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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello All . . .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In response to my request for comments concerning convention planning, I have received the following pertinent comment. As I am unaware of who will be on the convention planning committees for this term, I provide this to you all:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>My only opinion on this is that the whole schedule preceding the convention should be moved up by about three months. Memorial day weekend it fine, but the rest is too late. Here's why.<br><br>The attendees need to decide whether to attend and then plan ahead. They need to know where the convention is, and what the schedule is, and what the events are, and who is going to speak on what – months in advance. There's an equation that goes on in the heads of attendees – what's it going to cost, can I afford the time, and what are the benefits of attending. And they need some time to figure it out. Then it has to be figured out in time to get decent air rates and hotel rates.<br><br>This last year that didn't happen. As a state chair I do my best to drum up enthusiasm for the convention. But, it's hard to get people excited to go to a convention when they don't know anything of the particulars, and after they learn the particulars there's no time to make reasonable arrangements. Folks would ask me for schedules and agendas, etc., and all I could tell them was 'sometime soon'. This has to change.<br><br>So, my recommendation again. Get the venue, speakers, events, and logistical details done 3 months earlier so they can get to the potential attendees in time for rational decision making and planning.<br><br>Warren Severin<br></span></i><i><span style='color:#61666E'>Chairman, Arizona Libertarian Party</span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Norm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Handwriting","serif"'>Norman T Olsen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regional Representative, Region I<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Libertarian National Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>7931 S Broadway, PMB 102<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Littleton, Colorado 80122-2710<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>303-263-4995<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Norman.Olsen@lp.org<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Gandhi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>