[Lnc-business] I predict 48 state ballot access
William Redpath
wredpath2 at yahoo.com
Thu May 12 11:39:06 EDT 2016
Brett: One thing that could help immensely is volunteer petitioning help in Illinois or Ohio from people in Indiana. Illinois is the far more critical of the two right now, because of 25,000 valid sigs needed and its June 27 deadline. Last night, Lex Green told me that the LPIL has only 9,200 gross sigs. We need 25,000 valid. I know the LPIN has not had to petition since 1994, so people there are out of practice, but any volunteer help out of Indiana to help the Illinois petition drive would be extremely helpful. I did 830 volunteer sigs in Illinois in 4.5 days. I'm certainly not expecting that from every volunteer, but anything would help. Thanks, Bill Redpath
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On Thu, 5/12/16, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] I predict 48 state ballot access
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Cc: "Richard Winger" <richardwinger at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2016, 11:21 AM
I will get that out in my broadcast to the general
list asking
for help, after Nick, Carla, Bill and I get on the
same page on a
critical detail: price. I hope to get the full
details out
today.
In the mean time:
A ballot access donation page is here:
http://www.lp.org/ballotfund
A Pennsylvania paid petitioner request is here:
http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/we-need-you-to-help-collect-signatures-in-pennsylvania-to-get-our-ticket-on-the-ballot
And there are other helpful links that we'll be
putting all
together today.
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 5/12/2016
11:11 AM, Brett Bittner
wrote:
Thanks for the update, Wes.
Have we begun any earmarked landing pages for
the areas of
concern like we did for OK that we can easily
share for the
$$$ necessary?
Do we have any directed volunteer/paid
petitioner landing
pages to direct those who might be able to help?
Aside from
Ohio, my region has very few ballot access needs
at this time,
so I'd like to know where I can direct those I
can call on to
help.
Brett C.
Bittner
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 Thu, May
12, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Wes
Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org>
wrote:
Dear LNC:
I predict 48 state ballot access.
That's if we work
very hard from now until the end. If we
slack off even
slightly, it will be more like 46. It's
going to take a
major paid petitioner recruiting effort to
hit 50.
I'm going to put out a very strongly
worded call for
new people to help petition in several
states. We need
to hire 20 paid petitioners ASAP.
If you don't believe me, ask Joshua
Katz how many
signatures we have collected in Connecticut,
and when
the start date of that petition was.
When did we approve funds for Ohio? Quite
some time
ago. I just got a contract today (I'm
about to
countersign) from the petitioner we planned
to hire
weeks ago.
Ask Bill Redpath how many signatures
we've collected in
Illinois, when we started, and when the
deadline is. The
LNC hasn't spent a dime in Illinois yet.
They haven't
collected enough to need the money. Part of
that is
good, because their local fundraising has
gone very
well. But their rate of collection so far is
far below
what's needed to finish on time.
Ask Carla Howell how many signatures have
been turned
in, in Pennsylvania. Make sure she clarifies
how many
have actually been "turned in"
versus ones we think are
in people's hands out there. We get
burned by imaginary
overestimates of signatures in hand all the
time.
We actually have the funds to pay for this
now, thanks
to strong performance from recent
fundraising letters
and lots of new dues-paying members. I
don't think we
have enough to pay for summer states yet,
like
Massachusetts or New York, but hopefully we
will after
our convention if things go well.
What I really need are new workers, and I
need the LNC,
the Chair, and Staff, to focus on getting
these new
petitioners on the ground in the states
where they are
needed, and to get the forms and
instructions in their
hands. I've discussed this with Bill
Redpath, Carla
Howell and Bob Johnston. I need the LNC to
let us focus
on this. There's a chance we'll need
to increase some
ballot access budgets. If so, when
appropriate, I'll
need the LNC to approve those. It's not
certain we'll
have to increase budgets in all states
though.
Now for the good news. South Dakota, which
was supposed
to be done last October, is 98% complete.
I showed you graphs and charts of progress in
Oklahoma
along the way. I told you we're 98% in
South Dakota
because I know the actual numbers. The fact
that I can't
report detailed numbers to you on the other
states should
be a warning sign right there.
I don't like sharing bad news or telling
you we let things
reach the urgent state. But I haven't seen
anyone else
share this news publicly. I keep hearing
"we're going to
be on the ballot in all 50 states."
I don't want failure to get on 50 to be a
surprise that
only a few of us saw coming.
We can get 50, if we do what it takes, instead
of other
time-burning things.
--
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
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