Part 2: Legal Acrobatics and Subtle Suggestions, a report be Jake Porter and reprinted here
According to Rink, the idea of the JFC was discussed with McArdle on July 9th. Sources indicate the “time-sensitive fundraising need and opportunity” McArdle cited in a July 10th e-mail wasn’t for the Libertarian Party, but an attempt to get RFK Jr. onto a CNN debate or town hall—a platform the party should have been demanding for their actual nominee, Chase Oliver.
The legal justification for a JFC was flimsy at best. On the FEC website, “Coordinated Party Expenditures” rules suggest that if Kennedy were on the ballot as a Libertarian in even one state, the JFC might be legal. According to some, this might explain McArdle’s frantic (and arguably unethical) attempt to pressure Colorado party officials to replace Chase Oliver with RFK Jr. on the ballot.
The experts weren’t buying it. As Brett Kappel, a campaign finance lawyer, told the Boston Globe:
“This is a very aggressive interpretation of campaign finance law… It’s not clearly legal at this point, let’s put it that way.”
On the contrary, a credible source has told me that the legality of a JFC had no impact on McArdle’s decision to try and replace Oliver with RFK Jr. on the Colorado ballot and that McArdle came to her decision to try and replace Oliver after subtle suggestions by Trump associates.
Furthermore, while McArdle told the LNC that party attorney Oliver Hall had reviewed the deal, sources reveal a darker truth: Hall had expressed serious concerns that the JFC violated both party bylaws and federal election law. She misled her own committee to push the deal through by failing to mention his concerns.
So McEmbezzler complained that Harlos did her job and prevented LPCO from violating Bylaws and defrauding the Delegates…including the fact that the same LPCO Chair Goodman and her delegation at convention cast exactly ZERO votes for RFK. They saw dollar signs and chose that over integrity.
And THAT, dear friends, is the real problem: Mises Feces sold out the Party for money and crack pipe dream of alleged influence that had as much chance of happening as winning a Powerball with only one number.
Not only complained but visciously went after me with collaborators. I won. It was sweet.
The activity complained of in the email was not a town hall involving RFK Jr. It was Caryn Harlos’s filing of nomination papers for Oliver in Colorado.
Further, it was not McArdle’s efforts to put RFK Jr. on the ballot. That came out of Colorado. I will note that I have been granted permission by the then state chair of the LPCO to disclose the matter.
Anyone defending this is equally corrupt.