Good morning, libertarians. [applause] it is 9 45. The Libertarian National convention will come back to order. First item on the agenda, the Credentials Committee reports. Good morning. Thank you mr. Chairman. We have sent to the secretary a list of names of voting members of the convention and their alternates who have been registered up until 9 12 this morning. There are 911 delegates. 6 alternates a total of 931 votes. Form equals 373 and majority is for 66, two thirds is 621, and 815. S i move the revised role of delegates submitted be the official role of voting members of this convention. All those in favor of that motion please say i. Opposed say no. Thank you. Additionally, we have a thens to the lifts lists from states and the Credentials Committee has found these people eligible to vote. I move that chad carlton be added as a missouri delegate, emily church as a missouri alternate, Ashley Lewandowski as a kansas delegate and marcus lopez as a live data as a nevada delegate. Been moved and seconded to add those names to the delegation list. , opposedvor say aye say no. They are added. Thank you mr. Chairman. Information as far as the total number of delegates right now, people eligible to cast the vote with the additions that we made. Does the secretary have that . We will be working on that point of information. I want to make a quick announcement while the secretary is finding out about that point of information. The georgia delegation has a very limited amount of 2016 commemorative lapel pins. They feature the torch eagle and the 2016 date. There are only 200 of them in existence. They are available at the georgia delegation in the center, right in front of the forra row, 15 each, two 25. You can only get them here. The updated number from the database of people credentialed to vote is 997. [applause] if you are in the halls, try and get to your delegation seats because there are points of information. Im going to start recognizing people at microphones when i can see the microphones which is getting harder than it used to be. Microphone two, point of information, in order to maintain core um, what do delegates need to do when they leave . ,n order to maintain quorum they need to check out with the credentials desk. To keepd to check out our number accurate for people who are here. Thank you. You leave the convention, check out at the credentials desk. The next order of business for this convention is the election for president of the United States of america. [applause] point of personal privilege microphone number three. Oklahoma, we of back in the back of the hall could not hear what you just said because there because of the noise from the delegation. Could you repeat what you said . I think so. Can we have a little bit of order . Next order said the of business for this convention is the election the nomination prior to that, when you are leaving convention, when you are going home, make sure to stop at the credentials desk and check out so we do not. Ose quorum we will proceed to a vote for the office of the president of the United States. [applause] point of order. The secretary is printing the ballots and they are not printed yet. When they are printed i will let you know and delegation chairs should approach the secretarys assistance desk. Point of order microphone two. Wilford, texas. I thought it was brought up earlier that we have no method to check out for this convention. Is that correct . Can. Parently, we ok. Are there any other privileged motions . While we are waiting, is rebecca paddock in the room. Come on up. I would like to bring up ms. Paddock from texas to address you for two minutes with your indulgence. [applause] thank you mr. Chairman. I am appear because i need your help. Sayseterans association that 22 vets a day commit suicide. That is on average. There is a peak during holidays and this weekend is one of those holidays. Memorial day. Toorial day is set aside remember those folks who gave their lives in service to this country. The veterans that are alive today are spending this weekend thinking about their friends who died in their arms. It is a tough weekend for vets. [applause] this is where i need your help. This is a horrible weekend for vets. Vetsu have friends who are , take the time to send them a send them a text, send them an email, and help me prevent suicide. No suicides 2016. Thank you for your time and attention. While the secretary is printing out the ballots, the a b people could bring up the glendale video on the screen. It promotes the ideal of the coalition worldwide. [indiscernible] the war on drugs is actually still an issue. In the history of the drug wars [indiscernible] two of the most Important Companies youve ever heard of made marijuana. For his effort, he got 24 months of hard labor. He was never healthy when he got out of prison. [indiscernible] one of the greatest senators of all time almost died of cancer taking medication of marijuana. There was goal a lot of very progressive. Reatment in the industry we would find out what other options couldve been. We can no longer tolerate the devastation that we are wreaking upon ourselves by electing the wrong people to positions of power. We want to change things. Send us your video, you can be a part of that. We will be dedicated to the video clips from around the world of people who [indiscernible] we are making it through here. This is huge. Regain. Insanity and governments not the answer. Less. D it is up to the people. To take our country back. Corruptions everywhere. [applause] the secretary has confirmed that ballots are available for the president ial election state delegation chairs. Approach the secretary assistance table stage left. Microphone two. Microphone two, please. Texas, may i make thaty short announcement will be of interest to the body . Go ahead. Onmy son has a petition change. Org. Let liberty debate. I think it would be appropriate for the body to support that so please check out