Email Ballot 2015-07: Oklahoma petition drive - v2
We have an electronic mail ballot. *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark *Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000. Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
I vote "Yes" on this email ballot. Bill Redpath On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
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Yes. From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of William Redpath Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 6:19 AM To: lnc-business@hq.lp.org Cc: lnc-business Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-07: Oklahoma petition drive - v2 I vote "Yes" on this email ballot. Bill Redpath On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote: We have an electronic mail ballot. Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time. Sponsor: Sarwark Motion: Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000. Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary _______________________________________________ Lnc-business mailing list Lnc-business@hq.lp.org http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org
Until and unless superseded by Dr. Feldman, I vote no. Brett C. Bittner Region 3 Alternate Libertarian National Committee **This message sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos. On Jun 20, 2015 2:48 AM, "Alicia Mattson" <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
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Motion: Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000. I vote Aye. Scott Lieberman
I vote yes on Email Ballot 2015-07: Oklahoma petition drive - v2. Gary Johnson 512-441-6378 -----Original Message----- From: Scott L. <scott73@earthlink.net> To: 'lnc-business' <lnc-business@lp.org> Sent: Sat, Jun 20, 2015 8:10 am Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-07: Oklahoma petition drive - v2 Motion: Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000. I vote Aye. Scott Lieberman _______________________________________________ Lnc-business mailing list Lnc-business@hq.lp.org http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org
I vote "Yes" on this email ballot. Dr. Marc Allan Feldman Region 3 Representative Libertarian National Committee Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.
Sponsor: Sarwark
Motion: Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
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-- Marc Allan Feldman 216-312-4169 (direct)
I vote Yes on the Ballot Access motion. Vicki Kirkland Region 2 Rep On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Marc Allan Feldman <marc@openivo.com> wrote:
I vote "Yes" on this email ballot.
Dr. Marc Allan Feldman Region 3 Representative Libertarian National Committee Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.
Sponsor: Sarwark
Motion: Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
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-- Marc Allan Feldman 216-312-4169 (direct)
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I vote "Yes" on this ballot. Daniel Hayes LNC Region 7 Alternate Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 20, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Vicki Kirkland <vickilp12@gmail.com> wrote:
I vote Yes on the Ballot Access motion.
Vicki Kirkland Region 2 Rep
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Marc Allan Feldman <marc@openivo.com> wrote: I vote "Yes" on this email ballot.
Dr. Marc Allan Feldman Region 3 Representative Libertarian National Committee Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.
Sponsor: Sarwark
Motion: Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
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-- Marc Allan Feldman 216-312-4169 (direct)
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Aye. Sean O'Toole sean@kingfieldcapital.com (816) 739-2737 “It is the job of economists to point out trade-offs; it is the job of politicians and planners to deny that trade-offs exist.” -William Easterly, 2006 On 20 Jun 2015, at 1:48, Alicia Mattson wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary _______________________________________________ Lnc-business mailing list Lnc-business@hq.lp.org http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org
I vote yes. Joshua A. Katz Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat) On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
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Nay! I have true sympathy for states which are afflicted with nasty ballot access laws. This vote is not a vote against Oklahoma or any other state so afflicted. I vote against the unofficially adopted policy of this committee that 50+ state ballot access for our presidential candidate is the primary and sole objective of this committee. I write this as expenditures other than ballot access are carefully scrutinized and maximum frugality is demanded; and even then are often rejected. But when it comes to 50+ state ballot access, nothing is too expensive; frugality and cost/benefit analysis goes out the window. Major fundraising efforts are implemented, major donations made, and many volunteers are recruited to work the malls. Also, ballot access funding requests routinely get approved by huge majorities, usually 16-1. I am unaware of any that have failed. Used to be that Libertarian principles were considered to be extreme; but now they are being adopted as law everywhere. Libertarian registration is increasing in many of the states in my region; 10% annually for three years now in my home state of Colorado. Yet at the same time, membership and revenue of our organization