Addendum: The Libertarian Party of Louisiana has issues a statement condemning this action. See comments for their statement. Aside: We are getting comments on this post. Some of them are from the same people repeatedly, making the same or very similar comments. We are trying to keep a balance between debate is good and multiple posts drowning out opponents is…
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This is the Third Party Watch liveblog of the LNC meeting of February 4, 2024. Note that I do not have enough screen space to approve comments readily. Meeting came to order at 7:07 PM. Roll call of attendance. Public comment: Chair explains how to signal that you want to speak. Jonathan Jacobs: Speaks in favor of policy change to…
Former National Chair Nick Sarwark is organizing a derivative lawsuit against the Libertarian National Committee. A non-lawyer’s explanation from Editor Phillies of derivative lawsuits, also seen by stockholders against a board of directors. There are a group of people who legally run the organization, typically the board of directors, There are a group of people who in some sense own…
A report from “Jim”. (Elevated from an important comment on the previous story) “Jim” gives us us FEC fundraising totals for multiple third parties and the last three years in which they filed. The Greens are a fifth or a tenth the size of the Libertarians. The Constitution Party is half the size of the Greens. No labels is closing…
From the LNC’s FEC filing for year-end: Income for December $145,670 of which $96,006 was itemized and $49,158 was not itemized. Total Income for the year $1,222,313. Disbursements for December $102,971 Debts and obligations at years’ end $17,497, up from $7,645 at the end of the prior month. In 2019, the total income for the year was $1,788,712. Allowing for…
Now confirmed by the National Chair. The leaders are the Chair and the Vice Chair. Third Party Watch has learned from a highly reliable source that the LNC leadership intends to move everything in the LNC offices to the basement and rent out the building’s top two floors. The Alexandria staff will apparently not be continued. We are advised that…
Naturally, the phrasing is slightly different, but that’s the effect. The draft bylaw, not yet approved by a national convention, reads in part In the event of a dispute within the membership of an affiliate as to the proper identity of its Chair, the Libertarian National Committee, upon a petition of at least ten or 10% of the sustaining members…
We quote from the proposed Bylaws Amendments (The changes are italicized.) A. The Platform Committee must approve each platform plank proposal separately. [Replace “Four” with “Six”] or more members of the Platform Committee may join together to issue a minority report regarding any proposal reported to the floor of the convention. [Add: No person may join in more than one…
The Anti-Ukraine ‘Rage Against the War’ demonstration being organized by LNC Chair Angela McArdle has been ‘postponed’. Its fundraising generated under $10,000 of the estimated $100,000 needed. And announcement on Twitter read “After much consideration, we have decided to postpone our Defeat The Deep State event. We want to put on the best possible event for everyone. We need this…
IPR is under a Directed Denial of Service Attack. It comes and goes. It is being defeated. I have heard from someone I think is a real, famous user, who can’t get in to IPR. He says he is blocked. He says he no longer uses email, using a message submitted here. He asked for a text response. He doesn’t…