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

Wes Benedict wes.benedict at lp.org
Mon Dec 21 15:10:16 EST 2015


For example, whether or not to put "Libertarian" on a yard sign (I 
prefer seeing the word Libertarian - but you had your reasons not to put 
it):



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 3:06 PM, Wes Benedict wrote:
> Kevin, I like the concept of having a repository for information. One 
> of the challenges to putting something like that together is the vast 
> differences of opinion on what ought to be done.
>
> Imagine the section for planning LNC meeting:
> Opinion A: hold it someplace inexpensive for board members like OKC
> Opinion B: hold it someplace more expensive that will impressive 
> people (NYC)
> Opinion C: hold it online instead of in person
>
> I think you can imagine other disagreements on other topics:
>
> Ballot access:
> Opinion A
> Opinion B
>
> Conventions:
> Opinion A (hold it on a cruise ship).
> etc.
>
> Running for office:
> Opinion A
> etc.
>
> In any case, there is a ballot access committee tasked with putting 
> together best practices for ballot access. And some places with 
> repositories of info that that is hard to keep up to date. Great ideas 
> and goals to have overall.
>
> 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 2:53 PM, Kevin Ludlow wrote:
>> Wes,
>>
>> It's really nice to see visual data like that; thanks so much for 
>> putting that together!
>>
>> I had a question for the LNC in general: do we have a knowledge-base 
>> or some kind of repository for keeping up with this kind of 
>> material?  It would be really nice to know that there is a single 
>> place, accessible by all, where all of this information goes.
>>
>> When I ran in Texas last year it was immediately obvious that LPTexas 
>> had never made any effort to try to put such a knowledge base 
>> together.  My campaign team and I did our best to collect everything 
>> we did and place it into a navigable Wiki so that other candidates 
>> could use it.  It's far from exhaustive, but it was a start and many 
>> other candidates were able to use it.  Incidentally Kurt Hildebrand 
>> has been really good at creating those systems within LPTexas using 
>> our org-system.
>>
>> Anyway, if we don't have anything like it then I would be happy to 
>> setup something like this for the LNC so that we're not relying 
>> solely upon email chains for historical information in the future.
>>
>> LPTexas Campaign Wiki: http://www.ludlow2014.com/wiki/
>> Login: lptexas
>> Password: ludlow2014
>>
>> Thanks much.
>> Kevin
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org 
>> <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     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 <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>     wes.benedict at lp.org
>>     facebook.com/libertarians <http://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
>>>
>>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     *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 <mailto: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 <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>>     wes.benedict at lp.org
>>>     facebook.com/libertarians <http://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
>>>>
>>>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>     *From:*Wes Benedict <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
>>>>     <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>, wes.benedict at lp.org
>>>>     facebook.com/libertarians <http://facebook.com/libertarians>
>>>>     @LPNational
>>>>     Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
>>>>
>>>
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