[Lnc-business] Caryn Ann Harlos fundraising and membership recruitment

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

Caryn Ann,

I plan to attend the state conventions within my region, as it's a 
committment I told the state chairs I'd try to do.  Even if I were doing 
something that benefited one of the state affiliates, I've never seek to 
be reimbursed for travel and/or lodging to attend a state convention 
within my region. I wouldn't seek that from one of the state affiliates, 
and certainly not from the national LP.  (I'm helping with something for 
LPMI, as they asked me, and I'll use my own money for travel, lodging, 
and the convention package.)

When I read Wes Benedict's statement to the LNC, not only was I shocked 
by the lack of transparency, in that none of this was known by fellow 
LNC members, (At least I wasn't in the know.) but, I also recalled 
something you'd written to the platform committee. When I read your 
comment to the platform committee, I thought it odd. Now, it's more than 
odd, it's disturbing.

When platform committee members were discussing when to hold an 
in-person meeting, and the possibility of having a platform committee 
meeting during a state convention, was still being discussed, you wrote 
this:

"If we plan one at a convention, I’ll just plan on going to the 
convention and do some national membership recruiting."

You wrote that on Jan 31st, 2018, and I had to go find that in a 
platform committee communications.  At the time, I just thought it was 
an odd comment.  Now, I'm wondering if you were thinking you'd be 
reimbursed for travel and lodging to a state convention, where we'd also 
have a platform committee meeting.  The platform committee has 
povertarians who have expressed concern about cost of an in-person 
meeting.  Some have suggested an electronic meeting to cut costs for the 
committee members.  So, I certainly hope you weren't thinking that you'd 
be reimbursed for travel and lodging for the volunteer efforts that 
we're doing for the platform committee.


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Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
Secretary Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana
Chair-LP Social Media Process Review Committee
Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus
http://www.lpcaucus.org/

On 2018-02-23 08:34, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
> Dustin, I’m not a speaker or anything at these conventions.  Just
>    member drives.  Now when I’m a speaker I ask the affiliate to allow 
> me
>    some time to recruit members.
>    There are other states as well that have invited me to speak and 
> then
>    they will say the same - and I think that definitely would be an 
> issue.
> 
>    My main purpose in these trips is memberships.  While an invited 
> guest
>    my main purpose is whatever the affiliate requests and memberships 
> are
>    secondary if the affiliate allows it.  I go in as budget as possible 
> -
>    only stay the amount of time needed (at a multi-day for instance it
>    would be one day etc)  WA didn’t plan on me being there - I 
> approached
>    them.  I do think that is a difference.  Same thing with CA or TX- I
>    haven’t even asked them yet.
>    That is a crucial difference that I think is important - critically 
> so.
> 
>    -Caryn Ann
>    On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:15 AM Dustin Nanna 
> <[1]dustin.nanna at lp.org>
>    wrote:
> 
>         My only request is that if this is going to be a thing that 
> they
>      pay
>         for her to fly to Ohio since she is already scheduled to be
>      speaking
>         here. It is a bit of a conflict of interest but not enough for 
> me
>      to
>         poo poo on the idea.
>         Dustin Nanna
>         LNC Region 3 Alternate
>         Vice Chair/Deputy Communications Director
>         Libertarian Party of Ohio
>         (740) 816-9805
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:dustin.nanna at lp.org