[LPL Board of Directors] Advertising
Adrien Monteleone
chairman at lplouisiana.org
Wed Apr 10 20:32:07 CDT 2013
Excellent.
Cassidy won't be able to run in 2014 for House while he's running for
Senate.
But I think he said he would step down early to focus on the Senate
race. I had read an article alluding to the upcoming special election
to fill his seat being vacated for this purpose.
It was not an original source however.
-- In Liberty,
Adrien Monteleone - Chairman
Libertarian Party of Louisiana
On 04/10/2013 08:20 PM, Boyd Smith wrote:
> I have CD 6 covered. Awaiting permission from the candidate to tell
> the board.
> The next special will most likely be the Orleans Parish Sheriff.
> Cassidy will not have to step down to run as the elections are
> concurrent. He just cannot run for both seats at the same time.
> bws
>
> *From:* Adrien Monteleone <chairman at lplouisiana.org>
> *To:* scc at lplouisiana.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:03 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [LPL Board of Directors] Advertising
>
> Not incidentally,
>
> We missed a prime opportunity to hit the ground running and follow up
> our Congressional slate with a slew of local offices last weekend.
>
> That was opportunity lost, and after lots of work on your part Boyd,
> because some people decided for themselves and thus for the party,
> that they had other priorities.
>
> We can't skip ANY elections. We certainly won't be able to recruit
> someone into every race. But we also should never, from this point
> forward, sit out an entire election.
>
> Already, a tight eye should be kept on special election possibilities
> for the fall, and work needs to start now for the known races in 2014.
>
> We don't have a date yet, but we should expect a special election for
> CD6 when Cassidy steps down to challenge Landrieu.
>
> Running candidates is advertisement. It's brand identification. It
> energizes the base and builds interest in the party. It is not
> optional. We are a political party, not a social club.
> -- In Liberty,
>
> AdrienMonteleone - Chairman
> Libertarian Party of Louisiana
> On 04/10/2013 07:21 PM, Boyd Smith wrote:
>> When I said that we will need to discuss advertising for the future,
>> I meant just that. That it needs to be an agenda item. I am not
>> sure how that would be done. I only know to say "Here is an issue we
>> need to be talking about." We can not wait till too late to have a
>> plan in place.
>> It is like the Army. There are plans in the Pentagon for attacking
>> any country on earth. Why do you think we went into Iraq so quickly
>> and so well? We had those invasion plans for decades and they were
>> updated regularly. The closer we got to having to do something the
>> more those plans were updated with better and better intelligence.
>> There are plans to invade Cuba, Mexico, Ireland, Egypt, any country
>> on earth and several places that are not countries. Are there even
>> plans to take care of a president who gets way off the beam? I do
>> not know for sure. But I would be willing to bet good money that
>> there are such plans.
>> The point is, we need to know now at 7500 registered Libertarians in
>> the state what we will do when we have 9500, or 12,000 or 15,000 or
>> 20,000. We need to have discussed and put into writing what we will
>> do when we do when word of mouth has reached everybody that word of
>> mouth can reach. When everyone who goes to a gun show has seen us
>> and knows how much we support the 2nd amendment. When we have 10,000
>> registered Libertarians throughout the state and they are spread out
>> and feeling like their voice is the only voice and they decide "The
>> party does not do anything, and I am the only one saying these things
>> so I may as well stop because I am all by myself."
>> And evidently talking, planning and bringing up ideas for discussion
>> actually offends some people. Well too bad! It is what organizations
>> do. It is what political parties do. They plan. They discuss and
>> they try to have ideas.
>> bws
>>
>> *From:* Reed Ebarb mailto:secretary at lplouisiana.org
>> *To:* Mailing list for LPL Board of Directors mailto:scc at lplouisiana.org
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:44 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [LPL Board of Directors] Advertising
>>
>> Since Ms. Adams is interested in organizing parishs and we are not
>> providing the proper funds, would it be possible for her to take a full
>> time job where she makes what she wants and she can still volunteer to
>> help organize parishes? If we aren't paying her enough, that sounds like
>> the best course. This is especially true now that Mr. Hayes' pledges are
>> backing out.
>>
>> > 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
>> <mailto:secretary at lplouisiana.org>>
>> >> *To:* Mailing list for LPL Board of Directors <scc at lplouisiana.org
>> <mailto: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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