[Lnc-business] Fwd: Re: Colorado joint fundraising efforts.

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

Forwarded to list. 

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Elizabeth Van Horn 

-------- Original Message -------- 

 		SUBJECT:
 		Re: Colorado joint fundraising efforts.

 		DATE:
 		2019-10-16 00:40

 		FROM:
 		Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>

 		TO:
 		Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>

 		CC:
 		Daniel Fishman <dan.fishman at lphq.org>, LNC Gsuite Migration
<lnctest at lphq.org>, Jess Mears <jess at lphq.org>

Also, does that mean that the LNC will be eating the full amount of the
credit card processing fees for the state's portion of the proceeds?  I
would object to us underwriting an affiliate's fundraising drive in that
manner. 

-Alicia 

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:37 PM Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>
wrote: 

> There are some political ramifications to rolling this out for only one state with only a few days left before the delegate allocation deadline.  Granted CO is the state that is arranging the phone effort to boost their memberships, but for the LNC to be offering help to one state at this last-minute-before-the-deadline is gonna look a bit unfair to other state affiliates competing for the same delegate allocations. 
> 
> -Alicia 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:33 PM Daniel Fishman <dan.fishman at lphq.org> wrote:
> 
>> Please visit https://www.lp.org/colorado-national-combined-membership/ 
>> 
>> Password is (not shown in forwarded)  
>> 
>> History behind this.  A few months ago Jess Mears held a webinar with state and county membership directors and invited me to address questions about the possibility of a joint membership form, which had come up in a previous conversation. 
>> 
>> I had prior to the meeting consulted with Robert Kraus about the FEC implications and we agreed it could be done with states that are FEC filers.  I discussed this in the Membership Directors meeting, and described essentially the webpage listed above.  There was some interest among the participants. 
>> 
>> Fast forward to last week and Colorado approached me with a plan.  They are hiring a telemarketer to call all the registered Libertarians in Colorado and are going to get them to become members at national as well as make a donation to LPCO. 
>> 
>> The page has cleared APRC and is explicitly approved by the LPCO chair.  It has been suggested I notify the LNC of this plan and ask if there are strenuous objections to making this publicly available.  LPCO has a communication going out tomorrow, and they would like to advertise this page. 
>> 
>> To anticipate other questions, we can make a page like this available to any state that is a FEC filers.  I would need a formal request from the state chair to proceed. 
>> 
>> Your reply is appreciated. 
>> 
>> Dan 
>> 
>> Dan Fishman, Executive Director,  Libertarian Party