let liberty debate on change. Org. Ask thend like to goodyear and Jennifer Gibson go to the left side of the stage when they get a chance. I also want to thank two libertarians this morning. This morning, a pedestrian was hit in a hit and run accident outside the hotel and was given medical assistance and first aid by mr. Tim molin and dr. Mark. [applause] it illustrates to me we are libertarians because we love people. When you need help, find a libertarian. We are a lot more reliable than the government. I would like to invite mr. Goodyear up to the stage. He has some trashy needs to dispose of. My fiance didnt want to come up you. She has stage fright. I am a 13 day old libertarian. [applause] i left the Republican Party for a reason. We will never go back. We will stay with this party. We will fight for this party and we will win. [applause] this is my Voter Registration card for the Republican Party in arizona. Legislative district 21. I am done with the Republican Party. This is the party. This is our party. We will win. Stand together, libertarians. Unite. [applause] if anyone else has some unnecessary republican or democratic Voter Registration cards that they want to get rid of, please come see me after. Microphone number three. There are many people watching on television who would like to know more about us. Could you tell the public how they could find out more about libertarian parties . Thank you mr. Star from california. If the American People want to find out more, they should visit lp. Org or call one 800 collect us. 800 1800elect us. I see the delegation chairs are gathering the ballots. Have something i want to read to you that is a little bit on a down note. I just need to find it in my email. While we were gathered here in a great libertarian from the state of arizona, my delegation, mr. Powell gamel, passed away. We can go with the yeah until you hear the rest of the sentence. Was a many time candidate for the Libertarian Party of arizona. He was a friend to the arizona Libertarian Party. If you will indulge me for just my emaili will find from my state chair, mr. Kill ski is actually in front of me. Gamel took a fall at his home and passed away on tuesday. He was a member of freedoms phenix. Com and his prior here was head of arizonas. Icrobiology laboratory he was a congressman from 2006 2 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. Campaign, he12 gained fame by urging voters to not even vote and then earning nearly seven percent of the vote in a hotly contested threeway race which exceeded the difference between the other candidates. In the 2014 election, the Democratic Party paid for mailers supporting pals run in a cynical and misguided attempt to help their own candidate. In recent weeks, powell had been excited about his upcoming run for congress because not only had he run into thousand 6, and 2014, he was going to run again in 2016. He was a good and honest man. It a great example of what means to be of no compromise libertarian. We all miss his wit and charm on the campaign trail. For june 5schedule in scottsdale, arizona. [applause] i want to remind the delegation chairs that when they get there ballots, they should let their tellers vote. Tellers do get to vote. Is mr. Hayes in the room . Room. Somewhere in the just a moment. This is your convention so i want to ask. Are balloting, with the indulgence of the body, i would like to bring up somebody to speak for 20 minutes. Is that ok . Sounds like mostly yes. He is moving towards the stage. Theuld like to bring up gentleman i had an opportunity to meet in freedom fest in 2014. He was kind enough to give me a copy of his book entitled on hurt people and dont take their stuff. The plane flying backandforth and forth to Libertarian Party state conventions all around the country and i have stolen the title for a lot of my interviews. Dr. Pack oh, do you have a privilege motion . Microphone two very quickly. Ballots thaton the none of the above is not listed as a candidate. Chair. Wanted to ask the munn of the above is a candidate in every libertarian election ever. Upstage him by mentioning none of the above but i would like to mention mr. Met matt mr. Hi. Y name is matt i am a republican i am a recovering republican. Courage to come up here and admit that to you guys but i feel like we are in a safe space. I am feeling sensitive. I am feeling like a snowflake. Frankly, i am feeling a little bit used and abused. , and imeciated feeling kind of dirty about it. Years, i have worked within the Republican Party. I have actually worked for the Republican National committee. Years, every four gets, you would start to all of these calls and all of these letters, eventually you would get tweets and Facebook Facebook posts and it sounded awesome. Republicans love to talk about liberty. Promises all sorts of during the courtship process, right . They will tell you honestly, time, we, honest, this will defend the constitution. Time, forget the last time, but this time, we are going to support your Civil Liberties and your freedom of speech and all of those values that we talk about all the time in recording your vote. You know it is not true. Ou know what they are up to you know what they want. But you still do it. You probably had a couple drinks at this point. , the future ofg this country is so important and liberty is so precious and we are in such big trouble with the growingebt, and power of the states in the intrusions of the permanent imperial presidency, weve got to do something. Weve got to do it. Youve got three cocktails and they are telling you no really, this time i am going to do it. And the next morning, you wake up next to bob dole. Over and you realize just like groundhog day, you wake up and you realize youve over andsame thing over again, hoping just may be that this time it will turn out different. But it is no different. You wake up feeling dirty and used. It feels like a one night stand because the day after an