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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I submitted an email to members of the LNC Ballot Access Committee shortly after midnight, citing that I will be resigning from the committee effective 1 a.m. CDT on Thursday, June 2. An hour before that, my membership with National will expire, as I have no intention to renew due to my lack of faith of this new alt-right, authoritarian, anti-liberty National administration.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My biggest regret on the committee is not being able to go to bat for Illinois more when the BAC decided to not give Illinois any ballot access funds for this 2022 petitioning season. I did, however, fight hard against giving any money to New York, in which they failed to meet any benchmarks set over a five-week period of their drive. (Because if anyone needed it, we did.) I still maintain the belief that now they should not get any money at all, and after the new administration takes over, they likely won’t see a single red cent.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I had a rotten feeling that we were going to get screwed over in 2022, and it will likely be the case in 2024. When it comes to ballot access funds, we’re now on our own. We will NEVER see another dime from National, not in 2024 and not ever until this new regime is ousted.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It also undermines the six years of painstaking, thankless work that I busted my ass for this party since 2016. I sacrificed A LOT for this party since I became LPIL Political Director in November 2019. Blood, sweat, and tens of thousands of tears since the end of the 2020 election cycle, just trying to help our potential candidates for 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s a thankless role with not enough thanks from people in this party. Some just think I’m just a keyboard warrior or a desk jockey. People don’t realize that when I was working in the media last year, I was making and taking calls relating to candidate inquiries while on the clock. I didn’t care about the consequences from work – spoiler alert: there were none because the corporate owners at the Daily Herald are too spineless and do not have a conscience – because I wanted to run more candidates than what we had in 2020. That goal was not met or surpassed for 2022, which I regret. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If anything relating to ballot access fundraising in the future, we should be targeting any and all high roller donors to the LNC and poaching their donations, because we’re the only party that matters. Not a single red cent should go to National if we’re not going to see anything in return.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My term was to expire in January 2023 anyway, but I cannot and will not in good conscience work on that committee under the McArdle administration.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve spoken my piece. If you want more out of me, call me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto'>Jake Leonard</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#657B8E'>Chapter Chairman</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#667B8E'>| </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#61BB46'>Tri-Counties Libertarian Party<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#657B8E'>BOD Member and Political Director</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#667B8E'>| </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#61BB46'>Libertarian Party of Illinois<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#657B8E'>Ballot Access Committee Member</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#667B8E'>| </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#61BB46'>Libertarian National Committee</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'><br>800 Capps Ave., Nokomis, IL 62075<br></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#657B8E'>Website:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> </span><a href="http://www.tricountylibertarians.org/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#0563C1'>www.tricountylibertarians.org</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#FF5B00'>work – Heartland Newsfeed:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto'> </span><a href="tel:217.569.4230" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:blue'>217.569.4230</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> x700 | </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#FF5B00'>work – Pana News Group/SILMG:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto'> </span><a href="tel:217.718.6938"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:blue'>217.718.6938</span></a><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:blue'><br></span></u><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#FF5B00'>mobile:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> </span><a href="tel:217.565.9273" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:blue'>217.565.9273</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#667B8E'> | </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#FF5B00'>mobile:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black'> </span><a href="tel:217.565.9709" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:blue'>217.565.9709</span></a><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2">
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