[Lnc-business] Fwd: LP Web Site Building Fund page

[Joshua Katz]

I think it's a good thing that donors can earmark donations to be used for
the "building" and related expenses.  I'd like to see a system where donors
have a wide variety of choices - separate donation buttons for candidate
training, affiliate support, ballot access, and so on, with the LNC unable
to move money from one use to another.  In addition, individual projects
could be included as well - these should probably be in the form of pledges
rather than actual donations, or else offer a choice of a pledge
(conditional on the project being fully funded) or a straight donation
which becomes unearmarked if the project is not funded by a specific date.

Joshua A. Katz

Region 8 (Region of Badassdom) Alternate
Libertarian National Committee

Chair, Libertarian Party of Connecticut


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:37 PM, LP <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:

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> *From:* "Robert Kraus" <robert.kraus at lp.org>
> *Date:* July 21, 2014 at 8:19:23 PM EDT
> *To:* "'Wes Benedict'" <Wes.Benedict at lp.org>
> *Cc:* "'Nicholas Sarwark'" <chair at lp.org>
> *Subject:* *FW: LP Web Site Building Fund page*
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>       Wes,
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> Please feel free to forward. Yes we do need to update the page and the
> tracker. I will work on a new tracker to “pay off the mortgage!” but Erick
> can probably update the page based on the related LP news article.
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> We’ve raised a total thru today of $416,538 gross towards the building not
> including expenses, down payment, etc.
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> We raised $26,238 of that since May 1st (post closing). This is obviously
> an on going effort that folks want to contribute to and should remain a
> featured “project” until the mortgage is paid off.
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> At this point pretty much everything we raised has been put towards
> expenses, build-out, moving related costs and the down payment. So we are
> pretty much as of today at zero with $500,000 to go to pay off the
> mortgage.
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> Live Free!​​​​
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> *Robert*
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>  Robert S. Kraus - Dir of Operations
> Operations at LP.org
> Libertarian National Committee
> Ph: 202.333.0008 x 231
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> **** WE HAVE MOVED ****
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> *PLEASE NOTE: Effective June 1st our address is **1444 Duke Street,
> Alexandria VA 22314. *
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> *From:* SAM8074 at aol.com [mailto:SAM8074 at aol.com <SAM8074 at aol.com>]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 21, 2014 7:52 PM
> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> *Cc:* wes.benedict at lp.org; robert.kraus at lp.org
> *Subject:* LP Web Site Building Fund page
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> Wes or Robert,
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> I thought that we had already bought an office condo and have moved into
> it yet our web site has the following active page requesting donations:
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> http://www.lp.org/office-fund
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> This is very misleading and I would like to know how much, if any, money
> has been contributed to this effort since the purchase closed.  Is it being
> held in a encumbered account as were the contributions prior to the
> purchase?  Will any contributions be used to pay down the principal on the
> mortgage?
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> Having this contribution page still up might be interfering with efforts
> to raise money for ballot access,  candidate training, affiliate support or
> other important party functions.
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> Please advise.
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> Thanks and
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> Live Free,
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> Sam Goldstein
> At Large Representative
> IT Committee Chair
> Libertarian National Committee
> 317-850-0726 Mobile
> sam.goldstein at lp.org Email
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