[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-01: Riot Fest

[David Demarest]

I am leaning toward voting YES but would like to evaluate the responses to Alicia’s pertinent questions below before I vote on this motion.

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Alicia Mattson
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 8:52 PM
To: lnc-business <lnc-business at lp.org>
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-01: Riot Fest

 

I have some questions about this funding request.

Looking back at the original message from the CO chair, they indicated the minimum cost was $1000 but with another $100 they could get more volunteer passes.  CO has already put up $800 towards it, and they asked us for $200 or more.  Why is this motion for $600, rather than $200-300 to cover the balance and maybe an optional set of volunteer passes?

I share a concern with a past commenter, maybe it was Joshua(?), that this may well open the door to every state party asking us to help fund a booth at their state fair, or whatever.  Rather than just fling money randomly here or there, we should have some sort of larger strategy for the type of outreach we want to do because we have found it to be effective.  We can't say yes to all similar requests, so how do we decide which ones to do?  First come first serve until the budget is gone?  Or find demographics that are highly likely to be open to Johnson/Weld as an alternative this year and go to events of interest to those groups?

I try to not confuse activity with productivity. What will be the return on our invested money?  What does experience suggest will be the result in terms of new sustaining members?

 

Why do people attend Riot Fest?  Are the attendees in the mood to talk politics?  Or are they just in party mode?

-Alicia













 

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com <mailto:agmattson at gmail.com> > wrote:

We have an electronic mail ballot.
 
Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by July 6, 2016 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.
 
Co-Sponsors:  Harlos, Goldstein, Hayes, Bittner
 
Motion:  Move that the LNC provide $600.00 to LPCO for the Riot Fest event.  These funds would come from the budget for Affiliate Support.

-Alicia

 

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