[LPIL - Board of Directors] March BoD Meeting

Sat Mar 18 13:17:25 EDT 2023

In response to Jakes email, to say that I have held the interests of the
Mises caucus above the local, state and National party is ridiculous. A
major libertarian focused is event is coming to Chicago. Regardless of
which caucus or faction is hosting, I feel it is important for LP Chicago
to have a presence there and it presents an opportunity to grow party
membership, which is my main goal. A proposal was made, voted on and
passed. The case can be made that those that are refusing to comply with
the will of the chapter are putting personal and caucus interests ahead of
what is good for the LP Chicago and the Libertarian Party in general, not
the other way around. Removing my nomination from the Deputy Director role
also puts personal feelings ahead of what is good for LPIL. I urge Jake
Leonard to reconsider.

Jim Humay
Libertarian Party of Illinois
State Central Committee Rep - District 7

Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 10:38 AM Jake Leonard via Lpil-bod <
lpil-bod at lists.lpillinois.org> wrote:

> 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*
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>
> 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
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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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