Archive for August, 2004
The Strategic Plan is Dead
by Sean Haugh
Until a couple months ago, I was running a series in this space on each goal and strategy of the Libertarian Party’s Strategic Plan (SPT). I’ve always been a huge fan of SPT, and wanted to do everything I could to market it to the party at a grassroots level.
It’s a rather detailed Plan, the product of a year’s work by some of our best and brightest. SPT was chock full of great ideas, with a reasonable level of focus around our Mission Statement (”to move public policy in a libertarian direction by electing candidates of the Libertarian Party to public office”). It required acceptance and implementation by the party at every level, but that was part of its grassroots beauty. It was a well refined toolbox with something for everybody. It just needed an effective salesman.
Well, at least that’s what I thought.