LPF Candidates Committee Report, February 2023
Chair: Hector Roos
Vice Chair: Marcus Reeder
Secretary: vacant
Last Meeting: Monday, November 17, 2022 at 8:00pm (every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month)
*there have been other working meetings without quorum
Next Meeting: TDA
Meetings are held through Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89854388733?pwd=bkF5aFIzKzBQbm5TL3R4TlpncFQzQT092022-2023 Action Plan:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1coIzJlRQicBCs7naWNZRMGy2-kW8J3xA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100421007467880575709&rtpof=true&sd=trueCommittee Objectives Summary:
- Grow the committee to at least 10 members; recruit more members to the Candidate Cmte from the areas of Tampa Bay, SWFL, Panhandle and Central Florida.
- Record a Florida-oriented election and electioneering rights presentation with worksheets and publish to VoteLPF.org
- Recruit at least 100 candidates for public office in Florida (between the August, November and March 2023 elections we currently had confirmed 16 with 7 on August ballot; 6 on November ballot; 3 on March ballot); and 3 have won election to Soil and Water Conservation Districts.
- Candidate Pipeline (list development): Take any interest from people to run for office and assign them to 3 paths (one at a time or concurrently): operation first step (join civic boards), run for something (less than 1 year), and parachute (at least 2 years out).
Continuing Actions:
- Thank you letters to candidates who ran in 2022.
- Meeting to discuss results of general election, outlook to March 2023 municipal election cycle (not complete), campaign in a box kit / resources
- Vote LPF website
- We continue to develop Vote LPF as a repository of candidate support and recruitment funnel beyond the 2022 election cycles.
- We are already recruiting candidates for the remaining 2022 municipal races and the 2023 regional and municipal races. The only partisan elections until 2024 are the DUVAL County / City of Jacksonville elections in March 2023.
- Adam Whitworth has created a test text messaging service for us that we can use for member outreach and even for public polling or electioneering. This is in testing phase now. Will expand this program for other LPF Committees and county affiliates to utilize.
- Question about renewing OPERATION FIRST STEP AFFILIATE INCENTIVE PROGRAM motion.
