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Brett, thanks for considering that sacrifice for the cause . . . <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/22/2016 11:40 AM, Brett Bittner
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<div dir="ltr">I have flip flops, and I may be able to make the
sacrifice to petition during Spring Break at South Padre Island.
It will be tough, as the snow in Indiana will be hard to leave,
but somebody has to do it.
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<div>Seriously, thank you, Wes! Your updates have made this
process more visible to LNC members and those that read the
list outside the LNC.</div>
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<div>Kevin, I appreciate your desire to get the nuts and bolts
recorded to make future decisions regarding $100k expenditures
with more data and less conjecture.</div>
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attending too much liberty than those attending too
small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Wes
Benedict <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Kevin, there's a
giant blizzard headed my way, and I'll be rushing home to
work from home soon, so I'm going to keep this short.<br>
<br>
1. We contracted with one organization (the LP OK), which
subcontracted to 31 individuals and 2 organizations so
far.<br>
<br>
2. We have 40,045 signatures in hand. <br>
<br>
3. 24,712 valid are required. The best estimates I've
heard for validity are 67%, which comes to 26,830. But
valid signatures is not a number that's knowable with
certainty, even with a theoretical unlimited resources.
Our validity checkers may make different judgements than
the Oklahoma elections officials in each county. We want
plenty of extra signatures to be safe. The LNC is not
paying for more signatures, but volunteer and local
efforts continue. <br>
<br>
4. My cost estimate so far is $101,077. I don't expect it
go higher hardly at all. We've stopped spending and paid
for everything, but some small bills might still roll in.<br>
<br>
Finally, I'm going to interrupt this winter in Alexandria,
Virgina, and the ice storm I endured while visiting
Oklahoma, and bring back scenes from my experience 12
years ago petitioning in Texas. South Padre Island, Texas,
that is. Spring Break. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/80107-signatures-two-hotties-and-mismanagement-of-the-insane-professional-lp-petitioners/"
target="_blank">Click on the photo </a>for the full
story of petitioning in Texas. See some of the same ole
names in the comments. Kevin, you better get your flip
flops ready and your sun tan lotion and book early for
2018 Spring Break because LP Texas is going to have to
petition again most likely, for the first time since 2004,
and I can't go to Padre anymore.<br>
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<pre cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
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<div>Thanks for having sent out this
information, Wes.<br>
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Now that the petition is ended (at
least I think it is), do we have the
numbers yet?<br>
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I would be very interested in the
following data points:<br>
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<div>1) How many different people we
employed to collect signatures<br>
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2) How many signatures we collected in
total<br>
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3) How many VALID signatures we collected<br>
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4) What the total cost was for all of the
signature collection<br>
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And before anybody thinks there's some
interest to twist it around, I'm simply
interested in archiving this data for the
future so that we have better records next
time it comes up. It seems to me that we do a
lot of guess work around here. It also seems
to me that in order to improve upon that we
really need to be more diligent with data. As
always, apologies if I'm mistaken, but I
certainly don't know of any available resource
that houses data like this. I'd like to help
improve that any which way I can.<br>
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12:11 PM, Wes Benedict <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Thanks
Roland. I just sent you an email separately
with contacts in Oklahoma that can get you
set up and productive quickly. Thank you
again so much for helping out in such a big
way. <br>
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<pre cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
<span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232" value="+12023330008" target="_blank">(202) 333-0008 ext. 232</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
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<div>On 1/19/2016 10:57 PM, Roland Riemers
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Wes, my latest schedule
plans seems to be to leave ND on this
Thursday or Friday. Instead of Tulsa,
I decided on Oklahoma City instead,
because I have a daughter and free
housing there. She lives in Moore,
Oklahoma, and I have her and
her husbands signatures already
obligated. Moore is in Cleveland
County, and it looks like a lot of
good open housing developments in that
area, so I might just concentrate on
house to house in Cleveland County and
maybe some large sites during the day
where I can set up a table and chair.
