[Lnc-business] why I like the LNC's goal of 1, 000 candidates in 2016

[Scott L.]

I don't want to single Mr. Haugh out since his results on this metric are
probably no different than that of most of our other candidates who ran in 

non-winnable elections that were not ballot-access-retention races, but.

 

       How many new members did Mr. Haugh's campaign bring in to the LPNC
and/or the National LP?

 

 

If they even tracked that number, I bet the combined total is fewer than 20.


 

New members basically equals new donors.  If we don't track and try to
improve the number of new members/donors that our non-winnable campaigns
bring in, then we are reduced to bragging about how many Google results one
can come up with for their campaigns.

 

Google results don't pay the bills at LPNCHQ or LPHQ.

 

 

Libertarians who win elections are in a position to directly vote on
legislation in their district.  Libertarians who lose elections don't get to
do that.

 

Campaign volunteers on Republican and Democrat campaigns understand that.

 

I would love to see this Board and LPHQ staff teach the above maxim to our
members, so that we are all working towards the same organizational goal,
which is to get as many Libertarians elected to public office as possible so
that they can DIRECTLY influence public policy.

 

I don't have a problem with running 1000 new candidates (1) in 2016 as long
as at least 15% of them win their elections, and as long as we end up with
something close to 40 state ballot access in Dec. 2016.


   Scott Lieberman

 

 

1.  In other words, I would not include incumbents running for re-election
in that total.

 

 

 

 

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"Following up on an earlier discussion, a similar search for "Aaron Starr"
shows 3 results, and none of the results are about the "Aaron Starr" that
ran for the non-partisan race for City Council in Oxnard. They are for other
people named "Aaron Starr."  I certainly appreciate the fact that Aaron
Starr ran for non-partisan office. I've done that three times myself,
placing second out of 5 the time I ran the hardest. And I realize it was not
Aaron Starr's goal to build brand awareness for the Libertarian Party.

"Sean Haugh" still shows 1860 results on news.google.com.
Our top of the ticket partisan candidates did a lot to build Libertarian
brand awareness. 
I support the strategy of running for everything from top of the ticket
races to tiny local races, partisan and non-partisan.
I hope Aaron Starr takes what he learned this time, and runs again for the
same office next time.

The Reform Party and Constitution Party don't run many candidates. If we see
them, or some other third party zooming past us in terms of identifiable
results, then we should take a closer look at what they're doing (not that
we'd necessarily want to copy them in any case--depends on what they're
doing). 

  Wes Benedict"

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