<div dir="ltr"><div>12:30pm on Saturday works for me.</div><div>VK</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:49 AM, 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-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt">Mr. Chair:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt">It is not the responsibility of the National LP to provide
free photography services for LNC members use "for their next run for
Federal, state, or local office."<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt">And other than yourself and the Vice-Chair, how many other
LNC members really <b><span style="font-weight:bold">need</span></b>
high-quality photos for **official** LNC business?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt">I understand that some of our members are involved with
other libertarian organizations, but again - National Libertarian Party donors
should not be paying for free photography services that LNC members will use
for non-LNC purposes.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt">Even if you use the Chair's discretionary funds to pay for
the photography services, it still means that $2000 of our donor's money was
re-directed from mortgage payments or staff salaries to pay for the photos.
Changing the budget item under which the money is spent doesn’t make the
effort and cost to raise that money disappear.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt">As you all know, many of our members make their decision
to renew their membership, or to donate money, as a result of actions that many
of us would consider "insignificant." But, one person's
insignificant trifle could be the last straw for one of our members, and could cause
them to drop their LP membership.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt">Please consider the optics of spending $2000 of LP money
at this time on something that is perfectly doable by LNC members in their home
states, on their own dime.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt">The choices that I offered in my previous e-mail would not
cost the LP anything other than the staff time required to post the photos to
the web site. I hope that the Chair, and/or this body, will reconsider
the wisdom of this expenditure of money at this time.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt"> Scott Lieberman<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Lnc-business [mailto:<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org</a>] On Behalf Of Nicholas
Sarwark<br></span><span>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:13 AM<br>
To: <u></u><a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><u></u><br>
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Professional Photographer at LNC Meeting</span></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dear Dr. Lieberman,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><div><div class="h5">
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">I'm not going to make anyone sit for a photo they don't want. If
you<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">decide to reconsider, the photographer will be there and setup to take<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">photos for everyone who will sit for him. I would like to have<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">everyone present take advantage of that opportunity.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">I have been told by our Political Director that I need more and better<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">photos to go out with media releases. I've also been told by<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">convention planners for states I've been invited to speak to that they<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">would like more and better photos for their promotional materials.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">For these reasons, I was planning to retain Mr. Uilkie.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">In consultation with Mr. Benedict, he suggested that I try to<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">negotiate a reduced rate to get more and better photographs for the<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">rest of the LNC. I did, and the final cost will be less than $100
per<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">person. The end result is that our committee will have better
looking<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">photographs on our soon-to-be redesigned website with out soon-to-be<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">redesigned logo. The committee will have high-quality photos that<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">they can use for their next run for Federal, state, or local office.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">The committee will have high-quality photos that they can send to<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">organizers of events and conventions that they go out to speak to.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">I am as careful with donor funds as I am with my own. I have decided<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">that it makes sense to spend less than $100 per LNC member who spends<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">thousands of dollars of their own money multiple times per year to<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">travel to attend to the party's business to improve the image our<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">party shows to the public.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">I'm happy if members of the LNC wish to donate to the party to defray<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">some of that cost; board fundraising is below target so far for the<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">year anyway. I'm happy if some of our sustaining members wish to<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">donate to the party to defray some of that cost; we represent them.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">The LNC is well within its prerogative to override my decision on this<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">issue (as on many other things), but if you do so I will still use my<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Chair's discretionary funds to pay for this because I think it's good<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">for the LNC and the Libertarian Party.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">I hope you will reconsider,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Nick<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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