<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5037">Wes, I think you should have saved your $150. For one thing, I doubt if any paid petitioners are left here other then Paul, and he is without a car to move about and he plans to leave shortly. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5036"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5035">By the way, I sent my opinion just to you, but leave it up to you to decide if you want it shared or not. Other then looking for any fraudulent petitions, I think it is time to put the issue to bed, and I would be glad to help share the blame if I am wrong. And even if a few pages of fraudulent petitions, I doubt there would be enough to change the outcome of the final count by a significant factor.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5034"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5033" dir="ltr">If Ok wants to play games to invalidate our petitions, we could collect a million and still not make it. As for now, they know we are not going to make the 10% in November, so why should they risk the bad publicity by playing games? So I expect they will zip through the petitions and send us on our way and hope we will learn our lesson that we can not win anyway and thus will just go away.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5074"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_6327">At the best, we can hope for a respectable showing so that the next time around they will know a little more about the Libertarian Party, and it will be a much easier sell for collecting signatures and money, and maybe this Fall we might even be lucky enough to elect a few Libertarian candidates.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_6358"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_6359">Well, me and wife drive off to ND tomorrow morning. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_6360"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_6361">Roland ND<br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5068"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4689" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4688" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4687" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4686" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4685" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5180"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4684"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4683" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Wes Benedict <wes.benedict@lp.org><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4697"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_4696" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> lnc-business@hq.lp.org <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5065"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5064" style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 27, 2016 6:15 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5067"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453953331541_5066" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Lnc-business] Oklahoma petition drive<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8538147751"><div>
Roland, I hope that you are right, but I'm not 99.9% certain. <br clear="none">
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But at least if this petition drive fails, there will be at least
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: ) <---smiley face means that I was trying to be sort of
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Thanks for your efforts in Oklahoma. Please let me know how many
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Thanks for stepping in to help. We've gotten a substantial amount of
free advice on this petition drive, but from you, we got free
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I just visited the Oklahoma LP website <a class="yiv8538147751moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.oklp.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://www.oklp.org/</a><br clear="none">
and I donated $150. I put in the comments section: "Tina Kelly,
please use this to collect petition signatures at $1.50 per
signature if possible. Thanks, --Wes Benedict<br clear="none">
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I contributed $200 directly to the LP Oklahoma on 11/18/2015 as
well, but that was to help with printing and overhead and stuff. <br clear="none">
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I'm still very nervous about the success of this drive. While the
national LP shouldn't spend any more on this, I'd sure would be
happy if someone else would donate $1,500 directly to the LP
Oklahoma so they can add another 1,000 signatures to the buffer. <br clear="none">
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Go here, then select the "DONATE!" menu tab, and you can donate by
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<pre class="yiv8538147751moz-signature">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a class="yiv8538147751moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: <a class="yiv8538147751moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lp.org/membership" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://lp.org/membership</a></pre>
<div class="yiv8538147751yqt7946353377" id="yiv8538147751yqtfd65528"><div class="yiv8538147751moz-cite-prefix">On 1/26/2016 7:37 PM, Roland Riemers
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<div>Wes. Have been out and about in OK with Paul and
collected some additional signatures. The cooler weather
and OK rules make slow going but still adding to
cushion. In reviewing situation I am 99.9% certain we
have well exceeded our goals and there should be no big
surprise that will effect this.</div>
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