[LPIL - Board of Directors] March BoD Meeting

Sat Mar 18 11:38:11 EDT 2023

All,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I hereby withdraw my motion as of 10:38 a.m. CDT on Saturday, March 18, 
2023.

Respectfully,

*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
*Mobile*: (217) 565-9709 <tel:2175659709> | (217) 565-9273 
<tel:2175659273> || *Work*: (217) 569-4230 ext. 700 <tel:2175694230,700> 
| (217) 718-5281 <tel:2177185281> || *Fax*: (217) 717-8079 <tel:2177178079>

On 3/17/2023 10:44 AM, Ken Mattes wrote:
> 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!
>>
>> 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
>>> 800 Capps Ave. | Nokomis, IL 62075-1415
>>> Mobile: (217) 565-9709 [1] | (217) 565-9273 [2] || Work: (217)
>>> 569-4230 ext. 700 [3] | (217) 718-5281 [4] || Fax: (217) 717-8079
>>> [5]
>>>
>>> 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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