--- In [email protected], "Susan Hogarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/4/07, goldrecordings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > .... Stephen Gordon asks: > > > Suggest an event where 1) we'd even be allowed in the door, 2) > > > where we'd have some reasonable outreach opportunities, 3) that it > > > would be logistically reasonable (it is easier and cheaper for a > > > DC-based organization to attend an event in DC than one in San > > > Francisco) and we'd very clearly consider it. > > > > That is certainly a reasonable answer. > > The DC requirement strikes me as a red herring. We're a *national* > organization. We should be able to put together an outreach booth > outside of our national headquarters' town. Volunteers can be > recruited. Materials can be supplied. > > In fact it strikes me as a good way for the national party to work > with state and local parties. > > DC events are important. But one point Libertarians should be making > is that DC is NOT the whole world. > > -- > Susan Hogarth > http://www.lpradicals.org
paul) I agree, state and local parties should certainly pursue this in their areas as well, and if national can help out that's great, but Steve does have a valid point that it is a lot cheaper and easiet for the national office to attend and staff an event in the DC area. After all, they only have a small handful of folks working in the DC office right now, and their financial situation is not that great - way down from what it was a decade ago, or even five years ago - and sparing the staff and travell costs for out of town events can be prohibitive in terms of both time and money. Of course, staff do travel, often on behalf of LP candidates or fundraising. So it isn't that outside the beltway events are out of the question for them, just that they are more difficult. By the way, there have now been quite a few more comments in this thread http://www.lp.org/yourturn/archives/000562.shtml#comments and in the rest of the CPAC coverage, which has (so far) extended over ten posts (I'm not sure if more are coming), they are posts 553-562 at LP.org/yourturn.
