Over at the LP Blog the last ten posts, and counting, are about the party’s participation in the Conservative Political Action Conference. Granted, the coverage is pretty darn good, and we are at least doing some outreach somewhere, in contrast to much of what has taken place the last few years. But when is the last time we did anything like this at a liberal conference? When will there be one, and does the LP have any plans of attending?
My exchange with Steve Gordon (LP national communication director) in the comments at:
http://www.lp.org/yourturn/archives/000562.shtml
p) Steve and Joe,
Great coverage!
Keep up the good work.
I sincerely hope the LP also does this same type of outreach and coverage at some similar upcoming event for liberals, to provide much-needed balance in our outreach.
Do you know of any such upcoming events, and do you have plans to attend and cover them?
Posted by: paul at March 4, 2007 04:16 PM
Paul,
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.
Posted by: Stephen Gordon at March 4, 2007 04:28 PM
Steve,
That is certainly a reasonable answer.
Unfortunately, I don’t know about where and when the big liberal conferences in the DC area take place, just as I would not have known about CPAC but for the LP’s participation, but I’ll research it. I’m going to put this out on a variety of yahoo groups and see if anyone knows.
-paul
http://kubby2008.com
Posted by: paul at March 4, 2007 04:42 PM
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An NAACP event would be a good one. In georgia our Governor candidate was at the last state convention for the NAACP. Georgia has a strong NAACP state chapter.I went with him. The event was great the fact we showed up impressed them.All state wide candidates were invited but only about 10 total candidates show up. The republican for Gov. did not show , We had the second most face time only behind the man running for gov. as the democrat
Hi Doug, tanks for the suggestion!
I suggest posting it at the LPblog url quoted in the article above; I don’t know if Steve Gordon gets time to read Last Free Voice comments, but I know he reads the ones on his blog.
I’ve received some answers over there already.
Here’s how the conversation is going so far…
I can’t open the Nat’l LP blog for some odd reason so here is a site that someone may wish to pass on to SG that list meetings and conferences http://www.goingtomeet.com/tag/liberal.
Might be good info if someone has time to look.
MHW
Doug and Mike, thanks, passed on your comments to LP blog.
Not sure why it’s not working for you, seems to work fine here.
Maybe it was down temporarily?
Comment from Susan at Libertarian Yahoo Group
and my response
> 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.
I posted another comment, will archive it here: