[Lnc-business] Fwd: [Lnc-votes] Project

[Joshua Katz]

Forwarded with permission; comments to follow under separate cover.

Joshua A. Katz


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From: <travellingcircus at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Lnc-votes] [Lnc-business] Project
To: Caryn Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com>, Joshua Katz <joshua.katz at lp.org>,
Trent Somes <Tsomes3 at gmail.com>


Oddly enough, the Republican study that Trent's proposal mentions came up
with recommendations that were the opposite of the approach Trump took -
reaching out more to Latinos, college educated women and young people - yet
Trump won.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:03 PM, <lnc-votes at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> I will re-iterate what I said on Facebook.  There are certainly areas in
> which I think we need a cold hard look at things--however, a lot of this is
> dependent on the candidate. The LNC does not direct the candidates, and as
> such, I am not sure this is the best use of our money. Further, the
> "messaging" part concerns me, and without serious parameters, I am not
> interested in using member money for outsiders to tell Libertarians they
> need to be less Libertarian. As worded, I would not support.  If it focused
> more on sheer mechanics, and laid out that messaging needs to be within our
> Statement of Principles (as per our Bylaws - for which I see no mention or
> concern here), I would oppose. Strongly.
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A few thoughts:
>> 1.  My birthday is January 10.
>> 2.  I am generally in favor of this, but I agree with the comments in the
>> document about inherent bias and would favor option 1.  However, I'd like
>> to have an idea of the cost.  I'm having trouble understanding the motion
>> presented - it starts by talking about taking bids, but then states the
>> firm chosen will present their findings in December 2017.  If all we're
>> doing is taking bids, and more action will be needed to actually hire a
>> firm, how will the firm be chosen?  Will the committee choose them and
>> forward their choice to the LNC for an up/down vote, or simply present the
>> LNC with all the options?  In any case, I feel like I'm in the dark because
>> I don't have a sense of the neighborhood we'd expect for those bids.
>> 3.  I don't know what firms you have contacted, but here is a list of the
>> usual candidates for such an endeavor:
>> https://sipa.columbia.edu/system/files/Political%20Consultin
>> g%20Firms_0.pdf
>> There are, of course, others.
>> 4.  Thank you for thinking of this and putting together a package.
>>
>> Joshua A. Katz
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Trent Somes <tsomes3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Please take the time to read the attached document. I can't wait to see
>>> all of you again. If you have any questions, please text my cell phone or
>>> message me on social media, however I am on vacation right now and may be
>>> without service.
>>>
>>> Also, Chairman Sarwark, can I please have 15-30 minutes to discuss this
>>> at the December meeting?
>>>
>>> Thank you all and Happy Thanksgiving,
>>>
>>>
>>> *Trent Somes, III*
>>> Region 5 Alternate, Libertarian National Committee
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