Last updated on January 9, 2024
[Editor: Readers should note that there are two Libertarian Party of Michigan groups now engaged in litigation over the validity of their claims to be that group. Each group has its own chair. Mr. Chadderdon is the chair of the group currently recognized by the Libertarian National Committee as its affiliate.]
Libertarian Andy Evans of Cheboygan, Michigan has publicly announced a motion to be voted on at the Michigan National Delegate Selection Convention:
Motion to amend the agenda at the National Delegate Selection Convention to include a vote of no confidence in regards to Chair Andrew Chadderdon:
Whereas, the meaning of fiduciary is trust and faith, I am here to show how trust and faith in the chair of our party has been lost.
All persons with fiduciary duty have a legal obligation to maintain trust and to act in the best interest of the Party. This is important, because these duties are meant to establish a high standard of care for the officers of this Party. They are meant to protect the entity from abuses of power and conflicts of interest.
A board member is considered to have breached fiduciary duty when they say or do something that was not in the best interest of the party that results in loss or damage.
There are 5 basic fiduciary duties:
Duty of care, Duty of loyalty, Duty of obedience, Duty of confidentiality, and Duty to disclose.
Duty of care.
There has been no actual strategic plan or goal setting. It took almost a year to set up a bank account for the party. Also, email was not addressed in a timely matter. Thus costing the party more money and setbacks regarding party notice, which is a basic part of member rights.
There has been no plan for fundraising to offset costs. Nor has there been a budget. The party is in debt and insolvent after owed bills are paid. We keep being told to wait for the plan.
Duty of Loyalty.
A member requested access to a tool for candidate outreach and was denied, thus damaging the relationship between the Party and the candidate. The chair directly stated that this access was not of importance. This member was also a member of the board. A lawsuit in which he is named as a defendant was taking up his time.
Duty to disclose.
Duty to disclose requires board members to be forthright in their speech and behavior. If they have information that would influence decisions or impact the decisions of other board members, they have a duty to make that information known.
Comerica Bank case. It was not made known to this board, nor to the members, that substantial happenings had happened regarding the status. On Oct 25th, the attorney represented the chair of the party withdrew from the case. Also, the case has a stay until the federal case has been dealt with
There was no notice to the board members, nor the membership of the party, regarding the resignation of the communication director. There was also no notice of opening sent to the membership.
When filling this position, the board was not informed of the job duties of this position to make an informed decision.
The IT position was left unfilled for many months and impeded emails which are important to member notice, thus ensuring the rights of the membership be upheld.Communications regarding the liability insurance, an issue which directly impacts all members of the board, were not immediately made available to the board. The Chair stated this issue has been bothering him for months, yet in our November meeting none of the officers of this Party were able to speak to the situation knowledgeably.
Therefore, I call upon the board to add to the convention agenda a motion of no confidence. At that time the membership can make the decision on this matter.
If the convention body votes in favor of this motion. The chair shall be removed and after the process of ascension elections shall be held for any new or existing LEC vacancies.
You don’t need notice for the call of no confidence. That’s one of the reasons I recommend years ago to removr it from the LPM bylaws. The bylaws say we can do it and doesn’t define what it is and correspondingly no where in Roberts. In such a case it’s far better to just put up with some asshole being chair till next year than to get caught up in arguments about who’s in charge.
Evenmoreso I have been an advocate of abolishing the Judicial Committee, the mere existence of such is an invatation for shenanigans. While I’ve seen such shenanigans attempted several times previously. Something like this was bound to be successful at some time. The JC appears to be an LP creation. The “no confidence” stuff is clearly taken from a parliamentary form of State government, like Canada, but I have been unable to find anything like the JC in any non-Libertarian organization, and certainly not in Roberts. There may have been some idea of a SCOTUS when the og Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) formed the LP after that organization was sutrofuged in the Ashes of Burnt Draft Cards but it’s never actually been helpful, the most famous decision by the national JC was them removing from the platform our Plank regarding the national debt as they ruled that giving large private banks anything other than all the money they expected was somehow a violation of the Statement of Prinlciples. Why libertarians say they want to shrink government but in practice keep creating more beuracratic forms of governance is beyond me.
Did you mean to misspell Chadderdon?
No.
What’s really funny is that Andy Evans, Dana Carver, and many others were on board with Mises, and Andrew as a leader. for a long time. In fact, Andy was constantly defending Andrew, the board, the JC decision. Now he sees the light, as do the others. Members of Andrew’s own board now want him gone. He just doesn’t care. He should have quietly bowed out when 2/3 of us voted no confidence in him in 2022. It’s only going to get worse until he goes away.
Unfortunately a lot of members won’t be able to sign the petition as Andrew’s committee has now suspended the rights of several members 2 to 4 years.
Then there’s members like me, who don’t recognize Andrew as Chair when we went to renew our membership, so we renew through the website that was ran by our 2/3rds elected board to avoid Andrew’s rogue board having access to our funds, so we’re not recognized as members to sign this.
The crazy part is the 2/3rd of the state party membership has been operating as the state party without a hitch, we still view it as one party and not once has the subject of suspending rights or removing county affiliates has come up even though some bad blood still exist.
Sadly, this is not being heard at convention at the moment.
I brought this motion to the board as a board member on the Chadderdon side. If it had won, it would be brought to convention.
As of now, there is a petition going around, but I fear we will not get the signatures in time as many do not want to renew their memberships under the Chadderdon board. Bylaws are a bitch.
I will not give up, as I fear that the LPM will not survive another year and a half under his chairmanship.