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BY-LAWS OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF THE
8th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
2007
ARTICLE I
State Central Committee
Section 1: The District Executive Committee shall allocate State
Central Committee delegate and alternate positions to the BPOUs
in conformity with the State Republican Constitution.
a.
Unless otherwise provided in the State Constitution, delegates
allocated to the Eighth District shall be allocated to the
BPOD's as follows:
1. Every Basic Political Organizational Unit located wholly or
in part within the Eighth District shall have one (1) delegate.
2. Additional delegates shall be allocated to the BPOUs
according to the ratio of each BPOD's Republican vote in the
last general election for President or Governor.
3. Delegates to the State Central Committee shall be elected in
odd-numbered years by their BPOU conventions or procedures.
4. Each BPOU shall elect three times as many alternates as
delegates. Each alternate elected must be ranked in order of
their priority to be seated.
b. If any BPOU does not have sufficient delegates or alternates
to fill its delegation at a State Central Committee meeting, the
Eighth Congressional District Chair shall appoint replacements
from unseated alternates. At the request of three delegates, the
Chair shall call a caucus of the Eighth District delegation for
the purpose of approval or disapproval of the Chair's
appointments of replacements from unseated alternates. The
chair's appointments may be overturned by a majority vote of the
caucus.
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ARTICLE II
District Convention
Section 1: Prior to the District convention, the District Chair
shall appoint the following pre-convention committees, and the
Chair for each, from the delegates and alternates to the
convention:
a.
Credentials
b.
Rules
c.
Resolutions (when necessary)
d.
Endorsement (when necessary)
e.
Nomination
Each committee shall hold one or more meetings with written
notification to be sent ten (10) days before the meeting prior
to the convention to consider such matters as are in their
respective jurisdictions. The designation of the Chair and the
members of each committee shall be communicated by letter to the
same at least ten (10) days prior to the convention. Each
pre-convention committee shall have at least one appointee from
each BPOU in the District.
Section 2: The Nomination Committee for the District convention
shall be composed of one (1) representative from each BPOU or
partial BPOU in the District. The representative and alternate
shall be designated by the BPOU, in writing, to the District
Chair within fifteen (15) days after request in writing for such
designation by the District Chair. If any BPOU fails to make
such designation within the time prescribed, the District Chair
may appoint any member of the party residing in such BPOU to the
Nomination Committee. The District Chair shall convene the first
meeting of the Nomination Committee and preside until the
election of a Chair from the committee. The Chair elected shall
at all times have a vote.
Section 3: Outgoing BPOU Chairs -When new Chairs are elected at
a BPOU convention held during the two-year period for which
delegates and alternates have been elected to State and District
conventions, the out-going BPOU Chairs may, by BPOU
constitution, be elected to any existing vacancies in the
delegate or alternate lists.
Section 4: State Vice-Chair -One State Vice-Chair shall be
elected from the Eighth Congressional District by the delegates
and seated alternates at the Eighth District Convention in the
odd numbered years. In the absence of the State Vice-Chair, the
Eighth Congressional District Chair shall so serve.
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Section 5: In each Presidential Election Year an Eighth
Congressional District
Presidential Elector-Nominee shall be elected by the delegates
and seated alternates at the Eighth Congressional District
convention. This election shall be listed in the Call, Rules and
Agenda of the convention.. The name of the elected Presidential
Elector-Nominee shall be reported to the State Party and to the
State Convention in the manner prescribed by the Rules of the
State Convention. To ensure an elector is always available to
represent the Eighth Congressional District, an alternate shall
also be elected in each Presidential election year.
ARTICLE III
District Committees
Section 1: The District Full Committee shall meet not less than
once each quarter. Meetings ofthe District Full Committee may be
called by the Chair, the Executive Committee, or by eight (8)
members of the District Full Committee representing at least
four (4) BPOUs. Written notice ofeach meeting shall be mailed to
each member at least seven (7) days in advance.
Section 2: The presence often (10) voting members representing
at least three (3) BPOUs in the District shall constitute a
quorum of the District Full Committee. The members present at a
meeting at which a quorum is initially present may continue to
transact business until adjournment not withstanding loss of
quorum.
Section 3: By written request to the District Chair, any duly
elected delegate or alternate to a District convention may
obtain the right to make a presentation on pertinent Republican
Party business to the District Full Committee at the next
scheduled meeting. Said presentation is not to exceed ten
minutes in length.
