July 12th, 2023 Meeting

 COLLIN COUNTY LIBERTARIAN PARTY

Monthly Meeting Agenda

Wednesday 12th,  July 2023, 7:00 PM

Terri’s Gelato Cafe

101 N. McDonald St. 

Check-in and Registration

If voting is necessary during the meeting, only those who qualify per our by-laws will be able to vote on motions. We do, however, welcome participation and comments either way.

Meeting Agenda

1. Call to Order (Ed Kless) 7:00

1. Moment of Silence (Rich Moore) 7:00

1. Approval of Previous Monthly Meeting Minutes/Secretary’s Report (Paul Thompson) 7:01

1. Officer Reports
   1. 4.1.Treasurer (TJ Reilly) 7:02 

• $808.77

1. 4.2.Vice-chair (Nathan Polsky) 7:03

• SLEC chose destination.  Corpus Cristy. Approval of convention center pending.
• Skipping Balloon Festival for the Gun Festival.  September 23rd – 24th
  • Cheaper and indoors.  (Wahoo) and people who align with our views more likely to attend
  • Joke was made – it’s worth a shot.
  • Aware of Convention season and 
  • Looking for Haigh caliber gun jokes
• Litter Cleanup last Saturday.
  • Next one will be in October.

1. 4.3.Chair (Ed Kless) 7:09

• LPTexas is still a convention party.  The new law wasn’t voted on.
• Filing fees still open so there will still be people who run and don’t pay in protest.
• Convention is always the Tuesday after the primary.
  • Encourage friends not to vote in primary or engage in petitions for candidates.
  • TNM (Texas National Movement) is trying tout the TEXIT on GOP ticket. If L signs, they affiliate with GOP and can’t be involved with convention.
• Rich Moore – any change to the Crypto Currency 

1. Welcoming new attendees (Ed Kless)

1. Old business (Ed Kless and members) 7:14

• Civil Asset Forfeiture – new meeting with representative
  • Last legislative bill out of committee but not on calendar.
  • New reform bill coming through IJ going to be filed first thing next session

1. New business (Ed Kless and members) 7:16

• Michael Jones: works at the election office
  • Handouts for election fliers/handouts don’t have Libertarian Party 
  • WW2 Band of Brothers Tour Report
    • Youngest son is a suddenly a “History Nut”
    • Toured many of the sites featured in Band of Brother’s movie/series.
    • People there acknowledge that Americans helped liberated them
      • People back then thought they were fighting for something democracy.
  • H on LPTexas Staff
    • Legacy outreach person
    • Coordinating events
      • Texas Cannabis collective march and protest.
• L2 Data (NP/EK)
  • Access to database and see who voted for what and where.
  • We have to pay to export it
    • Want to target people who registered to vote but didn’t vote last year (30K in Collin)
    • Allocation of funds to test this
  • Will come up with a plan on how to use it.
• Happy Hour – We will do it.
  • Friday, July 28th – Location TBD

1. Adjourn (From the floor) 7:31

• Motion – Nathan Polsky
• Second – 

Attendance. (12)