[Lnc-business] Proposed

Sun Jul 7 01:28:35 EDT 2019

Incorrect.

There was no 'made level".  There was an effort to mollify after the 
fact.  Which had stipulations where an LNC could only get T-shirts equal 
to the amount they'd donated to the LP within a certain recent time 
period. Which, conveniently included the time period when you acquired 
your lifetime membership. Even those who already had lifetime 
memberships, would've had to suddenly cough-up a significant amount of 
money to partake in the deal, at the level you were set-up for.  But, 
the T-shirts are the least of the issue.

Convention season was already well underway by the time the LNC found 
out you'd been having your travel to conventions reimbursed.  There's no 
way to retroactively level that past action.

As for no one else taking advantage. It should never have been approved. 
Others on the LNC also stated they didn't think the set-up should've 
been approved.  Of course, no one took Wes up on it.  It was wrong.

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My point is, that you brought-up your past situation.  You did it your 
effort to paint what our new ED suggested and how he suggested it, as 
something wrong.

Although, our new ED has gone above-board bringing his suggestion to the 
publicly accessible LNC email list.  Contrary to the incident involving 
you and our past ED.

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If you think our ED's suggestion isn't good, try arguing from the point 
of the merits of the suggested idea.  Not by attacking how the idea was 
brought to the public email list, which was a clear effort to be 
transparent and involve the LNC.

