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Posts published in October 2024

The Hagopian Letter to Select LNC Members

Recently, there has been public controversy over a letter that former Treasurer Todd Hagopian sent to a considerable number of members of the LNC.  The letter was sent privately but has apparently become public knowledge in some circles.  We had not discussed this here previously, because other matters were occurring, and we did not want to flood our finite bandwidth…

The Hagopian Letter to the LNC

Recently, there has been public controversy over a letter that former Treasurer Todd Hagopian sent to a considerable number of members of the LNC.  The letter was sent privately but has apparently become public knowledge in some circles.  We had not discussed this here previously, because other matters were occurring, and we did not want to flood our finite bandwidth…

Longstreth Urges: Sign the JC Appeal

Richard Longstreth, former LNC Member who voted for the prior suspension of Caryn Ann Harlos from the LNC, calls on Libertarian Party members to sign the appeal petition defending Harlos.  You can read and sign the appeal petition at https://www.jotform.com/242868268003056.  Longstreth writes: To friends who remain in the Libertarian Party, I have given much thoughts to the current activities of…

Opinion — Moving Beyond the Sunk Cost Fallacy to a New Political Home

by Schuyler Windham I know how frustrating it can be to invest so much of yourself — your time, energy, attention, and money into something only to see it flounder or backtrack. We don’t want to feel like we’ve failed at something and we know that consistency is key to success. How do we then determine when to keep investing and when…

LNC Motion to Form Committee With Respect to Harlos Derivative Suit

From Chair McArdle We have an LNC email ballot.  Votes are due to the LNC Business List on this email thread by 6:00 pm Pacific Time on  October 22, 2024 Co-sponsors: Andrew Watkins,  Roman Garcia, Travis Bost, Angela McArdle Motion: Move to appoint an investigative committee consisting of Andrew Watkins, Roman Garcia, and Rob Vinson to investigate the claims of…

Wasted Vote

Editorial by Daniel Lutz I waste my vote. Every election cycle, every ballot, I will inevitably waste my vote. I do not intend to waste my vote. I would like to think that my vote matters a great deal, whether it be on a ballot issue or for a Judge or a Representative to a legislative body. A vote should…

Draft of the Harlos Appeal

What you read below is the draft of the appeal against the Harlos suspension. The actual appeal gets some additional boilerplate, such as a list of interested parties: In this case, that would be the LNC, the signers, the Oliver campaign, the Colorado LP Executive Committee however titled, and of course, all delegates at the last national convention, as it…

Harlos Suspension Appeal

As a public service, Third Party Watch is providing a path to sign a Judicial Committee appeal against the recent LNC actions attacking Caryn Ann Harlos, largely for doing her job as Secretary. You can sign the appeal at https://form.jotform.com/242868268003056 This is not an “I like Caryn Ann” message.  This is a ‘the LNC is out of control’ message.  I…

More Main-Stream Press Anti-Third-Party Bigotry

We have a count of Third-Party Presidential candidates who are on the ballot in a significant number of states.  We see: Chase Oliver is on the ballot in 47 states. Jill Stein is on the ballot in 38 states. Robert Kennedy is on the ballot in 31 states, after withdrawing and being removed from some ballots <– correction courtesy Porcus…

News from the LNC Secret Session

Our sources on the Libertarian National Committee tell us what transpired in the executive session part of the LNC meeting a few days ago. Our sources were present in the secret meeting and heard directly what was said. The meeting discussed removing Caryn Ann Harlos as National Secretary. Our sources report that National Chair McArdle pressed heavily for suspending Harlos…