The Libertarian Party of Colorado will hold its annual state convention in Holyoke next month. The event marks a change from an earlier announced date and venue.
Members of the state party will now meet on the morning of June 28 at the Phillips County Event Center. Credentialing will begin at 8:00 AM local time, with the business session scheduled to start at 10:00 AM. 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.
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. There is no cost to attend the business session for those 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 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.