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 like the idea of a letter, letting folks know we’ve been doing some things, but a postcard sounds good too and has its advantages in the likelihood something shorter will be read, and lower cost of mailing. If we were to do both, we could compare results and have a better chance of at least one of the two being read. Although we’d want to allow at least a little time between them, in order to weed out any bad addresses from the first mailing.
What do others think? Anyone willing to research current mailing costs/options?
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
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On Nov 14, 2024, at 9:36 AM, Brendan McMillion brendanmcmillion@gmail.com wrote:
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
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 6:57 PM Starchild <sfdreamer@earthlink.net mailto:sfdreamer@earthlink.net> wrote:
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) 573-7997On Nov 13, 2024, at 3:30 PM, Richard Fast <fastrichard77@gmail.com mailto: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 mailto: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 mailto: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 mailto: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 https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/11/san-francisco-mayor-candidates-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>