[Lnc-business] Colorado Membership Recruitment Effort

[Nicholas Sarwark]

Dear All,

As you are aware, there is a deadline for convention delegate allocation
that comes up at the end of this month.  Many of your state parties, as
well as mine, are doing what they can to sign up additional national
members.

A Colorado member contacted me around October 5 with a plan to solicit
registered Libertarian voters to encourage them to join both the Colorado
and national Libertarian Party at the same time. The challenge he had was
not soliciting the potential members, but having a way to make sure that
they would also be able to sign the pledge to become sustaining members of
the national party and not violate any FEC rules.

Since there is not a legal barrier to transfers between FEC reporting party
committees, I suggested he contact Dan Fishman to figure out how to get the
Colorado effort a mechanism to process these new memberships and renewals.

The solution he came up allows the LNC to collect a minimum of $50, with
the prospective donor being clearly informed that $25 of their donation
will be given to the LPCO, which allows them to recoup their marketing
expenses. Since the Colorado group is soliciting the extra amount to be
sent back to LPCO, there is no cost or loss to the party for sending that
amount back, but it's logistically easier for the new member to only have
to fill out one web form.

Prior to this request, there was not a way for an FEC filing state to
solicit joint donations to the national party.  Now there is a mechanism to
do so and Mr. Fishman also informs me that the same form can be adapted for
any other FEC filing state affiliates. I do not interpret this as a special
agreement with with the state affiliate, just an implementation of a single
form that will allocate the donors funds as the donor wishes.

The Colorado team took the initiative to recruit new members and have
started their work to mail and call people, including a link to the web
form that was implemented. I will be instructing Mr. Fishman to activate
that link as well as to make a similar form available to any other FEC
filing state affiliates who request it.

Yours truly,
Nick