I'm pleased to announce the two newest members of the Libertarian Party
headquarters staff: Lauren Daugherty and Andy Burns.

Lauren Daugherty joins us from Texas where she previously served as
the executive director of the Libertarian Party of Texas.

Ms. Daugherty earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Economics
from Emory University in Atlanta where she served as Chairman of the
College Republicans (don't worry--she's a real Libertarian now). She went
on to earn a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security from the
Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, and a Masters of Arts in
Government from Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.

Her impressive resume includes previous work at FreedomWorks in
Washington, DC, where she executed a rapid expansion of their direct mail
program, and the Leadership Institute, in Arlington, VA, where she
oversaw campus outreach at northeastern schools, managed four field staff,
and spoke regularly at training seminars across the country.

She served as executive director of the Libertarian Party of Texas from
2013 to 2015. In 2014, LP Texas raised over $145,000, put 132 candidates
on ballots across the state, and established branding standards for the
organization.

Ms. Daugherty will help us with fundraising and membership growth.

Andy Burns joins us from Minnesota, where he has served as as executive
director of the Libertarian Party of Minnesota.

Mr. Burns earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University
of Minnesota Duluth, where he majored in Organizational Management and
minored in Economics.

As executive director for the LP Minnesota, Mr. Burns dramatically raised
annual revenues from $5,800 before he was hired to over $45,000. Mr. Burns
managed LP Minnesota's 2014 statewide petitioning effort which collected
13,000 signatures for 5 statewide candidates in just 14 days. This is the
only time any minor party has accomplished this since 1998. During Mr.
Burn's leadership, LP Minnesota also increased their non-partisan elected
officials from zero to five and established branding standards for the
organization.

Mr. Burns will serve as our State Affiliate Development Specialist, in
particular to improve the areas of fundraising, database management, and
marketing.

The addition of Mr. Burns to serve as our new State Affiliate Support
Specialist was made possible by the generous contribution of $20,000
dedicated specifically for this position.

Finally, I'd like to publicly recognize and thank Arthur DiBianca for
his work for the Libertarian Party for over ten years in various roles. I
first had the opportunity to work with Art significantly in 2004 while
volunteering for the LP Texas petition drive that collected over 80,000
signatures. I was serving as the volunteer coordinator for that drive and
Art was one of the rare volunteers who would actually go out there with me
and collect lots of signatures without getting burnt out too easily. I
then asked him to help me validate the signatures. He ended up setting up
a database and validated probably over 40,000 (I don't remember exactly).
I later hired him to work with me for the LP Texas where we broke
fundraising and candidate recruitment records. He managed our database,
helped assemble fundraising letters, edited nearly everything I ever
wrote (including the book I wrote a few years ago), called people to get
them to run for office, helped them fill out their applications, and even
helped many candidates get fines reduced or waived for filing late
campaign finance reports. His work was so versatile and productive, I just
had to hire him to work for the national LP after I started working here
myself.

Art has worked just part-time for the national LP for the past year and
recently decided it was time for him to move on other things. He remains a
supporter of the Libertarian Party, I just couldn't convince him to
continue making it a professional career.

Once again, I'd like to thank Art DiBianca for his more than ten years of
service welcome Lauren Daugherty and Andy Burns to the team.

--
Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org
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