[Lnc-business] Colorado Membership Recruitment Effort

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

Nick,

Thank for the clarification.  I've informed the Region 3 state chairs 
and provided Dan Fishman's email.  Only Kentucky isn't an FEC filling 
state affiliate in Region 3.  LPIN, LPO, and LPMI, could set-up a 
similar link with LP national, as they're FEC filing state affiliates.  
Hopefully, they'll available themselves of the opportunity.

Cheers,
EVH

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Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 Representative (IN, MI, OH, KY)
Chair-Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana
Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus
http://www.lpcaucus.org/

On 2019-10-16 16:16, Nicholas Sarwark via Lnc-business wrote:
> 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