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

Mon Dec 21 15:29:56 EST 2015

It would also be nice if there was a manual for volunteer ballot access
petitioners.

I understand that the laws and policies are different in each state, so
those facts do not need to be put into a nationwide manual.

But - there are some universal truths, such as approximately how many sigs
per hour volunteers can expect to collect, what to say to people to get them
to sign, etc.

  Scott Lieberman

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
Kevin Ludlow
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 12:15 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] early Christmas present - $20,000 for quiz door
hangers

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> 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
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
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> 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> ,
<mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org> wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at:  <http://lp.org/membership>
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 <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232> ,
<mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org> wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at:  <http://lp.org/membership>
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  <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>
<mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org> <wes.benedict at lp.org>
To: 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. 

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