[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…
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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…
We have five employees. We pay them. There are taxes. There was travel. $17909 Employee net pay $ 4200 Travel Expenses $ 2829 Social Security $ 1500 Paychex flex Employer 401K and adm $ 1627 Federal Withholding $ 1305 Health Insurance $ 652 Medicare $ 536 PA Withholding We have accountants to handle our money. $ 2596 Accounting – All…
The LNC continued to consider issues raised by the Famularo revelations: Several minor amendments were then accepted as friendly amendments or passed: Dixon moved to add “or any business controlled or owned by him” after ‘Perry Willis’ in the fifth paragraph. Dixon then moved to amend the fifth paragraph, increasing the specified time period from two years to five years,…
Several minor amendments were then accepted as friendly amendments or passed: Dixon moved to add “or any business controlled or owned by him” after ‘Perry Willis’ in the fifth paragraph. Dixon then moved to amend the fifth paragraph, increasing the specified time period from two years to five years, thereby extending the ban to include a Presidential election cycle. The…
The National Committee Acts The LNC met in August. It dealt at length with the Browne issue. Willis sent a written apology. Jim Babka read it to the LNC meeting. Babka said that he had received the message by FAX from Willis the day prior to the meeting. By report, the FAX read: “To the members of the Libertarian National…