The Libertarian Party is no longer the Party of Principle.
That is why I have left the LP, and am now a non-affiliated Voter.

The bobbarrians aren't just at the gates.
They own the Party. Let them have it, I say.

~Ron Boozell, aka stoneman76
founder, invisible host of Liberty Bandwagon


"Let me be a Free Man; Free to Travel, Free to Stop,
Free to Work, Free to Trade where I choose;
Free to Choose my own Teachers,
Free to follow the Teachings of my Forebears;
Free to Think and Talk and Do for myself,
and I will abide by every law or submit to the penalty."
Hin-mut-too-yah-lat-keht(Young Joseph)Chief of the Nez Perce


--- On Tue, 7/14/09, george_phillies <phillies@...> wrote:

> From: george_phillies <phillies@...>
> Subject: [LibertyBandwagon] I accuse
> To: LibertyBandwagon@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 1:43 PM
> You May if you wish circulate this
> message.
>
> by George Phillies
>
> The Barr 2008 Libertarian Presidential Campaign raised
> nearly one and a
> half million dollars.
>
> It spent barely 4% of its income on anything that resembles
> classical
> public outreach. That includes $12,618.88 to its book
> publisher.
>
> It spent under 1% of its income on actual press
> advertising, counting
> google.com.
>
> 1% is a tenth of what it spent on rent of real estate and
> office
> furniture.
>
> 1% is a tenth of what it spent (or still owes) on a web
> page.
>
> 1% is considerably less than it spent on limousines and
> town cars.
>
> To add injury to injury, unlike all past Libertarian
> Presidential
> campaigns except it seems Ron Paul's, the Barr campaign is
> refusing
> to share its list of donors with the Libertarian National
> Committee.
>
> In my opinion, one cannot avoid the conclusion that the
> Barr campaign
> was nothing except a scheme to transfer money from
> Libertarian donors to
> Barr's Republican cronies and a few libertarian
> hangers-on.
>
> That's the campaign our party's establishment gave us.
>
> Bob Barr may have promised a Presidential campaign, but the
> delivery was
> a bit different. Here is the record of his spending,
> based on our
> reanalysis of the Barr 2008 FEC campaign reports.
> Some minor
> expenditures have been left out.
>
> The campaign spent $1.4 million, more or less every penny
> that it
> raised. The issue is where Barr 2008 spent its money,
> including
> $160,000 that the campaign owed at the end of the year, not
> to mention
> money owed American Express.
>
> In short: One per cent of campaign spending went for
> advertising the
> candidate to the general public via Newsmax, Google, and
> newspaper
> ads… Three more percent went to activities such as a
> campaign book
> that could have helped spread the word. Around $100,000
> went to the web
> site. A hundred grand went for renting real estate, with
> over thirty
> grand additional to rent and buy furniture and office
> equipment. Direct
> mail demanded a seventh of funds raised…about $200K. A
> third of a
> million dollars — a quarter of funds raised — went to
> pay
> people, not counting the hundred grand paid to consultants
> and the like.
> . Direct mail demanded a seventh of funds raised…about
> $200K.
>
> Some people eccentrically think that campaigns are about
> advertising, so
> here is everything that might be called general advertising
> and so
> reported. Add it up: one percent of the campaign's
> money went for
> broad-market advertising, and another three percent was for
> advertising
> of some sort:
>
> Advertising:
>
> Signs by Tomorrow Signs
> $17,337.9
> Bumpersticker.com (bumper
> stickers, promotional items) $9983.75
> NewsMax Advertising $6250
> Commercial Signs $2993.92
> Dr Don's Buttons (buttons and items)
> $1261.67
> Zazzle.com T-Shirts $1194.55
> Charleston Gazette $1000.92
> Google, Inc. (Advertising) $796.99
> B&P Promotions
> Advertising $657
> Equipity.com (Book Publishing)
> $12,618.88
>
> That's being very generous to count it as 4%, because I am
> including
> over 12 grand to a book publisher for the Barr boom, 10
> grand for bumper
> stickers (which are widely understood to be primarily
