[LPL Board of Directors] Vote for Removal

[treasurer at lplouisiana.org]

To all State Central Committee members,

	The second quarter regular meeting of the Libertarian Party of Louisiana
State Central Committee will be held at Lakeview Harbor, 911 Harrison
Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana at Noon on Saturday April 13th, 2013.
Attendance by all Officers and Parish Representatives is required per the
Party By-laws. A working agenda is posted online on the Party website and
a final agenda will be issued seven days in advance of the meeting.  On
this final agenda you will see a section for an executive session where
the Committee will consider a disciplinary motion to remove Mr. Scott A.
Lewis, III from his office as Vice-Chairman of the Party for the
following charges and specifications:

	Charge 1. Dereliction of Duty of the Office of Vice-chairman
	Specification 1. Not being present for the convention at which he was
elected, and at which he was to serve as an officer, being already duly
elected by the previous convention.
	Specification 2. Not being present for the first State Central Committee
meeting, held in Alexandria, Louisiana, such attendance being required of
his office by the By-laws, his absence preventing a quorum, causing
members and officers to travel at great expense to themselves without
purpose.
	Specification 3. Not being present for a meeting of the Strategic
Planning Committee which he chairs, after calling the meeting, and
inviting members from other parts of the State to attend, causing them to
travel at great expense to themselves, and instead, attempting to chair a
physical meeting by telephone in violation of Robert's Rules of Order.
	Specification 4. Failing to make any attempt to establish Parish
Executive Committees for unorganized parishes as required of his office
under the By-laws, leaving the work instead to be done at great personal
effort and expense to the Executive Director, such work being outside the
Director's contract, and causing considerable difficulties in negotiating
agreeable payment terms for such contract.
	Specification 5. In the absence of established Parish Executive
Committees, failing to take care that the duties assigned to these
committees are carried out in their respective parishes, either by his
own actions, or by the appointment of a parish director, organizer, or
other member as the By-laws require.

	Charge 2. Conduct Unbecoming an Officer of the Libertarian Party of
Louisiana.
	Specification 1. Failing to turn in his Affidavit of Acceptance form for
filing as a Presidential Elector.
	Specification 2. Failing to turn in his Affidavit of Acceptance form,
corrected version.
	Specification 3. Failing to communicate why said form was not turned in
the first time in a timely manner.
	Specification 4. Failing to communicate why said form was not turned in
at all the second time.
	Specification 5. Failing to display any concern for his tardiness in
turning in these critical forms.
	Specification 6. Failing to display any interest in securing the forms
before the legal deadline.
	Specification 7. Lack of concern for known deadlines affecting ballot
access for the Libertarian Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates.
	Specification 8. Causing the chair to go to great personal effort and
expense to remedy the officer's failure to file required legal paperwork
in a timely manner.
	Specification 9. Volunteering to be a co-director of a Presidential
campaign for Louisiana, and subsequently failing to accomplish any task,
attend any function, offer any assistance with any planning or
coordination of events, and essentially holding the position in name
only.
	Specification 10. Making false and baseless accusations of racism against
a fellow state Central Committee member.
	Specification 11. Making an announcement for elective office in a public
forum without advising the State Central Committee in advance, thereby
raising questions among the general membership and the voting public with
respect to the Libertarian Party's implied endorsement of his candidacy,
and drawing their leadership into question accordingly.
	Specification 12. Failing to form an exploratory committee in advance of
this public announcement, making the announcement without any established
campaign committee, platform, or ready biography for prospective voters
and media.
	Specification 13. Failing to provide any such platform or biographical
statement upon the request of prospective voters, Officers and other
party members.
	Specification 14. Filing for elective office in 2011 and failing to duly
answer media inquiries, creating a poor impression on voters and media of
the Libertarian Party, its candidates, and its leadership.

	Charge 3. Unethical Conduct
	Specification 1. Attempting to get reimbursed for the notarizing of an
Affidavit of Acceptance form in 2008, such cost, incidental to being a
candidate for elective office, being only legally payable by the
candidate or a candidate's committee, and which cannot be paid by the
Party.
	Specification 2. Attending a 2009 Libertarian State Leadership Alliance
conference, in the Chairman's proxy, at Party expense, for the purpose of
learning more about the new CiviCRM online database system, but instead,
using the opportunity to pitch a dubious fundraising scheme to other
state chairs in concert with a personal business partner who made the
trip, also at Party expense.
	Specification 3. Soliciting the LPL to enter into an expensive and poorly
worded contract to raise funds for the Party through a 3rd party via the
selling of medical information devices, this being the same scheme
pitched at the aforementioned conference, and one in which he has
personal connections to the 3rd party which would profit from the
contract.
	Specification 4. Attempting to get reimbursed for travel expenses as a
condition of fulfilling duties of his office. (traveling to a and from
State Central Committee meetings)
	Specification 5. Seeking reimbursement for travel and lodging to attend
the NAACP 2012 convention as a “liaison” to that organization and
representative of the Party.
	Specification 6. Soliciting the Party and a Congressional candidate to
use his personal business services at expense to the Party and the
Candidate.
	Specification 7. Using a Strategic Planning Committee meeting to solicit
the party again to use these same services.
	Specification 8. Using a Strategic Planning Committee meeting to solicit
volunteers and support from party activists and officers for his campaign
for elective office, rather than using the meeting to plan strategy for
the Party.
	Specification 9. Attempting to involve the Party in an electronic
communications scheme which would expose its contact list to his personal
business interests.
	Specification 10. Has on numerous occasions, solicited interest in
holding media events, concerts, festivals et cetera, which would not in
any way be publicly linked to the Party, but which would be partly or
entirely funded by the Party, in exchange for a share of the proceeds of
such events, if any.  In all of these events, personal friends and
himself, were to also profit.
	Specification 11. Attempting to divert discussion at a State Central
Committee meeting concerning online donation logistics towards using his
personal contacts or himself as “bundlers” for Party funds.
	Specification 12. Attempting to attend a private fundraiser for a
Presidential Campaign without making a required donation and while
inviting a guest who also would not make a required donation, thus each
of them partaking of access to the candidate and party activists and of
food and drink provided, without contribution.

	This notice is given by order of the By-laws of the Libertarian Party of
Louisiana, Article 15 § 2.

	The session proceedings will be held strictly according to Robert's Rules
of Order, Newly Revised, in particular, §61 Disciplinary Procedures, for
the protection of the Party and the fairness of the accused.

	A committee to be appointed by the Chairman, shall investigate these
charges and specifications, and present these charges along with any
witnesses or evidence to the Committee for its consideration.

	A full briefing on the exact flow of the proceedings, and the rights and
responsibilities of all involved, shall be issued along with the final
agenda.

	Per §61 of Robert's Rules of Order, Mr. Lewis' membership privileges
(excepting those pertaining to these judicial proceedings), and thus his
status as an officer of the Party, are suspended until the conclusion of
the trial.



Reed Ebarb, Secretary