Hello Libertarians. This is the ninth of a series of opinion articles I’ll be privileged to write for you once per month on an “inside baseball” topic for the Libertarian Party. I encourage everyone who has an opinion on whatever we’re talking about this month to comment or send phillies@4liberty.net your longer editorials, which may well be published. This month…
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Please share widely: George Phillies writes: On one hand the stock market and associated businesses are moving into a tall bubble. A few days ago, the S&P 500 set a new record, even though on that day 398 of the 500 S&P stocks fell. We see more and more reports of AI companies that have no path to an income…
Bill Redpath reported to the LNC on its September finances: Attached* please find the Libertarian National Committee, Inc. financial statements, as of September 30, 2025. Due to Joint Fundraising Committee (JFC) impacts on the financial statements on Pages 5, 9 & 10 (because of Cash that is included that will be expended on liabilities of the Kennedy Victory Fund), it…
Noting the unsatisfactory procedures of the past, Willis explains an alternative process for developing a campaign committee and infrastructure. His approach is astonishingly similar to what Willis and collaborators are now doing with Real Campaign Reform and the American Liberty Foundation, and are in significant respects similar to what Michael Cloud and Carla Howell are now doing with the Massachusetts…
Chapter Twenty Two from my book Funding Liberty Willis Launches His 2004 Campaign In January 2001 the Browne campaign began a series of after-action reports, discussing how it had spent its money, and what it felt its strengths and weaknesses were. Perry Willis’s chief report appears as the January 20, 2001 LibertyWire. The Campaign acknowledges raising 2.42 million dollars for…
The following table shows the finer details. I give pre-convention spending, post-convention spending, the full-year total for 2000, and the total for all four years of the campaign. Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand. I’ve dropped some of the least-paid employees from the list. In some cases, payments to people were either payroll or salary. In other cases, the…
Slight typo in headline fixed. For the quarter most spending went to long-time campaign associates and their firms, including: Jim Babka $8,517 (salary) Harry Browne $1,000 (travel office supplies phone) Robert Brunner $5,375 (travel office supplies salary) Laura Carno $3,452 (salary) Robert DeVoil $5,726 (printing office supplies & data entry) Robert Flohr $3,785 (salary) Jennifer Willis $2,800 (salary) Steve Willis …
Now go back to April 2000. On April 24, 2000, Willis claimed that the Browne campaign was in debt by more than $80,000. Between April 24 and the end of the month, only a small fraction of that alleged debt could have been paid off. According to the FEC reports, at the end of the month almost no debt remained.…
What about other financial aspects of the campaign finale? At the end of 2000, questions arose as to the financial condition of the Browne Campaign. Was the campaign in debt? The last of Browne’s loans to his own campaign had been paid off. The FEC reports for periods ending in November and December both show that there were no debts…
LNC Income Improves from Spring In September 2025, the LNC’s itemized and unitemized donations came to $82,939. The LNC also had $3394 in other Federal receipts. Correspondingly, it had $67,392 in expenses and $5,127 transferred to other political committees. In August 2025, the LNC had $107,936 in itemized and unitemized donations and $110,783 in expenses. For the month of September…