Section 4: Open Chair -In the case ofa vacancy in the office of
District Chair, the District Deputy Chair shall perform the
duties of the office until the election ofa successor.
Section 5: At the first meeting following their election, the
District Executive Committee shall organize sub-committees to
assist the District Full Committee in advancing the goals and
objectives or the party. Each District Vice-Chairman and
Vice-Chairwoman shall serve as chair or co-chair of at least one
of these sub-committees and shall be responsible to the District
Full Committee for the operations of the sub-committee.
a.
The number of sub-committees shall not exceed the number of
vice-chairmen or vice-chairwomen.
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b.
Operational areas of the sub-committees shall consist of, but not
be limited to, the following:
1.
Fund raising
2.
Candidate search
3.
BPaD organization
4.
Intra-party communications
5.
Voter Identification Program (VIP)
ARTICLE IV
District Executive Committee
Section 1: The District Executive committee shall meet at the
call of the Chair or upon all by any three (3) members thereof.
A majority of the members of the Executive Committee shall
constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting business.
Section 2: Notification of meetings will be made to all District
Executive Committee members.
ARTICLE V
Legislative District Endorsing Conventions
Section 1: District endorsing conventions wholly within a given
BPOD may be held subject to the provisions of said BPaD
constitution and/or by-laws, provided said provisions are not in
conflict with state statutes or the Republican State
Constitution.
Section 2: Where a District crosses BPOD lines, but lies within
a Congressional District, the Congressional District Executive
Committee may issue the call for an endorsing convention,
appoint the convener, and specify the delegate voting strength
of the delegates from the BPaDs involved or pursuant to such
other procedure as may be authorized by the Congressional
District Constitution.
Section 3: Where a District crosses county and Congressional
District lines, the State Executive Committee may issue the call
for an endorsing convention, appoint the convener, and specify
the delegate voting strength of the delegates from the BPaDs
involved.
Section 4: In the event that a majority ofthe precinct chairs
and deputy chairs from the District that crosses BPaD or
Congressional District lines should sign a petition requesting
an endorsing convention and specifying the convener and the
delegate voting strength of the convention, the Congressional
District Chair or the State Chair, on behalf ofthe executive
committee, who has jurisdiction as specified in Section 2 or 3
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such convention.
Section 5: An endorsement made at a Legislative District
endorsing convention whose jurisdiction crosses BPaU or
Congressional District lines may permit the District Full or
State Executive Committee to appoint a representative from the
party to coordinate party activities with the candidate's
campaign committee, in the event that no legislative district
organizations shall cooperate with that campaign organization.
Section 6: Eligible voters at Legislative District endorsing
conventions shall be the delegates or alternates as duly elected
at the most recent Republican precinct caucus held within the
political boundaries ofthe District and such other exofficio
delegates as may be designated by the applicable BPaU
Constitution or By-Laws or Congressional District Constitution
or By-Laws.
ARTICLE VI
State Legislative Districts
Section 1: General Provision. After each reapportionment, the
respective BPaU organizations may cause to have organized
legislative district committees, consistent with the new state
legislative districts.
Section 2: Legislative District Committee:
a.
The management of the affairs of the party within each state
legislative district, relating to the election of state
legislators, shall be vested in legislative district committees,
subject to the direction of state or district authorities. All
activities within the legislative district are to be coordinated
with the respective BPau leadership.
b.
The Legislative District Committee shall consist of such
officers and other members as these By-Laws may prescribe.
c.
The officers of each Legislative District Committee shall be a
Chair, Deputy Chair, a secretary, a treasurer and such other
officers as these By-Laws may prescribe.
d.
The officers and other members of the Legislative District
Committee shall be elected in the odd numbered years as these
By-Laws may prescribe.
Section 3: The Legislative District Committee may provide for a
Legislative District Executive Committee, of such size as it
deems proper, who shall be members of the Legislative District
Committee.
Section 4: Any Legislative District Committee officer or member
may be removed by a two-thirds (21) vote of all the members of
the Legislative District Committee.
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ARTICLE VII
Amendment
These By-Laws may be amended by a majority vote at any District
convention, provided that a one hour elapsed period occurs after
said amendment motion has been seconded, unless the convention
unanimously waives this Article's requirement for amending
bylaws.
