Coverage of LNC meeting from around the web

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BRIAN HOLTZ

The Apology Angela Should Offer

I Love The Smell of Whining In The Morning

Sundwall “Supposes Actual Transgression Is Also A Possibility”

Outright Libertarians Have A Time Machine

DELAWARE LIBERTARIAN

That Fightin’ Spirit:

Angela Keaton today had this pithy comment regarding her continued inquisition:
I will under no circumstances submit to any committee investigation.

Not with a bang, but a whimper…. Damn that Angela Keaton!

Because absudity is obviously foreign to registered parliamentarians….

GEORGE DONNELLY

Watching the San Diego LNC Meeting

Navigating the Keaton-LNC Brouhaha

TODD ANDREW BARNETT has provided some coverage at The Freeman Chronicles and Next Free Voice

KNAPPSTER

D+1: Situation report

Recap from bottom line perspective: We got a win by decision with an all but actually scheduled rematch … when we deserved, and should have had, a win by knockout.
Given that five of the LNC’s 17 members had voted to remove the witch trial of Angela Keaton from the agenda at the beginning of the meeting, and that only six votes would be needed to defeat the motion to suspend her later, the Starr clique was in trouble from the start.
Substitute Grand Inquisitor (None of the Starr clique’s principals were going to personally expose themselves on a project as speculative as this one) Stewart Flood’s presentation of “charges” and “evidence” against Ms. Keaton came off as the clown show it was. Accounts from on the spot describe open laughter from the audience and a public near-nervous-breakdown on the part of Flood himself.
Keaton acquitted herself quite well, speaking in her own defense, according to the descriptions I received. She denied the LNC’s authority to dictate what opinions she would express or how she would express them, or to abuse “executive session” with impunity for the purpose of facilitating the Starr clique’s attacks on her. Wish I could have been there to see and hear it.
Seeing that a vote to suspend on the “charges” and “evidence” as a whole clearly wouldn’t pass, another clique lackey, Dan Karlan, attempted to divide the matter into 11 separate questions, hoping for enough votes on any one of those questions to achieve the goal of suspending Keaton. Apparently that was a little too openly Vyshinskyist even for Keaton’s opponents.
We had them on the ropes. An up-or-down vote on suspension would have failed and the matter would have been closed with the Starr clique prostrate and bleeding on the mat … and then Michael Jingozian jumped in and (incidentally? Intentionally? I don’t know) saved the clique’s bacon with a substitute notion (which passed) to refer the matter to a committee.
There are now two future possibilities: The thing will be allowed to die in the dark, reducing its negative impact on the clique’s image, or it will be brought back at some point when the clique thinks it has the votes to win on a suspension resolution. Either way, the clique managed to get out of a broken-jaw-and-concussion situation with no more than a broken nose and black eye.
Dammit.
Keaton’s still playing it smart. She’s already issued a one-sentence statement: “I will under no circumstances submit to any committee investigation.” If these bastards want to take her down, she’s going to do everything she can to force them to throw their punches in public for all to see. But this thing is still not over.

Knapp goes on to suggest that states represented by Stewart Flood and Dan Karlan attempt to replace them on the LNC. Flood represents Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Knapp says that three of these states passed pro-Angela resolutions, but I am only aware of two (Tennessee and Georgia). The Alabama executive committee meets December 13; contact information is here and here. On the second page, only those having the title “district chair” are voting members of the committee. Contact information for the other states can be found on their websites, linked at http://www.lp.org/states. Karlan represents Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Knapp also says that “Now’s the time for good candidates for Chair, Secretary and Treasurer to make some hay.”

Knapp also has a start of meeting analysis as well.

Our previous coverage

Mike Seebeck: LNC video recordings

LNC meeting comment thread

Michael Seebeck broadcasting from LNC in San Diego

LPNY Chair Sundwall to national LP: if Keaton is suspended, potential secession of affiliates may be ‘reasonable and with proper cause’

Massachusetts LP passes resolution supporting Keaton

Florida LP passes resolution to LNC to remove Keaton discipline discussion from meeting agenda

Outright Libertarians: ‘The only openly LGBT member of Libertarian National Committee needs your help’

Tennessee LP passes resolution against LNC’s proposed Keaton suspension

Mike Seebeck: Georgia LP passes resolution against LNC’s proposed Keaton suspension