As delivered to the LNC at the end of September: From: Bill Redpath To: LNC Board <lncboard@lp.org> LNC Financial Statements- August 2025 Attached please find the Libertarian National Committee, Inc. financial statements, as of August 31, 2025. Due to Joint Fundraising Committee (JFC) impacts on the financial statements on Pages 5, 9 & 10 (because of Cash that is included…
Posts published in September 2025
Browne justified his lawsuit by complaining about FEC regulations. As a free speech issue, Browne had a point. Browne’s political complaints were of less merit. Browne said that if he listed major donors on his FEC report, the donors were potentially subject to harassment by duopoly party supporters. This issue has already been litigated, successfully, by one of the Socialist…
For the curious, the LNC is planning to have a very special meeting on October 1, and a normal meeting on October 5. Details on both of them are found on https://groups.google.com/g/lnc-public, a few entries down from the top, on the first page. LNC debate has become increasingly contentious. Claims that the LNC needs to be rid of Communist and…
Browne didn’t even pretend to return the Party’s favor. The Browne campaign could have asked its volunteers to help with ballot access petitioning. It didn’t. Of course, there is some question as to how many volunteers Browne actually had, but at several dollars a signature every volunteer mattered. Browne and his campaign didn’t try to help the National Party. And…
Chapter Nineteen The Political Scam of the Century In late October, the Browne Committee treated the Libertarian party to the political scam of the century. There do not appear to have been criminal acts committed. Everything it did appears to have been perfectly legal, protected by First Amendment guarantees on political free speech. Recall how we got here. At the…
There was a Duke of York. He had ten thousand men. He marched them up he hill. He marched them down again. (in Portugal in Napoleon’s time, as it happens). The LNC is now following the Duke’s fine example. There was a motion that the LNC should join in the New Mexico ballot access lawsuit. It was on its way…
John Ponty has filed an extended, detailed amicus brief with respect to the Roos Appeal to the Judicial Committee over the LNC Special Investigatory Committee report and actions taken with respect to it. The brief claims to demonstrate extensive defects in the original appeal, as detailed in the amicus document. The brief includes significant supporting documentation that advances its position.…
The LNC’s September FEC filing covering its August financial transfers has been posted. It shows itemized donations of $82,058 and unitemized donations of $25,877, to be matched against expenditures of $110,783. The income is about $3000 short of the expenditures. However, the itemized donations included a maximum donation from one person, $10,000 from an LNC member, and $5000 from a…
In a letter that we received in the afternoon of September 20, Trendalyn Hallesey wrote the LNC: Dear Chair Nakhaila and Members of the LNC, Effective immediately, I hereby resign from my position on the Libertarian National Committee. It has become abundantly clear to me that the current state of dysfunction within the Committee is beyond repair under existing leadership…
An open letter to the LNC: Esteemed members of the LNC: I call your attention to the recent ExComm motion urging the LNC to ratify the two prior motions to dismiss in the LNC vs Vest suit as recommended by the Executive Committee. I strongly urge that you begin with due diligence. You are in no hurry. The motions in…