Got this from Third Party Watch:
Closing out the Badnarik Campaign
(Sorry that you got this twice, the formatting failed in the original!)
Well, folks, it is almost over.
With a little negotiation and adjustments to be done, some re-filing of FEC reports, the last bills paid, and only a few thousand more in contributions to make that happen, I will be able to close out the Badnarik for Congress campaign. Yes, that’s right, it’s down to just a few thousand (the hardest few thousand to get)!
[ http://badnarik.org/donate.php ]
To all of you who have supported us, I repeat my thanks and my vow to work twice as diligently to ensure that the things that undermined this campaign won’t happen again to anybody else. Toward that end, I’ll be developing Liberty’s Infrastructure Project. You may recall that I’ve been talking about LawfulGov.Org as my next project. Well, it is, but there’s more. LawfuGov.Org is important, but it can’t do everything needed. Yes, we need an entity that will sue the pants off rogue agencies and bureaucrats, filling in the gap with legal action where political parties can’t go. But the truth is, we need a complete infrastructure. Fundraising, outreach, social supports, ballot access, general public awareness…. there’s no way all of this is getting done by financially weak local parties, and the presidential campaign can’t be expected to carry it all. That hasn’t worked.
You will get one more email from me regarding B4C, and that will be the one announcing the final closing of the campaign and the publication of my final report. Watch for that, it will be a web address.
In the meantime, won’t you consider one more contribution to the campaign, to end this cycle and help us all move on?
I know that many of you are busy helping and supporting the next set of candidates, or just plain disgusted at how things have gone. But you can’t stop now, and you can’t keep thinking that there’s only so much pie to go around. That’s a guarantee that we’ll just continue to fail.
The solution is simple: bake a bigger pie! Compare what you could still give up in creature pleasures to what you’ve already lost in the exercise of your rights, and reallocate your money accordingly.
Make more money, too. Many Libertarian activists go broke for this cause by giving themselves over to full-time campaigns, and many more stay only barely afloat because they give it all their time. Yet it is not the pie of money that is limited, it is the aggregate amount of time required: our physical numbers are too small to pay for getting it all done without very painful sacrifice from all of us. I want to do something serious about that. I want more support and greater results with less pain from fewer people.
You know I have the ability to dream big, and to raise money toward making things happen. I plan to shift most of my focus to growing and funding the movement itself: everything else will flow from that. True, this latest venture didn’t go as planned, but it will prove to have been one hell of an object lesson in how to kill yourself by sticking to the tried and untrue.
In the meantime, I need to get this old thing to bed so I can get busy waking up the public. If you’re still on this list when that gets going, you’ll be invited to help, time or money, it won’t matter which. For now, let’s get done with the past so we can be free to build a future.
Go to [ http://badnarik.org/donate.php ] to contribute, or just click one of the Contribute buttons on the website, [ http://www.badnarik.org ].
Thank you!
Allen Hacker
PS:
A number of presidential-nomination hopefuls have approached me to use this list to raise money for their campaigns. I have declined them all, for two reasons. First, I personally think that to preserve the value of the list for the more general purpose of expanding the movement, supporting ballot access, and building a 527 Independent Expenditure Committee to support our next presidential campaign that will be free of contribution limits, it would be a bad idea to alienate any segment of the list by supporting one nomination contender over another. Second and more important, to the best of my knowledge none of you gave permission for your info to be sold.
On that last point, it is important that you understand what will be happening with this list. Upon closing the campaign, the list will officially transfer ownership to my consulting company, as its compensation in lieu of payment. At that point, it will begin to be used for the Liberty’s Infrastructure project, about which you will receive notice when appropriate, IF you are still on the list. You have this and one more chance to get off this list, by clicking the Remove link that should be included below. The other chance is after you’ve gotten the final closure announcement and web address for my final report.
If you are certain that you don’t care for any more news about this campaign, and you want off this list, you should probably do it now. If you stay on for now, don’t worry – I’ll remind you one more time in that last message.
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Legal genius there. :\
I take this to mean he’s promising that he will never manage anyone’s campaign again. Honestly, that shouldn’t require much work at all.
Let’s see…
Stuart Richards just ignores the parts that make what he implies a complete departure from what’s really being said, and Rober Mayer assumes things not in evidence because it’s just so much more fun to be lazy and rely on rumor and innuendo.
These little trips to Trollville would be as entertaining as the behavior there is predictable, were the only fare not theatre of the absurd.
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Hi, Allen. After reading all the old threads that Paulie pointed out (no small feat in itself, considering the number of comments) I have a question. Did you ever actually sue that Mike Nelson character?
Also, is it true that you were approached by Gene Chapman to teach at his as-yet-nonexistent university (or to help with his campaign), or was he just making that up? If it is true that you were approached, what was your response?
Hi Mom,
Mike Nelson hasn’t been sued, but the statute of limitations is far from gone. Wrapping up the campaign is my current priority, then recovering financially. Mike can stew for a while.
Yes, Gene asked me, I thanked him for the offer and asked him to let it sit awhile. Then he announced it. I haven’t given him a direct answer but it’s the same as to any of the contenders: I’m out of the primary cycle unless something extraordinary happens; the list is out of the primary.
Gene is a personal acquaintance and has been an all-the-way supporter of Michael. He’s coming along nicely in his quest to adopt the libertarian philosophy, and has actually been more successful than some anarchists I know.
Thanks for asking civil questions. I don’t get that courtesy much around here.
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Hello, Allen. Thanks so much for the speedy response, as well as for your civility; I look forward to a mutually civil relationship with you on LFV.
Are you aware that Gene dropped out of the running in March? He attributed his decision to having received no donations, and he deleted all of his campaign blogs.
Mom,
You’re welcome.
I wans’t sure, I’ve been focused on closing out the campaign and recovering financially. Thanks for mentioning it.
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Hi again, Allen.
Based upon your experience, do you think that Gene was a viable LP candidate? Why or why not?
Not, because he is too new to the philosophy and still working out the lingo.
On the other hand, he’s sincere. But nobody new has a chance, because errors are so intolerable to radicals. Not a bad thing, but neither good, because nobody gets a chance to mature without getting beaten along the way.
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