Document:LNC Minutes 11-12 August 1990: Difference between revisions

Givot  pointed  out  that  the Bylaws allow the  LNC to set  the date as late as June of the election year, said we've  all heard the arguments, said the process of getting laws changed in  various states will  take time,  and  called  on  the Committee to take action now rather than leave it to the next LNC.

Givot moved to set the nominating convention for  1996 as late as possible in 1996  and to authorize the Executive Committee to pursue negotiations or legal action in various states.

Discussion included the following points: Labor Day has been a problem for students and  maybe earlier in  the summer will be  better, having the convention in an odd year gets the party infighting over with well before the election,  it may be  difficult to  make  progress  in  the courts before 1996 because we won't have an actual case, there will be costs associated with  the court cases,  it may only be  necessary  to fight one court  battle and then  have the decision to apply  elsewhere, there is a  risk we could  not have our candidate on the ballot in all

states if we try this, we could switch back if it doesn't look like it has a good chance of working, an alternative would be to hold an extra convention during the  election year, having  our  nomination  process going  on  during  the  election  year  makes  our  candidates  more interesting to the  media,  and  an  election  year  convention  gives candidates more of an opportunity to demonstrate their campaigning and the option of using matching funds before we select them.