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rather than justintv – he can fill you in on tech details

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Jason Seagraves

The LNC adopted a budget.

There will be staff cuts.”

Hopefully Sean Haugh’s name will be at the top of the list of staff members to cut.

There were 6 votes against adopting the budget, so the budget was adopted only if it was limited to the pages mailed in advance.

The twitter feed said 7 people voted no on the budget. Anyone know for sure which is correct?

Actually, there are a lot more than six states where ballot access can start, now that the election is over.

There will be staff cuts. The dollar number I appeared to be seeing on the computer screen display seemed to say that these cuts would be significant. The treasurer gave a ‘point at numbers on a spreadsheet’ display on a screen, rather than a prepared separate presentation so numbers were hard to read. It appeared to me that the cut was by an eighth or so.

There is no money for ballot access.

Money for adwords ads got dropped.

LP News will come out quarterly, so far as I could tell.

Almost now money appeared to be budgeted for doing politics.

There is no money to hire an Executive Director.

I thought the income estimate may turn out to be optimistic.

There is a lot of spending for membership recruitment and fundraising. It was shown that recruiting members by letter, as done under Project Archimedes, is appallingly expensive, namely something like $80 or 90 per member, and based on attrition and donations, it takes something like 6 years if I heard correctly to recover that money based on donations.

Web recruiting is appreciably cheaper. Stuart Flood proposed that the costs charged to web recruitment rather than web outreach are low, but web recruitment is still cheaper than direct mail.

The party will spend up to $15,000 in a lawsuit against the Washington top two primary system.

In public comments at the end, I reminded the LNC they were spending the plurality of the money in the Libertarian Political movement, and suggested that if there were no product there would be issues with future support.

The Acting Executive Director proposed that because LNC members were volunteers that they should sign the normal volunteer confidentiality form. Flood noted that the form contradicted his other agreement with the LNC. About 6 or 8 members made clear they would not sign. He also said he was not sharing information with the at-large members or regional representatives.

There were 6 votes against adopting the budget, so the budget was adopted only if it was limited to the pages mailed in advance.

It appears that if you want to give to ballot access, for example for the six ballot access drives that can be pursued today, you can give to your own state, or you can send money to Freedom Ballot Access http://freedomballotaccess.com