[Lnc-business] [Lnc-votes] Project

Wed Nov 23 22:45:11 EST 2016

Mr. Frankel raises an important point.  The autopsy report was, basically,
the exact opposite of the Trump campaign.  I'm not sure what follows from
Trump winning - maybe he'd have won more "big league" if he'd listened to
the autopsy.  Maybe he'd have lost.  In any case, it illustrates what my
colleague from Region 1 points out - parties lose a fair amount of control
over that during a Presidential campaign, because the campaign becomes the
center of attention.  So it doesn't make much sense to me for us to spend
money being told what the 2020 campaign should look like, considering that
it isn't up to us.  Campaigns generally come into the convention as a fetal
form of what they'll ultimately look like - we can apply pressure here and
there, but when choosing a candidate, a party is largely saying who will
speak for them on a national level de facto.  The chairman moves from
primary spokesman to a secondary role for a time (and, if he plays his
cards right, becomes Chief of Staff).  I don't think our focus needs to be
the 2020 race.

I'd rather we focus on things we can control as a party.  For instance, as
Michael Steele says, the function of the party is to bring all the
campaigns together to achieve party-wide goals.  How can we do better at
that?  I also think we need to, as a centralized body, help our campaigns
to build better ground-games - we can do that by providing the right sorts
of training, helping affiliates to recruit and select candidates, and then
helping the various campaigns to work together and share resources, since
most of our campaigns do not have the resources on their own to do these
things at the size and scope necessary to win their elections.  It's not
our job to get "inside" any of their campaigns, but rather to help them to
work together from the outside.

So, those are the sorts of questions I'd like to ask a consulting firm -
how we can do better at those tasks.  I'd also like a strategic guide as
far as what demographics to reach out to, where an outsider sees our growth
potential, and so on.  I do think we need expert guidance on messaging as
well - what mediums, how often, and broadly what should our strategic
direction be in order to appeal to our targets.

Joshua A. Katz

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 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>
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> 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
>>>> Founder, Westmoreland County Libertarians
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>>>> National Chair, Libertarian Youth Caucus <http://fb.com/LYCaucus>
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