Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 07:12:55 -0700
From: ban@igc.org ("Richard Winger")
Subject: [lpaz-discuss] LP national press release
To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
I want to defend the national LP press release about the history of what
happened in Arizona in 2000 concerning the presidential race. What happened
in Arizona in 2000 was similar to what happened to the Democratic Party in
Alabama in 1964 and in 1968. The Democratic national convention tose years
didn't seat the delegates from Alabama. So the Democratic Party of Alabama
refused to list the presidential candidate chosen by the national
convention. LBJ wasn't on the ballot at all in Alabama in November 1964,
and in November 1968, Hubert Humphrey only appeared as a minor party nominee
in Alabama. And the press all reported this, in very similar terms to how
the LP national office reported what happened in Arizona. It is indisputed
that the national convention of the Libertarian Party chose Harry Browne.
Therefore, any state unit of the Libertarian Party which didn't list Browne,
"splintered" from the national party's choice. Furthermore, delegates from
the LP of Arizona did attend the Anaheim convention and were seated from
states like Pennsylvania.
It's traditional in this country that all the state units of a national
party, respect the choice of the national convention, as to the presidential
candidate. It's just common language, common ways of describing things, to
use "splinter" for those rare occasions when the national choice for
president is rejected by a state party.
The Arizona LP chose L. Neil Smith tentatively on August 6, 2000. The
Arizona LP didn't turn in his name to the Secretary of State until the
deadline, September 6, to give the national committee a chance to recognize
itsstate officers. If the national LP had recognized the state officers,
Browne would have been listed instead. So, at the time the Az LP chose
Smith tentatively, it still considered itself affiliated with the national
LP.
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