Adrian Malagon has announced that he is resigning as Chair of the Libertarian Convention Organizing Committee, and from the Committee itself, effective immediately. Also, he will not be attending the National Convention. We are advised that Meredith Hayes also resigned from the committee. Angela McArdle has nominated herself to replace Malagon on the Committee.
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The Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party has endorsed candidates for the Libertarian National Committee, to be elected at the National Convention later this Spring. No endorsements were made for Treasurer, for Region 3 Representative, or for Regional Alternates. The endorsed candidates are Chair – Angela McArdle Vice Chair – Hannah Goodman Secretary – Caryn Ann Harlos Treasurer – At-Large…
Libertarian Party of Michigan Chair Michael Saliba and associates have filed suit against Libertarian Party of Michigan Chair Andrew Chadderdon, LPMI Secretary Daniel Ziemba, and associates. The suit was filed in State Circuit court in the County of Cheboygan. The suit claims that the state party bylaws constitute a contract with the members, Messrs. Chadderdon, Ziemba, et al., violated the…
You can read the entire article here. or here https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/dnc-war-third-party-candidates-rcna143290 The Democrats are throwing money at a campaign to discourage third party Presidential campaigns. The article notes that in 2016 third parties got over 5% of the vote, lists a series of past third party and independent efforts including the Greens, No Labels, Robert Kennedy, Jr., but fails to mention…
These are probably complete. Candidate – No Preference – Vote Count %. No Preference – 3,982 40.0% Chase Russell Oliver 1,453 14.6% Jacob George Hornberger 1,089 11.0 Michael D. Rectenwald 546 5.5% Lars Damian Mapstead 399 4.0% Michael Ter Maat 314 3.2% All Others 2,161 21.7% Blanks 980 Total Votes Cast 10,924
New membership report for end-of-February 2024 The membership count remains static. End of February Sustaining Membership 12,334 Previous month 12,326 Two months back 12,344 August 2023 13,620 Life membership 3,256. No change from the previous month.
The Libertarian Party of Michigan Judicial Committee received a complaint from Mr. Jacobs, proposing that the resolution of the March 8 State Convention, saying that the Lansing state convention was valid,is not valid and should be set aside. The text of his complaint, and the Judicial Committee ruling sustaining it, follow. We thank J. M. Jacobs for copies of the…
We are receiving a substantial number of very short comments, comments that are incomplete or fragmentary. Henceforth, these will not be published. If you have something to say, be so kind as to make a coherent statement that stands by itself as to what you mean.
The new news does not always agree with the old news. Your Editor had a pleasant conversation with long-time Michigan Libertarian party supporter Greg Stempfle, who among other things was the lead author on their party bylaws. We discussed the March 9 Convention, which among other things chose delegates to the National Convention. LPMichigan Bylaws provide for a series of…
The Libertarian Party of Michigan held its annual state convention today, March 9, at the Hyatt Grand Blanc in Flint, Michigan. 111 delegates were seated. We have preliminary reports from Bill Hall and other attendees. The convention refused to seat out-of-state persons as convention delegates. The Convention did, however, vote to reinstate as party members the four persons who are…