<div dir="ltr">Starchild - in addition, we can't send out checks to affiliates in many cases, so doing it that way isn't really a possibility anymore. Personally, I think the concern that national is going to steal affiliate money is overblown, but regardless, that program can't exist. I think it's relatively easy to do the automation you speak, with no need to outsource the work. That, at least, is my impression.<div><br></div><div>But that's all an implementation question. A lot comes before that, such as if we want something like that at all, how it should be structured, how to divide up responsibilities between state and national, how the division should look, etc. For those things, I think Caryn Ann's suggestion is a good one.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Joshua A. Katz<div>Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Starchild <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sfdreamer@earthlink.net" target="_blank">sfdreamer@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span class="m_-9184674960345537701Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>This comes up periodically, and I totally understand why. My sense is that most members would like a system that lets you join all levels of the party (national/state/local) with one form and one payment. But I think many grassroots activists are justifiably wary of a system that sends all the money to national and then relies on staff to send out checks to state and local affiliates. Ideal would be a system that automatically divvies up funds collected according to where they're supposed to go and disperses them simultaneously to all levels of the party, so no level would be dependent on another level doing its job properly. I wonder whether it's possible to totally automate something like that, or whether the work could be outsourced at a reasonable cost to someone whose sole focus was this sort of payment transfers (as opposed to just one of many hats staff are wearing).</div><div><br></div><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> ((( starchild )))</div><div>At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</div><div> (415) 625-FREE</div><div><br></div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Oct 8, 2016, at 1:39 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:</div><br class="m_-9184674960345537701Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">I have had a few members bring up the UMP (Unified Membership Program) to me over the past few months. A few would like to see something like that re-instituted. I don't want to waste time here with half-baked proposals but I am planning on getting an informal group of members together to discuss in November. If anyone here would like to be part of this discussion group please let me know.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-9184674960345537701gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>In Liberty,</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Caryn Ann Harlos</b></font></div><div><font size="1">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </font><span style="font-size:x-small">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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