The Libertarian Party of Colorado will hold its annual state convention in Holyoke next month, publishing a change from an earlier announced date and venue.
Libertarian Party members will now meet on June 28 at the Phillips County Event Center. Delegate credentialing will begin at 8:00 PM CT, with the business session portion scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM.
According to the posted call to convention, only current sustaining members of the state party and national lifetime members who have been registered Libertarians in Colorado for at least 90 days prior to the convention are eligible to serve as voting delegates. The business session is free to attend for credentialed delegates.
A preliminary agenda outlined in the call includes officer elections, proposed amendments to the party’s bylaws and platform, the consideration of resolutions, and any other business introduced from the floor. No information has been published as of this article about any scheduled guest speakers or social events.
The Libertarian Party of Colorado was originally scheduled to gather on May 31 at the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg; however, the date and location were suddenly changed sometime this month without a formal public explanation.
“Reliable rumor” has it? What kind of anonymous claptrap is that?
There are reports . . . regarded as some of the best in the party . . .
Who are you and what do you know about the history of the “LP’s founding affiliate?”
Paul Grant
LP Lifetime member
Regional Representative, LP National Committee, 1979 – 1980
LP 10 Chairman [of the 10th Anniversary LP National Convention, Denver, CO 1981]
Libertarian Candidate for Congress, 1980, 1984; LP Candidate for Governor of Colorado, 1982
LP National Chair, 1983-1985
Successful lead plaintiff in lawsuit challenging Colorado statute making it a felony to pay petition circulators, Meyer v. Grant, 486 U.S. 414 (1988), 9-0 Supreme Court decision finding that Colorado statute violated First Amendment protections for political speech
Law strudent and Co-plaintiff (1994) appearing pro se in Judd Ptak v. Colorado, Coloradon federal district court case where court protected Colorado LP’s right to continued ballot access
Successful lawyer in several other federal cases in various states, in which we persuaded courts to strike down unconstitutional election laws
The party was originally set to convene on May 31 at the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, but the date and location were changed earlier this month without a public explanation.
Reliable rumor has it that they incompetently screwed up the convention notice by neither putting the call to convention out to the national life members in the state nor publishing it in a daily newspaper for the state (Denver Post) as state law requires (CRS 1-4-1301(1)(h), also referenced in their bylaws!). So they compound the error and move it to a 2300-person hole in the wall that’s closer to Kansas and Nebraska than the population centers (175 miles from Denver, 240 miles from Colorado Springs, etc.) to discourage attendance and spike the Mises Caucus deck.
Plus there are reports that they wish to screw with the bylaws, regarded as some of the best in the party (and mostly copied by LP New Mexico!), because they get in the way of Mises Caucus dominance, disregarding the fact that they wouldn’t even be there if not for the efforts to make those into functioning documents over the past decade-plus.
It’s depressing how the LP’s founding affiliate has fallen so far into absurdity.