> effective at
> inciting the faithful), and an amount for lawn signs that
> were in fair
> part sold to supporters. Honest-to-goodness orthodox
> advertising
> including Google adwords and Newsmax (a far far right
> Internet news
> outlet) were 1% of the campaign budget.
>
> Just for purposes of comparison, even the Boston Tea Party
> presidential
> campaign spent $327.83 to advertise on Google. As you might
> guess, this
> constituted a much larger percentage of their campaign
> budget.
>
> A third of a million dollars — a quarter of funds raised
> — went
> to pay people. That does not include various debts to
> people, starting
> with $47,000 owed to James Bovard for making, it is widely
> rumored,
> significant contributions to the invisible Barr
> books. Here are the
> people
>
> People:
>
> Liberty Strategies Contract Services
> $62,500 (Bob Barr's firm)
> Doug Bandow $52,644.11
> Shane Cory $42,000
> James Bovard (Authoring Fee) $30,000
> Robert Stuber Fundraising consultant
> $24,000
> Steve Sinton Field Consulting $20,000
> Andrew MacPherson $16,074.28
> Russ Verney Political Consulting
> $14,387.56
> Mike Ferguson Field Consulting
> $13,812.03
> Stephen Gordon Field Consulting
> $12,857.97
> Ashley Petty (field consulting)
> $11,474.5
> Angelia O'Dell (ballot access)
> $9244.5
> Jake Witmer Ballot Access $3846.96
> Robert Zinzell Political Consulting
> $3750
> David Beiler (Field Consulting)
> $2399.11
> John Seewoester Field Consulting
> $2125.5
> Barry Fiegel (field consulting) $1875
> Karen Neal Ballot Access $1828
> Jason Pye (Field Consulting) $1664.22
> Rob Armstrong Field Consulting $1536
> Joseph Carter Field Consulting $1436
> Robert Jackson In-kind: Travel
> Expenses $1190.46
> William Greene Creative Fees $1000
> Nena Bartlett Field Consulting $678
> Jeff Becker Ballot Access $514.75
> Hudson Phillips Graphic Design $450
> Stephen Thomas Field Consulting $393
> Dianna Dickerson (Field Consulting)
> $358
> Bob Bastress (ballot access) $350
> Billy Bryant (Field Consulting)
> $343.5
> Robert Benedict Political Consulting
> 312.84
> Stephanie Stevens Field Consulting
> 298.5
> Cheryl Wesley (Field Consulting) $240
> Todd Wentz Field Consulting $215
>
> There were also people hired via consulting houses, another
> $109,000 or
> so of them:
>
> Consulting firms:
>
> Advocacy Ink…$46841.01(media
> consulting and public relations)
> Promotions Direct advertising and
> promotional items $13093.1
> Olympic Consulting Ballot Access
> and political consulting $13,000
> National Ballot Access Ballot
> Access $12818
> Professional Data Services
> Compliance Consulting $8803.34
> PrimeOne Political Consulting
> $7999.98
> Pulse Opinion Research LLC Polling
> $4750
> Blue Aster Media (Field
> Consulting) $991.46
> Imaging Arts Charleston
> (photography) $673.81
> Small Government Solutions Direct
> Marketing $400
> Winning Edge International
> Telemarketing $240 (this appears to be
> Wayne Root's telemarketing house)
>
> The Barr campaign spent almost twice as much on office rent
> — over
> $100,000 — as on general advertising, and that does not
> include
> office furniture:
>
> Real Estate Rent:
>
> The Paces Foundation, Inc Rent and
> Utilities $55,769.4
> Post Corporate Apartments $33302.29
> Lisa Franzman $13757.23
> Mansour Center $6819
> Electric, INC Building Repairs $2175
>
> Office furniture? Now we come to office furniture and
> supplies.
> There's also some office equipment hiding on the
> electronics
> entries, at which point the office furniture spending
> nearly matched the
> spending on advertising.
>
> Office Furniture:
>
> Aaron Rents…$32220.7, of which $3392.27 has
> been refunded, plus
> $835.28 for "furniture".
> Office Equipment 6766.73
> Office Supplies $8272.14.
>
> Targeted outreach was done via electronic and direct mail
> efforts. The
> electronic efforts included over $130,000 in spending (in
> addition,
> Terra Eclipse is owed another thirty-five thousand and
> change),
> including
>
> Electronics:
>
> Terra Eclipse IT and Transaction Fees
> $68,644.86
> Thru Tech IT and office equipment
