[Lnc-business] Dec 2014 LP News - front page

[Scott L.]

I just received the December 2014 issue of LP News.

 

This is our post-election issue.

 

 

There are 3 stories that are on, or start on, the front page:

 

1.      Best ever midterm LP media coverage

2.      Record top-of-ticket votes in midterm, despite poor turnout

3.      LP registration up 8.3% over last 7 months, more than all other
political parties together

 

 

There are also 3   1 ½ x 2 inch teasers for articles inside this issue:

 

     4.  Another CRUSHING blow for Top Two

     5.  Best ever LP ballot access after a midterm election!

     6.  More Libertarians included in 2014 polls than ever!

 

 

 

What is missing from the above list?

 


How about the only item that is actually listed in our Bylaws as one of our
Purposes:

 

   Electing Libertarians to public office.

 

 

The article that describes our electoral wins only appears as an item in the
table of contents on the left side of the front page.  That article is on
page 11.

 

 

You might try to argue that some of 1 through 6 indirectly advance some of
our Purposes, but this is the post ELECTION issue, so I would like to think
that we would feature those candidates who actually achieved the Purposes
Statement of our Bylaws. 

 

The other items can be “worked on” anytime of the year, but I am pretty sure
the majority of our electoral wins are in November of even numbered years.

 

Although Ms. Howell is the Editor of LP News, I think she is just taking her
lead from us, the Libertarian National Committee. 

 

I agree that most of the offices that were won are not “sexy”, but it is
possible for the National Party to feature what local, elected Libertarian
officials can do in their own communities.  Plus, it is easier to move up to
higher office if you are elected to a lower level office first.  Here in my
own county a wealthy semi-libertarian Water Board member who served on the
same local water board as Libertarian Brian Holtz got himself elected to the
county-wide water board.  The reason we don’t have many Libertarians who
have moved up like this is because moving up usually means graduating from a
non-partisan office to a partisan office, or from a very small partisan
office to a much larger partisan office.

 

If we are not going to direct our staff to put electing Libertarians as
their main goal right after keeping the lights on, then they are not going
to focus on helping our affiliates elect Libertarians.

 

And we wonder why our fundraising and membership are down just two years
after our “second most successful” presidential campaign. (1)

 

  Scott Lieberman

 

 

1.  Gary Johnson received the second highest vote percentage of all
Libertarian Nominees for President.

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