Executive Director Report - September 2021
Team - I will be missing tonight's meeting and October's meeting because of the AF Writing Fellowship Program. If you are not a recurring monthly donor to the LP Illinois, please visit www.lpillinois.org/donate to set. If you cannot donate monthly, please consider a one-time donation. Also, please become a Precinct Committeeperson if you are not already one by visiting www.lpillinois.org/precinct-committeemen/. Also, if you plan to attend the convention, please get your package as soon as you can at https://lpillinois.org/2021-state-convention/. For the month of August, I pitched to 49 individuals. $70 pledges. I have audited all pledges from April 1 to September 15. My calls to action have brought in a total of $6308. This does not include emails or voicemails, which are going to be more tedious to reconcile. July 2021 ended up being highest aggregate donation total in LPI's history with June 2021 still being the 9th highest. Convention packages and our generous recurring donations helped drive those totals and I suspect the slow down is related to the plateau in convention package sales. I suspect that August and September numbers are not complete as July 2021 numbers were down from last month's report. In addition to LP meetings, I attended Sunday services at New Beginnings Church on Chicago's South Side a few Sundays ago. Pastor Corey Brooks' Project HOOD has some of the same donor base as America's Future. I am interested in attending their 2021 Gala After Party to network. I have also helped secure venues for off-site convention fundraising events: an axe-throwing event with Spike Cohen and a catered brunch with Justin Amash. I am still working with Rep. Lauren Underwood's office about meeting with Libertarian constituents. As of now, it will be Zoom meeting in November and I am still ironing out details with her people. Thank you chapters in or near her district for helping organize. I am working with Les Defner with chapter development in the Metro-East and in Fulton Co. Fulton Co. had their meeting last Saturday and the Metro-East meeting will be on September 30th. Thank you, Les, Blake, and Ian, for your help, and thanks to those who have stepped up to help organize chapters in those respective areas. I am also available to join any LP meeting in the state, virtually or in-person if possible. Please reach out. Best, Justin Tucker
Fellow Libertarians - If you are not a recurring monthly donor to the LP Illinois, please visit www.lpillinois.org/donate to set. If you cannot donate monthly, please consider a one-time donation. Also, please become a Precinct Committeeperson if you are not already one. From April 1 to September 30th, I have personally raised over $8500 through donations. July 2021 was the highest aggregate donation total in LPI's history with June 2021 being the 9th highest. Convention packages and our generous recurring donations helped drive those totals. I have secured a meeting Rep. Lauren Underwood with Libertarian constituents in her district in November. It will be on Zoom. More details to follow. I worked with Les Defner with chapter development in Northwest Cook County, Metro-East, and Fulton County. NW Cook is now an affiliated chapter. The Metro East and Fulton County have several folks interested in leading those chapters. I am currently a Writing Fellow with the America's Future Writing Fellowship Program. I plan to pitch an op-ed about the ballot access strugges in Illinois and network with liberty-minded journalists across the country. I ask the BOD to give me another 6 months as ED. I encourage those who win auction items to secure those items in our archive at UIC to protect from damage. Best, Justin Tucker Executive Director, Libertarian Party of Illinois
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