<div dir="ltr"><div>I am no FEC expert, but I'm pretty certain that #2 is not legal if the state affiliate is not an FEC-filer. The national party can ONLY receive federal funds, which means only FEC-filing affiliates could send money to national.<br><br></div><div>Obviously, step 1 is to make inquiry with Paula Edwards about what legal options are available to us.<br></div><div><br></div>-Alicia<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Scott L. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott73@earthlink.net" target="_blank">scott73@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">I don't want to clutter the State Chairs list with our
internal stuff...<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Mr. Chair - there are two courses of action:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> 1. Implement what you suggest
below immediately. I bet staff could get this working with at least a few
states well before the LNC Session in <u></u><u></u>Phoenix<u></u><u></u>
next month. If we do this, I suggest staff add a short explanation on the
“<u></u><u></u>Membership<u></u>
<u></u>Center<u></u><u></u>” page of
what we are doing, and why (ie – the FEC makes us do it
this way).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> 2. Ask our FEC consultant if
states can collect money for National Memberships on <b><span style="font-weight:bold">their </span></b>web sites, either as separate transactions, or maybe
even as one transaction. In the latter case, the state would send the
money to National from their state bank account. Isn't that legal even if
a state is not FEC-filing?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">I suggest you wait until next Wednesday to make sure all
LNC members have had a chance to read this thread. If you don't get any
significant objections, then please ask staff to implement what you wrote
below, and hopefully get started on implementing number 2 above.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">TIA.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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Scott Lieberman<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="red" face="Verdana" size="5"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:red">GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><span class="">
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<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Statechairs [mailto:<a href="mailto:statechairs-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">statechairs-bounces@hq.lp.org</a>] On Behalf Of Nicholas
Sarwark<br>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 3:21 PM<br>
To: <u></u><a href="mailto:statechairs@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">statechairs@hq.lp.org</a><u></u><br>
Subject: Re: [Statechairs] UMP</span></font></p>
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</span><p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">If a joint checkout solution, i.e. Person A gives $X to LP Texas and<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><span class="">
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">$Y to the LNC from the same webpage, but in separate payment<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</span><p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">transactions, is legal under FEC rules and the relevant state<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><span class="">
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">campaign finance rules, I would direct that we implement it assuming<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">the cost is reasonable, the effort is manageable with our staffing,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">and it doesn't derail other priorities.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I don't foresee LNC resistance to my providing that direction to staff<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">and/or request of the IT Committee. If there is resistance to
that<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">from the LNC, I would work very hard to overcome that resistance.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">One of our jobs as a national committee is to be of value to our state<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">affiliates. I intend that we will do that job.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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</span><p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Nick<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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