[Lnc-business] UMP

[Alicia Mattson]

I am no FEC expert, but I'm pretty certain that #2 is not legal if the
state affiliate is not an FEC-filer.  The national party can ONLY receive
federal funds, which means only FEC-filing affiliates could send money to
national.

Obviously, step 1 is to make inquiry with Paula Edwards about what legal
options are available to us.

-Alicia



On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> I don't want to clutter the State Chairs list with our internal stuff...
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> Mr. Chair - there are two courses of action:
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>     1.  Implement what you suggest below immediately.  I bet staff could
> get this working with at least a few states well before the LNC Session in
> Phoenix next month.  If we do this, I suggest staff add a short
> explanation on the “Membership Center” page of what we are doing, and why
>    (ie – the FEC makes us do it this way).
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>     2.  Ask our FEC consultant if states can collect money for National
> Memberships on *their *web sites, either as separate transactions, or
> maybe even as one transaction.  In the latter case, the state would send
> the money to National from their state bank account.  Isn't that legal even
> if a state is not FEC-filing?
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> I suggest you wait until next Wednesday to make sure all LNC members have
> had a chance to read this thread.  If you don't get any significant
> objections, then please ask staff to implement what you wrote below, and
> hopefully get started on implementing number 2 above.
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> TIA.
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>   Scott Lieberman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Statechairs [mailto:statechairs-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
> Nicholas Sarwark
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 3:21 PM
> To: statechairs at hq.lp.org
> Subject: Re: [Statechairs] UMP
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> If a joint checkout solution, i.e. Person A gives $X to LP Texas and
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> $Y to the LNC from the same webpage, but in separate payment
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> transactions, is legal under FEC rules and the relevant state
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> campaign finance rules, I would direct that we implement it assuming
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> the cost is reasonable, the effort is manageable with our staffing,
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> and it doesn't derail other priorities.
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> I don't foresee LNC resistance to my providing that direction to staff
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> and/or request of the IT Committee.  If there is resistance to that
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> from the LNC, I would work very hard to overcome that resistance.
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> One of our jobs as a national committee is to be of value to our state
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> affiliates.  I intend that we will do that job.
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>      Nick
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