[Lnc-business] Ballot Access Committee notes

[William Redpath]

I forgot to include this in my Ballot Access Committee report, but the
Ballot Access Committee met telephonically once since the March 2015 LNC
meeting, on April 12, 2015.  Paul Frankel submitted the following notes
from the call.  Bill Redpath

One addition. I can't remember it if we mentioned it on the call or not.

Top Two Only has reared its ugly head in Florida and is paying for
signatures. They have wealthy backers, so they have the resources to make
the ballot.

Early heads up to start fighting against them there.

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, <travellingcircus at gmail.com
<https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/b/compose?to=travellingcircus@gmail.com>>
 wrote:

 Not sure if anyone took notes, here are a few from me. ...

Alabama: late breaking news, from our state team working on passing the
ballot access bill, there may still be a chance to pass the bill if we get
a lot of people to contact AL House on April 23 and 28. Provided it passes
the senate, which it did in 2012, ran out the clock in the house which
seems likely again but maybe not if we bring enough pressure.  contacted
our FB team, lp blog, and hq to see if we can have a coordinated effort
with FB, twitter, email blast and blog post to get people to contact the
legislature. My previous info from my state list was that it i probably too
late to get thru the house but I got some different opinions from that list
subsequent to the call.

Arkansas: I emailed my state contacts here, most of you were copied except
for the Oklahoma folks that joined the call. One thing that could help
avoid conflict between petitioners over locations is if there was a more
concerted effort to open up locations IE with legal letters to government
buildings and maybe some calls to stores to line up permission.
Nevertheless I still think Andy and Darryl are both acting like two
fishermen fighting over the biggest fish in the river when there is a whole
river full of fish swimming by. I though it was especially galling to see
them have a loud public argument in front of the location as I walked up,
as that could cause complaints and give them a reason to kick us all out
permanently if we are "creating a disturbance." I pulled Andy away and got
him out of there as fast as I could. But the positive thing we could do as
a committee is help petition drives plan ahead by opening up as many
locations as possible so petitioners don't compete over them as much.

Oklahoma: If we manage to get a petition drive going, it would be awesome
if there is any way to get it started soon - ideally right after Arkansas
as we are right next door - as opposed to in the fall. One thing I did not
mention on the call, fall will have more petition drives to compete with,
particularly multiple initiatives in Mass (where Andy and Darryl will
probably be and many others) and some other places. Not much else going on
soon, though, as far as I know, so sooner would be better, although I do
understand that there has to be time for fundraising also. On the lobbying
side, what are the chances that the lobbyist would succeed if the LP hires
him, in the opinion of the OK folks?

Motion creating the committee: Bill read it during the call. Written
version is on pages 10-11
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Draft minutes of the most recent LNC meeting. Interesting that according to
these minutes, of the two full LNC members of this ballot access committee,
one voted against creating it and one abstained.

Regarding the institutional knowledge portion of our scope, here is a video
you may want to watch and share: Bill Redpath, Mark Axinn (state chair
LPNY)  and myself taught a class on petitioning and managing petition
drives at the last LP national convention. I was sick that day but it could
be useful to some people. My portion is the last and is on actually
personally gathering signatures, the previous two parts with Bill and Mark
are more concerned with managing petitioners and motivating volunteers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEdcCtn1Rhc

More videos on other "nuts and bolts" LP management topics are at
http://lsla.org/resources  or check out http://libertarianmajority.net/tools
and http://www.lp.org/campaign-resources  for similarly but mostly older
(1990s) resources in print format.

We can create better versions of this presentation and similar ones in the
future. Also, an updated written guide from the quarter century old
versions found among the written materials links above; other suggestions
welcome.

I don't see fundraising for ballot access drives or actually helping with
volunteer recruitment, motivation and training as part of the committee's
official scope, but I am suggeesting informally that they should be.

Thanks everyone,



Paul Frankel
  205-534-1622, https://www.facebook.com/paulie.cannoli
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