is shrinking, and this effect has been quite dramatic in recent months. The focus on ballot access does not appear to be providing the success upon which volunteer organizations like ours need to grow. It is time to reconsider strategies. While ballot access is a valid endeavor for a political party, the BIG BIG question remains: Is this the very best use of our very limited (and currently dramatically shrinking) resources? While ballot access is a valid objective for any political party, the unilateral focus on ballot access is causing us to ignore organizational strength. And it is lack of organization strength that underlies the ballot access issue. (Catch 22 if you will.) Curing the ballot access problem is best achieved by building the organization strength of the individual affiliates. It cannot be denied that ballot access is an important ingredient to building a state affiliate or local affiliate. However, ballot access cannot guarantee that an organizationally strong affiliate will emerge. Our emphasis needs to change; the scope of our activities broadened, and our resources put to the very best use possible. Building organizational strength needs to gain our primary focus; ballot access should be only a judiciously applied part of this larger objective. Norm PS> One might say politics is about running candidates. However, this applies only if, at least occasionally, some of those candidates actually get elected. Running candidates when none ever get elected is not politics. To actually elect a candidate takes three things: organization, organization, and more organization. -- Norman T Olsen Regional Representative, Region 1 Libertarian National Committee 7931 South Broadway, PMB 102 Littleton, CO 80122-2710 303-263-4995 From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Alicia Mattson Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 12:49 AM To: lnc-business Subject: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-07: Oklahoma petition drive - v2 We have an electronic mail ballot. Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time. Sponsor: Sarwark Motion: Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000. Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
I applaud Mr. Olsen for having the guts to send the e-mail below to the Chairs of the RNC and the DNC via the LP's web site. Those LP leaders and members who care about ballot access have done an excellent job over the past 44 years of maximizing our ballot access in October of even-numbered years with the meager resources that we have had available. However, there has never been a concerted effort to maximize ballot access in December of even-numbered years. A possible explanation for that is that it would likely entail running fewer candidates for unwinnable offices, and probably having some statewide candidates campaign on issues that are tangential to the LP Platform. That doesn't mean campaigning as an anti-Libertarian, but it might mean campaigning on ethics issues that are not explicitly libertarian. Mr. Olsen's comments about actually getting candidates elected to public office are right on target. But our members won't care about electing Libertarians to public office until the LNC cares about it. Total number of elected Libertarians = 151 Total number of elected offices in the USA = circa 500,000 Scott Lieberman _____ From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Norm Olsen Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 2:50 PM To: lnc-business@hq.lp.org Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-07: Oklahoma petition drive -v2 Nay! I have true sympathy for states which are afflicted with nasty ballot access laws. This vote is not a vote against Oklahoma or any other state so afflicted. I vote against the unofficially adopted policy of this committee that 50+ state ballot access for our presidential candidate is the primary and sole objective of this committee. I write this as expenditures other than ballot access are carefully scrutinized and maximum frugality is demanded; and even then are often rejected. But when it comes to 50+ state ballot access, nothing is too expensive; frugality and cost/benefit analysis goes out the window. Major fundraising efforts are implemented, major donations made, and many volunteers are recruited to work the malls. Also, ballot access funding requests routinely get approved by huge majorities, usually 16-1. I am unaware of any that have failed. Used to be that Libertarian principles were considered to be extreme; but now they are being adopted as law everywhere. Libertarian registration is increasing in many of the states in my region; 10% annually for three years now in my home state of Colorado. Yet at the same time, membership and revenue of our organization is shrinking, and this effect has been quite dramatic in recent months. The focus on ballot access does not appear to be providing the success upon which volunteer organizations like ours need to grow. It is time to reconsider strategies. While ballot access is a valid endeavor for a political party, the BIG BIG question remains: Is this the very best use of our very limited (and currently dramatically shrinking) resources? While ballot access is a valid objective for any political party, the unilateral focus on ballot access is causing us to ignore organizational strength. And it is lack of organization strength that underlies the ballot access issue. (Catch 22 if you will.) Curing the ballot access problem is best achieved by building the organization strength of the individual affiliates. It cannot be denied that ballot access is an important ingredient to building a state affiliate or local affiliate. However, ballot access cannot guarantee that an organizationally strong affiliate will emerge. Our emphasis needs to change; the scope of our activities broadened, and our resources put to the very best use possible. Building organizational strength needs to gain our primary focus; ballot access should be only a judiciously applied part of this larger objective. Norm PS> One might say politics is about running candidates. However, this applies only if, at least occasionally, some of those candidates actually get elected. Running candidates when none ever get elected is not politics. To actually elect a candidate takes three things: organization, organization, and more organization. Norman T Olsen
