Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:04:23 -0500 (EST)
From: phillies@WPI.EDU ("George D. Phillies")
Subject: RE: LP Party baggage
To: LPUS-CAMP@dehnbase.org (LP business - campaigns)
Reply-To: lpus-camp@dehnbase.org


> Hornberger's claims on this account (ethical lapses

> are what are holding back the LP) are just one

> more thing that causes one to question his judgement.



The reason that ethical lapses are holding back the Party is not that
people think we are less honest than our opponents -- tough recent
aspirants for the Republican or Democratic nomination for President have
not launched their campaigns by putting the National Party's senior
employee's mistress on the payroll -- but that those ethical lapses have
diverted hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of donations into
let us say interesting expenditures. The equivalent for the D and R
parties might be a hundred million dollars or more.  When a Presidential
campaign that is talking about outreach to the public spends 1 percet of
its income on advertising and a third or so on staff salaries, there are
reasons to suspect that something is a bit odd.

We should be running a political party, not -- as one National Review
writer put it -- a feeding trough for political consultants.