From Darryl W. Perry (also a candidate for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination) at the New Hampshire Liberty Party website:
The NH Liberty Party, formed in September 2012, held its third annual convention during the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in Manchester, NH. The 2015 Annual Convention was well attended, with a total of 15 attendees, 8 of whom were party members.
Party members voted to officially make a single change to the party bylaws, which allows the co-chairs of the party to make grammatical changes to the bylaws without need for adoption of amendment. The intent of the bylaw modification was to correct a single spelling error within the bylaws. The bylaws change was adopted unanimously.
Party members also elected a new State Committee. Four candidates were nominated for the three co-chair seats. Co-founders Ian Freeman and Darryl W. Perry were re-elected with 8 votes, Conan Salada was elected to a seat he once held with 7 votes, and Howard Wilson received 2 votes. The new State Committee would like to thank Jason Denonville for his year of service on the State Committee.
Correct.
That’s something we’ve discussed before, and somebody mentioned that a few states had appeared on the ballot as “Liberty” before (and that it didn’t make much difference.)
Personally if were starting from scratch, I’d go with Liberty Party, with the word Libertarian still used as grammatically appropriate (i.e. “Libertarians are members of the Liberty Party.”) But that ship sailed in 1971, and I’ve been told by some that it sounds so generic and vague as to be somewhat off-putting, as if we were trying to hide what we stood for behind a fuzzy weasel word (cf. “Freedom Party”)
A bit of historical trivia. One of the people involved in The Committee to Organize a Libertarian Party, headed by David Nolan in 1971, told me that the original idea was to call the new party “The Liberty Party” in the hopes it would have a wider appeal. The decision to name it The Libertarian Party was a result of comments made by many who responded to the early mailings sent out by the Committee.
PS
I was attempting to petition as a Libertarian Party candidate last year, and also petitioning to get the Libertarian Party candidates on the ballot!
“Does the NH Liberty Party ever put anyone on the ballot with its own label at all?”
No candidate has appeared on the ballot under the NH Liberty Party label, however there have been a few candidates in non-partisan city elections in Keene, NH
They’ve only had two candidates so far as I know – Freeman for Governor, Perry for State Rep.
Freeman ran as a Democrat, and then tried to insist that his 1,719 votes he got (4.1% in a primary where the incumbent got 94%) was a more impressive “third party” result than the previous Libertarian candidate for Governor, who got 19,251 votes in the general election (2.8%).
Perry attempted to petition onto the ballot as Liberty Party, didn’t get the required 150 signatures, and so ran as a write-in.
Does the NH Liberty Party ever put anyone on the ballot with its own label at all?
Chris Cole – according to “Elements of Style” by Strunk & White, it is ok in English to split an infinitive. “Elements of Style” is widely considered the definitive English language style book, so when Captain Kirk announces the 5 year mission – “to boldly go” – it is acceptable according to Strunk & White.
In other New Hampshire news, Chris Cantwell put out a piece about why he’s rejoining the Libertarian Party, specifically citing LPNH’s dysfunction as something he hopes to turn around, and doing a decent job of defending the role the LP plays in the broader libertarian movement.
I’m sure reactions to that will be mixed. This is the guy who was officially kicked out of the Free State Project, ostensibly for advocating cop-killing, though really because he’s a provocative asshole (his own word!) who had a history (or so I’m told, I wasn’t there) of disruptive and/or anti-social behavior at the Liberty Forum and PorcFest. All the same, if he helps bring a bit of energy and vitality back to LPNH, that can’t be a bad thing. I just hope he manages to be a little less divisive, but from my impression of him that’s not terribly likely.
http://christophercantwell.com/2015/03/08/i-rejoined-the-libertarian-party/
The Party members had three *hours* notice of the location? HTe Judicial Committee said that there was not notice?
I believe the answer to Mr Flood’s reasonable question about Mr. Perry and the New Hampshire Liberty Party is that the position that the LPNH has odd functioning is well taken.
As I understand it Darryl Perry is also the Vice Chair of the NH Libertarian Party.
Here is what he posted on the open thread:
minutes of 2015 Libertarian Party of NH convention:
3p Secretary, 2 members of the Judicial Committee and 1 other LPNH member arrived at meeting location.
305p Secretary asked judicial committee if proper notice was given for the convention – the date had been set with 30 days notice; however the time and location had not been announced until 3 hours before convention. Judicial Committee stated that proper notice was not given.
310p Chair arrived, stated convention would proceed
A few other members arrived, and the location was changed within the hotel. A total of 9 LPNH members attended the convention.
315p Convention began with statement by the chair.
John Babiarz asked Rich Tomasso about the lawsuit
Rich Kahn mentioned that he would be willing to work with the new Exec to get things brought to speed
Darryl motioned to amend the bylaws to allow for resignations by officers, Brian Chabot seconded
passed without objection
Darryl motioned amend constitution to specify that the party must have a convention annually, Tom Kershaw second
passed without objection – to be ratified next convention
amendments from previous convention (wording about domicile & residency) adopted without objection
Darryl proposed a state party platform
platform proposal tabled
officer nominations:
Darryl – Chair
Rich T. – Chair
Brian Chabot – Vice Chair
Tom Kershaw – Treasurer
John Babiarz – Judicial committee
Rosalie – Judicial committee
Motion was to have Rich T. remain chair of the party until the lawsuit, Darryl to seek the Vice-Chair seat until the next convention. Brian Chabot then withdrew from the Vice Chair seat to run for Membership Committee Chair; Darryl withdrew from Chair race to run for Vice Chair.
slate elected:
Rich T. – Chair
Darryl – Vice-chair
Brian Chabot – Membership Committee Chair
Tom Kershaw – Treasurer
John Babiarz – Judicial committee
Rosalie – Judicial committee
new officers elected by acclamation
Rich T. says we should again bring back quarterly meetings of the Executive Committee
Darryl to chair Platform Committee – to seek members for committee
Brian Chabot volunteered to be on committee
Judicial to find a third member
need members in Membership Committee
motion to adjorn at 424p
@AC – the Libertarian Party had members run as candidates in the GOP primary because the ballot access requirements in NH are horrible.
@SF – the LPNH is in shambles. I honestly hope that the state party can turn around and find people to be active in the party. I also believe that the few who are active are not promoting certain issues. While I was a co-founder of the NHLP, it was not my idea to form the party.
re:2016 campaigning
I don’t advocate one party over the other, I find them to be complimentary not competition.
Is…why does Safari remove words? Argh!!!
That what I would expect Perry to do. Eight members is a “well attended” state convention? This is all for his personal ego.
So… Perry is seeking the Libertarian nomination while actively promoting a direct competitor to one of our state affiliates? If he’s the nominee, while campaigning in his home state would he be encouraging voters to join the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, or this other party that runs its candidates in the Democratic primary?
It’s funny that the sentence referring to co-chairs making grammatical corrections itself contains a grammatical error. Specifically, it contains a split infinitive: “to officially make” should be “officially to make.”