Thanks for your input and offer, Brendan. Having an online survey and
including a link to it in the mailing is a very good idea.
I would be happy to help with this. I would propose cutting down quite a
bit though and just sending a postcard with: short blurb from you, mention
of officer election meeting, and a link to a survey to get more information
on demographic and what issues people care most about. If that sounds good
to you, I can work out a design soon
Richard,
I did mention that, yes, however no one expressed any interest in the
bylaws. I also said I saw no reason not to hold a December meeting
(Saturday, December 14), so would go ahead with one, but that we might also
do something like a holiday party or social, whereupon Jeff Yunes
volunteered that he and Greg could host one at their new place in the
Castro. I said that would be excellent.
It occurs to me that now that we have a treasurer who has access to our
credit union account and can write checks to pay for stuff, we ought to go
ahead and do our long-discussed mailing to our members and SF’s registered
Libertarian voters soon. Besides general outreach and communication with
our base, this can serve at least three important purposes:
• Announce and invite folks to the holiday party
• Give notice of our January officer election meeting (Saturday, January
11)
• Recap the election and discuss what we accomplished locally (ballot
arguments and recommendations, media citations, local group appearances,
campaigning)
I will revise and update the letter I wrote in 2022 (attached to this
email) accordingly. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for
revisions or things to include in it. Also any others ideas on the format
of the mailing, including ideas for photos, graphics, or anything else to
include in the mailing. I’d like to include Jeff’s flier for Chase, and
photo of us putting them up. Maybe a Nolan Chart quiz? Photocop(yes) of
media coverage? Something else?
Depending on when the holiday party is happening, we can either vote to
approve the letter and appropriate funds for the mailing at our December
meeting, and get it in the mail after that date, or approve it by a vote of
the officers before our December meeting and get it out sooner. Although I
prefer to have general membership votes on stuff, we’re supposed to give
members 30 days notice of the Saturday, January 11 meeting, i.e. by
December 11. We can also do that by email as we have been doing, but I
think there would be some value in getting them a snail mail communication
by that date.
Please let me know your thoughts on any of this.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
(415) 573-7997
On Nov 13, 2024, at 3:30 PM, Richard Fast fastrichard77@gmail.com >> wrote:
Thanks, Starchild. Will there be a December meeting? Did you notify the
membership that they need to submit bylaws proposals at the meeting before
the county convention?
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 3:53 PM Starchild sfdreamer@earthlink.net wrote:
Hi Richard,
We didn’t discuss the September minutes at Saturday’s meeting, as you
weren’t there, just had a general conversation about the election results,
the party, strategy, etc. But I have reviewed the September minutes, and
they look great – no recommended changes, I’m fine to pass them as written.
Thanks for sending a clean version in terms of using full sentences and
avoiding abbreviations and such. As always, I do encourage others who were
present to review, in case I missed anything.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
On Oct 11, 2024, at 8:35 PM, Richard Fast fastrichard77@gmail.com >>> wrote:
All, attached are the minutes from last month’s meeting. I’m hoping to
get these approved at tomorrow’s meeting so that we don’t continue to have
a backlog of minutes that still need approval (9 months of minutes). So,
please, please, please do read them. Thanks!
On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 5:56 PM Richard Fast fastrichard77@gmail.com >>> wrote:
Hi folks,
The LPSF has been discussing SF mayoral candidates and, surprise, none
of the main candidates seem even close to libertarian.
Do you know of a perhaps a lesser known candidate that might be worthy
of our recommendation? We’d love to hear it!
I happened upon a quiz that determines which candidates is closest to
your values (
Who to vote for in San Francisco mayor election? Take our quiz
). Answering all questions from a purely libertarian standpoint, the result
was Daniel Laurie, who unfortunately supports cracking down on open air
drug use, and expanding rent control and subsidized housing for city police
officers. The result analysis said I agree with Laurie on 7 issues, the
most of any major candidate, but it doesn’t say out of how many. The quiz
didn’t number their questions but I’d guess there were 20 questions.
The runner up to Laurie in terms of policy compatibility was Aaron
Peskin. The analysis said we agree on 5 issues (
Great Highway, district attorney, fentanyl enforcement, homelessness,
police policy) but again out of how many?
I hope this sparks further discussion at our monthly meeting tomorrow
at SF Main Library 4th floor conference room from 3-5pm or via Jitsi
videoconference (link on Meetup). Hope to see you there!
In Liberty,
Richard Fast
Secretary
LPSF
<LPSF September 2024 minutes (1).pdf>