I heartily concur with Norm's sensible nay vote. For forty-four years, our irrational focus on electing libertarians to high office has prevented us from having much influence in American politics. (I'm talking about the NLP, not libertarian ideas, which are spreading in spite of our efforts) Why are we so intent upon illustrating Einstein's definition of insanity? Why do we do the same thing over and over again, yet expect different results this time? But Scott has done us a service and come up with some fresh new magical thinking that we should all rally around. After 21 dismal failures, we can succeed in 2016 if we just care about electing libertarians and make a concerted effort to maximize ballot access in December by running fewer candidates for unwinnable offices and campaign by mudslinging ethical issues on the local level. Professor de la Paz, from Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress made a great suggestion to the constitutional convention there in 2076. He suggested that legislators ought to pay for their proposals with their own money. I suggest that every yes vote on this question should pony up five to ten thousand dollars to pay for Oklahoma's ballot access. Leave the members' contributions for more effective ways of promoting liberty NOW. (thank you, Sharon Harris) The Republicans and Democrats really enjoy watching us grasp at high offices. As we learn how to leap higher and get a taste of it, they chuckle, then raise the carrot just out of reach again. The next time I leap up, I'm going to ignore the carrot and kick them in the short hairs. We reformers should not be trying to get our hands on the levers of power, we should be figuring out how to shorten them and make them less powerful. Ron Windeler rowindeler@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Scott L. <scott73@earthlink.net> To: 'lnc-business' <lnc-business@lp.org> Sent: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 6:14 pm Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-07: Oklahoma petition drive - v2 I applaud Mr. Olsen for having the guts to send the e-mail below to the Chairs of the RNC and the DNC via the LP’s web site. Those LP leaders and members who care about ballot access have done an excellent job over the past 44 years of maximizing our ballot access in October of even-numbered years with the meager resources that we have had available. However, there has never been a concerted effort to maximize ballot access in December of even-numbered years. A possible explanation for that is that it would likely entail running fewer candidates for unwinnable offices, and probably having some statewide candidates campaign on issues that are tangential to the LP Platform. That doesn’t mean campaigning as an anti-Libertarian, but it might mean campaigning on ethics issues that are not explicitly libertarian. Mr. Olsen’s comments about actually getting candidates elected to public office are right on target. But our members won’t care about electing Libertarians to public office until the LNC cares about it. Total number of elected Libertarians = 151 Total number of elected offices in the USA = circa 500,000 Scott Lieberman From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Norm Olsen Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 2:50 PM To: lnc-business@hq.lp.org Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-07: Oklahoma petition drive -v2 Nay! I have true sympathy for states which are afflicted with nasty ballot access laws. This vote is not a vote against Oklahoma or any other state so afflicted. I vote against the unofficially adopted policy of this committee that 50+ state ballot access for our presidential candidate is the primary and sole objective of this committee. I write this as expenditures other than ballot access are carefully scrutinized and maximum frugality is demanded; and even then are often rejected. But when it comes to 50+ state ballot access, nothing is too expensive; frugality and cost/benefit analysis goes out the window. Major fundraising efforts are implemented, major donations made, and many volunteers are recruited to work the malls. Also, ballot access funding requests routinely get approved by huge majorities, usually 16-1. I am unaware of any that have failed. Used to be that Libertarian principles were considered to be extreme; but now they are being adopted as law everywhere. Libertarian registration is increasing in many of the states in my region; 10% annually for three years now in my home state of Colorado. Yet at the same time, membership and revenue of our organization is shrinking, and this effect has been quite dramatic in recent months. The focus on ballot access does not appear to be providing the success upon which volunteer organizations like ours need to grow. It is time to reconsider strategies. While ballot access is a valid endeavor for a political party, the BIG BIG question remains: Is this the very best use of our