Within two weeks of releasing my bombshell Substack, detailing the Libertarian Party Chair covered up continuing to pay her domestic partner $4,000 per month through a hidden Delaware LLC after the board ended his contract, the party has changed course by electing a new chair and denying her chosen replacement the position.

On January 23rd, two days after releasing the Substack, the Libertarian National Committee launched a vote to decide if they would begin an investigation of McArdle.

Travis L. Bost: I move that this Board adopt the following resolution:

Resolved, that a committee comprised of Meredith Hays, Paul Darr, Bill Redpath, Andrew Chadderdon, and Steven Nekhaila be appointed by the Libertarian National Committee to investigate allegations of misconduct by our Chair, Angela McArdle, which, if true, cast doubt on her fitness to continue in office, and that the Committee be instructed, if it concludes that the allegations are well-founded, to report resolutions covering its recommendations.”

The co-sponsors were
Keith Thompson, on behalf of Paul Darr.
Adrian Malagon, on behalf of Meredith Hays.
Adam Haman
Travis Bost

On January 25th, less the four full days after the Substack was released, Chair McArdle announced her resignation shortly after midnight as the board was voting overwhelmingly to launch the investigation.

McArdle attempted to pick her replacement, founder of the Mises Caucus, Michael Heise. Heise, a paid Libertarian Party contractor hired by McArdle, was responsible for the takeover of the Libertarian Party in 2022 which led to McArdle being elected Chair.

Despite an aggressive email campaign from the Mises Caucus and state Chair’s forcing national committee representatives to resign, the majority Mises Caucus endorsed Libertarian National Committee abandoned the caucus founder and elected At-Large Representative Steven Nekhaila as Chair in a 9-6 vote this past Sunday.

Heise was grilled by LNC members for his endorsement of Donald Trump and his claims that he would not release the names of private donors who would pay him to become Chair.

There appears to have been an agreement between non-Mises caucus endorsed members and the Mises Caucus endorsed members who wanted to change direction from Heise and McArdle to move Mises endorsed Nekhaila to Chair, non-Mises Region 3 Representative Paul Darr to Vice Chair and former McArdle ally Regional Alternate Adrian Malagon to At-Large Representative.

The vote on Malagon is still ongoing. He is extremely controversial considering his past behavior on the board includes commentary on the weight and physical appearances of fellow board members.

McArdle has not taken the news from the past couple of weeks well as was reported by Brian Doherty at Reason Magazine.

In response to written questions from Reason about Porter’s accusations regarding LNC payments to Freedom Calls, McArdle wrote: “The LNC is reacting as best they can in the face of constant attacks by unstable litigants like Caryn Ann Harlos, and my cyber stalkers Todd Hagopian and Jake Porter. I have retained an attorney to deal with the aggressive cyberstalking by these men. I will be working with new appointees in the Trump administration to find out if the FBI and State Dept have been involved in the attacks on the LP and me. There are lots of unclassified documents on Reason Magazine and yourself, Brian Dougherty [sic], in the State Dept archives. We know the feds have a strong interest in disrupting the Libertarian movement, especially at a moment like now when we have freed Ross Ulbricht – the biggest political victory the LP has ever achieved.”