LP.org blog and email blast:
Please help the Libertarian Party take advantage of a $30,000 contribution match from Richard Winger, long time LP Member, to put the Libertarian Party on the ballot in Oklahoma. We’ve already raised $21,124.10 for that purpose.
We’re just $8,875.90 short of what we need for the match. Please help.
Oklahoma is the single state where only a Republican and Democratic presidential ticket was on the ballot in 2004, 2008, and 2012.
Click here to donate, or visit LP.org/okla
Because we’re low on funds overall, the Libertarian National Committee decided we can’t get started on this Oklahoma petition drive until we’ve received $60,000 in donations for this effort.
Our Ballot Access Committee Chair, William Redpath, has pledged $1,000 towards this effort. Another long-time member contributed $10,000 for this effort. Several others have already contributed generously. That’s why we’re just $8,875.90 short today.
We have petitioners who are ready to start the signature collection as soon as we tell them to start.
We want to get this petition drive going within a week, so we can run it more cost efficiently before petitioners are in greater demand later this year and next year.
With your help, we can get our candidate for President, and many other offices, on the ballot in Oklahoma in 2016. And then we can start working on the next states.
Sincerely,
Wes Benedict, Executive Director
And here is a letter from Bill Redpath on this same subject that is supposed to be hitting mailboxes soon.
Thank you to Richard and everyone helping to match the pledge.
Check out https://independentpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-07-HO-Okla-letter-v1c.pdf also.
The real goal in Oklahoma is to get a bill through soon that lowers the vote test so 2016 will be the last horribly expensive petition needed.
Who?
I’m planning to be there. Pretty sure Andy and Bob Lynch will be there too.
Good, get the non-libertarians out on the streets, making sure that noone attends an LP meeting, noone gets interested in the party, and the petitioner’s message is some easily-seen-through variant of “someone paid me to circulate this.” You’ve driven the serious LP activists out of the LP, your mission is complete, but it’s an ongoing mission, so it’s never really complete. You couldn’t have screwed up the LP more if you tried, which makes me think you’re trying. I could be wrong about that though, since it wouldn’t take much effort to render the LP ineffectual.
It doesn’t matter.
I am game.