[Lnc-business] Fwd: Ending Oklahoma paid petition drive on January 18th (today)
Wes Benedict
wes.benedict at lp.org
Fri Jan 22 12:28:47 EST 2016
Brett, thanks for considering that sacrifice for the cause . . .
Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
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On 1/22/2016 11:40 AM, Brett Bittner wrote:
> I have flip flops, and I may be able to make the sacrifice to petition
> during Spring Break at South Padre Island. It will be tough, as the
> snow in Indiana will be hard to leave, but somebody has to do it.
>
> Seriously, thank you, Wes! Your updates have made this process more
> visible to LNC members and those that read the list outside the LNC.
>
> Kevin, I appreciate your desire to get the nuts and bolts recorded to
> make future decisions regarding $100k expenditures with more data and
> less conjecture.
>
> Brett C. Bittner
>
> brett at brettbittner.com <mailto:brett at brettbittner.com>
> 404.492.6524
>
> "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
> liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas
> Jefferson
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org
> <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>> wrote:
>
> Kevin, there's a giant blizzard headed my way, and I'll be rushing
> home to work from home soon, so I'm going to keep this short.
>
> 1. We contracted with one organization (the LP OK), which
> subcontracted to 31 individuals and 2 organizations so far.
>
> 2. We have 40,045 signatures in hand.
>
> 3. 24,712 valid are required. The best estimates I've heard for
> validity are 67%, which comes to 26,830. But valid signatures is
> not a number that's knowable with certainty, even with a
> theoretical unlimited resources. Our validity checkers may make
> different judgements than the Oklahoma elections officials in each
> county. We want plenty of extra signatures to be safe. The LNC is
> not paying for more signatures, but volunteer and local efforts
> continue.
>
> 4. My cost estimate so far is $101,077. I don't expect it go
> higher hardly at all. We've stopped spending and paid for
> everything, but some small bills might still roll in.
>
> Finally, I'm going to interrupt this winter in Alexandria,
> Virgina, and the ice storm I endured while visiting Oklahoma, and
> bring back scenes from my experience 12 years ago petitioning in
> Texas. South Padre Island, Texas, that is. Spring Break. Click on
> the photo
> <https://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/80107-signatures-two-hotties-and-mismanagement-of-the-insane-professional-lp-petitioners/>for
> the full story of petitioning in Texas. See some of the same ole
> names in the comments. Kevin, you better get your flip flops ready
> and your sun tan lotion and book early for 2018 Spring Break
> because LP Texas is going to have to petition again most likely,
> for the first time since 2004, and I can't go to Padre anymore.
>
> <https://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/80107-signatures-two-hotties-and-mismanagement-of-the-insane-professional-lp-petitioners/>
>
> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
> 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232 <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>,wes.benedict at lp.org <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>
> facebook.com/libertarians <http://facebook.com/libertarians> @LPNational
> Join the Libertarian Party at:http://lp.org/membership
>
> On 1/22/2016 1:55 AM, Kevin Ludlow wrote:
>> Thanks for having sent out this information, Wes.
>>
>> Now that the petition is ended (at least I think it is), do we
>> have the numbers yet?
>>
>> I would be very interested in the following data points:
>>
>> 1) How many different people we employed to collect signatures
>> 2) How many signatures we collected in total
>> 3) How many VALID signatures we collected
>> 4) What the total cost was for all of the signature collection
>>
>> And before anybody thinks there's some interest to twist it
>> around, I'm simply interested in archiving this data for the
>> future so that we have better records next time it comes up. It
>> seems to me that we do a lot of guess work around here. It also
>> seems to me that in order to improve upon that we really need to
>> be more diligent with data. As always, apologies if I'm
>> mistaken, but I certainly don't know of any available resource
>> that houses data like this. I'd like to help improve that any
>> which way I can.
>>
>> Kevin Ludlow
>> Region 7 Rep
>> 512-773-3968 <tel:512-773-3968>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Wes Benedict
>> <wes.benedict at lp.org <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Roland. I just sent you an email separately with
>> contacts in Oklahoma that can get you set up and productive
>> quickly. Thank you again so much for helping out in such a
>> big way.
>>
>> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
>> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
>> 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
>> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232
>> <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>, wes.benedict at lp.org
>> <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org> facebook.com/libertarians
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>> Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
>>
>> On 1/19/2016 10:57 PM, Roland Riemers wrote:
>>> Wes, my latest schedule plans seems to be to leave ND on
>>> this Thursday or Friday. Instead of Tulsa, I decided on
>>> Oklahoma City instead, because I have a daughter and free
>>> housing there. She lives in Moore, Oklahoma, and I have her
>>> and her husbands signatures already obligated. Moore is in
>>> Cleveland County, and it looks like a lot of good open
>>> housing developments in that area, so I might just
>>> concentrate on house to house in Cleveland County and maybe
>>> some large sites during the day where I can set up a table
>>> and chair. Weather looks good for this time period.
