According to LP News, LP state conventions are taking place this weekend in FL, IN, OH, AK and WV. [Update: VA also had a special convention]
Liveblogging from any of these, after the fact reports, links to coverage elsewhere (including social media accounts), or links to videos or photos from any of these welcome in the comments.This will be the last of the weekends with multiple state LP conventions for the rest of the year, although there are a few more scattered throughout the year.
https://www.facebook.com/JasperLPIN/videos/1467198199968698/
Libertarian Party of Jasper County Indiana
May 7 at 10:05am
The Libertarian Party of Jasper County Indiana appreciates the LPIN Convention Committee’s excellent work organizing the 2017 Convention in Evansville, IN. And extends special thanks to Lindsay Horn for her outreach efforts that brought in a great deal of press coverage!
The video shown was aired on WEVV, channel 44 News in Evansville. Jeff Goldberg 44News put together this video presentation that very well represented the LPIN and our convention on what was a tremendously busy news week-end in Evansville. Thank you Jeff your time and interest in the LPIN is also greatly appreciated.
Congratulations to the newly elected LPIN Leadership team!
Chairman: Timothy J. Maguire
Vice-Chairman: Rodney Benker
Secretary: Frank Rossa
Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
“OH!
And Thomas Knapp lost an ad hoc election to the LP platform committee to a “constitutional conservative” who once told me, “anti-racist is code for anti-white. (Frank Caprio)”
“Anti-racist is code for anti-white” is code for “Hi, I’m a racist, fascist piece of shit.”
BAN on VA:
http://ballot-access.org/2017/05/07/virginia-libertarian-party-nominates-for-governor/
https://palmbeachfreepress.com/2017/05/08/libertarian-party-of-florida-2017-convention-wrap-up/
The vlog Sharpe went on is called the Mad American Network. That group was with Invictus in Harrisburg, PA and at least one member was seen sieg heiling there.
My anonymous source is still messaging me..
“Oh, and by the way – no pretend antifa protesters showed up, of course.”
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2017/05/lpf-convention-recap-first-pass.html
“He’s from the LP of Orange County.” (Orlando area, same as Invictus -p).
“OH!
And Thomas Knapp lost an ad hoc election to the LP platform committee to a “constitutional conservative” who once told me, “anti-racist is code for anti-white. (Frank Caprio)”
“Oh, and our gubernatorial candidate denied Stanton a mic for a privileged motion, so that he could procedurally kill a pro-immigration platform plank without letting it be read.”
Anonymous report from Florida:
“There were people yelling white power.
larry sharpe went on an alt-right vlog by Ryan Ramsey.
Invictus chased someone out of a courtesy suite with threats of violence.
Invictus was then pushing Stanton trying to pick a fight.
There was loud applause of his speech where he hijacked our convention for five minutes, then just bragged about it.”
Indeed, it is. Are the people who held out a slim hope that the fascist entryism problem could be solved by the LP state convention going to revive calls for national disaffiliation now that the state convention has happened and the nazi entryism/infiltration problem has only worsened?
I see the known neo-nazi collaborator an Invictus supporter Marcos Miralles is the the LPF Chair:
http://archive.is/GHQ8G
A sad day for Liberty
https://palmbeachfreepress.com/2017/05/07/florida-libertarians-elect-new-chairman-finish-convention-later-today-in-cocoa-beach/
In news from farther away
Bravo! for the newly established
Partido Libertario Cubano!
(Libertarian Party of Cuba)
A heroic effort where the political situation is far more dangerous.
VA – Cliff Hyra nominated for Governor
Bill Redpath elected Vice-Chairman
Rick Caldwell elected Secretary
Matt Cholko appointed to Platform Committee
Somebody that I cannot remember appointed to Credentials committee
We do not normally hold conventions in odd numbered years, unless we have a candidate to nominate. This year, since we have a governor candidate, we used the convention as an opportunity to fill some vacancies on the State Central Committee, and to elect, rather than have the SCC appoint, our representatives on those national committees.
I believe the 3rd candidate for the Director At-Large 1 spot was: Steven Nekhaila
trying to spell as I was listening, and found someone on the LPF Leadership who I believe was the person mentioned in that race
just listened:
Chair: Augustus Invictus jumped in race, gave a speech then withdrew
Marcos Miralles defeated Char-Lez Braden & Zachary Silva
Vice Chair: Omar Recuero re-elected over Dana Moxley-Cummings
Director At-Large (slot 1): Allison Foxall defeated Tom Knapp & Steven Nihilla (sp?)
Director At-Large (slot 3): Greg Peel defeated Rob Tolp (sp?)
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-knpp-stir-podcast-cocoa-beach_6.html The text says results of officer elections are in there but they are not in the text. If anyone gets a chance to listen (or knows from other sources) before I do please post them here.
Knapp has some updates from FL. http://knappster.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-knpp-stir-podcast-cocoa-beach.html No time to listen to the audio now for me, but there’s likely to be more in the audio than the print. Caryn Ann is in Alaska signing up new national members. She says she can see Russia from there. Gotta get back to work myself but hope to hear more from those of you who are at the various conventions this weekend.
If you get a chance please let us know how those go and whatever other details you can provide.
Had cocktails with Thomas Knapp yesterday, DInner with Paul Stanton last night, no violations of the NAP were recorded… We all had a great time, and I am really enjoying my time hanging with the FL Libertarians!
Chair, Vice Chair, and at large are being voted on right now in FL…
Sincerely,
Steve Scheetz
Virginia has a special convention too.
But I’ll be at the Pennsylvania state board meeting.
Indiana live feed
https://www.facebook.com/pg/LibertarianPartyIN/videos/?ref=page_internal
PEACE
Anyone here who can provide updates from any of these?