[LPIL - Board of Directors] Executive Director Report - April 2023

[Justin Tucker]

Fellow Libertarians - Congratulations to Bill Redpath on becoming Chair 
of the LPIL. I am very excited about working with Bill and I strongly 
feel we can continue to thrive under his leadership.

Another thank you to Chase Renwick for all his years of service to the 
LPIL. He will be missed as Chair. Chase was instrumental in getting out 
the Executive Director position established and without those efforts, 
we would not have more than $20,000 of additional resources in our 
coffers. His leadership will be greatly missed.

Please make a donation to the LP Illinois by visiting www.lpillinois.org 
and clicking DONATE. Also please consider Lifetime Memberships, which 
will get you into future conventions. Thanks to all our donors, both new 
and recurring. Established counties start petitioning around Novemberish 
and the statewide petition for the 2024 Presidential ticket starts next 
spring. Please reach into your couch cushions, put aside a few coffees, 
and give whatever you can spare, large or small, to help rebuild. Become 
a donor today!

If you are not a Precinct Committeeperson, please consider becoming one. 
If you are in an established county, start planning the next PC 
elections. Meanwhile, the information on 
https://lpillinois.org/precinct-committeemen/ should be updated.

My all-time haul as ED is $20,947.60.

On Friday, I will be meeting with State Rep. LaShawn Ford to discuss 
ballot access issues as well as Illinois decentralization issues. If 
anyone has the text of the 2018 resolution about dissolving the current 
Illinois structure into one or several states, please send it my way.

At the advice of the Executive Committee, I will begin the process of 
finding interested PCs in Chicago to appoint as Ward Committeepersons. I 
will soon call for a Cook County Libertarian Central Committee meeting 
as per the CCLCC bylaws and to announce appointments to Township 
Committeeperson.

Russ hosted a new member welcome meeting. This has the potential to be a 
great tool for helping onboard new members and gauging interest in 
running for office or volunteer activities.

I helped man the table at the Take Human Action event and facilitated a 
few new members to the LPIL.

I will continue to donate items to our archive at the UIC library. As 
some of you guys have just spent lots of money on Libertarian 
memorabilia, I encourage you to use the archive for safekeeping in case 
of a disaster like a fire. If you want to donate, let me know and I can 
help.

Best,
Justin Tucker
Executive Director, Libertarian Party of Illinois