[LPIL - Board of Directors] March BoD Meeting

[Jake Leonard]

Whoops! I only replied back to Ken and didn't Reply All in this instance!

Jake



On 3/15/2023 6:38 PM, Jake Leonard wrote:
>
> The Political Division is calling for the following agenda item for 
> our upcoming meeting on Tuesday, March 21:
>
> 1) Motion to appoint Jim Humay as Deputy Director of the Political 
> Division.
>
> *RATIONALE*: It is no secret that I've had difficulty getting 
> volunteers since then-Chair Bennett Morris appointed me to the role in 
> an interim capacity in early November 2019 before the Board of 
> Directors unanimously approved my official appointment a couple of 
> weeks later. I lost the majority of the division during the 
> transition, losing pretty much everyone with the exception of Kevin 
> Kauzlaric at the time, as Kevin and I were essentially running the 
> division without the active presence of a divisional director for 
> roughly 18 months.
>
> Then, for understandable reasons, Kevin had to step down. For the 
> majority of my first tenure as Political Director, the Division was 
> pretty much run by Campaigns Director Jon King (at least for part of 
> it) and Ballot Access Director Bill Redpath outside of myself.
>
> The fact that Jim reached out to me on February 20 meant something. 
> This is the third time in both of my tenures as PD combined that 
> someone has actually reached out to me about helping out in the 
> division (including the short time that I had Bennett as Legislative 
> Director, which was definitely appreciated at the time).
>
> I need to make up for lost time in the Division and having a Deputy 
> Director will help ensure that I can finish some unfinished business 
> that will better equip our candidates moving forward, not only local 
> but also statewide. We have eight established counties going into the 
> 2024 election cycle, four of which we would really need to retain our 
> status in this cycle due to not running countywide candidates in those 
> counties in 2022. We also have Congressional races exclusively within 
> Cook County, as well as General Assembly races where districts are 
> exclusively within Cook and Peoria counties to focus on, on top of our 
> lone statewide ballot campaign for the presidential race.
>
> *Jake Leonard*
> *Interim Chairman and Executive Director | ChrisMont Libertarian 
> Central Committee* (/Christian County, Montgomery County/)
> /*Congress*: 15/ | /*Montgomery County*: Illinois Senate 54/55, 
> Illinois House 107/108/110/ | /*Christian County*: Illinois Senate 
> 48/54, Illinois House 95/96/107/108/
>
> *Political Director | Libertarian Party of Illinois*
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>
> On 3/15/2023 1:48 PM, Ken Mattes via Lpil-bod wrote:
>>
>> I am calling for any agenda items for the Board of Directors meeting 
>> 3/21 at 7:30.

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