[Lnc-business] LNC Goal for the 2014-16 LNC term

[Scott L.]

>From the minutes of the Nov 2010 LNC Session:

 

“the main motion became that the LNC adopt the following goals for the
2010-2012 LNC term: 

 

 

1. Membership: 20,000 sustaining members by April 15, 2012

 

2. Organization: Operational affiliates in 48 states (out of 51 “states”).
Defined as...

 

a. Runs at least 2 candidates for non-partisan or partisan office every 2
year election cycle 

 

b. Has a REAL web site (not a Meetup Group or Blog) that is updated with
news or 

meeting info at least once per month 

 

c. Has a Chair or Contact Person who responds to most inquires within 2
business days 

 

d. Place candidates on the ballot and attempt to maintain ballot access. 

 

e. The affiliate will provide the latest copy of their bylaws and
constitution to the national 

office or post the same on their state website. 

 

3. Fundraising: $1,400,000 gross revenue for calendar year 2011. 

 

4. Training : Several seminars around the country in 2011 to include
training on winnable and party-building campaigns, and training that teaches
affiliate development 

 

5. Political: 

 

a. 200 U.S. House of Representative candidates in 2012 

 

b. 200 elected Libertarians by Apr 15, 2012 (for the purpose of this goal,
Inspectors and Judges of Elections in Pennsylvania only count as 1/3 of an
elected Libertarian) 

 

c. 30 state ballot access by Apr 15, 2012 (that means actually certified by
the SOS or equivalent), which puts us in position for 45 or more state
ballot access by Election 

Day 2012”

 

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

 

Somehow I ended up moving the motion above, but most of the original wording
was suggested by Dr. Lark.

 

 

 

Now, here is my handy-dandy ballot access chart:

 

 

Number of states where the LP had ballot access

 

Dec 2000      25           

 

Dec 2004      26

   

Dec 2008      27

 

Dec 2012      31

 

 

As you can see, this chart shows how well the LP retained ballot access
after each of the last 4 presidential elections.

 

The noticeable bump after the Johnson campaign was not because Gov. Johnson
himself did well enough to retain ballot access in a bunch of states, but
more likely because his coattails were able to boost a few more statewide
candidates past the ballot access retention threshold.

 

 

I will let other LNC members come up with scorecards that detail how well
that LNC did with respect to the above goals.

 

 

Here is the problem – after being in existence for 42 years, we are STILL a
$1,000,000 per year organization, with fewer than 15,000 dues-paying
members.  Yet, we keep coming up with long lists of goals, but no realistic
way to accomplish them.

 

 

So – the BHAG:

 

>From Wikipedia:

 

A Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) is a strategic
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_planning>  business statement
similar to a vision <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_statement>
statement which is created to focus an organization on a single medium-long
term organization-wide goal which is audacious, likely to be externally
questionable, but not internally regarded as impossible.

 

 

I would like to suggest that we partially put aside our unofficial Mission
Statement, and have just one BHAG

for the next 2 ¼ years.

 

Yes – I really mean it.  One goal.

 

40 in 16

 

That means the goal of this LNC would be to provide our affiliates with 40
state ballot access on December 1, 2016.

 

If we accomplish that, and we can at least maintain that number in the 2018
mid-term election, that means we would go into the 2020 Presidential year
with only 10 states where we would need to petition. That would be a huge
psychological boost to our members, and it might attract some presidential
candidates who don’t want to gamble on the LP achieving 50 state ballot
access for them in Nov 2020 if we go into January 2020 with only 31 state
ballot access.

 

The neat thing is – this goal is achievable.  I have some ideas on how to
accomplish this goal without gigantic amounts of money, but before I divulge
that part, I would like to see some feedback from the rest of the LNC
regarding this idea.

 

    Scott Lieberman

 

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