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

Kevin Ludlow ludlow at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 15:46:57 EST 2015 

Wes,

Thank you for the backstory.  For what it's worth I greatly sympathize with
the position certain people find themselves in (or at least feel they are
in).  I've never felt restrained by anyone in my adult life, don't imagine
I ever will, and encourage others not to also.  I guess I thought everyone
was like that seeing on how [I think anyways] that's a pretty simple
interpretation of Libertarianism.

That being the case, I would be happy to set up a Wiki knowledge base and
hope people will actively contribute to it.  Perhaps someone could point me
to the old knowledge base so that I can grab everything and move it over?

I'll take that last line as joyfully and positively as it was meant to be.
I wish everybody on the LNC would speak their mind; we might actually see
that needle move! :)  In the interim, I'll be sure to remind Region 7 that
they're welcome to fire me come May.

Thanks again.

-Kevin

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:

> Our chair had staff start a wiki knowledgebase last term. What quickly
> became apparent to a few of us is that two LNC members, whom I won't name
> here, likely would have provided 80% of the content due to their
> willingness to provide it--with staff and other LNC members feeling like
> they might not want a significant amount of such content. So then, we'd
> have the situation where staff (primarily me), would be telling my bosses
> (the LNC), what they can and can't do and write where. That's a tough
> position for staff to be in.
>
> With you putting together the wiki, it's a much more stable situation. You
> have no trouble providing frank feedback to your fellow LNC members.
>
> 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 3:23 PM, Kevin Ludlow wrote:
>
> Thanks, Wes.  I'll get something up and will restrict access to members.
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:
>
>> 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 <%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>> <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 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>
>> 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 <%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>> <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 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 <%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>> <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 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>
>>> 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 <%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>>> <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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> *From:* Lnc-business [ <lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org>
>>>> mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org <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>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 <%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>>> <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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> *From:* Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org><wes.benedict at lp.org>
>>>> <wes.benedict at lp.org>
>>>> *To:* <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>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/lp-monday-message-help-reach-a-million
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/quiz-across-america-door-hangers-5-per-100>
>>>> 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>
>>>> 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 <%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,
>>>> <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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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