From: Jack Stecher <stecher@freenet.msp.mn.us>
Message-Id: <199410041355.IAA08140@quality.ais.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Third Parties
To: clif0005@gold.tc.umn.edu
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 08:55:17 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: mn-politics@MR.Net
In-Reply-To: <2e7e37185625002@gold.tc.umn.edu> from "Steven L. Clift" at Sep 19, 94 08:13:02 pm
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Steven Clift requests the name and address information on MN political
parties.

Here's the data for the Libertarian Party of Minnesota:

	Libertarian Party of Minnesota
	PO Box 580774
	Minneapolis, MN  55458-0774
	Phone:  (612) 223-0995 (Metro)
		(800) 788-2660 (Elsewhere)

	Fax:	(612) 874-6803
	BBS:	(612) 938-3702
	E-mail:	stecher@freenet.msp.mn.us (Olson/Strand campaign)
		75053.1515@compuserve.com (Owatonna)
		blondo@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu (Moorhead State)

The UM-D college group and the St. Cloud metro chapter have e-mail addresses,
but I don't know them offhand.

Affiliates (with local party chairs in parentheses):
	Ely:	(218) 365-3160 (Geralyn Obear)
	Isanti:	(612) 444-9008 (Lawrence Fuhol)
	Mankato:(507) 625-1472 (Emmett Smith)
	Moorhead State University:
		(218) 236-3345
	St. Cloud:
		(612) 654-6505 (Jeff Larson)
	Winona:	(507) 454-8153 (Howard Krueger)

We also have chapters forming (but not yet recognized) in Alexandria,
Crookston, Duluth (metro), UM-D, Owatonna, and Park Rapids.  If you like,
I can provide this contact information, too.

Members:  hard to say, since we're a chapter-style organization.  Folks
join at various levels, so we can't really track this.  However, I can provide
the following:
	Names on mailing list:  approximately 2300
	Number sending money to state or national LP within the
		past 12 months: approximately 400
	Number of contributors to Olson/Strand campaign:  approximately 150
		(of whom at least half are in the 400 who give the state or
		national party money).

I don't recall the exact numbers, but our median ytd contribution is somewhere
around $25; our average ytd is somewhere around $40 or $50.  I think about
25%-30% of our contributors give more than once per year.  Our median most
recent contribution is somewhere around $15 or $20; I don't know the average
off-hand.  (This excludes Olson/Strand contributions.)

By the primary filing deadline, the LP of MN had raised roughly $8,500 in
cash or in-kind contributions in 1994 (that deadline comes out to August 30).
The Olson/Strand campaign had raised about $3000 by the deadline, and was
up to around $4,500 by the primary election day itself.  I don't know their
current totals.

Hope this helps.

--Jack Stecher
Treasurer, LP of MN
stecher@freenet.msp.mn.us
EMV, Olson/Strand campaign