Postscript: This meeting was much calmer and more productive than most other LNC meetings of the past few years. It’s remarkable how disruptive a few pears in the apple basket can be, and how much quieter things are when they are absent.. Addendum: The National Chair indicates that we misunderstood several things that were said at the meeting. We will…
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The Video coverage failed after a bit, due to local wifi linkups failing. The meeting is being recorded and will be up on You Tube eventually. Thanks to intermittent sound and Keith Thompson liveblogging I can report: Dassing, Brocco, Ford, Weir, Hays, Lam, Martin, Johnson, Nanna, Watkins are absent. Ford arrived after the count was made. 12 are present. Evan…
Hello Libertarians. This is the tenth of a series of opinion articles I’ll be privileged to write for you once per month on an “inside baseball” topic for the Libertarian Party. I encourage everyone who has an opinion on whatever we’re talking about this month to comment or send phillies@4liberty.net your longer editorials, which may well be published. A few…
LNC Treasurer William Redpath has moved a budget amendment, shown below. Note that this is a change to the 2025 budget, the year being almost over, so the amendment would have little effect, even if it were not simply a pro forma change to bring line entries into agreement with the policy manual without affecting substantially what was spent. The…
[ADDENDUM FROM THOMPSON-See Bottom] From: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: 2026 Budget Submitted by ExCom to the LNC Good afternoon, In listening to the budget proposal meeting and looking over the spreadsheet, I’m interested in a few items. I feel like these could be answered by me re-reading the budget while wearing a tiny green accounting visor, but the list has…
An Open Letter from former National Treasurer Todd Hagopian As a former National Treasurer, I am writing this open letter to the members of the LNC. Please do your job. We elected you to make the tough calls, when nobody is looking, not to pass CYA budgets that keep everyone quiet, while pushing the party to the brink of bankruptcy.…
Commenters saying that the LNC’s treatment of its building donors was deceptive should realize that such deceptions have a long and unfortunate history. We return to 2001, and LP News’s deceptive coverage of teh scandal that John Famularo revealed. Chapter Twenty Four of My Book Funding Liberty Aftershocks The LP News Cover-Up LP NEWS is [George writes: Well, it was…
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On November 29 at 10AM the LNC had a budget meeting. The budget went up on the screen, but was barely legible. The screen display sometimes made it hard to tell who was talking. Nonetheless: Present are Nekhaila, Darr, Watkins, Redpath, McMahon. Ford was absent. The other members of the budget committee are absent. Redpath: There is a proposed budget.…
LNC Treasurer Redpath wrote the LNC. He included an associated staff report. Due to Joint Fundraising Committee (JFC) impacts on the financial statements on Pages 5, 9 & 10 (because of Cash that is included that will be expended on liabilities of the Kennedy Victory Fund), it is best to focus on the balance sheet data at the bottom of…