Courtesy of one of our fine sources, we are able to supply you with a copy of the LP Mises Caucus plans for the 2024 National Convention. For platform changes, note in particular proposals to eliminate the current sex worker immigration planks.
They anticipate potential credentialing challenges in Michigan, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.
They say ‘always vote against motions to extend debate’. Calling the question will be tactical.
They assert that Larry Sharpe is ineligible to run as Lars Mapsted’s VP candidate, because he is currently a stand-in candidate and, under post-2008 Bylaws, a stand-in candidate cannot be elected as a nominee.
They note 15 proposed bylaws changes and stands on each of them. The opposition to Ranked Choice Voting — blocks bargaining between rounds — is particularly positive. Barring writeins in convention elections also sounds good, given how the write-in process was abused last time.
No helicopters?
Some of the platform changes make sense. Some don’t. The space plank proposal, for example, is incomplete. As stated: “We oppose all government restrictions upon voluntary, peaceful use of outer space.” That runs the risk of turning into a tragedy of the commons. Nothing about privatizing anything in space, no way to regulate space junk, etc.
I’m surprised there is nothing about AI.
That is a carryover from 2022.
-Michael Seebeck, Platform Committee Chair
Yikes! From that document: “This proposal is an explicit endorsement of transgender ideology, which is part of an ongoing communist social revolution that libertarians should oppose.”
This is yet more evidence that the Mises Caucus is run by paleo-conservatives instead of libertarians.
They also want to delete the Sex Work & Free Trade and Migration planks from the platform.
Yes, also horrible. The reason I highlighted the anti-trans rhetoric was we already knew the appointed platform committee had a number of bad proposals making the platform substantially more conservative, but it is new information that Mises is opposing the platform committee in the one area they leaned socially tolerant.
The document is mistaken when it says in the “Larry Sharpe” section that the Green Party was removed from the ballot in 2020 in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin because the Green Party didn’t follow its own bylaws. The 2020 removals of Howie Hawkins and his running mate in those two states had nothing to do with Green Party bylaws. Hawkins was removed from the Wisconsin ballot because his running mate moved during the petition drive and so the address for her on the petition was incorrect. He was removed in Pennsylvania because his campaign faxed some documents to the state elections office instead of bringing them on physically.