Posted by D.C. Libertarian Bruce Majors at the Insomniac Libertarian, “An anti-statist digest with news, events, aggregated links, original humor, and purloined articles of interest to libertarians, curated by Bruce Majors.”
Leaders of the Tidewater chapter of the Libertarian Party of Virginia endorsed another party’s gubernatorial candidate. But then one resigned and one apologized. But only after using LP mailing lists etc. to do the endorsement.
So the LPVA decided to de-certify or censure them. But then it turned out they had actually neglected to re-certify themselves anyway, as had every other local affiliate.
And they are about to have new elections early next year anyway for chapter officers.
Lots of unhappiness, largely along lines of who is or is not comfortable with Republicans, and who was previously a Democrat or a Republican. It seemed to me that although men and former Republicans were all over the map, gay guys and women were all upset with faux Libertarian Republican wannabees (even those gays or women who had previously been Republicans or even GOP officeholders).
Two people discussed the issue without taking a position on the motions: gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis and State Chair Chuck Moulton. After several hours of discussion, the LPVA state central committee chose to just wait for the next officer election of the local affiliate and see if the current officers aren’t all replaced.
can you blame him , something tells me my crush ,Jim Lark wont be either
I saw Chuck Moulton say on Facebook that he wouldn’t be running for re-election for state chair.
the audio sucks
Should the state party actively look for alternative officers?
Should the state party use its contact/membership lists to help get a good turn out at the local affiliate meeting that elects officers?
I didn’t watch the videos because they’re a bit too long, but based on Bruce’s description of what happened, it seems to me to be a no-brainer. An affiliate that endorsed another party’s candidate while a Libertarian was on the ballot should had been censured. Duh.
I would have pushed for immediate disaffiliation/reorganization. It is against our national bylaws to endorse a non-Libertarian-branded candidate in a partisan race. And it’s doubly-bad to do that in a partisan race where there’s a Libertarian-branded candidate.