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317-920-1994 - 800-388-1776 - fox 317-924-2920 -lpinhq@lpin.org - www.lpin.org

May 20,1999

Dear LPI County Chairs,

Greetings from Headquarters! I hope this letter finds you happy and healthy ...and ready to begin a
fabulous election season!

Enclosed in this packet are materials to help you accomplish two separate but related tasks:

1. Candidate Recruitment and Support

a. Step-by-step candidate recruitment
b. County and candidate deadlines
c. Timeline for activities
d. Candidate election forms

2. County Affiliation with the LPI

a. Sample bylaws
b. State bylaws
c. Sample meeting agenda
d. Form to send to HQ after your county convention
e. County form to file with election board

Candidate Recruitment and Support:

If the LPI recruits over 100 candidates this year, it will be the most our state has EVER run and
will be more candidates tha~ the entire Libertarian Party ran nationwide just a few years ago. We
will be the envy of the natior if we can reach this goaL

Marion County used the enclosed technique this year, opening a Candidate Recruitment Committee
in March and fielding 23 candidates by the end of April. That's more than the Democrats ran in
the Primary Election this May! Many counties are already planning conventions at which to
nominate candidates, elect county officers, and conduct official business. Delaware, Monroe, Lake,
Hancock, Allen, and Vanderburgh Counties are just a few that have already begun recruiting
candidates. We began electing Libertarians to public office in Indiana last year, and we're well on
-our way to electing Town and City Council members and city mayors in 1999.
 If you have questions about recruiting candidates or campaigning, please call me at 800-388-1776
or email me at lpinhq@lpin.org. Joe Hauptmann, State Chair; Mike Backlund, State Vice Chair;
~ and I would all love to attend your county convention, so please let me know the date, time, and
location as soon as it is planned. Once you have officially nominated candidates at convention and
filed the proper paperwork the following week, please send the names, addresses, telephone
numbers, email addresses, and offices sought of all candidates in your county to me. Reporters
often don't know how to get a hold of a county party or individual candidate and will call the state
headquarters for that information.

Countv Affiliation with the LPI:

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In state convention May 1, 1999, the delegates unanimously passed new bylaws calling for the
formal affiliation between the state and county parties. This helps us ensure that Libertarian ballot
access will remain Libertarian, gives county affiliates an incentive toward progress and a "claim" on
the services of the state party, and holds the state party accountable to support the counties that
have affiliated with them.

Because it is a new process, the Central Committee and I will be helping county chairs and activists
take the correct steps toward formal affiliation. Those steps are rather simple, and many counties
have already begun to complete them:
1. Develop county bylaws that contain the information required in Article IV of the LPI
Bylaws. (Sample enclosed.)
2. Elect county officers and pass the county bylaws in a publicized county convention.
3. File a CFA-3 with your county election board. (CFA-3 enclosed.)
4. File your bylaws, a Ireceipt for the CFA-3, and the enclosed affiliation form with the state
Central Committed (Form enclosed.)
Again, if you have questions, please contact me at headquarters. The Central Committee would
like to receive affiliation forms from all currently organized counties by August 2, which is also the
last date to submit candidates for inclusion in the November election.

Remember, the more we learn, the more confident we become.

The more confident we become, the more active we are.
The more active we are, the more people we influence.
The more people we influence, the more members, donations, and votes we receive.
And the more members, donations, and votes we receive, the more Liberty we have at home and
across Indiana.
 Libertarian Party of Indiana
Battle Plan '99
The first thing we need to do is print out member lists for allactive counties .
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Then the counties need to divide the lists up and call members to attend ~ Convention.

The Special Convention should accomplish the following:

Elect Chairman and Treasurer. t- D~~~~

Nominate candidates for General Election Ballot fall '99.

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After the Special Convention the counties should do the following:

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File CFA ~"3and CFA - 4 and relevant candidate paperwork. o» 1+ _ ( '7- (
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Keep an active running Candidate Committee to fill more slots by November.

Make sure all candidates have a copy of the filing deadlines.

Apply for Chartered Affiliation from state.

Draft By-Laws for county, pass By-Laws,file By-Lawswith state.

We need to do the fOIlOWingl

Make up an example agenda for counties to go off of for their regular business
meetings

Pass filing paperwork for Affiliation out of S.C.C.

Draw up Charter to send to counties upon affiliation.

Print out membership lists.

Make a final copy timeline for counties to go by.