Get paid $2.50 per signature, or please donate
to help pay for signatures, or I'm sorry but
we'll have to shut this drive down
permanently in about a week.
Thuggish behavior by police and security
in Oklahoma has prevented our petitioners
from getting access to public places to
collect signatures. Even the Oklahoma
A.C.L.U. has been trying, but so far,
failing, to help us get the police to stop
harassing our petitioners and threatening to
arrest them, even when we are petitioning
legally on constitutionally protected places
like public sidewalks near universities and
art fairs.
We had hoped we could get this drive done
for $2.00 per signature by early Fall.
Winter's almost here, which makes it harder
to petition. We raised our price to $2.50
per signature weeks ago, we need 24,712
valid signatures, and we're only about 1/3
of the way through.
Click
here to donate.
We postponed starting our Kentucky drive
till next year because of problems in
Oklahoma. We can't put things off in other
states much longer.
Tempers are flaring: mine, our petitioners
in Oklahoma (some stalwart petitioners have
left the state it's so hard), our
Libertarian National Committee (who has to
decide whether to keep going--or call it
quits). We raised $11,400 online over the
summer for this. If we reach $20,000 online,
that will help make up about half of the
shortfall I'm projecting to complete this
drive.
Ballot Access expert Richard Winger
donated $30,000 for this petition drive. I'm
not looking forward to calling him and
asking him how upset he'll be if we cancel
the drive and can only return part of his
money after failing to get on the ballot. I
need your help to go forward.
Wednesday, I personally donated $200
directly to the LP Oklahoma, which will help
them with printing costs.
Will you donate $200 to our efforts?
We added another petition organizer last
week to help get more petitioners on the
street. If you are willing to try
petitioning for $2.50 per signature, contact
Paulie Frankel (paulie....@lp.org or
205-534-1622) for details. He's been
petitioning for the LP for over 10 years and
can help you get started.
Click
here to donate, or visit
LP.org/oklahoma
Sincerely,
Wes Benedict, Executive Director
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