[Lnc-business] LP of Ohio Contacts Batch 2

[Starchild]

Hi Andy,

	Thanks for these leads, as well as those you sent us from Arkansas back in June. Great work! Sharing them with both national and the state affiliate, to better ensure they don't fall through the cracks, sounds like a sensible approach. I would caution that this form is probably only appropriate for situations like those in which you gathered these signatures (i.e. in a context where it's obvious the information is going to the LP), as the form itself doesn't mention the Libertarian Party, but simply reads, "EMAIL SIGNUP SHEET FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN MORE FREEDOM". 

	I also notice the subject line of your email identifies these contacts as "Batch 2". Was there a "Batch 1"? If so, I haven't seen any such message.

Love & Liberty,
 
                                    ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
                         RealReform at earthlink.net
                                  (415) 625-FREE
                                    @StarchildSF


On Oct 27, 2017, at 1:42 PM, petition guy wrote:

> Hello fellow Libertarians.  Below is a pdf with contact information for 85 people I encountered while gathering LP ballot access petition signatures in Ohio who said that they are interested in being on the Libertarian Party's contact list.  I am forwarding this to both the national and state LP.  If the LP national office staff lacks the time to enter new people who say that they are interested in the Libertarian Party into the party's database,  then perhaps volunteers could be rounded up to do this.  I'm putting the list out there for any Libertarian who wants to use it.  
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> If anyone is wondering what the origin of this contact list is,  it was designed by Jake Witmer.  Jake designed it back in 2008 from a petition form for Alabama that was designed by Paul Frankel (the Alabama Secretary of State's office has allowed people to design their own petition form,  provided that it has all of the legally required information on it,  and Paul designed a form that was more user friendly than the sample form put out by the Secretary of State's office).  Bob Lynch and I gathered some contacts for the LP of Kentucky back in 2004 (we also gave the college contacts to a student who said that they were either forming,  or trying to expand,  a libertarian club at a university in Kentucky),  but we used sheets of regular notebook paper.  I think that the form designed by Jake Witmer looks better than using notebook paper.  
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> I have heard that LP dues paying membership has been dropping a good bit from last year.    
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> The Libertarian Party's Paid Membership Numbers Take a Dive
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> The Libertarian Party's Paid Membership Numbers Take a Dive
> But registered voters, total donations to the Party remain strong even in the face of historically large loss of...
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> I first joined the Libertarian Party way back in 1996,  and I recall the party growing from then until 2000-2001,  when reached its highest peak ever in terms of dues paying membership.  If you had asked me back then,  I thought that the party was going to keep growing,  and that by now,  the LP would have 100,000 dues paying members.  
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> Getting people to join an organization is a numbers game (just like asking people to sign petitions,  or asking them to vote for a particular party or candidate or ballot issue).  You've got to find out who the people are who agree with you,  and then you've got to inspire them to join.  The Libertarian Party's data base of small "l" libertarians,  and libertarian leaners,  ought to be as large as possible,  because these people,  along with the dues paying members of the LP,  are the libertarian base in this country.  If you can't get support from people who are already libertarian or libertarian leaning,  how can you expect to win support from anyone else?  How do you expect to get the party ahead if the party does not grow?  Does anyone really want to be sitting here 20 years from now with a Libertarian Party that is still stuck in the 11,000-20,000 dues paying members zone,  and has not really advanced that much,  while government continues to get bigger and more corrupt than it is now?  
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> In liberty,
> Andrew Jacobs
> 702-785-4738
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> <LP of Ohio 2017 Contacts Batch 2.pdf>

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