Subject: I need your help!
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998
From: Joshua Mercer <Joshua.Mercer@hillsdale.edu>
To: Ken Bisson <kbisson@usa.net>
Ken, I've always found you to be an enthusiastic supporter
of liberty. I've
got an idea that I think could bring in many new members
to the LP.
We should reduce the membership rate for college students to $10.
Now that will cost the LP a few bucks. And you'll
have to reimburse those
state LPs that have unified membership. But it's
a darn good investment.
And here's another idea: Advertise this deal in The Restoration.
I talked to Steve Dasbach already. The LP NEWS and
The Restoration will
have an ad exchange. But I said to him, "Do you
really want just a generic
ad in The Restoration? After all, this is a specific
target audience."
He told me that the membership rate was LNC policy.
So this is where you
come in. I am sending a sample copy of The Restoration
and a letter about
the proposal to every LNC member (you, too).
It's my hope that you'll consider this proposal seriously.
I've talked to
libertarian students at libertarian-sympathetic at schools
from across the
country. Many consider the $25 fee prohibitive.
If you drop it to $10, you
will get more students. Students who will be regular
dues-paying members
within a few short years!
In the meantime you'll have a roster of students you can
use to set up
libertarian clubs!
Please let me know what you think. You should get
the proposal in a few
days. I hope that it can be voted on for the December
LNC meeting.
For liberty in our lifetime,
-josh mercer
(Here acting as a concerned student, LP member in Minnesota
and Michigan and
the National LP, with the experience of being a publisher
of a libertarian
newspaper found on over 120 campuses but acting as a
private citizen and not
officially in his capacity as president of a nonprofit
organization called
The Restoration. Just so we are clear with the Feds,
et al.)