The current Libertarian National Committee Chair is not competent, presiding over the loss of half the staff and a dramatic drop in revenue and membership, driving national Libertarian Party into insolvency. She blocks all critics on social media to avoid being held accountable for her actions. The GOP is going through similar problems, with their Chair being entirely captive of…
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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…
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…
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…
The LNC Bylaws Committee is working on a proposal to eliminate Regional Representatives. The LNC is currently composed of four Officers, five At-Large Members, and eight or nine Regional Representatives. As is well known, the only resistance to the Mises management of the LNC comes from a few Regional Representatives. The Mises solution: Get rid of the Regional Representatives. Replace…
The LNC announced that it retained Nathan Fatal as their new Political Director. Fatal had been Director of Community Organizing at the Leadership Institute. He has reportedly trained over 10,000 activists around the world and has overseen hundreds of volunteers and political campaign staff members in the United States. The Leadership Institute was founded in 1979 by Morton Blackwell to…
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…
The Association of Liberty State Parties has appointed a new Chair. As reported on their web pages at ALSP.vote, former Clarksville, TN City Councillor Trisha Butler was appointed today at a meeting of the Executive Committee to replace Interim Chair Connor Voskuil.
Added candidate names And slightly different dates for people trying to control the Green, Constitution, Reform, and other political parties. Readers will be aware that the Libertarian Party has at least three candidates for National Chair. The candidates are:Angela McArdle Mark Rutherford Pietro Salvatore Geraci Each of them is making at least modest efforts to campaign and organize in favor…