[Lnc-business] Re. SD petition drive

[Wes Benedict]

Roland and others,

We have a problem in South Dakota. Our main petitioner, Charles Tuttle, 
for various reasons, has been unable to collect the necessary 
signatures. The petition drive was supposed to be completed before the 
end of 2015.  We're close to half way done. While this had been set up 
to be more like a sole-source contract where Mr. Tuttle was going to do 
the organizing of subcontractors, because of the slow progress, I'm 
changing that and recruiting more petitioners to help. Because of the 
way the original contract was set up, the Libertarian Party has not lost 
money on the original arrangement. In fact, the signatures we've 
collected have come in at less than $2/signature on average. We have 
lost valuable time, however.

Going forward, instead of turning the signatures in to Ken Santema, the 
chair in South Dakota, all signatures will need to be mailed to me at 
the LP headquarters in Alexandria, and I'll be issuing payment from 
here. Of course I'm continuing to coordinate very closely with Ken.

If you know of any petitioners that would be interested, please have 
them call me at 202-333-0008x232. We'll be paying $2.00 per signature, 
and no other expenses will be covered. For example, we will not be 
paying travel, lodging, or meals. What I'm hoping to find is just 2 or 3 
good people. That's all it would take to finish the drive.  I'll give 
preference to people who are able to call me on the phone at 
202-333-0008x232, that are able to give me a cell phone number that I 
can call back and verify, and that also able to send me an email to me 
with their phone number to wes.benedict at lp.org. That way I can email 
Form W-9s and contracts and things. However, the email use option is not 
mandatory.

Petitioners will have to sign contracts with me in advance to get paid.

Roland, if you have any recommendations for petitioners to hire for 
this, please let me know.

The final deadline for this petition drive is March 29 (not the March 5 
mentioned in Roland's email below), but South Dakota allows multiple 
turn-ins, and we'd like to turn in the first batch of signatures at the 
beginning of March. We need just over 7,000 valid signatures, so this 
drive is just over a quarter of the size of the recent Oklahoma 
drive--much easier.

Thanks,

Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
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 8/1/2015 10:10 PM, Roland Riemers wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I have been checking with Charles Tuttle the Petitioner, and they (3) 
> are interested in doing the SD petition drive.  Checked on 
> requirements, and it is 6,936 signatures.  My understanding, unlike 
> ND, is they have to be registered voters, but the petitioners can 
> register them as well as get their signatures.    Deadline is 5 March 
> 2016, but naturally they do not want to collect in the dead of winter, 
> so our realistic deadline should be by the end of November to avoid 
> cold weather as well as give the SD party time to get candidates on line.
>
> Charles likes 10% over,  so I think a realistic goal would be 7,500 
> signatures.
>
> They are willing to do it for $15,000 and they would pay their own 
> expenses such as hotels, etc.and they would be very happy with that.
>
> To make this effort worthwhile,  I would suggest we also offer a $5 
> bounty if they give out membership applications and they later enroll 
> in the party.  I would be willing to sponsor $2 of that $5.  I think 
> anyone who enrolls in the party during the time of petitioning, and up 
> to one month afterwards, should be credited to the efforts of the 
> petitioners.  Actually, if Wes was willing to go along with it,  I 
> think it would benefit the party if we even gave a $10 per new member 
> bounty, because the party would still come out way ahead.   We would 
> need to get them a good supply of membership applications to hand out.
>
> It is my understanding that there currently are some other petition 
> drives going on in SD,  so the sooner we get going on this the better 
> and everyone will be happy.
>
> Of course the question still remains is can SD put some actual 
> candidates on the ballot if we put the party on the ballot?
>
> Roland Riemers
>
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