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I'm pleased to announce the two newest members of the Libertarian
Party<br>
headquarters staff: Lauren Daugherty and Andy Burns.<br>
<br>
<b>Lauren Daugherty</b> joins us from Texas where she previously
served as<br>
the executive director of the <b>Libertarian Party of Texas</b>.<br>
<br>
Ms. Daugherty earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Economics<br>
from Emory University in Atlanta where she served as Chairman of the
<br>
College Republicans (don't worry--she's a real Libertarian now). She
went<br>
on to earn a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security from
the<br>
Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, and a Masters of Arts
in<br>
Government from Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.<br>
<br>
Her impressive resume includes previous work at <b>FreedomWorks</b>
in<br>
Washington, DC, where she executed a rapid expansion of their direct
mail<br>
program, and the <b>Leadership Institute</b>, in Arlington, VA,
where she<br>
oversaw campus outreach at northeastern schools, managed four field
staff,<br>
and spoke regularly at training seminars across the country.<br>
<br>
She served as executive director of the Libertarian Party of Texas
from<br>
2013 to 2015. In 2014, LP Texas raised over $145,000, put 132
candidates<br>
on ballots across the state, and established branding standards for
the<br>
organization.<br>
<br>
Ms. Daugherty will help us with fundraising and membership growth.<br>
<br>
<b>Andy Burns</b> joins us from Minnesota, where he has served as as
executive<br>
director of the <b>Libertarian Party of Minnesota</b>.<br>
<br>
Mr. Burns earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the
University<br>
of Minnesota Duluth, where he majored in Organizational Management
and<br>
minored in Economics.<br>
<br>
As executive director for the LP Minnesota, Mr. Burns dramatically
raised<br>
annual revenues from $5,800 before he was hired to over $45,000. Mr.
Burns<br>
managed LP Minnesota's 2014 statewide petitioning effort which
collected<br>
13,000 signatures for 5 statewide candidates in just 14 days. This
is the<br>
only time any minor party has accomplished this since 1998. During
Mr.<br>
Burn's leadership, LP Minnesota also increased their non-partisan
elected<br>
officials from zero to five and established branding standards for
the<br>
organization.<br>
<br>
Mr. Burns will serve as our State Affiliate Development Specialist,
in<br>
particular to improve the areas of fundraising, database management,
and <br>
marketing.<br>
<br>
The addition of Mr. Burns to serve as our new State Affiliate
Support<br>
Specialist was made possible by the generous contribution of $20,000<br>
dedicated specifically for this position.<br>
<br>
Finally, I'd like to publicly recognize and thank <b>Arthur
DiBianca</b> for<br>
his work for the Libertarian Party for over ten years in various
roles. I<br>
first had the opportunity to work with Art significantly in 2004
while<br>
volunteering for the LP Texas petition drive that collected over
80,000<br>
signatures. I was serving as the volunteer coordinator for that
drive and<br>
Art was one of the rare volunteers who would actually go out there
with me<br>
and collect lots of signatures without getting burnt out too easily.
I<br>
then asked him to help me validate the signatures. He ended up
setting up<br>
a database and validated probably over 40,000 (I don't remember
exactly).<br>
I later hired him to work with me for the LP Texas where we broke<br>
fundraising and candidate recruitment records. He managed our
database,<br>
helped assemble fundraising letters, edited nearly everything I
ever<br>
wrote (including the book I wrote a few years ago), called people
to get<br>
them to run for office, helped them fill out their applications,
and even<br>
helped many candidates get fines reduced or waived for filing late<br>
campaign finance reports. His work was so versatile and productive,
I just<br>
had to hire him to work for the national LP after I started working
here<br>
myself.<br>
<br>
Art has worked just part-time for the national LP for the past year
and<br>
recently decided it was time for him to move on other things. He
remains a<br>
supporter of the Libertarian Party, I just couldn't convince him to<br>
continue making it a professional career.<br>
<br>
Once again, I'd like to thank Art DiBianca for his more than ten
years of<br>
service welcome Lauren Daugherty and Andy Burns to the team.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Wes Benedict, Executive Director<br>
<small><small>Libertarian National Committee, Inc.<br>
<b>New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314</b><br>
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a><br>
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational<br>
Join the Libertarian Party at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lp.org/membership">http://lp.org/membership</a></small></small><br>
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