Last week I sat through most of the February 1 LNC meeting, covering it for Third Party Watch. Our national party is in serious trouble. Financial? The LNC has a substantial structural deficit, with expenditures considerably larger than income. Acording to the FEC filings, December 2025’s revenue decreased to $58,931. There was also $1900 in bank interest. December Expenses totaled…
Posts published in February 2026
As published by Jake Porter at https://jakeporter.substack.com/ Jake’s substack is reader-supported. Please go there and subscribe. Flirting with MAGA Money: The Shady RFK-Trump Scheme That Nearly Destroyed the Libertarian Party – Part 1 Endorsements, Pardons, & Embezzlement. This series details how MAGA/MAHA & Libertarian Party leadership nearly grifted the 50 year old party out of existence. JAKE PORTER September 23,…
The Georgia State Convention Rumors were to continue that Howell was being groomed as a 2004 Presidential candidate. These rumors were confirmed at the 2001 Georgia State Libertarian Party convention. As described to me by Donald Gorman: “Saturday, April 28 , was a busy day, with a New Bedford, MA campaign seminar and flight to Atlanta to the Georgia LP…
From the LP FEC report for January, the donation described by Tuniewicz would appear to be from Robert Willis of Mendon, Massachusetts, who identified himself as the President of Alpine Computer Systems, Inc. My search of the Party’s FEC filings for 2000 report that the Party’s major donations in 2000 were $50,000, $20,000, $15,000, $10,000, and two donations of $5000.…
Writing on November 27, 2002 to lpus-misc@dehnbase.org, Tuniewicz reiterated this position, saying in part: “…over the years, before & after adoption of the current policy, the National Director authorized payments to assist candidates in getting on the ballot, helping the LP to achieve its candidate goals. My understanding is that these were typically of a small dollar amount….up to a…
From https://jakeporter.substack.com/p/mcardle-cover-up-continues, a reader-supported substack. Supporters are urged to go there and subscribe. Porter and Chadderdon wrote: ”While some LNC members eventually became aware of the prior relationship between Allman and McArdle and Padgett, the relationship was not disclosed prior to the hire. It is recommended that the policy manual expand the definition of conflicted relationship to include friends so…
FEC Report for December The LNC had total donations of $58,931.62 of which itemized donations were $36,845.61 and unitemized donations were $22,086.01 There was also other income — apparently interest on bank accounts — of $1,899.69 The resulting total income was therefore $60,831.31 The total Disbursements came to $75,176.80 The deficit amounted to a quarter of the total income. Debts…
Tuniewicz Speaks Substantial evidence that Howell received undue support from the Bergland-Browne faction of the National Party was provided by former National Treasurer Mark Tuniewicz. Writing in an email message sent on Wednesday, June 13, 2001 to members of the Libertarian National Committee and others, Tuniewicz discussed the LNC and third-party intermediaries. Tuniewicz was responding to a recent missive by…
Finding 4f (Pages 10, 51): The claim that Freedom Calls used LNC resources for Mises Caucus recruitment via 361 calls for the LP California convention lacks substantiation. Recruiting for a state affiliate event is not inherently improper, and text message screenshots provided from November 13, 2024, show statements claiming that the calls were not related to the Mises Caucus (Page…
Seebeck to Seek Re-election to Judicial Committee Michael Seebeck, currently serving the Party on its Judicial Committee, has announced he is seeking re-election to the Judicial Committee. “This past term has been unprecedented in Party history,” Seebeck commented. “A record number of appeals covering a wide complexity of issues never seen before have shown that it is necessary to have…