[Lnc-business] Professional Photographer at LNC Meeting

[Vicki Kirkland]

12:30pm on Saturday works for me.
VK


On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:

>   Mr. Chair:
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> It is not the responsibility of the National LP to provide free
> photography services for LNC members use "for their next run for Federal,
> state, or local office."
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> And other than yourself and the Vice-Chair, how many other LNC members
> really *need* high-quality photos for **official** LNC business?
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> I understand that some of our members are involved with other libertarian
> organizations, but again - National Libertarian Party donors should not be
> paying for free photography services that LNC members will use for non-LNC
> purposes.
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> Even if you use the Chair's discretionary funds to pay for the photography
> services, it still means that $2000 of our donor's money was re-directed
> from mortgage payments or staff salaries to pay for the photos.  Changing
> the budget item under which the money is spent doesn’t make the effort and
> cost to raise that money disappear.
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> As you all know, many of our members make their decision to renew their
> membership, or to donate money, as a result of actions that many of us
> would consider "insignificant."   But, one person's insignificant trifle
> could be the last straw for one of our members, and could cause them to
> drop their LP membership.
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> Please consider the optics of spending $2000 of LP money at this time on
> something that is perfectly doable by LNC members in their home states, on
> their own dime.
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> The choices that I offered in my previous e-mail would not cost the LP
> anything other than the staff time required to post the photos to the web
> site.  I hope that the Chair, and/or this body, will reconsider the wisdom
> of this expenditure of money at this time.
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>    Scott Lieberman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
> Nicholas Sarwark
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:13 AM
> To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Professional Photographer at LNC Meeting
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> Dear Dr. Lieberman,
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> I'm not going to make anyone sit for a photo they don't want.  If you
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> decide to reconsider, the photographer will be there and setup to take
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> photos for everyone who will sit for him.  I would like to have
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> everyone present take advantage of that opportunity.
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> I have been told by our Political Director that I need more and better
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> photos to go out with media releases.  I've also been told by
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> convention planners for states I've been invited to speak to that they
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> would like more and better photos for their promotional materials.
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> For these reasons, I was planning to retain Mr. Uilkie.
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> In consultation with Mr. Benedict, he suggested that I try to
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> negotiate a reduced rate to get more and better photographs for the
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> rest of the LNC.  I did, and the final cost will be less than $100 per
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> person.  The end result is that our committee will have better looking
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> photographs on our soon-to-be redesigned website with out soon-to-be
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> redesigned logo.  The committee will have high-quality photos that
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> they can use for their next run for Federal, state, or local office.
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> The committee will have high-quality photos that they can send to
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> organizers of events and conventions that they go out to speak to.
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> I am as careful with donor funds as I am with my own. I have decided
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> that it makes sense to spend less than $100 per LNC member who spends
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> thousands of dollars of their own money multiple times per year to
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> travel to attend to the party's business to improve the image our
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> party shows to the public.
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> I'm happy if members of the LNC wish to donate to the party to defray
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> some of that cost; board fundraising is below target so far for the
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> year anyway. I'm happy if some of our sustaining members wish to
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> donate to the party to defray some of that cost; we represent them.
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> The LNC is well within its prerogative to override my decision on this
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> issue (as on many other things), but if you do so I will still use my
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> Chair's discretionary funds to pay for this because I think it's good
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> for the LNC and the Libertarian Party.
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> I hope you will reconsider,
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> Nick
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