[Lnc-business] Fwd: Volunteers for Freedom Fest Outreach?

[Jeff Hewitt]

Thank you Richard.  Jeff Hewitt

On 2020-06-09 19:43, Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business wrote:
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> Richard Longstreth
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> Libertarian National Committee
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> From: Starchild <sfdreamer at earthlink.net>
> Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 19:08
> Subject: Volunteers for Freedom Fest Outreach?
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> 
>         The Libertarian Party has had an outreach booth at Freedom Fest
> (the conference happening July 13-16 in Las Vegas) in past years, and I 
> am
> guessing there may be plans to do so again this year.
> 
>         If so, I would like to encourage the Libertarian National 
> Committee
> to utilize volunteers to represent the Libertarian Party at this event. 
> In
> the past, paid staff have often been used for this purpose, which I 
> believe
> is wasteful and unnecessary when we have lots of great volunteers with
> outreach experience who would be willing and able to represent us at 
> much
> less cost to the party.
> 
>         Using national headquarters staff requires paying for 
> round-trip
> airfare from the D.C. area, as well as lodging and perhaps meals, and
> presumably takes them away from their regular work at the office to at
> least some extent, at a net cost to the party of many thousands of 
> dollars
> (Tim Hagan or Robert Kraus should be able to supply more precise 
> details).
> 
>         I'm offering again this year, as I have in the past, to travel 
> to
> Las Vegas on my own dime (in this case on the way back from our 
> convention
> in Florida), and pay for my own meals and lodging, to volunteer to help
> staff a booth at the event if provided one of the attendance passes 
> that
> come with a paid booth. My guess is that there are other Libertarian
> activists, particularly in the Las Vegas area, who would likewise be 
> happy
> to help staff a Freedom Fest booth for the party if they were not 
> required
> to independently buy a ticket to the event.
> 
>         Hopefully such offers will not fall on deaf ears this year, and 
> LNC
> members will take this opportunity to ensure that LP members get more 
> bang
> for their dollars that are spent in order to give us a presence at 
> Freedom
> Fest.
> 
> Love & Liberty,
> 
> ((( starchild )))
> Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
> Candidate for State Assembly
> @StarchildSF
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> 
> P.S. – I request that my regional representative, Jeff Hewitt, or 
> alternate
> Tim Ferreira, forward this message to the public LNC list in the 
> interests
> of transparency, or if they do not, that one of the other LNC members 
> step
> up and do so.