[Lnc-business] Fw: Libertarian Party of Illinois Ballot Access shortfall

[William Redpath]

Forwarded with the approval of Lex Green...

--- On Thu, 6/30/16, Lex Green <LexGreen at lpillinois.org> wrote:

> From: Lex Green <LexGreen at lpillinois.org>
> Subject: Libertarian Party of Illinois Ballot Access shortfall
> To: "'Robert Kraus'" <robert.kraus at lp.org>, "'Wes Benedict'" <wes.benedict at lp.org>, "'Bill Redpath'" <william.redpath at lp.org>
> Cc: "'Krysta Walker'" <krysswalker at gmail.com>, "'Nicholas Sarwark'" <chair at lp.org>, christophersthrasher at gmail.com, "'Ken Moellman'" <ken.moellman at lpky.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 30, 2016, 5:09 PM
> I would like to start by thanking
> everyone who has helped the Libertarian Party of Illinois
> with our recently concluded petition drive. We submitted
> over 50,000 signatures, in spite of our targeting only
> 40,000. Now we wait to see if we will be
> challenged.
>  Going over our target is a mixed
> blessing. As the checks begin to clear, we find ourselves
> unable to pay all of our contractors. As of today,
> 6/30/2016, we have submitted the final request for
> previously approved funds. We have received the full $70,000
> allotment. If no more money is available to supplement the
> Illinois party, we will have spent $37,988.00. Our original
> budget called for $16,500 from the state with a $50,000
> supplement from the LNC. The total contractor signatures
> paid for was budgeted at 26,000 and but ended at 36,530.
> Volunteer signatures from among state party members was
> 11,110. Although short of our project goal, this represents
> our highest number of volunteer signatures ever contributed
> here.  I am requesting additional assistance
> from the LNC and/or from the Johnson campaign to help us pay
> our final contractors. At this time, I have four contractors
> with balances between $396.00 and $5000.00. The largest one
> is part of our budgeting problem, because it is for Jake
> Witmer, who was out of touch with us for long periods of
> time, but then dumped large numbers of signatures on us in
> the final week. His raw numbers would suggest a payment of
> over $9000, but we are working out validation now and expect
> a large adjustment for bad signatures. Assuming a 40%
> validity, we would owe him $4,437.00. The combined amount
> due to the remaining contractors is $3,876.00.
>  I am requesting an additional
> $7500.00 be approved to help us make these final payments.
> If this payment is approved, it will result in the Illinois
> party’s final contribution to its own ballot access being
> $30,488, and outside assistance provided would total
> 77,500.00. In 2012, the LNC contributed over $100,000 in
> Illinois to get Governor Johnson on our ballot. In light of
> the huge contribution of money, time and effort expended in
> Illinois to help the cause of 50 state ballot access, we
> feel that this modest request is justified. Please
> help.  Lex Green lexgreen at lpillinois.org309-530-7114
>  “…the saddest
> epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished
> liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to
> stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time."
> – George Sutherland 1921
>