[Lnc-business] Colorado Membership Recruitment Effort

[Daniel Fishman]

We are paying that bounty for the national membership, which I am doing
everything I can to increase. We actually pay a much higher commissions to
contractors via the referral program. I'm greatly appreciative to the
states  for the cheap acquisition costs.

And of course the same plan is available to other FEC filers. I have
inquiries from DC and Georgia that are waiting on their copy to go live,
which I anticipate happening *any day now*

Dan
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Daniel Fishman
Executive Director
The Libertarian Party
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:54 AM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> While I am prejudiced in favor of Colorado, I agree with Ms. Mattson.
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 4:07 AM Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business <
> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>
> > I am not convinced that this is not a special agreement with a state.
> >
> > My question about who is paying the credit card processing fees was not
> > answered, so I presume that means that the LNC is eating that cost.
> Let's
> > suppose our discount rate is 4%.  If the LNC processes a $50 payment and
> > sends a full $25 to the state, our own credit card processing fees just
> > doubled to 8%.  In addition to that amount, which can potentially add up
> to
> > non-trivial money when you get a lot more states involved, we're also
> > expending our staff time on the state's fundraiser, with all that
> invested
> > time eating into the $25 - $2 credit card fees = $23 donation that the
> LNC
> > received.  Our staff has to track the numbers, cut checks to each
> > affiliate, etc.  Our staff routinely tells us they don't have time to do
> > the things that the LNC has directed them to do, and this is tasking them
> > with an extra arrangement not even agreed to by the LNC.
> >
> > This free labor and free credit card processing deal is only being
> offered
> > to FEC filing affiliates, not to all our affiliates.  In this instance,
> it
> > was first offered to only one state right before a critical deadline in
> > which they are competing with other states, and once other states found
> out
> > that it was available they will have little time to plan and make use of
> > it.
> >
> > All of this feels like a special agreement to me.
> >
> > -Alicia
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:16 PM Nicholas Sarwark via Lnc-business <
> > lnc-business at hq.lp.org> 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
> > >
> >
> --
>
> *In Liberty,*
>
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