[Lnc-business] Re. SD petition drive

[Wes Benedict]

I should note that the Libertarian Party of South Dakota has reported 
collecting over 500 volunteer signatures so far.

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 2/3/2016 10:36 AM, Wes Benedict wrote:
> 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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