On the brighter side, it had been anticipated that many new members would not renew their memberships after their first year. The wave that had swept party membership up from 27,000 to 33,000 might have receded, taking Party membership with it. Perhaps because the Browne 2000 Presidential campaign did bring some new members, during 2000 there was no significant change…
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Of particular interest: A motion from Mr. Chadderdon “That this Board adopt the following resolution: Resolved, that a committee comprised of members willing and able to serve be appointed by the Libertarian National Committee to investigate allegations of misconduct by At-Large Representative Adrian F Malagon, which, if true, cast doubt on his fitness to continue in office, and that the…
We continue with a coverage of turn-of-the-millennium Libertarian Politics, as taken from my book Funding Liberty (Third Millennium Press 3mpub.com, 2003). Do those events matter? We seem to be recycling the same not-necessarily-bad ideas with some of the same good Libertarians running things. Did Project Archimedes succeed? In one word: No. The National Party never reached 50,000 members, let alone…
We continue with a coverage of turn-of-the-millennium Libertarian Politics, as taken from my book Funding Liberty (Third Millennium Press 3mpub.com, 2003). Chapter Nine Project Archimedes The ancient philosopher Archimedes is said to have written ‘give me a long enough lever, and a place to rest it, and I shall move the world’. Archimedes is sometimes also associated with the law…
Finally, Dasbach’s memo discussed the National Committee’s payments to Optopia and Liam Works. In April 1998 the National Committee purchased more than 900 copies of “Why Government Doesn’t Work” using Optopia as the vendor. These copies were personally autographed by Harry Browne for use as a premium—a gift that the party sends to donors to thank them for their generosity.…
The size of the ‘management fee’ is anomalous. On one hand, in Summer 1996 then-Party-Chair Steve Dasbach claimed to Dean Ahmad and Jesse Markowitz that Willis had been paid to produce a ‘document’ for Browne and that Willis produced Browne’s document “…on his own time and he was paid market rate for the work.” This document for the Browne campaign…
For the next LNC meeting, Mr. Chadderdon has moved “Motion to create Investigatory Committee: “That this Board adopt the following resolution: Resolved, that a committee comprised of members willing and able to serve be appointed by the Libertarian National Committee to investigate allegations of misconduct by At-Large Representative Adrian F Malagon, which, if true, cast doubt on his fitness to…
The recent financial report from Bill Redpath include a graph of membership numbers. One graph is defective. It show a lower limit of 10,000 members,but the actual number of members is well below that, off the bottom of that graph. The other graph appears to show the “current” membership, as of the end of May. Printing the graph, and measuring…
The severance clause covering voluntary resignations directly financed the Browne Campaign’s efforts. Willis received a salary from the LNC for a half-year, and was able to work nearly full time for the Browne Campaign without the Browne Campaign needing to pay him for his efforts. The Browne juggernaut that defeated Gorman and Hornberger was thus paid for, in significant part,…