LNC Meeting of August 2, 2026

Meeting starts at 7:05 PM. Chair calls the meeting to order.  The roll is called. Everyone is present except Martin, who is on an airplace and cannot log in.

Public comment: Phillies urged that the Affiliate Support Committee support individual libertarians in places that have no affiliate. Others supported better support for affiliates and for tribal nations.  Starchild speaks up for “transparency” and ‘delocalization”. Wants nonmembers to be able to comment on each agenda item. Wants our messaging to appeal to left and right wing people. Miss Patrick thanked people for doing work for the party.

The agenda was adopted without objection.

Treasurer (Knebel): He speaks a bit rapidly, so I missed some numbers. Preliminary data. This month we collected $54K and spent $320K.  Cash fell by 266K.  Convention lost $119,000.   LPNM litigation spent I think $26,000. The bulk of the spends were the convention and petitioning.  All convention spending has now been received.

Dasbach (Executive Director) Fundraising letter has just started bringing money in.  The lapsed member appeal has just start to bring in money.  Rod Yates is our new communications director. Chair thanked the  former Communications Director Williams for his hard work. Candidates for statewide office in MA and NH are likely to be on the ballot.  Unified Membership Program is advancing.

Convention Oversight (Ford) We have $20K in receivable still incoming.  The loss was catastrophic. A significant part of the loss was poor attendance.  We had 619 delegates and 852 pre-registered.  Ford says he does not know what he can do to improve matters.He has submitted a report that was emailed to the LNC.  We did not have enough attendees.  Ford says he will have to live with that.  We sold 400+ packages on 619 delegates.   Motion extended by 10 minutes. Some material in the report is confidential so chair must decide what to report.  Chair asks that this be made a final, not a preliminary report.  Some food and beverage data is missing.

Redpath thanks Pat Ford for his hard work.  Redpath says midterm conventions should be terminated as an antiquated idea.  Proposes we go to quadrennnial conventions.

Chair agrees there can be supplemental reports later. The organization to receive c3 payments and pay for their facilities was not set up in a timely way so they cannot cover the $20K that might be expected from them.  Question was asked: who was actually on the committee.  Chair did not remember.  Ford talks about who did work but not who was elected.

Chair: we paid $60,000 for hotel rooms that were not used because we did not fill them. Chair asks how many room-nights this covers. Ford says addition of a fourth day was a mistake.  Also AV on a holiday was expensive.

I managed to erase a few bits.

Martin makes series of comments, refused to come to order and is removed from the meeting.  Vote is 12-1-5, Feintech opposed.  Martin is removed from the meeting. Meeting goes to executive session.

Meeting emerges from executive session. They discussed New Mexico and McArdle ltiigation, FEC issues, and member behavior. Meeting comes back to regular session at 8:54.

Griffith offers an amendment  to the policy manual.  Petitions from new potential affiliates need not be accepted or rejected. Hogarth says that changing affiliation rules while we are in the middle of a disaffiliation has bad optics. Shaw moves and Feintech seconds to amend by reinserting sections proposed for deletion. Proposes that members in an area should be required to be notified. Feintech opposes changing the rules during the LPNH discussion.  Chair asks how any group could notify national members.  He notes that we have expelled LPNH, they are appealing, but we have no NH affiliate or group currently seeking affiliation.

We move the Shaw amendment.  No – Koffel. Danke, Flores, Griffith, Requero, Hayes, Hogarth, Knebel, Longstreth, Feintech, McGee, Ngoyen, Redpath, Robson, Thompson

Shaw Yes, 2 abstains.

Motion fails 1-15-2. Motion to extend time by 10 minutes fails.

Vote on the original motion: No – Flores, Hogarth, Feintech, Shaw,  Vote is 13-4-1 and passes.

They move to executive session at 9:17. The discussion is on increasing the legal budget by $80,000, but the reasons for the increase are legal discussion. The budget is currently $50,000. They return at 9:59.

There is a motion to increase the budget line by $80,000.  Amend to pay $40,000 for current legal bills and mediation in New Mexico and $40,000 for suing McArdle.

Vote is yes except No: Knebel, Redpath, Shaw,  Feintech and the chair abstain.  Vote is 13-3-2.

Motion passes.  After talk, they adjourn.