[LPIL - Board of Directors] March BoD Meeting

[Ken Mattes]

Received, thank you.

On 2023-03-15 18:39, Jake Leonard via Lpil-bod wrote:
> Whoops! I only replied back to Ken and didn't Reply All in this
> instance!
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> Jake
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> On 3/15/2023 6:38 PM, Jake Leonard wrote:
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>> 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
>> 800 Capps Ave. | Nokomis, IL 62075-1415
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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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Ken Mattes
Secretary, Libertarian Party of Illinois
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