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

[Justin Tucker]

Fellow Libertarians - Apologies for not sending a written report for 
December. The holidays are a wild time. I hope you understand.

If you are not a recurring monthly donor to LP Illinois, please visit 
www.lpillinois.org and click DONATE. If you cannot donate monthly, 
please consider a one-time donation. Also please consider Lifetime 
Memberships, which will get you into future conventions. Thanks to all 
our donors, both new and recurring. We just paid for a petition drive 
and we need to rebuild the treasury. We just paid for a petition drive 
and a convention, so please help us replenish the treasury. 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.

In the month of November, we brought in $656.67. In December, we brought 
in $805.26.  My all-time haul as ED is $19,717.72. We secured a critical 
donation from of our Lifetime Members, impressed with our performance in 
November.

I am running a write-in campaign for the 14th District Chicago Police 
Council, along with Chris Laurent, who will be our first elected LPIL 
member to Chicago municipal government. My competition is associated 
with a local progressive organization that is well-funded and has Chris 
Laurant also recently received coverage in the Chicago Reader. I have 
also been making contacts with several Chicago aldermanic candidates, 
including Andy Schneider, who has given me considerable attention as a 
potential constituent. I even got him to call me "Tucker" as my friends 
in Missouri call me.

I helped plan a Chicago Mayoral Forum with LPC. Four candidates RSVP'd, 
including Paul Vallas and Willie Wilson but Wilson was the only 
candidate who appeared. The forum received coverage on the local CBS 
affiliate and likely was alerted to the event through a media alert the 
LPC sent. Thanks to Mandy Parsons and Paul DiMasi for helping us build 
up our press list.

I also attended a meeting of the Blexit Foundation for a Martin Luther 
King Day lunch. The state organizer for the Convention of States was in 
attendance and I would recommend to the convention committee keep them 
in mind as a vendor and session speaker. We should also remember Blexit 
Foundation as a vendor as well. I do not recommend the organization Team 
Illinois, as it appears to be a Christian ministry and not a pro-school 
choice organization.

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