Again, I’d suggest office savings makes sense when the lease is up.

Putting a media office with publicist and front end secretary in DC has nothing to to with putting the back office operations in DC.

As to staff, for what we pay putting the office someplace where staff can afford to live might be an advantage as well as a disadvantage.

In my opinion, Uzbeckistan would not be so sensible a place for our party HQ, but one can find a list of other good choices fairly painlessly. I’m not saying that moving is the right thing to do, but in considering it you would be better off having the alternatives a bit more clear in your thoughts.

Recall that this coming year that office will cost perhaps $140,000.

That cut office space costs, but try getting potential staff, media, think tankers, let alone interns to work/meet in a non-Arlington/MontCo ‘burb or an economically-depressed, crime-ridden neighborhood in SE DC. If the LNC is dumb enough to move the national office out of NW DC to some PG County dump or somewhere in non-Metro-accessible NOVA, they might as well move the headquarters back to Texas (or North Dakota or Alaska or Uzbekistan, etc.) and SAVE EVEN MORE MONEY on office space.

How many years are left on the current lease?

@25, @23 Either of the approaches you are considering would make more sense than what was proposed, though you could propose that the new income stream from Chair/ED fundraising counts as knocking on more doors.

@27 does someone have…? Yes.

‘suspend for cause’ is not punishment. It is ‘you are not doing the job’. That is a standard action of a board whose lead officers are not performing adequately. In this case, the difficulty is that ‘adequate’ — do what we did last year — involves a party that slowly dies, the newsletter coming out less and less often, etc., and there is no recognition that the proposal is a proposal for slow death. Of course, you could ask ‘how much money is spent on the things labelled ‘none’ above’ and conclude that LNC Inc is already dead.

If the budget had said ‘here is what we did last year, recycled, and there had been recognition that the outcome was unsatisfactory, you might have a case.

For alternative proposals, read Liberty for America magazine libertyforamerica.com, my 2000 book ‘stand up for liberty!’, and various articles here and at GoldAmericaGroup.com.

Actually, an alternative budget has already been proposed; this is the Massachusetts plan budget as covered in the October 2009 Liberty for America magazine, visible at LibertyForAmerica.com.

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please check URL; it does not come up here.

LibIntOrgATMsn.com

Thanks.

The Libertarian Party suffers intractable delusions of grandeur at all levels. It attempts to simulate success by taking a course of action befitting a much larger, more successful organization when it would behoove them to know their station.

New computers and phones? An office suite in the District of Columbia? The Libertarians are not the Republicans. Financially, they are not even the Greens.

This Barry Lyndon approach to success will cost their Party at least a leg, if not an arm as well, and doom it to an obscure death and forgotten existence in America.

It is the responsibility of the board to be honest enough with the nature of the organization for which it is responsible to acknowledge these facts. Without acknowledgment of the problems there will never be solutions. To that end, the only action item in this article with which it is remotely appropriate to agree is to reject this budget. However, I strongly suggest that an alternative be created before the committee calls the vote, lest precious time be wasted.

As an apt aside, it seems that the character of these difficulties is not isolated to the upper echelons of the Party, as indicated by the misuse of the “Stone Soup” analogy. As I recall, the moral of the story is that if you are willing to lie to people more useful than yourself, you can get them to feed you for nothing.

?R

When it comes to competition there are two basic tacks:

1. Build up that which you like.

2. Tear down that which you dislike.

……….. taking cues from the deform /reform movement are we ???????????

me: It’d be foolish to say No. OTOH, participating in character assassination is like throwing a bad-karma boomerang. It comes back and hits ya upside the head. I’d hope Ls shun such dysfunctional behavior…our task is big enough as it is!