---
Elizabeth Van Horn

On 2019-07-06 23:08, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> Elizabeth, everyone can go re-read the discussions for themselves.  
> Your
> characterization is not accurate.
> 
> I think we can both agree without arguing that a paid salary is world’s
> above membership t-shirts that were made open to everyone (and as far 
> as I
> am aware no one took Wes up on it).  This is by nature completely 
> unique
> and cannot be made level.
> 
> -Caryn Ann
> 
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 8:36 PM Daniel Fishman via Lnc-business <
> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
> 
>> One of my long range goals is a permanently paid chair for the LP. It 
>> was
>> further down my agenda list, and I had presumed it would happen when 
>> we had
>> greater financial stability. When the opportunity presented itself now
>> though, I decided to try it out. And that means if it works we are 
>> talking
>> about the same option for whomever the chair is (and we've never 
>> elected a
>> chair to a 4th terms as far as I'm aware).
>> 
>> Of course a permanently paid chair is a convention level decision, but 
>> one
>> that can only be made if we can indeed afford it. Getting the 
>> financial
>> legs to stand on is what you brought me here for.
>> 
>> I'm a big believer in not being afraid to fail. In order to not fear
>> failure you must have metrics that can tell you if you are failing. 
>> This is
>> a pretty clear cut one. Any fundraising contractor will be expect to 
>> be
>> raising enough to cover their costs within a few months. And that 
>> includes
>> the Chair. If they can't, that's gets deemed a fail. We terminate the
>> experiment, learn from our mistakes and proceed to the next attempt.
>> 
>> To me this seems like a good roll of the dice, with relatively minimum 
>> risk
>> to the LNC. Almost all of the risk is borne by the Chair. I am asking 
>> to
>> put the Chair on the hot seat. Should any chair be contracted as a
>> fundraiser for the LNC and fail, the ramifications would reverberate 
>> till
>> the next convention. Should the chair succeed he benefits every future 
>> LNC
>> chair and future LNC by establishing the precedent that (I hope) will 
>> lead
>> the delegates to approving a permanently paid chair. I have 
>> essentially
>> asked the chair to put his head on the chopping block.
>> 
>> And it should be pointed out too Mr. Chair, that when I asked you if 
>> you
>> would be amenable you suggested I bring the idea to the LNC first. I 
>> have
>> done so, but you still have not actually indicated that you would 
>> indeed
>> accept the contract. I'm assuming you have been seeking counsel of 
>> your
>> own? Are you prepared to firmly commit to accepting a contract should 
>> one
>> be offered?
>> 
>> The chair is in a unique position to do things that will affect
>> fundraising, such as media appearances, published articles. As such 
>> the
>> unique position is one I think the LNC should try paying for to see if 
>> it
>> increases our revenue.
>> 
>> ---
>> Daniel Fishman
>> Executive Director
>> The Libertarian Party
>> Join Us <http://www.lp.org/join>
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:45 PM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <
>> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > It is already all of our jobs to fundraise.  Pay expenses? Certainly.
>> > Salary?  No.
>> >
>> > I volunteer - expenses only.
>> >
>> > Seriously after the shitstorm last year for legitimate fundraising it’s
>> all
>> > of a sudden different because it’s Nick and with salary?  I was in danger
>> > of (ridiculously) of bribing votes with t-shirts but this is okay?
>> >
>> > Is Nick re-running?  Would there be no using of a salaried position to
>> > influence internal politics?
>> >
>> > I’ll say it right now, then every chair candidate must be given equal
>> > opportunity.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 12:20 PM John Phillips via Lnc-business <
>> > lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I think other people said that more recently than I, its been a few
>> > months
>> > > since I did 😂, tho I hinted at it.
>> > >
>> > > Well thought out as always.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > John Phillips
>> > > Libertarian National Committee Region 6 Representative
>> > > Cell 217-412-5973
>> > >
>> > > On Jul 6, 2019 12:59 PM, Joe Bishop-Henchman via Lnc-business <
>> > > lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I guess Mr. Fishman's honeymoon period is over!
>> > >
>> > > I'm willing to hear out our ED and not shoot it down immediately, but
>> > > for my part I will need a lot more details when we consider it. If
>> we're
>> > > hiring a contractor, I want to know precisely what tasks the contractor
>> > > will be doing on at least a quarterly basis if not a monthly or weekly
>> > > basis, and how (and who) will be actively monitoring progress and
>> > > adjusting based on the results.
>> > >
>> > > I will also need to review the information addressing whether this
>> > > violates the Bylaws or common past understandings of the role of the
>> > > Chair or LNC members.
>> > >
>> > > This contractor-who-knows-us approach would be preferable, in my view,
>> > > to hiring a commission fundraiser who knows little about us and
>> > > therefore will be ineffective at securing major donors willing to
>> invest
>> > > long-term with us. In-person telemarketing, which is effectively what
>> > > that is, can be effective for raising money quickly, but only at
>> > > enormous expense (as a percent of dollar raised), great risk of
>> > > misrepresentation, and at the expense of a continuing relationship.
>> > >
>> > > Ideally we need to construct a fundraising department, essentially from
>> > > scratch now. We have two main donor audiences - major donors and small
>> > > dollar donors - and each of them needs attention as to their
>> > > prospecting/qualification/opening doors, asking/closing, and
>> > > stewardship/cultivation. That's essentially six completely different
>> > > skills (2 audiences times 3 jobs each) and we can't have one person do
>> > > all of it and expect them to do better than Lauren could. We also can't
>> > > hire six people, so the answer is going to be a mix of LNC members, the
>> > > ED, staff, and contractors.
>> > >
>> > > If we're going to get to a place where we are raising millions of
>> > > dollars or more each year, building a fundraising department is an
>> > > essential second step. (The first step is doing exciting things donors
>> > > want to support, or at least proposing to focus on those things. On
>> that
>> > > part, I'd like to invite Apollo to the next Board meeting and tell us
>> > > what he has up his sleeves.) If what Mr. Fishman proposes is a step in
>> > > that direction, I'm more inclined to support it. If not, not.
>> > >
>> > > As Mr. Phillips I think noted, if we say no to everything and propose
>> > > nothing we will quickly realize in a bad way how important fundraising
>> > > is.
>> > >
>> > > JBH
>> > >
>> > > ------------
>> > > Joe Bishop-Henchman
>> > > LNC Member (At-Large)
>> > > joe.bishop-henchman at lp.org
>> > > www.facebook.com/groups/189510455174837
>> > >
>> > > On 2019-07-05 16:50, John Phillips via Lnc-business wrote:
>> > > > Then lets get hiring.
>> > >
>> >