[Lnc-business] Colorado Membership Recruitment Effort

[Daniel Fishman]

It is active.

I look forward to setting this up with other states.

Dan

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Daniel Fishman
Executive Director
The Libertarian Party
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:50 PM Elizabeth Van Horn via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> ---
> 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
>