Forwarded to list. --- Elizabeth Van Horn -------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: Re: Colorado joint fundraising efforts. DATE: 2019-10-16 00:50 FROM: Elizabeth Van Horn <elizabeth.vanhorn@lp.org> TO: John Phillips <john.phillips@lp.org> CC: Dan Fishman <dan.fishman@lphq.org>, LNC Gsuite Migration <lnctest@lphq.org>, Jess Mears <jess@lphq.org> John, I can appreciate someone taking a deeper look at the situation. If it was resolved on how to do this, with the FEC filing, I'm curious as to why the LNC and/or the state affiliates weren't informed as soon as a method was discovered. At one time, LPIN had a joint membership effort with national. It was stopped for the supposed legal reasons. SO, if national figured out a way to implement this, why weren't ALL the state affiliates told? I'm with Alicia, in that this is poor timing. As one state affiliate will go live with this, and most of the other state affiliates haven't even heard of this. (except perhaps those privy to the APRC) --- Elizabeth Van Horn LNC Region 3 Representative (IN, MI, OH, KY) On 2019-10-16 00:39, John Phillips wrote:

As I recall the answer was "we are looking into how to bring that back around FEC regulations". Same as it was when I inquired about it before the content creators program was rolled out.

Apparently they figured out that as long as they are an FEC filer the workaround is simple.

John Phillips Libertarian National Committee Region 6 Representative Cell 217-412-5973

On Oct 15, 2019 11:13 PM, Elizabeth Van Horn <elizabeth.vanhorn@lp.org> wrote:

I am a bit confused though. As I had also inquired a month or so ago, about a joint membership with a state affiliate. I was told it wasn't possible, for various legal reasons.

That link doesn't seem any different then what I'd asked about. Very strange.

--- Elizabeth Van Horn LNC Region 3 Representative (IN, MI, OH, KY) Chair-Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus http://www.lpcaucus.org/

On 2019-10-15 18:33, Daniel Fishman wrote:

Please visit https://www.lp.org/colorado-national-combined-membership/

Password is (not shown in forwarded)

History behind this. A few months ago Jess Mears held a webinar with state and county membership directors and invited me to address questions about the possibility of a joint membership form, which had come up in a previous conversation.

I had prior to the meeting consulted with Robert Kraus about the FEC implications and we agreed it could be done with states that are FEC filers. I discussed this in the Membership Directors meeting, and described essentially the webpage listed above. There was some interest among the participants.

Fast forward to last week and Colorado approached me with a plan. They are hiring a telemarketer to call all the registered Libertarians in Colorado and are going to get them to become members at national as well as make a donation to LPCO.

The page has cleared APRC and is explicitly approved by the LPCO chair. It has been suggested I notify the LNC of this plan and ask if there are strenuous objections to making this publicly available. LPCO has a communication going out tomorrow, and they would like to advertise this page.

To anticipate other questions, we can make a page like this available to any state that is a FEC filers. I would need a formal request from the state chair to proceed.

Your reply is appreciated.

Dan

Dan Fishman, Executive Director, Libertarian Party

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