Last updated on October 6, 2025
7:34PM Meeting comes to order. There seem to be a significant number of absentees. 13 voting members are present. There was an intrusion. It was silenced. Agenda was considered. The proposal that members report one what they did in the last month was without objection moved to the front of new business.
Convention Committee: Ford reports: We have about 750 rooms and project 1000 attendees. We have about 80 tables available. For 2028 we meet on President’s Day weekend. Some groups have already spoken up about hosting the event. Tennessee has been particularly enthusiastic. McGee has identified areas with favorable travel and has sent out requests for proposals. We will have a track on campaign training from the Leadership Institute; trainees apparently must pay for their training. Important issue on how to support volunteers.
Reports from LNC members: Nekhaila: Archimedes 2.0 will be les by staff. We raised $40,000 on the first mailing. We are paying Ironlight to clean up our lists. We currently only send emails to 15,000 people. We will be targeting people L-registered for the Parity Project. He lists people he has talked to such as Nigel Farage, Bill O’Reilly, and Maj Toure.
Martin has pushed for the National Guard legislation. In Hawaii, they are advancing on election fraud issues. Efforts are made to assist the New Mexico state affiliate.
Darr says that Project Archimedes 2.0 has started to launch. He has had 3-4 meetings a day and calls a hundred people a month on behalf of the party. May have recruited a commission-based fundraiser. Bylaws Committee is meeting.
Chadderdon: Working on coalition activism especially around the bitcoin group. Lobbied state legislatures. Try to support state affiliates notably New Mexico. Michigan is advancing.
Ford: Testified in support of Defend the Guard in Massachusetts. Has spoken in various places in support of libertarian issues.
Redpath: Arkansas petition drive will be done soon.Maryland is working on a petition drive but likely needs more money.
Bohler has worked on several projects for eh LNC notably the ‘direct yours funds’ effort.
Thompson: I am helping various local affiliates and are trying to form some more. Trying to get more people involved in the party.
Cowart: EPCC is doing well. We are reviewing contracts. Next will be the performance reviews. Financial Standards Committee: We are working on a policy manual for the FSC. We have already approved a few expenditures, e.g., Iron Light and the second mailer. On the first mailer we spent 3-4 thousand and brought in $40,000. Wrote some op-eds. Was at a rally at the State Capital.
Hays: LPCA is suing to maintain voter rolls, and a lawsuit attacking the top-two election. LPCA is getting out candidate mailers for the first time in many years.
McGee: Wrote a respondent document, his sixth.
Candidate support; comments for Mr. Michael Pickens. has written books. He coaches sales people. We have to go out there and convince people to vote for us. You may recall the Libertarian Leadership Academy. We have about 40 videos. Nekhaila wants trainings to be recreated under the Libertarian Party Brand. We are working on training on how to recall public officials. Wants to know what the LNC wants. Nekhaila: I see us as wanting material on membership recruitment, fundraising, and candidate support. Ideally the LNC has a list of what they can provide.
Motion on trademark litigation in New Mexico: Chadderdon: Last meeting we sent a cease and desist letter. There was no answer from them. We should now advance to litigation. We have done this in the past. We have an obligation to defend the trademark. Motion is to approve advancing the litigation so soon as the funding is approved by email or the ExComm. Discussion: Redpath. There was earlier discussion of talking informally to the New Mexico people currently using our party name. Hays moves for executive session. Martin: We have had informal discussions. They go to executive session.
They are in executive session. They have returned. Amended motion: to direct the chair or his designee to propose a package for trademark and other litigation related to ballot access to be presented to the ExComm within a week. Amendment was adopted. There is a rollcall vote on the motion as amended. Motion passes 13-0-0.
Motion by Chadderdon to rescind the Special Investigation Committee Report motion and consequent motions based on issues associated with the SIC report. Proposes that the SIC report is questionable in its accuracy and independence. Information on the report has been discussed at length and need not be repeated. Martin supports motion. McMahon: I supported that an outside third party should handle it, but agrees with Darr that the report should stay in place until a new investigation is conducted. Nekhaila advises Ford that an outside report might cost $20,000. Ford: asks if investigation can be done in a few weeks. Ford: I want the truth to be out. I don’t want this to drag out for months. I want this matter to be settled or it would drag out forever. Darr: Cost when investigated would estimated to be $10K to start and $40-80K to complete. Redpath: This investigation cannot be done in few weeks. Martin claims that something has learned about the SIC has issues: Facts in SIC are wrong and there were conflicts of interest that would cause us legal difficulties. Everything the SIC has said is in doubt. The report is an active threat to our reputation. Martin appears to claim that Redpath was being paid by non-party people for something. Vote is 2-9-2 to vote no. Redpath moves to adjourn. Adjournment passes without objection.
==We’ll see.
Talk after JC makes its ruling.
