Document:The LINC '76 Committee
This is a proposal to the LNC but unknown at which meeting this was presented by D Frank Robinson and Porter Davis.
THE LNC '76 COMMITTEE
A proposal to the National Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party recommending a concerted effort to elect libertarians to the Congress in the 1976 election.
Although there remains serious disagreement among libertarians on some issues, there is a greater agreement than ever before on the need for co-operation in advancing the principles upon which libertarians agree by concerted political action.
I agree with Kay Harroff's suggestion that LINC 766stand for "Liber tarians in Congress".
We now plan to.submit LINC as coordinate with but separate fro·m the Presidential Committee.
LINC will develop its mission by preparing for a conference for can didates, campaign managers and state chairmen to be held in the Spring of 1975. This conference will report on the implications of the '74 election in certain congressional districts. The conferee/swill draw up a set of tasks for LINC to accomplish in the 2nd Conference to be held in Mid-Winter '?6 on campaign organization, tactics, finance, and opponent analysis. Then there may or may not be a Jrd conference in
early summer '76 to deal with common themes, issues and troubleshooting.
We want to begin confering informally with all LP candidates to "de- . brief" them about the '74 campaign and secure some of them as advisors to LINC in December-January. We want to do a demographic study for presentattion at the LINC ONE conference (•75).
We would have preferred to spend this summer and early fall raising funds for this work. We have not yet fully revised our schedule to re lect this slippage. It could ·mean moving LINC ONE into summer-fall of '?5 and we wanted to avoid a schedule conflict with the LP conven tion. We would oppose conducting the LINC in conjunction with the LP convention. So. we are going to try to hold LINC ONE to the spring of
•75.
We have no budget yet. Hee s our guestimates
LINC ONE phases $?600.00 (Nov.'74 to spring '75)
LINC TWO phases $10,000.00 to??? ( epends on candidate-client demands)
LINC THREEs No guess
post LINC TWO through election days Mo guess post election and pre 78 plannings No guess
The LINC ONE phase on the only one we can even begin to consider. The low figue id premised upon contribution in kind of computer facility by Porter Davis.
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