Hello Libertarians. This is the fifth 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. I am…
Posts published in July 2025
On December 19, 1996, Harry Browne announced that he would be creating an exploratory committee, whose purposes would include raising money. Browne wanted to know if he could begin the campaign with $1,000,000 in hand, and the exploratory committee was the vehicle for making the determination experimentally. However, under (3) and (6) “amass funds to be used after candidacy is…
At the end of June, the LNC had $105,334 of cash on hand and 78,370.13 of debts and obligations, leaving $27,000 in cash above current debts and obligations. Its operating expenditures for June were $26,800 more than its income. Readers will note that these results do not extrapolate favorably if they are continued for very long, namely without changes rather…
FEC reporting requirements made it increasingly difficult for the Browne campaign to hide its actual financial status from the Party faithful. Now we come to the Chapter’s main topic: What are those FEC reporting requirements? What burdens does Federal Election Law impose on a Presidential candidate, and when are those burdens imposed? In short, a campaign that receives more than…
All from my books Finding Liberty as seen at 3mpub.com. You are free to obtain a copy of this book and circulate it to your fellow Libertarians. Chapter Eleven The Browne Campaign and the Federal Elections Commission Because this Chapter is a bit dry, I open with a: Summary Under Federal Law, Presidential candidates who have raised at least $5000…
These are excerpts from my book Finding Liberty (http://3mpub.com for the ebook). Readers are welcome to circulate either the excerpts or copies of the complete ebook as a free book. Along the same lines, in Fall 1996 Browne had committed for a major speaking tour of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Libertarians invested major efforts in preparing for the tour, which would have…
Regional Representative Andrew Chadderdon and LNC Chair Steven Nekhaila, writing on the LNC-Public list, discussed what Chadderdon decibed as urgent concerns with finances and strategy. Chadderdon wrote: Mr Chair, You previously announced proudly “Mr. Malagon is a crucial part of my vision as Chair and the work needed to see this vision through. I would like to have him on…
The LNC National Director today released the membership number for the past two months. Membership numbers were modestly higher than I had estimated from the Treasurer’s Report graph. Membership is still falling, but the decline is happening more slowly than before: Membership loss decelerates. End of November 2024: 11731 End of April 9794 End of May 9595 End of June…
We quote the letter from Adrian Malagon. Its appearance was reported by Liberty Sentries @LibertySentries on X.com. The letter opens (italics) with a forwarded letter from a former LNC member. From: Adrian Malagon <adrian….@lp.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 12:07:03 AM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik To: lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi…@lp.org> Cc: LNC Board <lncb…@lp.org> Subject: LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH’INTRATE. Greetings All, The email below was sent to…
Continuing from my book Funding Liberty: A New Anomaly Recall that in the first half of 1996, there had been an oddity in the Browne campaign’s mailing expenses. For February-July, there were almost no payments for list rental. Browne had done pre-convention mailings, but his FEC reports gave no hint of payments for list rentals. As we now know, Browne’s…