile endeavor. 3) Jesse's withdrawal allows us to appoint a new candidate if we would like to. That will be the responsibility of the new board to consider. There may be more details we can release later, but that's what I can tell you right now. Chase, Matt, Russ, Brett, and the rest of the new Board will be in touch with details as they become available. Finally, I'd like to thank everyone for their help and support in my term as Chair. It was not always easy, but each of you helped lessen the burden and made it more enjoyable. You can still reach me via email at stevesuess(a)gmail.com. I'm happy to help where I can. I'm not going anywhere - I was just elected the Chair of the McLean County Libertarian Party last night at our county convention. See you soon, Steve -- [image: facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/lpillinois> [image: twitter] <https://twitter.com/lpillinois> [image: linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-suess-16704928/> Steve Suess Chair, Libertarian Party of Illinois 815 483 4043 chair(a)lpillinois.org www.lpillinois.org PO Box 3611, Bloomington, IL 61702 <https://www.hubspot.com/email-signature-generator?utm_source=create-signatu…> <https://www.lpillinois.org/>

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Executive Director Report - July 2022
by Justin Tucker 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Fellow Libertarians - Happy birthday, Adam! I strongly the numerous inflammatory and unprofessional actions of New Hampshire Libertarian Senate nominee Jeremy Kauffman, which reflect poorly on Libertarians everywhere and jeopardize the electoral success of all Libertarian candidates. If you are not a recurring monthly donor to the LP Illinois, please visit www.lpillinois.org/donate to set. If you cannot donate monthly, please consider a one-time donation. Also please consider Lifetime Memberships. Thanks to all our donors, both new and recurring. We just paid for a petition drive and we need to rebuild the treasury. Become a donor today! If you are not a Precinct Committeeperson, please consider becoming one. If you are in an established county, start planning the next PC elections. Meanwhile, the information on https://lpillinois.org/precinct-committeemen/ should be updated. Thanks to everyone who participated in the collection drive. Whether you signed, circulated, validated, donated, or are a candidate for office, your contributions are greatly appreciated. I am looking forward to November. Thanks for making this possible! I turned in a total of 1345 signatures. I was over 10 pages short of my pledge, which I am disappointed I did not make. The GOP is actively filling vacancies in Cook County. We are likely to see three-way races. Keep an eye out for an email appeal. In the month of May, we brought in a total of $1774.10. In June, we brought in $1211.01. Now that I have more free time, I am going to audit my all time donations. 9 of the top 20 months for contribution aggregate have been since April 2021. I am seeking another term as Chair of the Cook County Libertarian Central Committee. I seek to institute a plan for 2024 Ward Committeeperson races, update our bylaws to better comply with IL law, and to fill vacancies in Cook County townships. Please vote for me if you plan to attend the CCLCC convention next Wednesday in Oak Park. Visit here for more details regarding the CCLCC convention: https://lpchicago.org/event/2022-cook-county-libertarian-central-committee-… I followed up with JB Pritzker's staffer, who I met at an LGBT rights rally. Still no reply. I shopped my op-ed around to several outlets. No reply or reply to follow up. I may modify the op-ed again now that we have turned in petitions and continue sending it to other publications. I attended a meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Neoliberal Project. Some members are LPIL members or sympathetic to the LP. Many of the attendees were fans of the land value tax, a policy prescription supported by LP Cook County Commissioner candidate James Humay, who was also at the same microbrew for a MC meeting. I encourage folks secure their Libertarian memorabilia in our archive at UIC to protect them from damage. Reach out to me about donations, as I just received instructions from our former archivist. I received a copy Professor McCloskey's book "Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich" with her autograph made out to the LP and plan to put into the archive. Thanks to Ken Mattes for his donation of music performed by the choir at the convention gala in Reno to the archive. Thank you for letting me serve you as Executive Director. Best, Justin Tucker Executive Director, Libertarian Party of Illinois

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June Treasurer's report
by treasurer＠lpillinois.org 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

General Account Ballot access budget -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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7/19/22 Agenda and Previous Minutes
by secretary＠lpillinois.org 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

All, Please see attached. Thanks! Brett

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Agenda Items
by Brett Ryan 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

All, please reply to this thread with agenda items and any corrections (I caught some grammar issues) from minutes previously emailed. Apologies; I got a promotion (good), but have been busy doing my old job and new job that includes traveling to DFW. The new me starts Monday, so I'll be back to good. Thanks! ⁣Brett Ryan

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Great work!
by Steve Suess 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Hello everyone, At this point, we're pretty sure all of our candidates survived the objection filing window. Thanks for everything you did. Have a drink and smoke em if you got em tonight. Campaigning starts tomorrow. We want to be absolutely sure there are no surprises, so keep it off social media for now. State party will post something tomorrow as long as we're clear. We did receive one objection, a singular objection to Jesse White. This was not an objection to the entire slate of candidates. We are waiting to see the details on it, but it's not from a name we recognize (good news). I doubt it's a line by line signature challenge. It's likely they're objecting based on bad arguments (i.e. fraud because of his name). We should be able to keep Jesse on the ballot fairly easily. I'll share more information when we know it. As a reminder, we have a call tomorrow night. Brett will send an agenda soon. It will be my last meeting as Chair, so try to make it an easy one for me! ;) Steve

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