[Lnc-business] early Christmas present - $20, 000 for quiz door hangers

[Wes Benedict]

Horizontal axis is the week. The drive has about 27 weeks from the time 
we started paying for signature till the deadline.

Week ending 8/20/2015 ("1") through week ending 2/28/2016 ("27").

Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
*New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314*
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

On 12/21/2015 12:59 PM, Scott L. wrote:
>
> That’s what I get for using words I haven’t used since high school.
>
> It should have read:
>
> Mr. Executive Director:
>
> I assume the ordinate (vertical axis) on the graph below represents 
> raw signatures that have been turned in to Mr. Frankel.
>
>
> What does the ordinate *abscissa* (horizontal axis) represent?
>
> Scott Lieberman
>
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> *From:*Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] *On Behalf 
> Of *Wes Benedict
> *Sent:* Monday, December 21, 2015 9:30 AM
> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Lnc-business] early Christmas present - $20, 000 for 
> quiz door hangers
>
> We have ramped up our collection rate dramatically. I currently 
> predict (but I caution that my prediction could be off due to many 
> factors such as weather, competing petitions, validity issues, math or 
> count errors, and many other issues), but again, I currently predict 
> we will finish around January 15 plus or minus 10 days. So be sure to 
> check back with me before making concrete plans. See graph below.
>
>
> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
> *New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314*
> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>
> facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
> Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
>
> On 12/19/2015 3:33 PM, Roland Riemers wrote:
>
>> Wes, I understand the SD petitioners got sidetracked to Texas for a 
>> few weeks, and then will be in Oklahoma. I should be there about that 
>> time as well.  Aim is still to hit the Tulsa area.
>>
>> Roland Riemers ND
>>
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>>
>> *From:*Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>
>> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org <mailto:lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
>> *Sent:* Friday, December 18, 2015 3:46 PM
>> *Subject:* [Lnc-business] early Christmas present - $20, 000 for quiz 
>> door hangers
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce a check received for $20,000 to help finance 
>> a major quiz door hanger distribution project in 2016.
>>
>> The check was hand delivered recently by Michael Chastain, of Austin, 
>> Texas. Mr. Chastain also recently contributed $4,000 for Oklahoma 
>> ballot access.
>>
>> I plan to do something similar to what we did in 2010:
>> http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/lp-monday-message-help-reach-a-million
>> http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/quiz-across-america-door-hangers-5-per-100
>>
>> but this time, I want to do over a million door hangers. I can see 
>> having the quiz on one side, and our presidential nominee on the other.
>>
>> In 2010, we also received a $20,000 check from a different donor to 
>> help support door hangers. With the extra financing, we're able to 
>> sell them at five cents each and waive shipping charges, rather than 
>> selling at 10 cents each plus $5 shipping as we do now.
>>
>> For those of you new to the LNC, I've written separately, and will 
>> write more in the future, about how the door hangers do much more 
>> than simply provide the printed advertising benefits. They encourage 
>> local activity, etc. I'll write more about it later.
>>
>> To me, this was an early Christmas present to the LP, but I certainly 
>> understand others might see it differently:
>> http://www.lp.org/poll/i-consider-myself-to-be-a-libertarian-politically-and-the-word-that-best-describes-my-religion
>>
>> Happy Holidays!
>>
>> -- 
>> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
>> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
>> *New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314*
>> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>
>> facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
>> Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
>>
>
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