Readers will recall that LNC Chair Angela McArdle attacked LNC Treasurer Bill Redpath for not doing his job as Treasurer. Redpath indicated that so soon as petitioning had finished for the cycle he would indeed be reporting. He has now advised the LNC that they will receive a report from him soon. There is an amended FEC report forhtcoming. There…
Posts published in September 2024
The Libertarian Party of Georgia governing board has voted to join the Kennedy joint fundraising campaign. Readers will not that Georgia is Chase Oliver’s home state, so we see Oliver’s own state party stabbing him in the back, raising money for one or another of his opponents. (Third Party Watch has thusfar been unable to confirm rumors that money raised…
For the 2024 US House of Representatives elections, the count of candidates is quite small. The three major third parties are running candidates, in their usual order by party size (count according to Ballot Access News): Libertarian Party – 71 candidates Green Party – 34 candidates Constitution Party – 17 candidates Other parties are running even fewer candidates. In some…
Michael Ter Maat and the FEC have a disagreement over his non-filing of a financial disclosure form. We have been supplied with a copy of their correspondence. The letter from the FEC to Ter Meet is here. Ter Maat’s response is here.
The Kennedy Victory Fund raised $947,182 in large donations. The LNC received $92,300 from the Kennedy Victory Fund for administrative expenses, $11,804 from the Mapstead and Ter Maat campaigns corresponding we believe to parts of the hotel bill, and $14,091 in other itemized donations. There were also $56,994.21 in unitemized donations. These total to $175,192. For the month, the normal…
Executive Committee came to order at 6:06 PM. All ExComm members other than Caryn Ann Harlos were present. (Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Yeniscavich, Watkins, Ford) Also Nekhaila, Bost, Vinson, Haman, Chadderdon, Thompson, Hays, Malagon, Dassing, and a couple people whose names I could not hear clearly. No one had public comment. Chair moves to encumber up to $25,000 for legal…
LNC finances are a bit complicated these days, so I will be reporting on them in pieces. I’ll start with LNC debts. The LNC is now in debt for almost $390,000. That number includes $296.384 in debts from last month, and $96,132 in new debts from this month. The new debts have several interesting features. There is a debt to…
The state of financial support by Libertarians of the Oliver Presidential campaign is a disgrace to the good name of our party. Most Libertarians should be ashamed of the state to which our Presidential campaign has been reduced. As of the same date in the campaign, here is the amount of money raised by the Oliver campaign and each of…
In an email to at least some Libertarians, LP Vice Presidential candidate Mike Ter Maat has revealed that he is being threatened by the FEC with Federal legal action, because he did not file the legally-mandated personal financial disclosure. For readers less familiar with Federal Elections forms, there are three that are likely to be be relevant. There is the…
The LNC ExComm will meet this Sunday to consider a motion from Angela McArdle. She wants up to $25,000 to be encumbered to defend the LNC against lawsuits. Several questions arise: Do they actually have the money (we will find out tomorrow when the FEC filing drops)? What lawsuits? Is there an emergency? McArdle wrote: Hello everyone, I am calling…