All in all, it was a pleasant and harmonious day. Not quite everyone got their way on everything but debate was rational and polite.
Credentialing was largely straightforward. Someone tried to sneak nine Michiganders, including Mr. Chadderdon, into the convention as New Mexico delegates. The bylaws require that any delegation must include at least one New Mexico delegate, but none were present, so their presence as delegates was rejected. Then someone tried to introduce a person as a New Mexico delegate, but it was observed that the person had attended the New Mexico State convention and specifically rejected as a delegate, so he was ineligible under state bylaws. The DC delegation, all two people, was ineligible for the same reason, a detail that needed later correction.
The agenda was adopted more or less as presented. We advanced to bylaws amendments. Many of them were rejected. Debate was civil at more or less all times. The floor’s two serious users of Roberts Rules of Order, Mr. Starr, and Ms. Harlos, both played polite and entirely positive roles in advancing debate. Our keen observer of the Mises caucus observed that they appeared to have lost more or less all votes on which there was plausibly a faction position.
The motion on honesty and use of titles for raising money by LNC members was discussed and found to need a bit more polishing. We return to that tomorrow. The motion on seasoning appeared to require that officers be sustaining members for at least two years before being elected. Note that bylaws debates on the live stream can be a bit obscure, so I may be in error.
There were a few negatives. Morning started an hour late. Afternoon started 20 minutes late. There were reports that the LNC had not paid for livestreaming, so there would be none, but in the end there was livestreaming. The two keynote speakers were Ammon Bundy and an advocate, so far as I could tell, for the Free State Project. Attendance was small a bit over 500. Mr. Martin was brought to order twice in a short period of time and warned that if it happened again the chair would ask the convention what should be done. [Addendum; Jeremy Kauffman spoke and was roundly booed until the national convention was brought to order.]
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