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

Wes Benedict wes.benedict at lp.org
Mon Dec 21 15:27:29 EST 2015


Kevin, I think you setting something up like that would be great. Has 
great potential and the opportunity to be very helpful.

Thanks,

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 3:14 PM, Kevin Ludlow wrote:
> Wes,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.  If that is the case, then I will simply 
> set something up and make sure that everyone on the LNC has access to 
> it.  At least to start, I would like to ensure that it is LIMITED to 
> members of the LNC only.  This is not to be secretive, but rather to 
> ensure that we can build it up before hearing an unlimited number of 
> opinions on how to change it.
>
> Your comment is incredibly well-taken.  However if that's truly the 
> case then this is something the LNC and LP need to learn how to do 
> better and of course I would be happy to help facilitate that.
>
> Opinions are not especially useful for knowledge bases. What is useful 
> is having unrestrained access to rules, facts, and data that is 
> otherwise spread all over the place.  Per my yard sign not having the 
> word Libertarian on it, that is indeed an opinion.  Understanding the 
> laws regarding font sizes, the legal language about right of ways and 
> things of this nature are not opinions and rather facts about how it 
> needs to work.
>
> Additionally I would argue that since design work is no doubt very 
> subjective that we should have a variety of templates available to 
> people.  There need not be a homogeneity to our processes, but it 
> would be really useful if candidates (and others) didn't need to waste 
> time starting from scratch.  That was the part I found incredibly 
> frustrating as a new candidate.  As a business person, I can tell you 
> that it's mind-boggling to see a complete lack of process 
> documentation available.  This is again what Kurt has largely worked 
> to create within Texas and I would advocate that we do it at a 
> national level too.
>
> Even the ballot access need not have opinions.  It should have facts 
> about what is available to us.  This kind of fact gathering would 
> likely make our future decisions much more valuable and of course 
> turns us from discussing opinions to discussing strategies.  Meaning, 
> if could historically show the time it takes to get 10,000 signatures 
> then we are better equipped to determine whether or not to spend money 
> on such a venture.
>
> I will try to set something up for us.
>
> -Kevin
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org 
> <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     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 <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>     wes.benedict at lp.org <mailto: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 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 <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>     wes.benedict at lp.org <mailto: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 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
>>>         <mailto: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 <mailto: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>
>>>>>         <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
>>>>>         <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>>>>         wes.benedict at lp.org <mailto: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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>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     ========================================================
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>>>     http://www.kevinludlow.com
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