>>>
>>> Have anyway in Okahoma City area that would be willing to
>>> work with me a few days?
>>>
>>> I have the petitions all printed out, and also some voter
>>> registration forms for those not registered, although not
>>> quit sure where they should be turned in to.
>>>
>>> While in Oklahoma, locals can reach me on my cell phone at
>>> 701-317-1803 <tel:701-317-1803>.
>>>
>>> I will drive one of my vans down, so if any volunteers, I
>>> can also provide transportation. Will also have my table and
>>> chairs and even my bullhorn and a few American Flags if needed.
>>>
>>> Roland Riemers, ND
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From:* Wes Benedict <Wes.Benedict at lp.org>
>>> <mailto:Wes.Benedict at lp.org>
>>> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org <mailto:lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, January 18, 2016 1:32 AM
>>> *Subject:* [Lnc-business] Fwd: Ending Oklahoma paid petition
>>> drive on January 18th (today)
>>>
>>> Roland, we'd still like your help to cover unexpected
>>> problems with validity. But we'll be finished with the paid
>>> portion of the drive today.
>>>
>>> If someone wants to contribute $1,500 directly to the LP
>>> Oklahoma, that could pay for an additional 1,000 signatures
>>> at the $1.50 rate. Contact me if you are interested in that
>>> (or Tina directly if you're in contact with her). You need
>>> to make sure it goes into their ballot access fund instead
>>> of their general fund to be sure it gets spent on signatures.
>>>
>>> Graph below (more signatures are on the way not yet
>>> reflected in that graph), and the "ending" announcement is
>>> below.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> Subject: Ending Oklahoma paid petition drive on January
>>> 18th (today)
>>> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 02:22:57 -0500
>>> From: Wes Benedict mailto:Wes.Benedict at lp.org
>>> To: Tina Kelly mailto:tina.kelly at cox.net, Bill Redpath
>>> mailto:william.redpath at lp.org, Nicholas Sarwark
>>> mailto:chair at lp.org, travellingcircus at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:travellingcircus at gmail.com>, ken.moellman at lpky.org
>>> <mailto:ken.moellman at lpky.org>, oliverbhall at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:oliverbhall at gmail.com>, 'Richard Winger'
>>> mailto:richardwinger at yahoo.com, 'Robert Kraus'
>>> mailto:robert.kraus at lp.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Due to strong progress, we are ending the paid petitioning
>>> in Oklahoma at the $1.50 rate at the end of the day on
>>> January 18, 2016 (that's means today if you are reading this
>>> the day it is sent).
>>>
>>> Petitioners will have four days to turn in their signatures
>>> to Tin Kelly (turn them in by January 22, 2016).
>>>
>>> My note below indicated we would end the $2.50 rate on
>>> January 17, and due to quantities projected, we are ending
>>> the $1.50 rate on January 18 (just one day's worth).
>>>
>>> A big thank you goes out to everyone who helped with this
>>> drive. We still need a couple thousand signatures from
>>> volunteers in Oklahoma to make sure this drive is
>>> successful. If you are interested in collecting as a
>>> volunteer, please contact Tina Kelly.
>>>
>>>
>>> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
>>> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
>>> *New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314*
>>> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232
>>> <tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232>, wes.benedict at lp.org
>>> <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>
>>> facebook.com/libertarians <http://facebook.com/libertarians>
>>> @LPNational
>>> Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
>>>
>>> Wes Benedict wrote on 1/11/2016 6:57 PM:
>>>> Attention petitioners, Libertarian National Committee, and
>>>> Libertarian Party of Oklahoma: the deadline for paid
>>>> petitioning in Oklahoma at $2.50 per signature is January
>>>> 17. We are almost out of money and have almost reached our
>>>> targets.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to a great effort by many petitioners, we are close
>>>> to hitting our approximate target of around 38,000
>>>> signatures paid for by the Libertarian National Committee
>>>> and Libertarian Party of Oklahoma. We will come close to
>>>> reaching that target on January 17.
>>>>
>>>> Petitioners will have four days after January 17 to get
>>>> their signatures turned in to Tina Kelly, the petition
>>>> organizer in Oklahoma. You will not get paid $2.50 per
>>>> signature for signatures collected after January 17.
>>>>
>>>> We may be short a a few hundred or a few thousand
>>>> signatures. We may hire a few people to continue collecting
>>>> signatures at $1.50 per signature after January 17 perhaps
>>>> for several days. If you are interested in collecting
>>>> signatures for $1.50 after January 17 for a limited amount
>>>> of time, please contact Tina Kelly and get approval for
>>>> that in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your great work on this petition drive.
>>>>
>>>> This email is approved for release to others, including the
>>>> public.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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