With a tip of the hat to Jose Ctenada According to the FEC Form 3P, the amounts raised in May 2024 by the top alternative Presidential candidates were: Robert F Kennedy Jr. (I) $2,568,406.27 Jill Stein (G) 398,411.38 Cornell West (I) 61,072.95 Claudia De La Cruz (S&L) 36,656.78 Chase Oliver (L) 24,164.44 Randall Terry (C) 23,680.00
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by Nicholas Sarwark What an incoming Libertarian National Committee needs to do to put the Libertarian Party back on the road to success. Since the 2022 Libertarian National Convention, the Libertarian Party has been shedding donors, members, voters, and candidates. If good leaders are elected at the 2024 convention in Washington, D.C. over Memorial Day weekend, they will need to…
We have launched a long-term project to collect and make available Libertarian news magazines that elsewise are not readily available. Don’t expect us to finish in the near future. As our first step, we have collected almost all issues of Liberty for America magazine, a monthly publication that covered news events in the libertarian political movement that occurred between 2008…
Mapstead and ter Maat lead. These numbers are from the FEC, the most recent report deadline being late March covering spending through February. As may be seen, the candidates fall into three groups by amount of money raised. There are apparently other candidates who have not yet raised any money. Lars Mapstead $538,703.62 Michael ter Maat $206,416.71 Chase Oliver $68,284.05…
LNC Director of Operations Hannah Kennedy has reported LPUS membership as of the end of the month. In September, 2023, LPUS Sustaining Membership was 12,317. It is now 12,358, and increase of 41. In intervening months, membership has been as low as 12,326, with a one-month spike up to 12,747. Life memberships have increased over the same period, from 3,248…
I was asked about cash on hand for the LNC in back years, at the end of February. These follow. These numbers all include money being held to pay for the national convention. [There are some addenda. Todd Hagopian advises me that there is also $25,000 held in another way.] 2018 $299,980 2020 $305,939 2022 $281,537 2024 $224,471 [Addendum: +$25,000…
We have received a spreadsheet form an unimpeachable source, comparing our end-of-February 2024 data with the matching information from end-of-February, 2020. There were five checking/savings accounts, namely two unrestricted accounts, and three restricted accounts, the restricted accounts being Convention, Building, and Legal. The Legal account was empty. The LNC had just under $306,000 cash on hand in 2020, and over…
The LNC Treasurer released the January and February financial reports. Treasurer Released January Report. Convention sales $18K Other Income $91K Other expenses $114K Also February Report Convention sales — 16K$ Other income – 79 K$ Other expenses – 122K$ That’s $23K behind for January and $43K behind for February, convention income being held to pay for the convention. On the…
What are the significant Third Parties of the United States? I list them in order of their 2023 income , followed by their financial details for the complete year 2023. Forward Party $2,894,885 No Labels $2,149,475 Libertarian Party $1,222,313 Green Party $ 228,555 Constitution Party $ 91,073 The Libertarian Party has fallen to third place among the five. The relative…
On Political Parties What are they good for, what makes them good, and why half of Americans reject them. Nicholas Sarwark Dear Friends, Last Wednesday morning, I drove over to St. Anselm’s College to appear on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss the 2024 Presidential election, the possibilities for a Libertarian Presidential candidate, and the New Hampshire Republican primary race. If…