The following is the Mission Statement adopted by the Libertarian National Committee at its 12-13 December 1992 meeting: The mission of the Libertarian Party is to move public policy in a libertarian direction by electing candidates of the Libertarian Party to public office. The LNC also endorsed the following goals: Image: Goal #1 * Change the image of the LP to make it attractive to people anywhere in the libertarian quadrant. * Change platform criteria to be: * Maximum of 10 topical planks * 2-4 year perspective * Transitional proposals consistent with libertarian philosophy and the Statement of Principles * Presented in a positive, solution-oriented manner so that it helps rather than hurts LP candidates * Start from scratch at each convention * Majority delegate approval * Employ outside professionals to conduct a market analysis to determine how best to improve our image, attract members and increase vote totals. * Develop a strategy for TV and radio ads to attract people in the libertarian quadrant to join the LP. Image: Goal #2 * All libertarians should feel equally welcome in the LP. No person within the libertarian quadrant should be considered inferior to any other. The LNC should take a leadership role in promoting this attitude and achieving this goal. Image: Goal #3 * Create a sustained and proactive program to improve the LP's public image: * Establish a "Shadow Cabinet" to comment regularly on current issues * Publish and release comments on current topics weekly; topics can include items from Shadow Cabinet, what elected Libertarians have done, etc. * Develop and vigorously market a speaker's bureau of screened representatives of the LP who can convey the positive image of the LP as a place where all in the libertarian quadrant are welcome Organization: Goal #1 * Improve internal operations of the LP by: * Operating an efficient and effective national office by 4/1/93 * Having a presentable national office by 4/1/94 * Striving for a dual-management approach to the operation of the national office * Producing an operating handbook for state parties describing their interface with the national party, services available, etc. * Defining and implementing an ongoing strategic planning process to establish goals as input prior to the beginning of each budget cycle Organization: Goal #2 * Increase LP membership and contributor base by identifying them as different and distinct. Specifically: * Eliminate the "oath" * Assure that all statistics and all communications use the broadest definition of "member" * Establish reciprocity between national and state LP membership, where possible * Include all registered Libertarians as non-contributing members * Develop new outreach materials building on image changes * Attract mainstream, articulate, successful, functional members * Increase proportion of minorities, women, and other groups not currently well represented in the LP membership * Improve outreach to special interest groups * Improve fundraising yield from membership by: * Doubling percentage of prospects who contribute * Increasing the number of contributing members by 400% * Reducing by 50% the proportion of contributing members who fail to maintain that status Organization: Goal #3 * Improve the effectiveness of LP News as a means to attract members and contributors by: * Including a monthly column on the activities of elected Libertarians * Including to the extent possible a state-by-state list of activities monthly * Adopting an ongoing review of the LP News editorial policy to ensure consistency with desired public image and mission Organization: Goal #4 * Improve affiliate party support: * Develop a suggested blue-print for state parties including organizational structure and objectives from the state level to the precinct level * Create and distribute a "Libertarian Data Book" (vote totals, ballot access facts, list of elected Libertarians, etc.) * Develop a world-class campus organizing program, with: * Contacts on 500 campuses and between 100 and 200 organized and functioning campus clubs going into the '96 elections * Such a visible presence on campus that any student attending an American college or university will have heard of the LP and have some idea of what a libertarian is Campaigns and Candidates: Goal #1 * State and local 1994 goals are to: * Elect 5 state legislators (outside NH) * Raise $1,000,000 to support state house candidates * Recruit 1,500 candidates (all levels) nationwide * Identify and provide campaign materials and promote professional campaign training Campaigns and Candidates: Goal #2 * Federal 1994 goals are: * Have 200 federal candidates file with the FEC * Obtain NES coverage of returns * Obtain 30-state ballot access by 12/94 * Provide support for federal candidates including: * bookkeeping, caging and FEC reporting * generic TV and radio ads * other services, if possible * Recruit qualified 1996 presidential candidates Campaigns and Candidates: Goal #3 * 1996 Campaign goals include: * 51-state ballot access * Enabling presidential candidate to qualify for federal matching funds * Participation in presidential debates * Recruiting 50 former or current non-Libertarian office holders to run as Libertarians * Doubling our average 1992 US House vote percentages by 1994 Several votes were involved in the endorsement of these goals. The bulk of the text was passed as a package on a voice vote. Dehn and Gingell asked that their "no" votes on this motion be noted, giving as their reason that there had not been sufficient time for any discussion of most of the individual points. "Organization: Goal #2" was voted on separately, after a discussion which dealt almost exclusively with the question of eliminating the membership "oath" (certification that the individual opposes the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals). Voting in favor were: Crickenberger, Dasbach, Givot, Hall, Karlan, Kohls, Neale, Prazak, and Redpath; voting against were Alexander, Clark, Dehn, Ernsberger, Gingell, Johnson, and McLean, with Gingell noting that she voted "no" primarily because there had not been time to discuss the other points. The second part of "Image: Goal #1", concerning changing the nature and scope of the Platform, was also voted on separately. Voting in favor were: Clark, Crickenberger, Dasbach, Ernsberger, Givot, Hall, Karlan, Neale, Prazak, Redpath, and Schumacher; voting against were: Alexander, Dehn, Gingell, Johnson, Kohls, and McLean. Several other small portions were approved separately by voice vote, with no members asking that their votes or comments be recorded.