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

Thu Sep 1 00:40:41 EDT 2016

Ken, thanks for the heroic accomplishments by you and the ballot access committee during the 2016 campaign. And thanks in part to the efforts of the ballot access committee, the good news is that we are on the cusp of major party status, which comes with expected organizational growing pains that we will work our way through. Good job!

~David Pratt Demarest

Region 6 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (IA, IL, MN, MO, ND, NE, WI)

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Ken Moellman
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 9:01 AM
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Cc: Chris Thrasher (JW16) <christopherthrasher at johnsonweld.com>
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Motion to Amend the Ballot Access Budget

All -

I am working on getting that information about the amount contributed to date for ballot access by the Johnson campaign. I was informed that the Johnson campaign is coming to KY to help complete this final drive, and while they're here, I'll work with them to get a total of what they've spent.

To extend my comments from my previous email, the Ballot Access Committee has not been tracking spending, nor allocating funds.  This did not appear to be in-scope for the committee at the time I became its chair.  Managing the logistics has monopolized the committee's time.

Ken

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Ken C. Moellman, Jr.
LNC Region 3 Alternate Representative
LPKY Judicial Committee

On 2016-08-31 04:49, Starchild wrote:

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

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317-582-1773 Fax

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com <mailto: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 <tel:317-850-0726>  Phone

317-582-1773 <tel:317-582-1773>  Fax

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Nicholas Sarwark <chair at lp.org <mailto: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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