Resignation and Motion for National Credentials Rep

[Scott Peterson]

Dear SLEC,

I need to resign from my nomination as alt-credentials committee rep from TX, which ended up replacing Billy. I have a baby due in 6-7 weeks and I just realized an opportunity to take over the city council seat in my district. It's more beneficial if I focus on those. I originally ran with the intention of serving as a backup to Billy and to offer small support in the background. You can pull up the audio of my speech and at the end I said "don't vote for me". I was not expecting a 3rd person to show interest, so that's why I tried to pawn it off over to Aaron Ramos in my speech.

Because of Billy's and my resignations, I think we need a motion to elect a new credentials rep, and perhaps someone may want to amend to add another alt if there's interest. Anyway:
I motion to select Aaron Ramos as the National Credentials Committee Rep from TX.

 

[Andrew Amelang]

In the interest of everyone’s time management, please consider Scott’s post a request for co-sponsors and respond accordingly.

 

[Andrew Amelang]

Scott, let me know how I can help your local campaign!

 

[Paul Darr]

First, congratulations on the baby on the way. I’m genuinely impressed that you’re gearing up for a city council run so soon, that’s no small undertaking. I fully support the effort and hope you’ll soon be counted among our elected Libertarians.

I just had staff update the page and will have them refresh it again once this vote concludes. I will also cosponsor your motion to appoint Aaron Ramos.

 

[Nolan Schmidt]

@Scott Peterson Congrats on the little bundle of joy blessed to you by the good Lord above! Also, I am in full support for your city council run!

I will also co-sponsor your motion to appoint Aaron Ramos.

 

[Anastasia Wilford]

Have fun with the baby and the new position!

I co-sponsor

 

[Darren Pollok]

Scott, thank you for being a steadfast worker for the party, and best of luck in the council race.
I co-sponsor Ramos as the replacement.

 

[Darren Pollok]

And, derp, most of all congrats on the new addition to the Peterson family!!

 

[Kenneth Feagins]

Congratulations on the addition to the family, and thank you for all that you have done and continue to do. I wish you the best on your council run.

I co-sponsor the motion.

 

[Kyle Russell]

I will co-sponsor this motion

 

[Amanda Gibbs]

I will co-sponsor

 

[AaronRamos]

Congratulations on the growing family and good luck with the council race, Scott!

I'll accept the appointment as long as I can get a volunteer for an alternate so I don't have to be at every meeting. Please y'all I was expecting Billy to be first seat when I threw my name in the ring

 

[Andrew Amelang]

Okay, we have enough sponsors. What we need now is an alt.

I have a proposal: The vote is likely to close shortly after 48 hours if SLEC hustles. If someone wants to volunteer to be the alt, please say so below in this thread (let's keep all this together); make it easy on yourself and just hit Reply and let us know right now. Please do this within the next 48 hours, while the vote is running.

Anybody who doesn't want to be alt please feel free to reach out to folks you think would be appropriate and do a little recruiting. Let's see if we can find someone to back Aaron up.

When the vote here closes, we'll see where we stand. If we have a volunteer (or two), then we'll need someone to start a new thread proposing a motion and asking for co-sponsors to elect that volunteer or select between those volunteers. If we can't come up with a volunteer for alt, then Aaron declines or resigns or however we need to style that, and we all understand that was the deal. No harm, no foul.

Time to set up the vote....

 

[Andrew Amelang]

Go vote: https://forum.lptexas.org/index.php?threads/1109/

 

[Andrew Amelang]

REMINDER: Aaron needs an alt rep STAT. Please consider volunteering or recruiting someone to volunteer for this position.

 

[Jack Westbrook]

Can we do this immediately after we find out if Aaron’s nomination passes?

 

[Anastasia Wilford]

REMINDER: Aaron needs an alt rep STAT. Please consider volunteering or recruiting someone to volunteer for this position.

I'll do it,but I've never been on a platform committee and I'm a raging commie,so y'all might want someone else

 

[Jeff Miller]

I'll do it,but I've never been on a platform committee and I'm a raging commie,so y'all might want someone else

Well, this is credentials, not platform, so as long as your commie rage doesn’t make you throw people off the delegate list for not being commie enough then you’re fine.

 

[Anastasia Wilford]

Oh right. In that case,when I served on National Credentials last time, I voted not to recognize either Oregon delegation because when factions can't sort their shit out they can both suffer as far as I'm concerned, so take that for what you will

 

[Andrew Amelang]

Can we do this immediately after we find out if Aaron’s nomination passes?

Jack, I have to say I admire your persistence, but there is no nomination in play here. We have instead a motion to appoint a person to a position, an action entirely within the authority of this body, that will pass or fail over the next couple of days.

And there's no compelling reason to wait to start recruiting volunteers, whether that's my recruiting y'all or your recruiting others. As I stated above, we can start now reaching out to see if anyone else is even interested in this position (one so far). If only one is interested, I'll entertain a motion to appoint that one. If more are interested, we'll deal with that when/if it happens. Either way, because Aaron explicitly requested the support of an alternate, it seems to me we should mush forward and try to sort this all out as expeditiously as this body is capable of.