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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>LP Bylaws<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ARTICLE 5: MEMBERSHIP <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 3. “Sustaining
member” is any Party member who has given at least $25 to the Party in
the prior twelve months, or who is a life member. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>If the LNC gets down on its hands and knees and begs,
maybe we can get the 2016 Convention to amend the above Bylaw so that the
National LP can offer similar short-term membership promotions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Obviously I would want the Executive Director to tell us
that he thinks that said discounts would give us a positive ROI.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The basic idea would be that the Bylaw would set a floor,
a maximum allowable increase per LNC term, and allow for up to four weeks per
LNC term of discounts of not more than say, 33%.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>If you don’t understand the “hands and knees
and begs reference”: it has to with a prior LNC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>raising the annual dues to $50, and then a few months
later lowering the annual dues to $0. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Needless to say – the delegates at the following
National Convention were not amused.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The National LP dues were first raised to $25 per year in
February 1991. If they were merely increased to keep up with inflation,
they would now be $44 per year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> Scott Lieberman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Stolen from the State Chairs e-mail list:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>“give you guys a small update on our 17.76 promo...we have had 8
new people join the party in less than 24 hours...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> Doug Craig”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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