The Libertarian Party of Michigan held its annual state convention today, March 9, at the Hyatt Grand Blanc in Flint, Michigan. 111 delegates were seated.
We have preliminary reports from Bill Hall and other attendees.
The convention refused to seat out-of-state persons as convention delegates. The Convention did, however, vote to reinstate as party members the four persons who are defendants in the LNC lawsuit, these persons having been put on trial and suspended from membership by the Chadderdon-led State Committee. These persons were by vote of the State Convention fully exonerated. A voting supermajority of the State Convention voted to remove Caryn Ann Harlos from the position of convention parliamentarian.
The convention voted to ratify and recognize the officers and board elected at the April 1, 2023, Lansing convention as the legitimate officers and board of the LPM. The LNC currently recognizes the faction led by Andrew Chadderdon as elected at the 2023 state convention held in Wixom, Michigan as the legitimate officers and board of the Michigan Party. The State Convention effectively removed the Chadderdon faction from its leadership positions.
The Convention voted to demand that the LNC dismiss its trademark lawsuit against 8 Libertarian Party of Michigan members.
The effect of the vote to recognize the April 1st 2023 Convention in Lansing was purely symbolic. The time for such an outcome was on July 15 2023 if those who attended yesterday had attended that one. I was present at that convention and it was conducted properly and was the most recent group of leaders elected (outside 3 vacancies that were filled).
Yesterdays Convention was announced and held under the bylaws adopted on July 15 2023.
Yesterdays vote on recognizing that leadership has one practical effect. It serves as evidence, in litigation, that the people elected in Lansing were not rogue or frauds, but have the support of the very party that the LNC recognizes as legit.
The unity resolution, along with the resolution to stop the lawsuit, will also show the courts that the LNC suit against the “Michigan 8” has no merit.
Scotty I don’t think you understand how court cases work. An invalid item of business is no proof and will likely irritate a judge and nearly the majority of delegates did not vote, left or were not in the room if the vote count of 37-23 is correct though there is also a delegate total of 116 and not 111 floating round.. 37 is not even close to a majority of either number, which would be 59 or 56. The party has hundreds of members who were given no notice of such an important vote which is exactly why it violates member rights since notice was primarily about national delegates. Many people just don’t care about a national convention they will not attend that would care about such an important motion. It speaks volumes that cheating seems to be the tactic. The case is a trademark case and the position is one of properly following the bylaws. Notice protects absentees yet you act as if an ambush motion for which there was no notice has any bearing. It does serve as evidence of further attempted games and potentially additional fraud. Whoever thought out this hare-brained scheme is a fool. A statement by those supporting fraud will be of zero interest to the court. It will show a willful disregard for your own internal processes and support the opposing side’s case. If the same people had bothered to show up to the April or July conventions last year they might have won legitimately. In fact if they showed up to April one there never would have been a suit which I think was filed after that. This is just a clear case of disregarding rules and thinking if enough people vote to disregard the rights of others it makes it okay. That sounds like our government. Show up in 2025 which are next elections.
And that did not happen. Once again this was a special convention at which only properly noticed items could be heard and there was not notice of any such motion which their JC already stated is a void action. Literally nothing has changed. Violating bylaws is not legitimate.
Absolutely correct. There may be a lot more to this story in the next 24 hours. Perhaps even more in the next week.
It was live streamed and, in fact did happen. Since the ExCom officially recognized by LPMI membership doesn’t recognize the JC to which you refer, their rulings aren’t taken into consideration. Interesting conundrum you have there.
someone should download the video before it gets deleted!
Done. No one is listening to the fraudsters.
No. It would appear that both you and Damian are.
There was also a state convention in Illinois. Our correspondent Joe Buchman reports that he just got off the phone with Bill Redpath. Joe reports: “LP IL did not fill its delegate allotment; did pass rules that to be an LP IL delegate one must be registered with both the national and state parties AND be a resident of Illinois, so will probably have some empty seats in DC. I believe Bill will chair the delegation. “
Didn’t their bylaws already say that? Why would they need to pass a rule? I thought IL was already a state that limited its delegation to IL residents.
I look forward to more details in the days to come. This sounds like a good result, at least thus far. I don’t pretend to be deeply versed in things, but the MI situation doesn’t seem to have followed the trajectory of some of the other controversies.