<div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>I don't understand why our declining membership isn't our number one priority as an organization. These reports come out showing we have a real problem and no one seems to notice. Too often the LNC is too busy having pointless philosophical debates amongst ourselves while people are voting with their feet and leaving the party.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like us to do an email survey of our membership to determine what people like and don't like about the party. I don't accept this culture of failure that since our numbers went up last year they have to go down this year. </div><div><br></div><div>I don't pretend to have all the answers to this problem. But I think a good place to start is simply asking our membership. It would be free and we might learn something. </div><div><br></div><div>Interest in liberty is exploding, if our numbers don't reflect that we are doing something wrong. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Patrick McKnight</div><div>LNC Region 8 Rep</div><div>Chair, New Jersey Libertarian Party</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Robert Kraus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.kraus@lp.org" target="_blank">robert.kraus@lp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business-bounces@<wbr>hq.lp.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Aaron Starr<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 03, 2017
4:32 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a>;
<a href="mailto:lnc-business@lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@lp.org</a>; 'LP-State Chairs'; <a href="mailto:staff@lp.org" target="_blank">staff@lp.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lnc-business] Jul
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report compares July 2017 with June 2016, so the prior year data point did not
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business-bounces@<wbr>hq.lp.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 03, 2017
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Chairs'; <a href="mailto:staff@lp.org" target="_blank">staff@lp.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Lnc-business] Jul
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