I would like to thank Jeff Monheit for his able and dedicated work as campaign treasurer, and to Bill McMillen for advising us on FEC arcania. I appreciate the impromptu coaching Richard Cooper and Bonnie Scott provided, and to all the regional reps who agreed to be available for advice and counsel. I am grateful to Alton Yee and Bob Armstrong for making the effort to show up at key functions. I am particularly appreciative of the work of Keith Gardner of Georgia in reworking the website, now archived by LPNY for use by future candidates. Most of all, I thank all LP members in New York and nationally, who donated to and encouraged my candidacy through the whole long year.
Letters appear regularly, supporting some aspect of individual freedom.
In the Rochester area, we have begun systematically mining this source in our effort to grow our local organization. This article reviews the nuts and bolts of our approach. Our process begins by scanning the letters and op-eds for writers who agree with libertarianism on some subject. I cover the daily paper and a couple of the suburban weeklies. Our local Board of Elections sells a CD listing all the voters in our county, which we can search by several criteria thanks to software written by one of our members.