[Lnc-business] Meeting costs

[Joshua Katz]

Ron posted an excellent letter from Starchild on the costs of conventions.
 I thought the $2500 I had heard was high.  As I said a few days ago, when
I was corrected and found it was much higher, I was shocked.

I do not want to meet in DC every meeting.  We should use the office we own
when feasible, but it's just not fair to hold every meeting in the same
location.  If LNC members want to bring a camper instead of staying in a
hotel, that's fine, but irrelevant, since it has nothing to do with what
the LP pays for our meetings.  But, really, $3000 for a room for 18 people
to meet (or $2000 in food and beverage to get the room for 'free?')   I
used to work at a school that weekly held meetings for 40 people.  I assure
you we could not have rented out the room we used for $3000/weekend.  And
we were on the beach!

18 people can meet in a park in nice weather.  18 people can meet, as I
said before, in a suite.  18 people can meet in a coffee shop.  18 people
do not need to pay $3000 for a room - and we wouldn't if it were our money.
 We should be as careful, if not more so, with our donors money, as with
our own.

Convention is one thing.  This is quite another, and is quite insane.

Joshua A. Katz

Region 8 (Region of Badassdom) Alternate
Libertarian National Committee

Chair, Libertarian Party of Connecticut
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