From: Rick Tompkins/Kathy Harrer <spooner@mail.doitnow.com>
At 01:06 PM 3/9/00 -0700, you wrote:
>From: "Alan Fanning" <apfanning@psn.net>
>
>More explicit commentary on the failure of Project Archimedes and
>conflict of interest in the LP.
>
>The national Libertarian Party has suffered what might be its worst
>debacle in the partys 28-year history. Project Archimedes, the
>four-year
>direct-mail campaign to bring party membership to 200,000 members by the
>year 2000 has fallen 170,000 members short of its goal. An estimated
>$1,000,000 of donor money spent on the campaign has gone down the drain.
>
>Project Archimedes, however, is not simply a well-intentioned project
>gone
>awry. Its failure is rooted in unethical interlocking relationships,
>conflicts of interest, and improper payments to LP staff members, LP
>National Committee members, and "independent consultants" to the LP
>national office. The debacle is also rooted in the five-year marriage
>between Harry Browne and the national office of the Libertarian Party.
We (that is, I and quite a few others, notably Vin Suprynowicz, George O'Brien, former national LP Secretary John Famularo, etc.) told you so. And I do not hate to say it.
Rick
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