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

Wed Dec 23 12:01:17 EST 2015

I would suggest any one contributor be limited to two inserts per day,  totaling nor more then 500 words each.  (anything more than that could be provided as a link, etc.).  And should be MOSTLY limited to facts and not just speculations or desires or the need to see yourself in print.
Roland Riemers ND

      From: Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org>
 To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org 
 Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 2:41 PM
 Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] early Christmas present - $20, 000 for quiz door hangers

  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
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  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, wes.benedict at lp.org
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     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> 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, 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> 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, wes.benedict at lp.org
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     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
 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, wes.benedict at lp.org
 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 mailto: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'mpleased 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, wes.benedict at lp.org
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