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<p>The short answer is "everything I do except LP News." But let me
elaborate on some of the things I need to get done that I've had
time giving enough attention to:</p>
<p>Interviewing prospects and hiring: Press Secretary, Candidate
Support Specialist, Members Services manager (we have a temp
member services manager, Mat, who I want to get back on phoning
for renewals). <br>
</p>
<p>Working with those new people to insure good integration into the
organization.<br>
</p>
<p>Our website still needs plenty of improvements, like our current
list of candidates.<br>
</p>
<p>Well thought-out facebook prospecting ads where we monitor
closely the R.O.I. (you don't want to just spend money and count
views and clicks). Eric produced profitable facebook membership
ads for us in the past. Others haven't been able to do that for
me. <br>
</p>
<p>More press releases on current issues.</p>
<p>We've done some prospecting to the Johnson for President 2016
list, but need to do more of that via email, facebook, and snail
mail. Our contract for that data makes the process a bit more
cumbersome than would be obvious. <br>
</p>
<p>Better integration or at least syncing between Raisers Edge and
our email blast service.</p>
<p>Our attorney is waiting on me for some info a ballot access case.
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</p>
<p>A state affiliate is waiting on me for some helpful registered
libertarian data that I'll also make available to other states if
I have time to let them know about it. <br>
</p>
<p>Membership numbers are going down. Need to work on that more.</p>
<p>Take the time to respond to Andy, the petitioners, collecting of
names for us to send membership invitations to to say "thanks,
we'll send membership inquiry packages--of the 60 or so that we've
sent in recent years that were legible enough, we raised $10, so
worth doing when we have the names, but not worth making a top
priority compared to just getting our petitioners to focus and do
good work getting signatures." <br>
</p>
<p>Eric's a big help to me on a lot of important things I need help
with (he's already started making website fixes that used to take
me long to describe in detail--now I can tell him real quick in
person and he's getting things working better). <br>
</p>
<p>But seriously, I'm overloaded with many major things. Outside
help is sometimes helpful, but not always so easy to use--I've
spent quite a bit of time lately explaining FEC rules and
regulations to people who are helping--takes time with new
folks--some outside help from volunteers ends up taking a lot of
time perhaps counter-intuitively. <br>
</p>
<p>When I can't give staff the attention they need to make
themselves helpful, it hurts their productivity. I think I'd be
better off having staff work on other projects than that 6th issue
of LP News this year.</p>
<p>I do try to prioritize. There are 4 major inputs that affect my
prioritization: 1) my thoughts of course, 2) the chairs, 3) the
LNC's, 4) significant opportunities that pop up out of the blue
that are worth taking advantage of. <br>
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We can do all 6 LP News issues if that's what the LNC requests. It's
a minor decision for you all regardless of which direction you go
and will have a minor impact--not a major decision in my opinion. <br>
<p>Thanks for asking. <br>
</p>
<p>I am unable to answer all the emails and calls I get. </p>
<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>
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voting on this, I'd like to hear what Wes wants to spend staff
time on that would otherwise be spent producing an issue of LP
News. I don't see how we can make an informed decision on the
merits of the motion without that information.</div>
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<div>Once somebody objected this was inevitable. Here
comes a request for cosponsors of a motion by email at
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<div>Our staff has asked for the discretion to cut an
issue of LP news this year. The rationale seems to be
with lots of transition in staff and some other projects
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<div>I was the main driver of reducing the number of
physical issues of LPNews at the December meeting. That
said, Lauren Daugherty our Head of Development was not
in favor of that. She likes to have more touches in
between "asks" for money. It's part of cultivating
donors. Nobody likes to feel like an ATM. I totally get
that though I think there are other ways to do it and
still believe we should start to transition to an all
digital format. That said I believe in giving our staff
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<div>In this case, the person tasked with raising our
donation levels and maintaining and increasing our dues
paying members prefers more touches. Our executive
director who has a good understanding of what a can of
worms the LPNews "issue" is has asked us to cut an
issue. I don't think he would do that without good
reason.</div>
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<div>Nick has the authority to direct staff(or let our
executive director do it). From the technical aspects
Joshua mentions, there doesn't need to be a motion for
Wes to do this, especially with Nick's ok. Caryn Ann
objects because of underlying arguments made in the
unsuccessful attempt to limit the number of LPNews
issues to 4 during the December 2016 LNC meeting. That
motion failing didn't mandate more issues. It just did
not set a limit of 4. I may be wrong on the specifics
but it becomes moot either way if this motion passes.</div>
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<div>If we don't amend the budget line, that leaves the
funding there for 6 issues. Let's say things go
smoother or other things shift and Wes changes his mind
on being able to put out 6 well produced issues. By
giving him discretion to select between publishing 5 or
6 issues that removes at least the objection of going
against the sentiment that may or may not have been
codified in December. It also lets him do his job we
hired him for which is to allocate staff resources with
the chair's guidance.</div>
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<div>I can already sense that while we may not technically
need a motion, despite how painful email motions can be,
not having one is going to be made much more time
consuming and painful by cries of "foul".</div>
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<div>So I am seeking cosponsors for the following motion:</div>
<div><b>"Move to allow staff the discretion to choose
between publishing a total of five or six physical
issues of LPNews for the year of 2017, subject to the
approval of the Chairman."</b></div>
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<div>Daniel Hayes</div>
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