As you may know...some on this list are supporting both Ron Paul AND
Libertarian presidential candidates. The reasons have been thoroughly
discussed.
In a meeting with the Ron Paul campaign regarding Ron Paul's upcoming
visit in a couple of weeks (see attached), the Paul campaign asked if
the LPSF would approved the sale of our local registered LP list to the
Ron Paul campaign for a mailing. Due to the time issues....could I put
in a special request that the officers have a meeting about this ASAP?
In my view it is a good opportunity for the LPSF to make some money but
we have to move fast. Would we be able to actually deliver this if
approved?
Please let me know your thoughts. Paul campaign organizer Stephanie
Burns is copied on this message.
Please, no. If you let us know how much the Paul campaign is offering
for the list, I'm certain that those of us who Paul considers
second-class citizens would be able to scrape up enough money to donate
to LPSF to beat his offer. Similarly, I'm sure the actual Libertarian
candidates would be willing to outbid him as well.
I'm not an LPSF member, but I would hope that if the LPSF list is opened to Ron Paul, it will also be opened equally to the other Republican and Democratic candidates as well.
Cheers,
Brian
Rob Power <robpower@robpower.com> wrote: Please, no. If you let us know how much the Paul campaign is offering
for the list, I'm certain that those of us who Paul considers
second-class citizens would be able to scrape up enough money to donate
to LPSF to beat his offer. Similarly, I'm sure the actual Libertarian
candidates would be willing to outbid him as well.
I would support allowing Ron Paul's campaign to do a mailing to the LPSF list, unless there is something in the LPC bylaws prohibiting it. I'm not aware of any such prohibition. But I would propose that we do the mailing at cost on their behalf, rather than "selling" them the list (i.e. they send us what they want to mail, along with payment for the cost of the mailing). I'd also suggest that we consider formally giving them some advice about the content. For instance it would be desirable for Dr. Paul to call himself a libertarian in the mailing and not a conservative, and to say some good things about the Libertarian Party. Perhaps a mailer would already do these things anyway, but just in case.
Love & Liberty,
<<< starchild >>>
Vice Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
Regardless of feelings about Paul or any other specific candidate, I
think it is inappropriate for the LPSF to make its list available to any
non-Libertarian candidate, and inappropriate to withhold mailing access
from any Libertarian candidate without a good reason.
I do support what Starchild has suggested in the past, that a suitable
candidate can provide us with a mailing to send out, allowing them to
reach our members without us compromising our members’ privacy.
That said, the list of registered voters is a public document; any Paul
campaign volunteer can get the list from City Hall for legitimate
political use.
As a Ron Paul supporter (and planning to go without dinner for a while
in order to afford the $500 a plate fundraiser) I would like to add
my 2 cents: I do not feel it is appropriate for the LPSF to sell its
mailing list to anyone. As an aside, last week I gave to the Ron Paul
Meetup (Lead Organizer Stephanie Burns) a voter disk which I purchased
from the DOE, hoping they would know what it could be used for.