LPF Candidates Committee Report, September 2022
Chair: Hector Roos
Vice Chair: Marcus Reeder
Secretary: Matt Johnson
Last Meeting: Monday, August 29, 2022 at 7:00pm
Next Meeting: Monday, September 19, 2022 at 8:00pm
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 (currently 7) recruit more members to the Candidate Cmte from the areas of Tampa Bay, SWFL, Panhandle and Central Florida.
- Next training is tentatively scheduled for week before Thanksgiving or first week of December in Broward. These are to organized quarterly (next is either Panhandle or South Florida)
- Recruit at least 100 candidates for public office in Florida (we currently have confirmed 15 with 7 on August ballot; 5 on November ballot; 3 on March ballot); more are to be confirmed; 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:
- The complete list of 2022 LPF Candidates on the ballot will be compiled within the coming week.
--- The high profile candidates we have: Federal: Dennis Misigoy for US Senate; Frank Craft for US House; Joe Hannoush for US House; State: Hector Roos for Florida Governor. Local: Shawn Allred Middleton for Melbourne City Council.
- Election law / Ballot Access disputes:
--- The LNC has been requested to intervene on the following issues:
------ Determine the possibility of suing Florida over SB 1078 that establishes draconian qualification requirements for the Soil and Water board elected supervisors, removed elected members and reduced qualifying time period to 3 hours.
------ Attacking the 365 day requirement to be a registered member of a party to run under their partisan office:
1) People’s Party of Florida v Florida Department of State, m.d., 8:22cv-1274 (Federal Middle District of Florida):
https://ballot-access.org/2022/07/01/peoples-party-asks-u-s-district-court-judge-to-reconsider-denial-of-ballot-access-injunction/ ...lawsuit lost
2) Democrat Rebekah Jones v Florida Department of State (Leon County, Florida Court):
https://ballot-access.org/2022/08/15/rebekah-jones-ballot-access-lawsuit-wins-a-procedural-point/ ...lawsuit won
- 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.
- 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.
- Question about renewing OPERATION FIRST STEP AFFILIATE INCENTIVE PROGRAM motion.
