* LIVE STREAM* 12/15/12 - Los Angeles County GOP organizational meeting

[eleganz]

This is my first crack at Live Streaming but I thought this was worth sharing with all of you. Feel free to mirror on DailyPaul and share on FB.

Link here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/laliberty

The meeting will commence at 9 AM (Saturday 12/15/12) but I am not planning to stream the beginning unless there are issues with credentials.

I am planning to be streaming the MAIN meeting approx 11 AM, which is nominating and electing the Chairman and the executive board of the L.A. county GOP.



Meeting Agenda:

The meeting agenda will be as follows:

9:00am

(1) Call to order by the outgoing Chairman or, in absence by the outgoing 1st
Vice Chairman

(2) Invocation - Stephen Smith

(3) Pledge of Allegiance - Errol Valladares

(4) Interim Report of Credentials Committee - Paul Fredrix, Chairman

(5) Oath of Office ceremony. Swearing in of new members by Senator Robert Huff

(6) Adoption of Temporary Rules, (i.e. existing Bylaws).

(7) Nomination and election of a Temporary Chairman. The Temporary
Chairman shall be a Member or Ex-Officio Member of the County
Committee. If there is more than one candidate for Temporary Chair, voting shall be by secret ballot.

(8) Appointment by the Temporary Chairman of a Temporary Secretary, Temporary Sergeant-at-Arms, Temporary Parliamentarian, and Temporary Chairmen and members of the following Committees.

(a) Credentials Committee, whose duties shall be to consider any
disputes regarding eligibility of Members, Ex-Officio Members, Alternates,
or Ex-Officio Alternates to vote at the Organizational Meetings, and to
make recommendations regarding same.

(b) Bylaws/Rules Committee, whose duties shall be to recommend for
adoption permanent Bylaws.

(c) Resolutions Committee, whose duties shall be to consider all
resolutions submitted by Members or Ex-Officio Members, and make
recommendations regarding same.

(d) Nominating Committee, whose duties shall be to recommend a
candidate for each County Officer position

(e) Any Other Committee as may be deemed advisable by the body.
Said Temporary Officers, Committee Chairmen, and Committee members
shall be Members or Ex-Officio Members of the County Committee

(9) Recess for caucuses of Assembly, Senate, and Congressional District
Committees solely for the election of officers and representatives as
provided for in Article XIV, Section 4; followed by continuing recess for
Temporary Committee meetings.

11:00am (approximately)

(10) Reconvene meeting to receive reports of Temporary Committees:
(a) Credentials Committee;
(b) Rules/Bylaws Committee;
(c) Resolutions Committee;
(d) Nominating Committee;

The report of the Nominating Committee shall be deemed a
nomination, but additional nominations may be made from
the floor. Only Members or Ex-Officio Members shall be
eligible to be nominated for County Officer positions.

(10) Election of a permanent Chairman, First Vice Chairman, Second Vice
Chairman, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer.
Voting shall be by secret ballot, except in the case of unopposed nominees.

(11) Report of tellers and declaration of results of election.

(12) Reports of any other committees.

(13) Appointment of Escort Committee for purpose of escorting new
Chairman to the podium.

(14) Adjournment.

[sailingaway]

Go get 'em!!

[eleganz]

3g Signal is weak here

The credentials committee report was accepted.

[eleganz]

I regret to report that we lost chair 74 to 72 and yes it was because our own ppl did not show up.

This is a great example to use for future meetings/conventions for our people to get there and represent. If you run a strong campaign on principle and our proven message, that is also professional and clean, people will take notice and vote with you. We (some of us) DID NOT sacrifice principle and we came an inch within winning the damn thing. Best part is, we went in with a little over 40 votes and out of 147, we came out with half.

So please use this example to get your numbers out.

Good news is we got 5 out of 7 in the executive board.


Maybe I will make a thread on this another day but for now, we' take what we got and keep moving forward.

[Bastiat's The Law]

I regret to report that we lost chair 74 to 72 and yes it was because our own ppl did not show up.
Damn.

[eleganz]

We ran a damn good campaign and won the swing vote like we wanted.

In this case liberty people screwed themselves by not showing up.

[Mr.NoSmile]

I regret to report that we lost chair 74 to 72 and yes it was because our own ppl did not show up.

Still a very close margin, but if'n things don't go the way our folks apparently want them, hopefully they buck up and accept that they didn't show up when it mattered and not just point fingers and say 'The establishment this' or 'The old GOP guard' that. If you had the chance to make a change, but didn't, no one to blame but yourself.

[Okaloosa]

I regret to report that we lost chair 74 to 72 and yes it was because our own ppl did not show up.

For those that worked hard and showed up thank you. The fact is that you could have won this and other races throughout the country could have been won if people actually showed up. Too many people would rather complain how Liberty supporters are being kept out and what not. Too many people would rather hate the GOP and convince people to give up, when we could be winning every single position if Liberty supporters actually showed up.

[Adrock]

Do they allow proxy votes? Just an idea for next time.

[eleganz]

Do they allow proxy votes? Just an idea for next time.

Yes alternates allowed but the real numbers we had simply did not show up.

[sailingaway]

Yes alternates allowed but the real numbers we had simply did not show up.
Ouch.

Well done on the exec.

[eleganz]

1 vote (EASY VOTE) for the tie. We could've won the tie because some voted establishment because they thought we couldn't win

[Bastiat's The Law]

For those that worked hard and showed up thank you. The fact is that you could have won this and other races throughout the country could have been won if people actually showed up. Too many people would rather complain how Liberty supporters are being kept out and what not. Too many people would rather hate the GOP and convince people to give up, when we could be winning every single position if Liberty supporters actually showed up.
I absolutely agree 100%

[FSP-Rebel]

Making gains on the Exec board is a big plus in my book tho it sucks to lose a chair vote that close but shows yall got clout. Unfortunately, excuses and laziness are all too prevalent in our camp especially in the off season. Wish there was a better way to mobilize the stragglers.

[eleganz]

I think I forgot to mention that there was at least one in our ranks that voted against us. Bunch of self serving pricks if I do say so myself.

If at least one person didn't stab us in the back we would've forced a re vote and most likely win the re vote my a larger margin than we lost by originally.

[sailingaway]

I think I forgot to mention that there was at least one in our ranks that voted against us. Bunch of self serving pricks if I do say so myself.

If at least one person didn't stab us in the back we would've forced a re vote and most likely win the re vote my a larger margin than we lost by originally.

frustrating, no question.