[Lnc-business] Motion to Amend the Ballot Access Budget

[Starchild]

	Good question, Sam.

	Also, we have a Ballot Access Committee. That subcommittee should be overseeing ballot access matters, and I would be more comfortable with the request coming from them. Is the chair speaking in his role as an ex officio member of that committee?

	I'm also wondering, as a practical matter, what specifically will happen if this motion is not approved?
	
	Ballot access is crucial, obviously, but we should not be receiving requests for funding after the money has already been spent! Isn't that why we have an Operations Committee – to approve things like extra funds on short notice? Did the Ballot Access Committee request more money from the Operations Committee in a timely fashion? If not, why not? Were they kept out of the loop?

Love & Liberty,
                                  ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
                               (415) 625-FREE



On Aug 30, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Sam Goldstein wrote:

> http://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.com/2016/05/johnson-pledges-150k-volunteers-to_11.html
> 
> Sam Goldstein
> Libertarian National Committee
> Member at Large
> 8925 N Meridian St, Ste 101
> Indianapolis IN 46260
> 317-850-0726 Phone
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we know the total amount contributed to this effort by the Johnson Campaign against their
> pledge of $150,000?
> 
> Sam Goldstein
> Libertarian National Committee
> Member at Large
> 8925 N Meridian St, Ste 101
> Indianapolis IN 46260
> 317-850-0726 Phone
> 317-582-1773 Fax
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Nicholas Sarwark <chair at lp.org> wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> The good news is that we are still on track to have our Presidential
> candidate on all 50 state ballots and the District of Columbia.  The
> bad news is that it cost more than we had anticipated at our July
> meeting.  At that meeting the Ballot Access budget was increased to
> $340,000.  We have presently spent approximately $381,000 on ballot
> access, which exceeds our budgetary authority as well as the 10%
> overage allowed by the policy manual.
> 
> There are petitioners who are working at present in Kentucky, which is
> the last state with an active petition drive.  It is my intent to
> continue to pay the petitioners while this email ballot is pending.
> My apologies for not requesting this budget increase earlier, things
> moved very quickly with NY/OH/CT/NH/DC all going at the same time.
> 
> I would like to request an email ballot for a motion to increase the
> ballot access budget to $390,000.
> 
> Yours truly,
> Nick
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