[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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