[Lnc-business] FW: convention duration and costs

[Scott L.]

Starchild asked me to forward the petition below to the LNC.

 

   Scott Lieberman

 

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 Re: [Lnc-votes] [Lnc-business] convention duration and costs

 

      Excellent call, Daniel! We agree staff's list of unneeded expenses
that could cut our national convention costs in half so we spend $60,000
rather than $120,000 should be documented. As members of the Libertarian
Party, we share Daniel's interest in seeing this information shared, and
seeing it acted upon. 

 

      While we welcome and thank Wes Benedict for coming forward with this
information, however, we do not like the idea of shorter conventions as a
way of saving money. Conventions are vital to our party's governance, and
they happen only once every two years. We want a more bottom-up party with
more time at conventions for members to engage in party governance (update
platform and bylaws, pass resolutions, and hear debates among candidates for
LNC positions), not less. At our June 2014 convention, there was an
important resolution that did not get considered and debated because we ran
out of time, and few proposals were considered from the floor. For those who
find the current format boring, longer conventions would give us time to
work in lots of fun stuff and local activism as well as our business
sessions. There should also be a full, open investigation by the Convention
Site Selection Committee into holding conventions at less expensive,
non-traditional venues.

 

      By the way, we request all of you on the LNC to include your names and
contact info on your email messages to the LNC list, as Wes Benedict did
below, to make it clearer who is saying what. That way LP members reading
messages forwarded from the list will be able to clearly identify who is
saying what, and how to reach them.

 

 For liberty,

 

 Starchild (California)

 

Additional signers subsequently signed on:

 

Mike Shipley (Arizona)

Sharona Nelson (Kentucky)

Roderick Long (Alabama)

Bruce Majors (District of Columbia)

Jerry Dixon (California)

 

P.S. - Would a member of the LNC please forward this message to the LNC list
so it appears there for the record, since we cannot post?

 

 
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>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 6:16 PM, lnc-votes at hq.lp.org wrote:

>> 

>> Wes,

>> 

>> I am a little lost here..Not sure where Mr Olsen’s referenced email is.
If there are blatant unneeded expenses then please share those here with us
Wes. Consider this a formal request from the District 7 Regional Alternate
for the information.

>> 

>>    Daniel Hayes

 

 

 

 

>> On Aug 31, 2014, at 4:07 PM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:

>> 

>>> I'm confident a survey of members would show people would prefer shorter
conventions. (I think that's what Mr. Olsen is suggesting below.) I don't
recall that question being asked in a survey in recent years. But I do hear
the complaint quite often that the conventions are too long, too boring, too
much parliamentary theatrics, and too expensive. Shorter would be less
boring and less expensive. Training could more easily be fit in before the
convention for those that enjoy hanging around for more days. And for those
that try to squeeze in local sight-seeing, a shorter convention would make
it easier for delegates to join their families. One less average hotel night
per convention would be a great goal.

>>> 

>>> LP Texas had over 300 attendees at its 2014 convention at a cheap venue.
I don't know the total budget, but I'd like be interested in knowing. And
I'll take a guess it cost $25,000. 

>>> 

>>> The 2014 national convention in Ohio cost over $120,000.

>>> 

>>> I'm pretty confident Robert Kraus and I could design a pretty good 2018
national convention for 400 to 700 delegates that cost $60,000. That's
because he and I know of a lot of costs at the 2010, 2012, & 2014
conventions that could have been reduced or avoided. 

>>> 

>>> $60,000 versus $120,000. Our services and advice are available upon
request (but preferably not this coming week due to other priorities).

>>> 

>>> Wes Benedict, Executive Director

>>> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.

>>> New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314

>>> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org

>>> facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational

>>> Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

 

 

 

 

 

>>> On 8/31/2014 1:21 PM, Norm Olsen wrote:

>> 

>>>> The schedule of official business of the 2018 national convention of
the LNC shall consist of 2½ days, commencing on the morning of Saturday, May
26, 2018  and adjourning by 2PM on Monday, May 28, 2018.

>>> 

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