[Lnc-business] February LNC Meeting

Wed Jan 6 17:34:46 EST 2016

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      From: Kevin Ludlow <ludlow at gmail.com>
 To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org 
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 Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 1:39 PM
 Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] February LNC Meeting

Please respond so that this process can be put to rest. 

http://polljunkie.com/poll/zamzoj/poll-2-please-do-not-open-the-page-and-then-not-vote

As of 1:30pm CST, here are the tallies.  I have sent personal emails to each and every person who has not yet responded.   Please let me know if I have missed anyone.

Oklahoma City, OK
Marc Feldman
Doug Craig
Vicki Kirkland
Gary Johnson
Nick Sarwark
[unknown vote]
Bill Redpath

Phoenix, AZ
Kevin Ludlow
Brett Bitner
Jim Lark
Scott Lieberman

NOTA
Wes Benedict
Daniel Hayes

Not Yet Voted
Josh Katz
Ed Marsh
Guy McLendon
Norm Olsen
Jim Lark
Sean O'Toole
Scott Spencer
Sam Goldstein
Dan Weiner
Alicia Mattson
Tim Hagan
Arvin Vohra
Roland Rimers
Ron Windeler
Rich Tomasso

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:

 It is not the job of the LNC to “reward”state affiliates for their “activism” by holding an LNC Session intheir state.

Since we have a limited number offinalists for our 2018 Convention site, and WE, the LNC, are the ones who make thefinal decision as to which hotel gets our Convention, we have an obligation toour members to gather as much information about those finalists as possible. I will note that the LP ofCalifornia has retained ballot access without a single dollar of National LPmoney since the early 1980’s, and we have 17 ElectedLibertarians.   The LP of Oklahoma has never retained ballot access,and they have 0 Elected Libertarians. Which state affiliate deservesmore “recognition” from the LNC? Do you REALLY think that having 3or 4 LNC Members at a Friday or Monday press conference will increase thenumber of media outlets that cover the press conference?  Again – ifthe Chair wants to attend such a press conference, that is a perfectly reasonablething for him to do. Note – I argued againsthaving an LNC Meeting in conjunction with the upcoming Activist Training justoutside of San Franciscobecause it would make LNC members choose between attending one or the other,and because the hotel for the Training is not a finalist for the site of our2018 Convention. I have to wonder if the hotels inAZ, LA, NJ, and WA could have come up with better offers if they had beencontacted in October instead of late December.     Scott Lieberman  From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Wes Benedict
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|  To:   |  Joshua Katz mailto:jalankatz at gmail.com, Wes Benedict mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org, James W. Lark, III mailto:jwl3s at virginia.edu, Kevin Ludlow mailto:ludlow at gmail.com, Daniel Hayes mailto:danielehayes at icloud.com  |

 Please share with LNC. 

Dr. Lark wrote

"*  If I understand correctly, the LP Oklahoma is allowed to conduct only onesubmission of signatures in its petitioning effort.  If so, then if thedeadline for submission of signatures is at least a week later than Feb. 22, my gut feeling is that the signatures should not besubmitted on or about Feb. 22.  Thus, it is notclear to me that one of the possible benefits of an LNC meeting in OKC (a pressconference associated with the submission of the signatures) wouldmaterialize."p] Fri Feb 19 should beplenty late enough to submit to the state. If we still have any doubt that wehave enough signatures on Feb 19, hopefully at least some of the LNC members(obviously not all and I don't expect most) will pick up a few signaturesthemselves while they are here instead. But I think we are well on track tohave more than enough signatures well before then, with the only question beingat what point LNC wants to cut the funding to get additional padding. p] I realize not all, andquite likely not most, of the LNC will be here in time for the turn-in, but evenhaving a few of the key LNC members here would add to the impact. More so eventhan if Nick Sarwark flies out here by himself. p] The Oklahoma Party hashad to overcome ballot access barriers like no other state. They could use ashot in the arm. The ballot access barriers here should get maximum possiblepublicity. OKLP is doing well with prospective candidate recruitment. They havealso done a lot given the ballot access circumstances to be publicly visiblewith issue coalitions and public events. Tina told me they are on the cusp ofwinning the support of a large chunk of the small-l andgenerally-POed-at-poor-duopoly-choices communities here. A shot in the armcould go a long way. p] I am trying to put together an event or severalwith several of the campaigns for the presidential nomination. Liberty on Tap OKC is that Thursday (Feb 18).If LNC meeting is 20-21 and the state turn in is Feb 19 that would give us acore of dates to try to plan around. Johnson of NM, Kerbel and Petersen allexpressed tentative interest in personal conversation but dates have not beenworked out or specific events but what I had in mindwas a college appearance or several (mini-tour?), maybe some debates/jointappearances between the campaigns. I was hoping for January but Tina and LarryKelly think it's not enough time to promote and organize the events thatquickly. In conjunction with the state turn in and the LNC meeting would begood as well. I can try to fit in a few college dates right before or after. p] It could also serve asthe official kickoff for some of the state and local candidates' campaigns.Plus, maybe we can get more of them if the LNC shows up, as some people haven'tdecided whether to run or not yet. p] We are one day or lessdrive for many active nearby state parties, such as much (probably most) of theTexasmembership and some others. Dallasis about 3 hours drive from OKC. p] Finally, and I am sure this will be THE topconsideration for the LNC on where to have its meeting, for once I won't haveto travel to cover the LNC meeting for IPR because the meeting will come to me.Please, no "in Soviet Russia" or "in Soviet Oklahoma"jokes.   Thanks everyone, -paulie
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