The Association of Liberty State Parties is becoming the Liberal Party of the United States. Their affiliated parties to date are libertarian groups that had unfortunate interactions with the Libertarian National Committee or the Mises Caucus, namely the Libertarian Party of New Mexico, the Classical Liberal Party of Virginia, the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts, and the Keystone Party of Pennsylvania. …
Posts published in February 2024
For December 2023, the LNC raised $145,670 (this number includes convention income) and spent $102,971. Debts and obligations of the LNC at the end of the month were $17,497. Cash on hand at the end of December came to $270,463. The total income for the year came to $1,222,313. In December there were over 900 donors, including 13 who gave…
A derivative lawsuit against the Libertarian National Committee Chair and Committee is advancing. The purpose of a derivative lawsuit is to cause the defendants to perform their fiduciary duties and satisfy their bylaws requirements. In support of the suit, Chair Emeritus Nick Sarwark had previously published a call to action “Stop the Destruction of the Libertarian Party” found below. Sarwark…
The Libertarian National Committee Bylaws Committee has prepared for consideration by the delegates at NatCon a change in the rules on deleting platform planks, to make plank deletion more difficult. The change in the deletion process reads: “As its first item of platform business, the convention shall vote whether to delete each of those planks that received a number of…
The proposed bylaw changes will include changes making it more difficult for a change in party control to lead to changes in the platform, for example, changes reverting the platform to its form before the prior takeover. There is a process for deleting planks. Delegates cast votes for platform planks to be deleted. If a plank received enough votes, the…
As listeners to the meeting will have noted, the last LNC meeting adjourned with two items still on the agenda. These items automatically pass to the next meeting. But what were the two items? Mr. Tuniewicz asked for a discussion of finances related to the Rage Against the War Machine Rally, which used our headquarters address for some aspect of…
The current Libertarian National Committee Chair is not competent, presiding over the loss of half the staff and a dramatic drop in revenue and membership, driving national Libertarian Party into insolvency. She blocks all critics on social media to avoid being held accountable for her actions. The GOP is going through similar problems, with their Chair being entirely captive of…
There appears on the public LNC list an exchange between LNC Regional Representatives Vest and Tuniewicz, who at last night’s LNC meeting were accused by LNC At-Large Representative Malagon of having leaked material discussed in a meeting held in Executive Session, with LNC Chair McArdle. Vest and Tuniewicz vigorously denied the accusation. See following: &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Madam Chair, I would request…
Addendum: The Libertarian Party of Louisiana has issues a statement condemning this action. See comments for their statement. Aside: We are getting comments on this post. Some of them are from the same people repeatedly, making the same or very similar comments. We are trying to keep a balance between debate is good and multiple posts drowning out opponents is…
This is the Third Party Watch liveblog of the LNC meeting of February 4, 2024. Note that I do not have enough screen space to approve comments readily. Meeting came to order at 7:07 PM. Roll call of attendance. Public comment: Chair explains how to signal that you want to speak. Jonathan Jacobs: Speaks in favor of policy change to…