[Lnc-business] Fwd: [Statechairs] Our National Committee

[Nicholas Sarwark]

Forwarding at the request of Dr. Phillies.

-Nick


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: George Phillies <phillies at 4liberty.net>
Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Statechairs] Our National Committee
To: Nick Sarwark <nsarwark at gmail.com>, State Chairs Libertarian <
statechairs at hq.lp.org>, Arvin Vohra <arvin at arvinvohra.com>, Alicia Mattson <
aliciamattson at charter.net>


Nick, as this was a comment from an LNC member to the State Chairs list
(yes, there are other hats being worn) please forward to the LNC.

On 6/22/2015 12:30 PM, William Redpath wrote:

> George:  What is the point of this email?
>

I am honestly not sure what could possibly have been obscure about my last
email, but I shall attempt to explain it, line by line.

>   Subject: [Statechairs] Our National Committee
>   To: "State Chairs Libertarian" <statechairs at hq.lp.org>
>   Date: Sunday, June 21, 2015, 10:19 PM

Address block

>   Their finances leave something to be desired.

Once upon a time, the LNC brought in two or three million dollars a year.
This year, we are likely to bring in rather less, which I view as
undesirable. [Yes, I have noted that the Greens and Constitutionalists
bring in less. The Greens shot themselves in the knees by saying they would
not contest states that Democrats might lose; the Constitution party
bottomed out and seems in general to be slowly recovering.

>   The May receipts were about as low as any I can off-hand
>   remember.

"Receipts are the amount of money that the LNC receives from donors. There
is a historical record of this as far back as 1993.  The first half year of
that included the organizational period, but for the second half of 1993 we
raised $447,000, an average of not quite $75,000 a month. Our receipts for
May were:

>   May receipts were $70,107.65.

That's how much the LNC brought in.  That's about as low as any month I
offhand remember.

>   May expenditures were $90,110.23

$90,110.23 is how much money the LNC spent in May.

>   End of May cash on hand was $41,566.

$41,566 is the financial reserves of the LNC at the end of May.

Those of you who work for a living, are living on Social Security, or are
successful investors may recognize the income-outgo-cash balance issue.

>   The sensible comment from National Secretary Mattson, who is
>   at least paying attention to the situation, is "Given our pitiful
>   financial  state,..."

I believe this is an accurate report of what Secretary Matson said, and in
my opinion she hit the nail square on the head.

>   I attach her spreadsheet of estimated 2016 ballot access
>   costs for your perusal. The Massachusetts Presidential Ballot Access
>   estimate looks to  be low by 20 or 50%.

To be precise, the estimate calls for paying for exactly 10,000
signatures.  However, the signature requirement is 10,000 valid, so there
is no safety margin here, let alone a margin for bad signatures. If one of
our candidates proposed to collect exactly enough signatures, we would
suggest an alternative approach.

The remainder of the Redpath remarks will be answered separately.


 For the past several (at least three) presidential elections, even though
> the Libertarian Party of Virginia faced a 10,000 valid signature petition
> drive to put our Presidential ticket on the ballot, it was accomplished
> with no expenditure from the LNC.
>
> I wish I could say the same for the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts,
> which also faced 10,000 valid signature petition drives.  I think, on
> average, each of those petition drives cost the LNC about $25,000, because
> of a lack of volunteer and paid signatures handled by the LPMA.  That is
> part of the reason why the LNC financial position is so bad.
>
> In each of the LPVA petition drives, I pledged 500 volunteer signatures,
> and actually did more.  Will you pledge and gather at least 500 gross
> signatures in the upcoming LPMA petition drive to help ease the financial
> burden on LNC?  Or, at least contribute the money to the LPMA to pay for
> those signatures?  Will you recruit other LPMA members to do the same?
>
> Bill Redpath
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sun, 6/21/15, George Phillies <phillies at 4liberty.net> wrote:
>
>   Subject: [Statechairs] Our National Committee
>   To: "State Chairs Libertarian" <statechairs at hq.lp.org>
>   Date: Sunday, June 21, 2015, 10:19 PM
>
>   Their finances leave something to be
>   desired.
>
>   The May receipts were about as low as any I can off-hand
>   remember.
>
>   May receipts were $70,107.65.
>
>   May expenditures were $90,110.23
>
>   End of May cash on hand was $41,566.
>
>   The sensible comment from National Secretary Mattson, who is
>   at least
>   paying attention to the situation, is "Given our pitiful
>   financial
>   state,..."
>
>   I attach her spreadsheet of estimated 2016 ballot access
>   costs for your
>   perusal. The Massachusetts Presidential Ballot Access
>   estimate looks to
>   be low by 20 or 50%.
>
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