It’s obvious Roos’s appeal lacks merit.
Bordering on ridiculous.
McGee is right and JC will see it that way.
You all are grasping for straws.===
Say it louder for those in the back.
I have Bill Redpath’s original volunteer application. He was a dedicated activist and donor decades before any mercenaries decided their pastime was to bury actual activists in piles of hypergraphia and before most of his accusers were waist high. This is a Party of do-ers. Not smack talkers or parliamentary experts. Go out and do actual work then you earn the right to talk a little smack. Otherwise, pound sand. A decade from now, no one in the Party will know your name.
No information on updating any handouts for candidates or members to use. Is the LP now using mental telepathy to promote the ideas?
“Martin appears to claim that Redpath was being paid by non-party people for something.”
Having followed along on social media, I assume this refers to FairVote and allegations that Redpath is loosely tied to George Soros through his involvement.
George Soros is the boogie-man of the far right. When you hear someone complaining about his political activities, you can reasonably assume that you are listening to an alt-right sort, or someone who once upon a time would have been a John Birch Society supporter. Evidence for the latter would include claims that the LNC is subject to Socialist, Communist, or CIA infiltration, the three perhaps being assumed to be one and the same.
One of the bad consequences of the decline in party membership is that it tends to be the sensible people who left and the different mentally gifted, the antivaxxers, the flatearthers, the southern reconstructionists, the overt racists, the gold bugs and their modern equivalent the cryptocoiners, these being the chemically airborne rangers, who stayed behind.
With the ever escalating Federal Government debt, gold is steadily increasing in value as measured in US dollars. Gold hit a new high today. The US dollar is rapidly losing its value because of continuous inflation of the money supply by the Federal Reserve to enable the Federal Government to spend funds it does not have. Why do you refer to people who value gold as being “gold bugs?” Do you think gold is non-sensible? You don’t sound libertarian when you refer to people who value sound assets as lacking sense.
Gold as speculation, like bitcoin, is a way to gamble. Gold as currency has been tried before and is a disaster. My position is reality-based, not cult-based.
I am not gambling. I hope the value of your investments will increase faster than the decrease in the value of the US dollar. Good luck to you.
In the past, Mr. Redpath worked with FairVote regarding 3rd party ballot access reform. Which does not violate libertarian principles and FairVote’s reforms would be a benefit to all 3rd parties, including the Libertarian Party.
Many libertarians/Libertarians support RCV.
In Mr. Martin’s own mind, and only in Mr. Martin’s own mind, since George Soros once donated to FairVote, and since Mr. Redpath worked with FairVote, this is clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Redpath is a George Soros supporting leftist communist who needs to be “forcefully removed ” from the LP, his own words.
This is one reason why Austin was recently censured by LNC.
Austin is trying to discredit Mr. Redpath because Bill was on the SIC committee.
Austin is throwing everything he has at the wall hoping something sticks in order to convince the LNC to rescinds the SIC.
Not happening.
If you go to LP Alliance, Rose Leatherman has put forward the claim Redpath was paid by Team Kennedy. I have not seen any documentation to date.
Well…when you see actual evidence or documentation of that claim, Kennedy directly paying Redpath, please post it here for all to see.
Until then, just baseless allegations.
All of Martin’s and Chadderdon’s claims or allegations regarding the SIC are lacking actual evidence.
They are both purposely misrepresenting in attempt to protect McArdle.
There are no actual conflicts of interest (FairVote).
There are plenty that are not lacking in evidence. That deals with the actual report and has been filed with the JC
The conflict is not FairVote, but there have been allegations of involvement with TK. Those were dropped this week on LPAlliance.
The Roos appeal lacks evidence.
We’ve been over this ad nauseam.
You’re wrong regarding SoP, JJ.
I will get back to you when the JC makes its decision and we can discuss. McGee is correct.
As far as Martin, all of his allegations are misrepresentations or lack evidence.
All of them.
Austin either doesn’t understand burden of proof, or what qualifies as evidence, or he is just plain ignorant.
One or the other….I tilt towards the later.
As far as LP Alliance Discord…waste of time and energy.
No, in fact it is well documented. Roos has documented the original intent. I documented the role of bylaws and precedent.
You are whistling in the dark.
We’ll see.
Talk after JC makes its ruling.
It’s obvious Roos’s appeal lacks merit.
Bordering on ridiculous.
McGee is right and JC will see it that way.
You all are grasping for straws.
Neil Farage? Is that Nigel Farage, the British far-right winger?
I typed what I heard, but you are surely correct, and I will edit the report.
Tennessee should not be rewarded with a national convention as they refused to support the party’s 2024 presidential nominee.
There are some people currently on the Libertarian National Committee who see that as a positive qualification for Tennessee.
Every time a motion to table is used improperly baby Jesus cries.