We are advised by a totally reliable source that the LNC through its attorneys has asked LPNM if it would agree to delay the date on which the LNC must pay the $20,000 bond before the preliminary injunction can to go into effect. LPNM, we gather, denied the request. Readers should consider that the LNC budget did not appear to include an appropriation to pay such a bond, and that an LNC vote might be needed.
We are also presented with a multitude of rumors. It is our understanding that there have been nose counts on motions by the LNC to cancel the lawsuit and, separately, to suspend the National Chair. Questions have allegedly been raised as to the exact terms of the contract between the LNC and its law firm pursuing the LPNM lawsuit. In particular, it would appear that the LNC at some point soon is going to need to appropriate more money to pay its attorneys.
We have confirmed with LPNM that the litigation has sufficiently drained its coffers that it will be unable to field candidates this year, destroying its ballot access for higher office for this year, with negative implications for ballot access in New Mexico in the future. (The litigation and Preliminaty Injunction have no effect on LPNM fielding candidates this year.)
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