Dear Colleague, On September 15th in Waynesboro, your state committee members gathered at our 3rd quarter 2012 meeting, and discovered that the hijinks that Virginia's state legislators played with redistricting had cost us dearly. The short version of the story is that our petition drive to get Gary Johnson on the ballot had thoroughly emptied our bank account.
The reasons are many, and most had to do with the state dragging its feet on redistricting. It's hard to put elector names on your petitions when the state refuses to tell you what the district boundaries are! The delayed district boundaries made it much more difficult for volunteers to collect signatures on short notice; so we had to push our full-time petitioners to produce more paid signatures. Then we had other costs and hassles, the last of which was a last-minute challenge by hack lawyers hired by the Republican Party to try to get Gary Johnson removed from the ballot. The Johnson campaign and the Virginia LP together spent a couple of thousand dollars responding to the Republicans' arguments and making sure Libertarian spokesmen showed up at the Board of Elections meeting in Richmond where the Republican challenges would be heard. Right now, we're pretty much broke. The LPVA made it through this ballot drive, but only by a hair. We still owe a pair of petitioners about $3,000, which is bad enough. Even worse, we don't have any resources left to prepare for activities this fall, or even 2013. Longer term, if we don't begin saving up for the 2016 ballot drive, we may very well miss getting our presidential candidate on the ballot in Virginia next time around! I am contacting you because I know you want a more Libertarian society, like I do. But unless we get started right away at building our finances back up, we will not be able to participate in any meaningful way in the Johnson campaign during the critical last 30 days until the election on November 6th. Please help us out -- take a moment right now and contribute whatever you can afford to help your party get back on its feet. http://Contribute.LPVA.com If you can afford to donate $1,000, that would be wonderful. We will be able to settle up (in full) with our petitioners with just a few donations like that. But if that's beyond your means right now, $500, $250, or $100 still is a great help. http://Contribute.LPVA.com I know all too well that these are tough economic times for some -- but even $50 or $25 will get us back on our feet. Or you can simply make a small monthly donation. Twenty dollars a month is reasonable and over time will put us on a firm financial base. Please go to http://Contribute.LPVA.com and donate whatever you can, right away. We need to pay the rest of what we owe to our hard-working petitioners, and we can only do that with the financial support of our members. Thank you in advance for your time. -- Marc Montoni, Secretary Libertarian Party of Virginia P.S. Remember, it's just a short hop over to http://Contribute.LPVA.com . P.P.S. And don't forget to mark your calendar for Election Day, Tuesday, November 6th -- just 39 days away! ############################################################# Have an announcement you'd like to post? SCC members & many committee heads are all authorized to post; or you may send your announcements to the List Master: <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Announcement>. ############################################################# Unsubscribe: Send an email to [email protected] with no subject and "Unsubscribe Announce" as the text. ############################################################# Libertarian Party of Virginia http://www.LPVA.com Phone: 703-715-6230 ############################################################# Want to see past messages? Check the Archive: http://www.Mail-Archive.com/[email protected]/ #############################################################
