LPNH Chair Ben Weir has kindly contacted us and supplied the full text of his letter to the LNC. The full text of his letter to the LNC follows:
Ben Weir has been kind enough to provide us with the full text of his letter to the Libertarian National Committee. It appear below. We hadee
This was the full email:
To the Members of the Libertarian National Committee,
I am writing to formally and emphatically object to the pending motion that is planned to be put forward by our Treasurer Bill Redpath to censure the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire. As the duly elected Chair of LPNH… by a strong majority of our members… I consider this motion not only an affront to the autonomy of state affiliates, but a direct insult to the hard work and progress that has occurred under my leadership in just under two months.
Since taking office, I’ve successfully secured nonprofit status from the State of New Hampshire after years of failed attempts. I’ve initiated real world political engagement by meeting with several elected officials and liberty aligned organizations. Our members have authored multiple bills now on their way to passage. We’ve driven testimony in committees, organized phone banking, and built momentum in the legislature where it counts. We have also held a few successful events and had several new movers that came to New Hampshire specifically referencing the work LPNH has done to recruit people. Our membership is higher than ever, and our donations are up as well during a time that most state affiliates are seeing a severe decline.
And yet not a single dissenting member of the LNC has reached out to me to offer input, guidance, or concerns. Not one. There has been zero dialogue, zero outreach, zero professionalism shown from your end (or specifically in this case, Bill Redpath). Meanwhile, I’ve already begun productive conversations our Chair Steven Nekhaila and my affiliates’ Secretary/Comms Director Jeremy Kauffman… we’ve agreed that issues with messaging or conduct should be addressed directly and personally. That invitation remains open to anyone… reach out to me directly if there’s a problem. But to date, there has been nothing but radio silence from the known antagonists within this body.
This motion to censure LPNH is cowardly, baseless, and profoundly shortsighted. You are attempting to kneecap one of the most active and promising affiliates in the party just as we’re beginning to hit our stride. If you think that will go unchallenged, think again.
Make no mistake: any member of the LNC who votes in favor of this resolution will be treated as an enemy to the cause for Liberty. You will face the full and unapologetic wrath of both myself and the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire. We are not backing down, and we will not accept unjust interference from any members of the National committee that are working against our success here in the Granite State.
Withdraw the motion. Call me. Have a conversation like an adult. Stop hiding behind cowardly resolutions and start acting like leaders of a supposedly decentralized, bottom up political movement.
Do the right thing.
In Liberty,
Ben Weir
Chair, Libertarian Party of New Hampshire
Region 6 Alternate, Libertarian National Committee
Live Free Or Die
I just came across this: https://x.com/TheEmoAncap/status/1894175105560850783
It’s Ben Weir saying that LP Ohio should be disaffiliated if they run a candidate against Vivek Ramaswamy.
That was from February, so three months before the attempt to censure LP NH for endorsing Trump in 2024.
“…we’ve agreed that issues with messaging or conduct should be addressed directly and personally. ”
NO.
Concerns regarding public messaging and public conduct need to be dealt with publicly. People need to be called out publicly for bad behavior so that everyone knows it’s unacceptable.
Agree.
And there has to be consequences for an LP state affiliate when they violate bylaws.
Slippery slope.
A retraction at the very least…but that’s not going to happen.
A state affiliate endorsing Donald Trump is a bridge too far.
He strikes me as much more serious than Austin Martin.
It doesn’t hurt, or help, depending on your perspective, that he closes with his state motto, which just happens to be “live free or die.” Or the body of the letter before his signature with “do the right thing” – which can of course be read innocently – or as a reference to a film by a famous black nationalist radical militant director in which the exhortation has several meanings, one of which is to give in to demands before they lead to riots and violence, not after your entire business and the surrounding neighborhood are trashed by a rioting mob.