[Lnc-business] bullies in Ohio

[Nicholas Sarwark]

Probably a result of my poor memory and not remembering if it was $100k +
$30K or $130K + $30K.

-Nick

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:10 AM, Alicia Mattson <secretary at lp.org> wrote:

> In the email blast below, it mentions that the LNC expects to spend $130k
> on Ohio.
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> Didn't we budget $130k total for ballot access, comprised of $100k for
> Ohio and $30k for Arkansas?
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> Was that figure in the email a typo, or is this an indication that the
> cost estimates have shifted substantially upward?
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> -Alicia
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> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Wes Benedict <info at lp.org> wrote:
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>> Dear Libertarian,
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>> In Ohio, election law is the rule of the land and applied equally to
>> all....except Libertarians.
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>> Let me tell you more...
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>> Last Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected our lawsuit over the
>> Secretary of State's improper decision to prevent our ballot access. The
>> Secretary of State had ruled that the vote totals received by our
>> Presidential nominee didn't count towards our ballot access.
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>> Ohio law has a 3% threshold for a group of voters who nominated a
>> candidate to be recognized as a political party. A group of voters
>> nominated Gary Johnson for President and he got 3.17% of the vote. So by
>> the plain reading of the law, that group of voters should be recognized as
>> a political party.
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>> Gary Johnson was nominated as an independent because Ohio Republicans
>> kicked the Libertarian Party off the ballot. But the Republican Secretary
>> of State won't recognize that group of independent voters because they are
>> Libertarians and want to be called the Libertarian Party.
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>> So the Ohio Libertarian Party filed suit in December and last week the
>> Ohio Supreme Court ruled 6-1 against us.
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>> This was disappointing but not at all surprising. We knew from a long
>> history of dealing with officials in Ohio that the Ohio Supreme Court would
>> likely twist itself into a pretzel to defend the Secretary of State's abuse
>> of the law.
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>> *So, we are going to do what Libertarians do. We are going to roll up our
>> sleeves and continue to fight this injustice and stand up to the bullies of
>> big government.*
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>> We will not allow these tyrannical bureaucrats in Ohio to keep us off the
>> ballot.
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>> We'll do what has to be done to make sure that in 2018 every Ohioan will
>> have Libertarian candidates on their ballot.
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>> This will require a LOT of signed petitions. That work is already
>> underway.
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>> It will cost the national party $130,000 and the Ohio Libertarian Party
>> roughly the same. But, together, we'll make it happen.
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>> We have the national experts on ballot access working on our behalf to
>> make progress in Ohio and other states. We are determined to secure ballot
>> access in every state and DC for every election from here on out. It is
>> the most important function of the national party. But we can only do this
>> with your help.
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>> If you'd like to join us in fighting these bullies in Ohio and other
>> states, please give generously to our Ballot Access Fund
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>> As always, thank you for your support of the Libertarian Party.
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>> Nicholas Sarwark
>> Chair, Libertarian National Committee
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