[LPL Board of Directors] Advertising

Adrien Monteleone chairman at lplouisiana.org
Wed Apr 10 15:18:49 CDT 2013 

Boyd,

There are some other considerations here as well.  Of particular note is 
what is in the contract that we are paying for and what is being 
provided.  There's nothing wrong, and in fact, much outstanding and 
great, about what is being provided.  The sticking point is we set a 
price for certain services, this list does not include the work the ED 
is actually spending most of her time on.  As Reed noted, we don't have 
the funding levels to support the work actually being done in the 
current fashion, and now that pledges are backing out, that foundation 
is even more tenuous.

The present contract payment level is unsustainable at present. It was 
only offered to secure a signature.  We operated on dangerous ground for 
8 weeks without a contract.  I still don't know if that time would be 
sufficient to establish an "employer/employee" relationship under the 
law.  We don't need that headache and all that comes with it.

That isn't going to happen again.

My records and projections show our original amount of $200-$250 a week 
for what we were asking for is right on target for the upper limit of 
what we can afford to pay.  Closer analysis by myself and Mr. Ebarb 
shows what we were specifically contracting for likely falls even less 
than that - closer to $150 a week. That difference would provide more 
cushion for other projects and still get the tasks we set out in the 
contract accomplished.

The issue isn't, is the work being done of value? - it is.

The issue isn't simply, can we afford it? - we can't.

The bigger issue, the one that will control the final decision - is what 
do we really need that matches what we can afford?  And what were we 
asking for and what were we getting?

I have no beef with Ms. Adams concerning her ability to organize people 
into functioning parish affiliates.  She's done excellent in that 
regard.  And, I understand she needs full time employment.

The problem is we not only didn't task her with being responsible for 
organizing those parishes, I specifically instructed several times that 
was not part of her duties, that if she did so anyway - she was doing so 
as a volunteer, and that the original contract terms still had to be 
fulfilled - they could not be put on the back burner.  I even had to 
re-word the contract terms to put more emphasis on this point.

The problem is we simply are not in a position to offer to pay someone 
$26k a year right now.  We are at best, able to offer part-time work and 
part-time pay at about half or less than that amount.

We will get to the point everyone wants us to get to eventually.  But 
we'll have to walk a bit, rather than break out into a full sprint.


-- In Liberty,

Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
Libertarian Party of Louisiana

On 04/10/2013 02:51 PM, Boyd Smith wrote:
>
> As long as we can do it with out cutting Ms. Adams' money.  She is 
> worth it and we need to hold on to her.  Especially with losing you 
> and Wes concentrating on EBR.
> bws
> *From:* Reed Ebarb <secretary at lplouisiana.org>
> *To:* Mailing list for LPL Board of Directors <scc at lplouisiana.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:41 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [LPL Board of Directors] Advertising
>
> You make a really good point Boyd. At this next meeting, lets rework our
> budget and look at cutting our costs so we can put more money into
> advertising.
>
> > I agree 100%.
> >
> > -- In Liberty,
> >
> > Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
> > Libertarian Party of Louisiana
> >
> > On 04/10/2013 09:02 AM, Boyd Smith wrote:
> >> Here is an issue that we are going to have to make room for in the
> >> meeting Saturday.  And I will do as much as I can to make the part
> >> that may take up time that we need take as little time as possible and
> >> to make it be as painless and actually productive as possible.  But
> >> the issue relates to growing the party and performing advertising.
> >> We will need to engage in actual advertising in some markets to both
> >> grow the party, the PECs and the local base.  We will also likely have
> >> to engage in advertising to gather the support/people necessary to
> >> form PECs in some parishes. Calcasieu is one of those special cases.
> >> We do not have the luxury of waiting till we have 64 or even 10 PECs
> >> formed.  There is a momentum that we have to maintain to continue
> >> building the party.  We are at 7550 (approximately) we could very well
> >> get to 8500 from events like the Strawberry Festival, Gun Shows and
> >> even word of mouth.  But, I think the limit of that is going to be
> >> around 9000 - 10,000.  In order to become a viable force in this state
> >> for politics, for reform, and for liberty, we will need to get to
> >> 25,000+.  And that is going to be only a start.  We are #3 now.  I
> >> want to be #1.  I want to be able to look at the Elected Officials
> >> Database and see Libertarians in elective office all across the state.
> >> To get candidates who can make a serious run at some of the higher
> >> offices in the state (parish council/police jury, state rep, state
> >> senate, congress, US Senate, Governor, ect) we need a large membership
> >> base.  To get a large membership base we will have to sell what we
> >> have and what we have is ideas.  Good ideas, yes. But ideas - and
> >> ideas while bullet proof are abstract concepts. They are not a hard
> >> item like a vacuumcleaner or a tangible service like massage therapy.
> >> They require propagation/marketing/advertising and we are getting
> >> close to the point where we are going to have to market our ideas and
> >> that is going to require an actual marketing campaign and advertising.
> >> Boyd W. Smith
> >> Elections Officer
> >>
> >>
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