[LPL Board of Directors] Bayou Parishes

[Wes Benedict]

I'm going to be fine however the committee decides to handle this, 
though I lean slightly towards preferring to hold the official parish 
organizing elections within the parish. I think it would be perfectly 
fine to hold preparation meetings outside of the parish.

There are quite a few examples of groups holding meetings outside of 
their geographic districts. A few examples, LP California had it's 2011 
state convention just across the border in Nevada. In Texas they have 
precinct conventions, and often all of the precinct conventions are at 
one single place in a county.

However, our Chairman, in other emails, pointed out many good reasons 
why it's better to hold parish events within the parish if official 
elections will be happening.

If there's no law prohibiting it, I don't think it would be illegal or 
invalid to hold it in an adjacent parish. Just not as clean.

Things like this usually don't matter until there is a struggle for 
control. Plenty of Californians accused the planners of their 
conventions of deliberately making it hard for some others to attend so 
they couldn't vote. In fact, one year LP California held their 
convention off-shore on a cruise ship. Definitely failed the smell test.

--Wes Benedict



Adrien Monteleone wrote, On 2/22/2013 11:56 AM:
> The situation has been resolved, but I'd still like everyone's opinion 
> on the issue for the future if you have one.
>
> I think what settled the matter is that we aren't sure yet how holding 
> a combined caucus would look legally to the SoS and how that would 
> affect formal recognition of the PEC with the State.
>
> I'm also going to have to look into the procedure for getting these 
> PEC's recognized since the State doesn't handle their elections.
>
> As for the caucuses themselves, the details are being worked on right 
> now, and I will report back to you all when they are set, as well as 
> get them posted online.
>
>
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