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    <p>Kevin spent probably 80 or more hours working on a few tech
      challenges with the new website over the past few weeks. Some of
      the problems we've had did not happen until we switched on the
      live version of the website. In any case, it's live now and we're
      going to keep making it a great website. <br>
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    <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>
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lp.org/membership">http://lp.org/membership</a></pre>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/3/2016 6:37 PM, Kevin Ludlow
      wrote:<br>
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                <div>Caryn,<br>
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                I was under the impression from speaking with Lauren et
                al that we would be able to get those pages up
                relatively fast or I'd not have had that exchange with
                you and Lauren last week.  That said, and as I've stated
                before, I am 100% behind whatever priorities Wes has
                been organizing for staff.<br>
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              <div>My position is that we absolutely did not prematurely
                go live.  If anything we launched later than planned
                mostly due to a series of infrastructure issues (many of
                which are cost-dependent and detailed in a report I've
                been working on). <br>
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              To expound on my response, the website was built and
              launched to serve as a marketing tool for the Libertarian
              Party.  I know some may disagree with this, but the
              majority did agree with that premise and that's why the
              project was taken on in the first place.  The most
              important marketing we could do right now is for Gary
              Johnson (much like the GOP is using their website to
              promote Trump and the DNC is using their website to
              promote Hillary).  This has been a marketing strategy and
              by all accounts is a pretty practical and intuitive one.<br>
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            Still, I'm not dismissing the other pages needing to go
            online.  I fully agree with you that they do need to.  But
            the marketing of the Johnson campaign has been given
            priority over some of the internal components.  I'm fairly
            certain that our marketing people are not of the position
            that people will avoid voting for Johnson because they can't
            immediately find our party's bylaws online.<br>
            <br>
            Also, I managed to make the old site available for staff
            internally.  This in itself took a lot of work, but has been
            done to ensure they can compare pages.<br>
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          Finally, and as briefly noted above, I've been preparing a
          lengthy report for the LNC and for LP staff so that all of the
          components we are working with are spelled out.  Once I finish
          the report I will gladly share it provided that the LNC DOES
          agree to keep it confidential (given it contains highly
          sensitive information related to our infrastructure).<br>
          <br>
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        -Kevin<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Caryn
          Ann Harlos <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:carynannharlos@gmail.com" target="_blank">carynannharlos@gmail.com</a>></span>
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            <div dir="ltr">In short, we made a mistake in prematurely
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                              <div><font face="arial, helvetica,
                                  sans-serif" color="#666666" size="4"><b>In
                                    Liberty,</b></font></div>
                              <div><font face="arial, helvetica,
                                  sans-serif" color="#666666" size="4"><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
                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    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 moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    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
                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/"
                                    target="_blank">Libertarian Party
                                    Radical Caucus</a></span></div>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:15
                    PM, Wes Benedict <span dir="ltr"><<a
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org"
                        target="_blank">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>></span>
                    wrote:<br>
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                        <p>The website has come a long way, but we have
                          a lot of work yet to do on it. I have
                          personally instructed various staff members to
                          focus on certain things in front of others.
                          While getting bylaws up and new LNC photos is
                          a priority, it may still be a while before we
                          get those up. Again, I have told staff there
                          are higher priorities in the short run.</p>
                        <p>things that have displayed poorly on the home
                          page are a higher priority for now. For
                          example, below is taken from an email I sent
                          to staff on some things we had to do for the
                          home page.</p>
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                        <p><img src="cid:part6.86609E88.8D44F3DD@lp.org"
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                        <p>If I inaccurately promised some things in a
                          few days, I revise that estimate to a few
                          weeks. <br>
                        </p>
                        <p>We are making progress. But again, especially
                          while we were having some issues with files
                          and images appearing and then disappearing, I
                          have told staff to focus on certain other
                          things.<br>
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                        <p>Thanks,<br>
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                        <pre class="m_-8344884178131405986m_-1360504342063274445moz-signature" cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
<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" class="m_-8344884178131405986m_-1360504342063274445moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://facebook.com/libertarians" target="_blank">facebook.com/libertarians</a> @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_-8344884178131405986m_-1360504342063274445moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lp.org/membership" target="_blank">http://lp.org/membership</a></pre>
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                              11/3/2016 6:05 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:<br>
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                              <div dir="ltr">Hello, I am following up on
                                the several things I was assured would
                                be resolved shortly (likely a few days)
                                that remain unresolved.
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                                <div>First, the minutes archives is not
                                  yet restored.  These are required by
                                  the Bylaws, and I must object once
                                  again that we have a
                                  non-Bylaws-complaint page up.</div>
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                                <div>Second, the LNC members photos have
                                  partially disappeared.  I have been
                                  getting a ton of publicity for the
                                  LPCO in CO and when the news there is
                                  looking up my credentials, they see an
                                  LP.org LNC page that is incomplete.l</div>
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                                <div>I waited well past the few days
                                  discussed to followup.  </div>
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                                <div>Yes the election is coming up but
                                  our Bylaws are our Bylaws and having
                                  an incomplete page looks bad when
                                  people are looking us up.<br
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                                                <div><font face="arial,
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                                                      Liberty,</b></font></div>
                                                <div><font face="arial,
                                                    helvetica,
                                                    sans-serif"
                                                    color="#666666"
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                                                      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
                                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
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
                                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
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
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org"
                                                      target="_blank">Libertarian
                                                      Party Radical
                                                      Caucus</a></span></div>
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