> $36,486.31
> Campaigner Pro (software)
> $14,242.74
> RackSpace IT $6370.49
> Cbeyond Communications
> (telephone) $4091.06
> AT&T Mobility (cell,
> telephone) $2698.15
> Salesforce Software $2,655
> Charter (cable/internet)
> $2236.55
> Verizon Cell Phone $546.86
> Dell Computers Computer
> Monitor 240.44
> Comcast (cable/internet)
> $46.26
>
> Direct mail is a fundraising tool; it also serves to frame
> issues.
> Mailing and shipping also puts your materials in front of
> people. Here
> is the mailing effort, nearly $200,000 of it:
>
> Mailing and items:
>
> Gillis Express (Mailing Direct
> Marketing) $39723.14
> All Points Packaging $35649.69
> Press Well Services Direct
> Marketing $26220.18
> MDI Imaging & Mail Direct
> Marketing $16130.75
> USPS Postage $15,166.21
> List Services Corp. Direct
> Marketing $13,757.23
> Schlesman Enterprises Direct
> Marketing $12,857.71
> Integram (Direct Marketing)
> $12,513.35
> Positive Press Direct Marketing,
> Printing $12,028.37
> UPS Shipping $7492.6 with a
> $288.25 refund
> FedEx (shipping) 5349.13
> Direct Mail Processors (Direct
> Marketing) $2503.42
> Sir Speedy Printing Centers
> Printing $1492.93
> Milner, Inc printing $1100
> Daily Printing & Graphics
> $795.5
> NextDay Flyers Printing $717.26
> C & E Printing $442.4
> Small Government Solutions Direct
> Marketing $400
>
> Those mailings went to mailing lists. Here are the
> places from which
> lists were rented:
>
> Basic Media, Inc. $2000 <– Ron
> Paul right wing list
> Deiner Consultants $2400
> <–conservative Christian mailing
> lists; apparently advises the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
> (say
> internet searches)
> Capitol Hill Lists $838.32
> <–conservative political mailers,
> says their web site
> C&P Lists $235 <almost no info
> available on this Asheville, N.C.
> operation) The candidate went to Denver to receive the
> nomination.
> Denver Convention Booth/registrations $2761
>
> More than $40,000 was spent on legal services, including:
>
> McKenna Long & Aldridge
> $16,931 (and $38,000 owed)
> Orrin Grover $6000
> State Ballot Access Fees $5750
> James Linger $5350
> Drew Shirley $5015.31
> Samuel Stretton $3200
> Matthew Sawyer $2262.5
> Varallo Incorporated Court
> Transcripts $977.83
> Robert Karwin $350
>
> It costs money to collect money. $34,000,
> under 3% of funds received,
> spent on various types of transaction expenses:
>
> Transaction Fees
> PayPal $29,147.33
> Visa/MC Merchant Account 3999.18
> American Express: $482.76
> Donor Town Square $425
> CentraBank $308.31
> Georgian Bank $286.75
>
> Finally, you can send the candidate out on the hustings,
> where he can
> give speeches, excite the faithful, and support local
> candidates. Travel
> money and events came to a quarter of a million dollars,
> close to five
> times what was spent on advertising.
>
> Oh, yes, a funny thing happened on the way to the
> FEC. In earlier
> reports, payments to limousine companies are categorized as
> "limo
> services", but in later reports, they are equally
> legitimately
> categorized as `travel expenses'.
>
> Travel Expenses $206,583
> Limo Services $38,106.82 <– we sorted out the limo and
> town car
> companies
> Events $15,738.48
> Meeting Expenses $10,855.41
> Thrifty Rental Car $1097.73
> Citizen Outreach (conservative event) $2500
> Freedom Festival (conservative event) $1250
>
> The above list of numbers do not include the following
> campaign debts as
> seen in FEC filings at campaign's end.
>
> James Bovard $47,000.00 Authoring Fee
> McKenna Long & Aldridge $38,414.69 Legal Fees
> Terra Eclipse $35,566.87 IT
> Russ Verney $15,000.00 Political Consulting
> Doug Bandow $6,466.05 Political Consulting
> Dr. Robert B. Stuber $4,000.00 Fundraising Consulting
> Mr. Steve Sinton $4,000.00 Political Consulting
> Wayne Allen Root $3,297.81 Campaign Expenses
> Campaigner Pro $2,675.00 Software
> All Points Packaging & Distribution, In $1,149.42
> Online Order
> Fulfillment
> Press Well Services, Inc. $878.06 Printing
> Lisa Franzman $802.77 Rent
>
>
>
>
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