election, they never call. They dont write. All those facebook posts stop and all of a sudden, they are doing exactly what they did the and time you got drunk voted republican. Am i wrong . [applause] are there any other republicans . We are in a safe place. We can admit this now. Ive been a libertarian my entire life. Was 13 years old, i bought an album by this band called rush. [applause] called 2112 and i am of a certain age where you used to buy these things on this ancient thing called a record. Does anyone remember records . Back in the day, you would put that vinyl record on the player and you would read the lighter i was reading about this story about this abuse of authoritarian benevolent dictatorship that was crushing the Creative Soul of someone that wanted to be tree. What does it say . Of imed to the genius brand. Of ayn rand. D wasnt know who ayn ran but i happen to see one of her books, a copy of anthem so old that Atlas Shrugged wasnt even listed as other books she had written. I devoured it. I sought out everything she had written. It was difficult to do because theseese instant ancient institutions called bookstores and it was hard to find a book. It was particularly hard to find a book about liberty. But eventually, i read enough that she recommended austrian economics. This point, i am 16 years old, i am reading human action and it is the worst possible way in the world to meet girls. [laughter] digging when not they are 16. That has changed. I went to grow city college and i discovered by accident that there was a professor who had studied under him at grove city and i discovered i was not the only libertarian in the entire ,niverse, that there was perhaps, dozens of us around the world. It was a revelation. Compare my accidental experience with liberty with young people today. If you want to know what libertarianism is today, you probably saw a ron paul give a speech on youtube or maybe you are watching the convention and you google it. You dont have to wait for your professor to tell you that liberty matters. You dont have to wait for three tv networks are used to tell you what to think to tell you that there was an alternative from the twoparty duopoly the republicans and the democrats, that constantly dictated from the top down what it is that we were allowed to believe, what it is we were allowed to stand for. Today, you can just google it. This is why we speak of the libertarian moment. This is why things are different today in a fundamental way because nobody gets to tell us what to believe anymore. [applause] you are young person today, you live in a radically libertarian world. You choose everything, you curate your friends, you choose your job, if you dont like your boss, you ditch him and find another job online. If you dont like what Mainstream Media is telling you, you curate knowledge and information for multiple sources the a or friends on twitter. You choose everything. You even curate your institutions in a way that wasnt possible when i was a kid. This is why the Republican Party is collapsing before our very eyes. Why a thirdparty could be viable on the National Stage for the first time in my lifetime. [applause] let me suggest to you that the challenge we have as abuse republicans, as lifetime libertarians, as Liberty Party activists, is to understand just how big are potential community gets. We are no longer a cadre of people meeting in basements reading the foot hook the footnotes from human actions. We are speaking to millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of eyeballs across all nations, across all government barriers, in a way that suggests for the first time liberty could be the majority in the United States. [applause] weve got to think about things differently. That theo appreciate political spectrum that you and i were taught in high school, you know the one, where on the far right you have fascism which is nativist and authoritarian and a really bad thing and on the far left, you have socialism and communism which is, according to your professor wasnt nearly so bad but that they, this idea state would wither away was naive and hopeless. It felt better what it it felt better but it wasnt so good. That never made sense to me because in reality, all of those evil isms, fascism, socialism, communism, any form of authoritarianism, it all belongs on one side of the spectrum. We have no better representations of that today then a Republican Donald Trump and democrat hillary clinton. Can we even tell the difference . On the other side, it is liberty. Community. People coming together to solve problems through voluntary cooperation and doing things none of us could have done by ourselves altogether. Matt. E is. Am a republican but i am thinking about this liberty thing. I am thinking about the moments where we might come together as a community and appreciate that liberty is not just about freedom. A responsibility that we all see when we look in the mirror in the morning. You are worried about the future of your country. You are worried that not enough threat oferstand the big governments, the potential of freedom to solve problems. Weve got to come together. Voluntary cooperation. Do things weve never done before. This because ultimately, i believe that all of us should be free as long as we dont hurt people or take their stuff. Thank you very much. [applause] can we have a wrong of applause a round of applause . [applause] microphone two, please. Thank you mr. Chair. I am state assemblyman john miller. I would like to thank for bringing to light the alarming rate our veterans are committing suicide. We areather here and being covered by various national and International News outlets, the one thing i do not see anywhere, where are the colors for our great country . Why are they not being displayed in this hall . I dont necessarily have a way to answer the gentlemans point information. The Convention Oversight committee has done the setup for the hall and those