The LNC ExComm met this evening. Everyone other than Mr. Hyman was present. There were an extremely large number of other attendees, close to two dozen. Mr. Nekhaila moved to take the Executive Committee into executive session, with the LNC’s attorney invited to attend as a participant. Furthermore, all LNC members were invited to attend, except Regional Representative Miguel Duque…
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Lainie Huston, who came on board a year ago to serve as the LNC’s Executive Director, ash announced that she is returning to Microsoft. A search for a successor will soon be launched. Her letter to the LNC announcing this change appeared on the LNC public list. to lnc-business Hi everyone, About one year ago, Angela asked me to come…
We recently had an anomalous issue with a comment on our sister publication Independent Political Report. Fortunately, all comments on IPR are moderated, so the comment was intercepted. None of you saw it. Someone who has never commented before, using the email address of a very senior person at the No Labels group, surfaced and said that whenever we discussed…
Pew Research asked Americans what they thought of government press censorship. Their poll results have been published. “the share of U.S. adults who say the federal government should restrict false information has risen from 39% in 2018 to 55% in 2023.” The division is highly partisan. According to the poll, only 39% of Republicans think that the U.S. government should…
Because ‘first past the post’ election schemes work just fine when only one party is on the ballot. One of our political sources counted. In 2022, only 10% of state legislators had opposition in their primary election. Two-thirds of state legislators had no opponent in the General Election. Massachusetts needs a Second Party, the Republicans being effectively not in business…
For various reasons, I am on a large number of political email lists. Some are quite conservative. Some are far to the left. However, they have a feature in common. We are 16 months from November 2024. Nonetheless, they have all gone to high intensity fundraising for the next Federal elections, the ones in 2024. From some sites, I receive…
Revised LPUS membership counts, at end of month. Note in the past two months the drops of nearly 500 and nearly1000. 2022-12 16,988 2023-1 16,507 2023-2 16,308 2023-3 15,954 2023-4 15,539 2023-5 15,060 2023-6 14,080 There had been a slow loss of sustaining members due to an unanticipated consequence of a software feature, these people still being sustaining members but…
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Jonathan Todd Casey supplies us with an analysis from the Libertarian Party’s Classical Liberal Caucus. The graph shows the total amount of money raised in the first five months of each year for which there are FEC records, meaning this year and going back in time through three decades. The graph shows the inflation adjusted numbers. The first 5 months…
While some people thought that the Libertarian National Committee elected in 2022 advocated for transparency, their actions since then point in different direction. The national party membership report for each month historically appeared early in the next month. It is now June 17, and the report has not yet been released. There has been no public discussion this month of…