[LPIL - Board of Directors] Executive Director Report - May 2022

[executivedirector at lpillinois.org]

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 
consider Lifetime Memberships.

If you are not a Precinct Committeeperson, please consider becoming one. 
If you are in an established county, start planning the next PC 
elections.

The petition drive is underway and I've been on the streets. Street 
festival and farmers market season is just beginning and are great 
places to petition. I recommend petitioning at your polling place on 
Primary Day. I plan to take PTO.  Please consider pledging signatures 
for the drive if you have not done so already. I've pledged 1000 
volunteer signatures and am currently at 30% to my goal. See Bill 
Redpath to make your pledges.

In Cook County, we will petitioning every weekend until the end of the 
petition drive. We will be marching in the Chicago Pride Parade on June 
26th. It's the biggest audience of any parade we do. All candidates 
should make an effort to come march. Also a great petitioning 
opportunity.

I heard from the GOP that they plan to run vacancies in Cook County and 
thus potentially three-way races.

I sent an email appeal on May 3rd, which was the best performing one to 
date in terms of donations. $275 was the haul. I will be writing an 
appeal email for LP National.

My two-term haul is $8151.45. I set a personal goal of $10,000 for the 
year and made 81.5% of my goal. Petitioning has been a focus for much of 
my second term.. 9 of the top 20 months for contribution aggregate have 
been since April 2021. April 2022 saw $2993.60 in donations.

Deb was able to figure out why my donations didn't register. I am now 
going back to auditing all the donations going back to April 2021 and I 
suspect I will find a few more donations. I will also provide a 
breakdown of my first two terms at a later time.

I am working to get Deirdre McCloskey on Joe Walsh's podcast. Prayers 
for Joe Walsh's wife who is getting treatment for cancer. I plan to 
reach out to more media to spotlight our candidates.

I also met JB Pritzker at a pro-LGBT rally and got the card of a 
staffer. Awaiting a reply from him about a possible meeting. Also met 
Gary Rabine, who told us he was a libertarian, and perhaps an 
opportunity for collaboration after he loses the GOP nomination.

I encourage those who won auction items to secure those items in our 
archive at UIC to protect them from damage. Reach out to me about 
donations, as I just received instructions from our former archivist.

Best,
Justin Tucker
Executive Director, Libertarian Party of Illinois