very limited (and currently dramatically shrinking) resources? While ballot access is a valid objective for any political party, the unilateral focus on ballot access is causing us to ignore organizational strength. And it is lack of organization strength that underlies the ballot access issue. (Catch 22 if you will.) Curing the ballot access problem is best achieved by building the organization strength of the individual affiliates. It cannot be denied that ballot access is an important ingredient to building a state affiliate or local affiliate. However, ballot access cannot guarantee that an organizationally strong affiliate will emerge. Our emphasis needs to change; the scope of our activities broadened, and our resources put to the very best use possible. Building organizational strength needs to gain our primary focus; ballot access should be only a judiciously applied part of this larger objective. Norm PS> One might say politics is about running candidates. However, this applies only if, at least occasionally, some of those candidates actually get elected. Running candidates when none ever get elected is not politics. To actually elect a candidate takes three things: organization, organization, and more organization. Norman T Olsen _______________________________________________ Lnc-business mailing list Lnc-business@hq.lp.org http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org
In light of the just-received monthly financial report which shows us below our reserve level and still bleeding money, I vote "No" on this motion. Daniel Wiener Region 4 representative On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
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-- *"In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we compute the consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if this law we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare the computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”* -- Richard Feynman (https://tinyurl.com/lozjjps)
My vote is Yes. -Nick On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
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Dear colleagues: I hope all is well with you. I am writing in my capacity as Region 5 representative to vote "aye" on the motion. As always, thanks for your work for liberty. Take care, Jim James W. Lark, III Advisor, The Liberty Coalition University of Virginia Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee ----- On 6/20/2015 2:48 AM, Alicia Mattson wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*_Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time. _* _Sponsor:_ Sarwark
_Motion:_ Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
Sam Goldstein has indicated to me that one of his two "no" votes on Oklahoma version 1 was actually intended for version 2. I'm sending this note just to document it here in this thread. -Alicia On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
I've been debating with myself over this vote. It's tempting to give it a shot just because the Oklahoma laws are suddenly much less bad than they used to be. It's also tempting because Richard Winger's very generous offer gets us half-way there. However, I can't look at our financials and feel like we can afford it even with that large of a head start. I do wonder whether getting on the ballot this time would reduce our chances of getting further legislative reform later. If they see we can jump this hurdle, they may get traction with an argument that our success proves it's doable, so no more reform is needed. Yes, the motion says we'll only do it if we raise enough funds for it, but that will inevitably cannibalize (or at the very minimum, delay) our general fundraising efforts to some degree, and we've got no breathing room as it is. I also am keenly aware of the potential for a process we've experienced in the past (though on a different subject matter) - we'll start fundraising, not reach the goal we set, and then there will be a push for us to do it anyway even though we didn't raise all the money we said we needed in order to approve the project. -Alicia On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
Sam Goldstein has indicated to me that one of his two "no" votes on Oklahoma version 1 was actually intended for version 2. I'm sending this note just to document it here in this thread.
-Alicia
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
I vote no. -Alicia On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
Voting has ended for the email ballot shown below. *Voting "aye":* Craig, Feldman, Hagan, Hayes, Johnson, Katz, Kirkland, Lark, McLendon, O'Toole, Redpath, Sarwark *Voting "nay":* Goldstein, Mattson, Olsen, Wiener With a final vote tally of 12-4, the motion PASSES. -Alicia On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an electronic mail ballot.
*Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by June 29, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Sponsor:* Sarwark
*Motion:* Increase the Ballot Access Expense line item by $65,000, from $57,500 to $122,500, contingent on the LNC receiving cash receipts, that are earmarked for a 2015 Libertarian Party of Oklahoma petition drive, of at least $60,000, and cash receipts (net of associated fundraising costs) of at least $55,000.
Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary
participants (16)
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Alicia Mattson -
Brett Bittner -
Daniel Hayes -
Daniel Wiener -
Gary Johnson -
Guy McLendon -
James Lark -
Joshua Katz -
Marc Allan Feldman -
Nicholas Sarwark -
Norm Olsen -
Ron Windeler -
Scott L. -
Sean O'Toole -
Vicki Kirkland -
William Redpath