<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Just to add a few more thoughts:<br><br></div>I thought Norm's points were well made. We put convention package sales into a completely different set of accounts on our books because the primary goal of those cash flows is to offset the expenses of the convention. We do the same with sales of t-shirts or hats. In 2008 when we contracted the convention management duties out to an
LLC, those package sales revenues went to the LLC, not to the Party. The entity that incurred the expenses received the offsetting revenue as well.<br><br>A convention package buyer is paying for meals, for the travel costs of the speakers at their meals, etc. They're buying goods and services.<br><br></div><div>If I sell my car to you for $5,000, you didn't give me a gift. We exchanged assets of equal worth.<br></div><div><br></div>Think about why the status is called "sustaining" membership. It is desired for those people to donate funds that the party can freely use for operations to sustain the party itself. The intent seems to be implied in the very name that was chosen for the status.<br><br></div>-Alicia<br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Alicia Mattson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com" target="_blank">agmattson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>We have an electronic mail ballot.<br> <br><b><u>Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by May 8, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.<br></u></b> <br><u>Co-Sponsors:</u> Mattson, Olsen, Wiener, Hagan<br>
<br><u>Motion:</u> To sustain the Chair's ruling that a person's purchase of a convention package in the prior twelve months<br>meets the requirement of Bylaws Article 5.3 that a sustaining member must have "given at least $25 to the<br>Party in the prior twelve months"<br><div><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><u>Note about Effect</u>:<br></div><div>Because this is phrased as a motion to sustain the chair's ruling, a "yes" vote means that the purchase of a convention package should count toward sustaining membership. A "no" vote means that the purchase of a convention package should NOT count towards sustaining membership.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Alicia Mattson<br>LNC Secretary<br><br></font></span></div></div></div>
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