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LNC Creates Committee to Investigate Harlos

With thanks to Paul Darr whose computer microphone gave us some coverage of the second day of the meeting. Mister Haman moves that this Board adopts the following resolution (approximate text): McGee, Ford, Malagon to investigate allegations of misconduct against Caryn Ann Harlos, which if true cast doubt on her fitness to continue in office, and report resolutions if allegations…

LNC Adopts New Goals for the Next Three Years

Three cheers for Paul Darr for livestreaming the second day of the meeting, even though he only had his computer mike to pick up sound. LNC Votes on a Strategic Plan. So far as I could tell goals were 1) Recruit 500 candidates over three years. 2) Increase our annual budget to two million in three years and 1.5 million…

8/24/2024 LNC Meeting

We are grateful to Paul Darr for supplying a link through a telephone. Signal quality is a bit mixed. There is occasional loud static. Ter Maat is speaking.  He predicts that the country will have a financial collapse in mid-century.  Apparently the Board did something yesterday.  He is praising them for whatever they did.   I am here in part to…

Editorial: More Bad LNC Motions Forthcoming

The LNC has two major proposals for action, namely That the LNC endorse the initiatives to pass Defend the Guard legislation across the United States and  recognize doing so as an official strategy and issue coalition of the Libertarian Party. (Watkins) 10 minutes Move to make Project Decentralized Revolution the officially endorsed strategy of the Libertarian Party. Watkins (10 minutes)…

More States Oppose Joint Fundraising Agreement

The list of state Libertarian Parties passing resolutions opposing the Joint Fundraising Agreement with Kennedy has now grown to 12.  When previously reported  by this newspaper, the list was only eight states.  The twelve states are Louisiana Mississippi Idaho Oklahoma Missouri Texas South Carolina Utah Indiana Ohio Washington Illinois We have received a copy of the Utah Resolution, but gather…

Kennedy Drops Out of Race!

The Kennedy Presidential campaign has filed a statement of voluntary withdrawal with the Arizona Secretary of State, as reported by the Libertarian Party of Louisiana at https://www.facebook.com/groups/254985825071721/?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL.  He will no longer be on the ballot there. His campaign committee can keep raising money.  

More States Oppose Joint Fundraising Agreement

For unclear reasons, the software assigned this post to Mr. Flood.  This was an error, here corrected. The type of error in question has never been noticed before. The list of state Libertarian Parties passing resolutions opposing the Joint Fundraising Agreement with Kennedy has now grown to 12.  When previously reported  by this newspaper, the list was only eight states. …

Fundraising and Spending of National Third Parties

For the period January 2023 to date. We see that the Green Party raised less than a sixth of the funds raised by the Libertarian Party, and the Constitution Party raised slightly more than six percent as much as the Libertarian Party. LNC Beginning cash on hand $255,395.26 Total receipts $2,266,776.50 Total disbursements $2,172,385.54 Ending cash on hand $349,786.22 Debts/loans…

LNC Financial and Membership Reports for July

We anticipate that FEC reports for significant third parties will be filed by day’s end, so that we will have a comparative report and more detailed reports in a few days.  For the Libertarian Party, the full staff report to their National Committee is now at the link. I summarize: The LNC financial report covering July is now available. Of…