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Proposed Goals for the LNC 2010-2012

Apr 12, 2010



Dear Libertarian Allies,

The LP HQ in Washington, DC, is a service organization. We have to serve our customers (members) or they leave.  And since our finances and membership numbers are down from the heady days of Project Archimedes (a massive membership mailing project), we’ve not been doing a very good job of it.  Our members have felt that they were not being served.

But, I don’t want to fix the blame, just fix the problem. Internal battles between Libertarian factions are NOT going to grow our membership.

We need to turn our focus to the successful completion of political and educational tasks that further our goal of freedom and liberty in the political arena.

Here are just some of the goals that the LNC should undertake during the 2010 to 2012 term:

  1. Ballot Access in all 50 states.
  2. Membership growth to at least 20,000 among at least 2 key demographics: 1). young adults (we need fresh blood; and 2). business professionals (we need rich blood)
  3. Create single-issue coalitions with any other liberty-oriented organizations.  Power in numbers!
  4. An online Congressional lobbying effort, something akin to DownsizeDC.org.
  5. Candidate and affiliate support training akin to the LP’s nationwide ‘Success’ seminars of the late 1990’s.
  6. Internal education.  We need to remind our members of why we exist and what we stand for.  Ideological drift will doom the LP to an early death.  This must not happen!
  7. Creation of a Liberty Sales Team: pay Libertarians a finder’s fee to obtain LP memberships.
  8. Creation of a Libertarian Speakers Bureau to provide Libertarian experts to discuss issues of the day with the media.

Yours in Liberty

Mark Hinkle,
Candidate for LNC Chair

Our government has been spending more than it collects for many years.  This budget deficit has created the almost unimaginable national debt which recently broke the $12 Tillion level.  But what is the Real U.S. National Debt and what is it made up of?  Here’s an illustration that puts it into perspective showing the current debt of more than 12 trillion dollars plus the unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and retirement benefits for civilian and military personnel.  This is the legacy we leave our children and grand children, a debt of 184 thousand dollars for every man, woman and child in America or 483 thousand dollars for every household in the United States.  And it is rising faster than we can pay it off.  The U. S. Government continues to spend more than it budgets year after year,  adding to our National Debt.

 

Here are just some of the goals that the LNC should undertake during the 2010 to 2012 term:

  1. Ballot Access in all 50 states (to the extent our members are willing to fund it).
  2. Membership growth among at least 2 key demographics: 1). young adults (we need fresh blood; and 2). business professionals (we need rich blood).
  3. Create single-issue coalitions with any other liberty-oriented organizations. Power in numbers!
  4. An online Congressional lobbying effort, something akin to DownsizeDC.org.
  5. Candidate and affiliate support training akin to the LP.s nationwide .Success. seminars of the late 1990.s.
  6. Internal education. We need to remind our members of why we exist and what we stand for. Ideological drift will doom the LP to an early death. This must not happen!
  7. Creation of a Liberty Sales Team: pay Libertarians a finder.s fee to obtain LP memberships.
  8. Creation of a Libertarian Speakers Bureau to provide Libertarian experts to discuss issues of the day with the media.