Thing One: Livestream, when/if available ...
Thing Two: Resources ... Libertarian Party YouTube Channel | dedicated thread at Independent Political Report | PDF of the purported "Strategic Action Plan" from the Mises PAC, a Republican "infiltrate and neuter" operation attempting to take over the party at the national level to protect the GOP. They implemented some of that action plan yesterday, including replacing the agenda with one of their own.
Thing Three: Live updates, in reverse chronological order, below whenever I notice something happening that I think is worth passing on. Probably not as comprehensive as yesterday's, but we'll see.
Thing Four: By all means, feel free to offer your own opinions on events (and any news updates you might get scoop on) in comments.
LIVE UPDATES BELOW
7:12pm -- Smith beats NOTA 66.26% to 32.08%. Convention recesses until 9am tomorrow.
6:35pm -- Smith 48.75%, Raudsep 44.69%. Next ballot: Smith versus NOTA. Vote to adjourn until morning fails.
5:18pm -- Second ballot vice chair results. Smith 44.74%, Raudsep 40%, Hauptmann 4.64%, screen cut, but Smith and Raudsep will be the only remaining two candidates due to a suspension of the rules.
5:08pm -- Orders of the day called after the usual orgy of parliamentary fuckery (including Alicia Mattson saying that a footnote in RONR overrules the bylaws) . Chair trying to get through the votes involved, "point of order" or "point of information" every three seconds from literally every delegate who's three double bourbons deep in inattention, etc.
4:23pm -- Vice chair vote totals. Donald Trump loses. Again. As a write-in candidate. So does Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, and dead gorilla Harambe. Smith 38.17%, Raudsep 35.43%, Hauptmann 7.41%, Flores 5.18%, Thrasher 4.37%, and then they cut the screen. D'Orazio eliminated. Goes to a second ballot. Starr tries to suspend rules to allow multiple candidates to be eliminated.
4:04pm -- Note to self: Jo Jorgensen is really not a very good public speaker. Just sayin' ...
3:09pm -- Voting to commence. 2020 LP presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen will speak while votes are counted.
2:27pm -- Nominations for vice chair. Joshua Smith, Eric Raudsep, Tony D'Orazio, Christopher Thrasher, Joe Hauptman (sp?), Alex Flores. This is the only officer race without a Mises PAC nomination. The PAC originally supported Eric Raudsep. Then Joshua Smith whined about that. Then Raudsep made the mistake of publicly wishing former LNC chair Joe Bishop-Henchman a happy birthday and got dragged big-time in the PAC's fever swamps. So no Mises PAC endorsement. No prediction here, unless one of the speeches really impresses the delegates.
2:23pm -- Hagopian wins treasurer with 76.07% of the vote.
1:38pm -- Nominations for treasurer. Tim Hagan and Todd Hagopian.
1:35pm -- back to order. Sober Caucus has a suite for people struggling to get away to.
Also Noon -- I had to be outside for a few minutes, and only just now see that Harlos won the secretary election with 70% of the vote.
Noon -- Hall of Liberty inductees: Don Ernsberger, Geoff Neale, and Dave Walter. Jim Lark doing the introductions, etc. Lunch break until 1:31pm.
11:25am -- Voting for secretary under weigh. Maybe doing awards, etc. while votes are counted. Lunch coming up soon.
11:01am --
11:00am -- Nominations for secretary. Caryn Ann Harlos v. John Wilford.
10:54am -- Chair vote totals: McArdle 692, Dabach 151, D'Orazio 103, NOTA ? (I had 995, but that was clearly wrong), two write-ins (Adam Kokesh and Tiffany Deleon).
10:52am -- Just a note: I think Spike Cohen may be the party's best public speaker since Jacob Hornberger in his heyday (e.g. the 1998 national convention keynote).
10:20am -- After a bunch of wrangling over whether NOTA gets a nomination speech, voting appears to be under weigh, and Spike Cohen will probably be giving his speech.
9:35 -- Scott Horton's nomination speech for Angela McArdle is too good not to embed separately.
9:20am -- Nomination speeches.
9:15am -- Scott Horton publicly defiles himself by nominating Angela McArdle for chair. Jessica Etheridge nominates Steve Dasbach for chair. Tony D'Orazio nominated, I didn't catch by whom. Nominations closed.
9:06am -- Livestream up, convention preparing for chair election. Moellman presiding.
9am -- No livestream yet as the business session should be opening.
8:26am -- A source of mine on-site tells me that national chair Whitney Bilyeu is in the hospital. No details. If it's true, presumably vice-chair Ken Moellman will chair the business session.
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