Convention Delegate Training
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Convention Delegate Training Dave Pascoe MNGOP Deputy Chair *No narration for this presentation, please see notes.
Contact Info • Dave Pascoe: 612-564-5836 or dpp@mngop.com
How to be a good delegate: • Remember that you are in charge of the pace, the rules, the agenda, the temporary convention officers, and everything else.
Robert’s Rules Quick Tips • Point of Order: Pointing out a problem with procedure • Request for Information (often “point of information”): a question about what is happening or what is being discussed. • Question of Privilege or Personal Privilege (often “point of personal privilege): have a speaker stop mumbling, have the facilities turn the heat up, etc.
Robert’s Rules guidebooks • “Robert’s Rules in Plain English” available on Amazon (for kindle as well).
1. Call to Order • 2. Pledge of Allegiance • 3. Invocation • 4. Reading of the Official Convention Call • Usually dispensed with • 5. Election of the Temporary Chair of the Convention • Can be anyone • 6. Election of the Temporary Secretary of the Convention • Can be anyone • 7. Appointment of Parliamentarian/Time-Keeper, chief teller, and tellers • 8. Appointment of Credentials, Resolutions, Nominations, & Rules Committees • 7 and 8 usually aren’t challenged but could be.
9. Preliminary Report of the Credentials Committee • Can ask for specific breakdown by precinct if necessary. • 10. Filling of Delegation Vacancies (Seating of the Alternates as Delegates) • Based on rules of the convention or district constitution • 11. Rules Committee Report/Adoption of the rules • 12. Adoption of the Agenda • Was this presented? • 13. Updated Credentials Report • May have a “motion to make the temporary organization permanent.”
14. Report of the Nominations Committee for State Central Committee Delegates/Alternates • 15. Election of State Central Committee Delegates and Alternates. • 16. Report of the Nominations Committee for Executive Committee positions. • This may not be split into a second item. • 17. Executive Committee Elections • Order may be specified in rules or agenda • 18. Announcement/Introduction of guests • Usually an agenda gives the chair the discretion to call guests as needed • 19. Other Business • This may not be explicitly stated • 20. Adjournment
Rules • How is use of secret ballot determined? • How is quorum established and can it be called into question? • Are alternates ranked? How are ties decided? Is there a separate election for alternates?
Rules • What is the threshold for amending the rules or agenda? Usually two thirds. • Is there a threshold to request division? • Is a majority vote defined? • Are the default rules Robert’s Rules of Order?
Questions? • Dave Pascoe 612-564-5836 or dpp@mngop.com