[Lnc-business] Re. SD petition drive

Wed Feb 3 17:11:06 EST 2016

Correction. I forgot S.D. is one of those states where you can't pay per 
signature, so different arrangements will be made.

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 10:41 AM, Wes Benedict wrote:
> 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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