Weather looks good for this time
period. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Have anyway in Okahoma
City area that would be willing to
work with me a few days?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I have the petitions all
printed out, and also some voter
registration forms for those not
registered, although not quit sure
where they should be turned in to.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">While in Oklahoma, locals
can reach me on my cell phone at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:701-317-1803"
value="+17013171803" target="_blank">701-317-1803</a>.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I will drive one of my
vans down, so if any volunteers, I can
also provide transportation. Will also
have my table and chairs and even my
bullhorn and a few American Flags if
needed.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Roland Riemers, ND<br>
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<hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b>
Wes Benedict <a
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href="mailto:Wes.Benedict@lp.org"
target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Wes.Benedict@lp.org"><Wes.Benedict@lp.org></a></a><br>
<b><span
style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org"
target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a>
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<b><span
style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
Monday, January 18, 2016 1:32
AM<br>
<b><span
style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
[Lnc-business] Fwd: Ending
Oklahoma paid petition drive
on January 18th (today)<br>
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<div><span> Roland, we'd still
like your help to cover
unexpected problems with
validity. But we'll be
finished with the paid
portion of the drive
today.<br>
<br>
If someone wants to
contribute $1,500 directly
to the LP Oklahoma, that
could pay for an
additional 1,000
signatures at the $1.50
rate. Contact me if you
are interested in that (or
Tina directly if you're in
contact with her). You
need to make sure it goes
into their ballot access
fund instead of their
general fund to be sure it
gets spent on signatures.<br>
<br>
Graph below (more
signatures are on the way
not yet reflected in that
graph), and the "ending"
announcement is below. <br>
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<td>Ending Oklahoma
paid petition
drive on January
18th (today)</td>
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<td>Mon, 18 Jan 2016
02:22:57 -0500</td>
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<td>Wes Benedict <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Wes.Benedict@lp.org" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:Wes.Benedict@lp.org">mailto:Wes.Benedict@lp.org</a></a></td>
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<td>Tina Kelly <a
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href="mailto:tina.kelly@cox.net" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:tina.kelly@cox.net">mailto:tina.kelly@cox.net</a></a>,
Bill Redpath <a
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href="mailto:william.redpath@lp.org" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:william.redpath@lp.org">mailto:william.redpath@lp.org</a></a>,
Nicholas Sarwark <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:chair@lp.org" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:chair@lp.org">mailto:chair@lp.org</a></a>,
<a
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href="mailto:travellingcircus@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:travellingcircus@gmail.com">travellingcircus@gmail.com</a></a>,
<a
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<a
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href="mailto:oliverbhall@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:oliverbhall@gmail.com">oliverbhall@gmail.com</a></a>,
'Richard Winger' <a
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target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:richardwinger@yahoo.com">mailto:richardwinger@yahoo.com</a></a>,
'Robert Kraus' <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:robert.kraus@lp.org" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:robert.kraus@lp.org">mailto:robert.kraus@lp.org</a></a></td>
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<br>
Due to strong
progress, we are
ending the paid
petitioning in
Oklahoma at the $1.50
rate at the end of the
day on January 18,
2016 (that's means
today if you are
reading this the day
it is sent).<br>
<br>
Petitioners will have
four days to turn in
their signatures to
Tin Kelly (turn them
in by January 22,
2016). <br>
<br>
My note below
indicated we would end
the $2.50 rate on
January 17, and due to
quantities projected,
we are ending the
$1.50 rate on January
18 (just one day's
worth).<br>
<br>
A big thank you goes
out to everyone who
helped with this
drive. We still need a
couple thousand
signatures from
volunteers in Oklahoma
to make sure this
drive is successful.
If you are interested
in collecting as a
volunteer, please
contact Tina Kelly.<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>Wes Benedict,
Executive Director<br>
<small><small>Libertarian
National
Committee, Inc.<br>
<b>New address:
1444 Duke St.,
Alexandria, VA
22314</b><br>
<a
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href="tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232" value="+12023330008"
target="_blank">(202)
333-0008 ext.
232</a>, <a
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href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a></a><br>
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@LPNational<br>
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Party at: <a
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<div>Wes Benedict
wrote on 1/11/2016
6:57 PM:<br>
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<blockquote
type="cite">Attention
petitioners,
Libertarian National
Committee, and
Libertarian Party of
Oklahoma: the
deadline for paid
petitioning in
Oklahoma at $2.50
per signature is
January 17. We are
almost out of money
and have almost
reached our targets.
<br>
<br>
Thanks to a great
effort by many
petitioners, we are
close to hitting our
approximate target
of around 38,000
signatures paid for
by the Libertarian
National Committee
and Libertarian
Party of Oklahoma.
We will come close
to reaching that
target on January
17. <br>
<br>
Petitioners will
have four days after
January 17 to get
their signatures
turned in to Tina
Kelly, the petition
organizer in
Oklahoma. You will
not get paid $2.50
per signature for
signatures collected
after January 17. <br>
<br>
We may be short a a
few hundred or a few
thousand signatures.
We may hire a few
people to continue
collecting
signatures at $1.50
per signature after
January 17 perhaps
for several days.
If you are
interested in
collecting
signatures for $1.50
after January 17 for
a limited amount of
time, please contact
Tina Kelly and get
approval for that in
advance. <br>
<br>
Thanks for your
great work on this
petition drive. <br>
<br>
This email is
approved for release
to others, including
the public. <br>
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