Last updated on July 6, 2026
Greetings All,
They come to order at 7:09PM Eastern. The Secretary takes the roll. All members are present.
Rich Bowen (Audit subcommittee from last term) will not serve again. Addison Patrick reports local Republicans failed to take her off the ballot. Kat McElroy is applying to join the Audit Committee. Bryce Thon is concerned about a membership data leak. Jeremy Todd, target for KY CD-4. Handed out items. Wants to enhance the liberty movement and avenge Thomas Massie, who lost his primary. Hector Roos thanks Dasbach for his report. He notes a recent USSC decision allowing coordination of political parties and candidates in their spending. Caryn Harlos expresses doubt about eliminating the Financial Committee.
Motion to adopt the agenda with an amendment, staff reports to 5 minutes. agenda passes without objection.
Treasurer reports: He thanks staff and consultants. Convention numbers are not final. Convention lost $11,400. May without con lost $4000. June lost $34,000, 60+K in income and 90+K in expenses. So far this year we have lost approximately $80,000 (numbers passed a bit quickly and I may have missed something.) The LNC is apparently relying on its accountants for financial reports.
Dasbach reports. Someone tries to ask about the data breach and is stopped by the Chair.
Convention Oversight (Ford is absent). There is a discussion with the hotels on the attrition rate. That will determine the convention profit/loss.
Moved to proceed to executive session to discuss legal matters with Mr. Hall. Motion passes.
There is discussion in the audience. They are still in executive session. They return. Counting the LNC, there are 56 people present.
There is a resolution on tribal sovereignty. It calls for national independence for Hawaii. Mover speaks in favor. Martin speaks in favor. Griffiths speak in favor. Wants native American affiliates. Chair calls it a fine but excellent first step.
We move to a vote: Motion vote is 18-0. Resolution passes.
Resolution on surveillance (Martin): Nekhaila speaks in favor. Other people speak in favor. AZLP has successfully had cameras removed in some states. Small amendment. Affiliates encouraged. All speakers are in favor. Vote is 17-1. Resolution passes.
Danke moves for an LNC meeting December 4-6 in El Paso, Texas. Substitute motion: Meet in Kentucky in early October. There is discussion. Vote on substitute is is 2-14-2. Vote on motion is 14-1-3; motion passes.
Motion by Feintech to increase travel budget for staff to reach meetings from zero to $8000, taking money from general fundraising. Chair says historical meetings have been $10,000 or so. A 2/3 vote is needed. Speaker from Florida opposes spending the money. It could have helped ballot access. Robson opposes until cost in known.
I lost text. There is a motion to reject the new JC rules. After much debate, a motion to replace with Shaw’s form a committee motion is rejected 7-10.
Move to reject: Flores, Redpath, Robson, Shaw, Martin abstain. Vote is 0-12-6. The motion to reject is defeated. The JC rules of procedure are not rejected.
Motion to recess for 10 minutes.
They return at 9:45. They will do nominations for committees. Affiliate support has at least 3 LNC members and at least two non LNC, for a total of at least 7. There are more nominees than posts. The bylaw executes poorly. Nominations for Affiliate Support were completed. (Former Chair Valerie Sarwark was nominated.) Nominations for candidate support were completed. Nominations for Audit committee were completed. (Jake Porter was nominated.)
There is a motion to clarify when Alternate Regional Representatives may participate in the meeting. Shaw and Martin oppose. There is a question as to whether an alternate can speak and vote for an entire agenda item or at any time. We are listening to a small number of people debating, and another group of people not saying anything. Vote is 3-11-4 on the amendment. Vote on the motion is 3-2-3 in favor.
Griffiths has a motion to change the rules on approving affiliate petitions. Martin speaks against it. Shaw moves to postpone until the next LNC meeting. Vote is 12-2-4. Motion is postponed to the next meeting.
Policy manual amendment on legal matters, add line “LNC Members shall be allowed to view meetings of the litigation committee.” Nekhaila speaks against: Leaks, other unfortunate outcomes. Martin speaks in favor at great length: Claims that current current rules violate the law. Directors are entitled to see all records. Shaw: Our opinions are needed. We signed NDAs. Hannoush: Knowing context sometimes helps. However, people abused this. Feintech: Supported what Hannoush says.McMahon: DC Law says the records go to the members. The work product is not a right of the board. If there had been open discussion, we would not have had the New Mexico suit. Other lawsuits would be thwarted. It’s up to the LNC. Martin: A bare recommendation to sue is not adequate to decide how to vote. Nekhaila: Small committees are important and need to be trusted. Time is exhausted:
No: Koffel, Danke, Flores, Hayes, Knebel, Secretary, Knebel, Redpath, Nekhaila, Robson, Thompson: 11 opposed.
Martin: Move to create a Records and Policy Manual committee. After prolonged silence, Flores seconds. Motion is to reconcile the minutes and the meeting records. Robson: We have autoapproval. More Committees is silly. McMahon: Says Secretary did a lot of work. Minutes of the past half year were never voted on. Observation: Half of the meeting video for last December seems to be missing. All videos are on LPedia. Vote is 11-0-6, motion passes. Chair will fill the committee.
McMahon moved to eliminate the Financial Standards Committee. Says that the committee handicaps staff. Proposes that Audit Committee should handle the matter. Hannoush opposes. Redpath: Unneeded bureaucracy. Says new people are good. McMahon discusses bad things that have already happened. Vote is 12-1-5.
Motion to allow people to be blocked for a fixed time from sending emails to the contact the LNC mass form. Chair acts, Chair must notify the LNC. LNC can reverse. Martin speaks. Redpath moves the previous question. Lack of second. Robson: I don’t think we need this. Shaw: I do not think we need a rule. Feintuch: We don’t need this rule. Leatherman: We want members to reach us when spam is in the way. Nguyen: Appreciate oversight. Redpath: We are the main bulwark against the Republicans and the Democrats. This is a reasonable rule so we can do our business. Robson talks again at great length with much repetition. 7-7-2. Chair votes again.
Redpath moves to adjourn. Motion adjourns at 12:09 Am.
Okay, since I missed it, who was the one No vote on the Flock cameras resolution and what is their mental malfunction as this was a no-brainer Yes vote?
It’s interesting when Martin is right and the majority is wrong. It’s bad enough that the LNC is not transparent to the “membership of the party,” but being non-transparent to the actual reps is above and beyond BS.
At this point, the delegates should strongly consider a bylaws amendment forbidding executive session entirely and requiring all meetings, including committees/subcommittees, to be publicly livestreamed.