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

Wed Dec 23 12:23:12 EST 2015

Daniel:

I agree completely.  LOL

Happy Holidays,
Vicki K.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Daniel Hayes <danielehayes at icloud.com>
wrote:

> Am I in the Authoritarian Party? Should I have taken a right at the
> light?  That's not how a Wiki works.  I think a much better idea would to
> limit this  email system to two posts per member not more than 50 words
> each.
>
> Daniel Hayes
> LNC Region 7 Alternate
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 23, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Roland Riemers <riemers at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> 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, <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, <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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> 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>wes.benedict at lp.org
> facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
> Join the Libertarian Party at: <http://lp.org/membership>
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> 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, <wes.benedict at lp.org>wes.benedict at lp.org
> facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
> Join the Libertarian Party at: <http://lp.org/membership>
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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 [ <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, <wes.benedict at lp.org>wes.benedict at lp.org
> facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
> Join the Libertarian Party at: <http://lp.org/membership>
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> 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
> <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*
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