Several minor amendments were then accepted as friendly amendments or passed: Dixon moved to add “or any business controlled or owned by him” after ‘Perry Willis’ in the fifth paragraph. Dixon then moved to amend the fifth paragraph, increasing the specified time period from two years to five years, thereby extending the ban to include a Presidential election cycle. The…
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The National Committee Acts The LNC met in August. It dealt at length with the Browne issue. Willis sent a written apology. Jim Babka read it to the LNC meeting. Babka said that he had received the message by FAX from Willis the day prior to the meeting. By report, the FAX read: “To the members of the Libertarian National…
My contacts associated with the Browne campaign report that Browne was a truly excellent small-business manager. He was closely aware of all the details of his campaign’s activities. Could he have been unaware of events? Why was there an interest in suggesting that Browne might be absolved of responsibility, in the absence of a denial from Browne that he had…
The Executive Committee further voted a “recommendation” that no action be taken to involve the Libertarian Party in any other project proposed or managed by Browne or Willis, until the full LNC had acted. Dehn as author of the resolution placed into the record of the meeting what his own motion meant: ‘it is also important to make it clear…
This is a copy and paste from the LPedia page. Including screenshots as well. Decision/Disposition By various votes, the Judicial Committee denies the Appellant’s requested remedy and upholds the LNC actions that are the subject of this appeal.Decided Nov. 5, 2025. Opinions: Blay Tarnoff delivered an Opinion (Tarnoff Opinion (info)), joined by Stephan Kinsella and Rob Stratton, and by Rob Latham with respect to all but Part…
All Material in this article is taken from my book Funding Liberty, available at 3mpub.org. Chapter Twenty Three Apocalypse 2001 As Richard Nixon discovered in an earlier scandal centered in the same Watergate Building, it is a challenging task to keep quiet an elaborate conspiracy. The task is complicated by the correlations: Peculiar events occur in clusters. Nixon’s plumbers did…
Claims were circulated in some quarters that these issues had never been raised before to the LNC Executive Committee. I quote from the LNC Executive Committee Minutes, available to all LPUS members at archive.lp.org: LNC ExComm Teleconference September 26, 2000 “…Dehn asked why the EC has not been receiving updated financial information on a regular basis. Dasbach said he has…
My sources in the Watergate Building indicate another reason that might have motivated some people to want to dispense with the monthly filings. In the first two months of 2001, the National Party spent $80,000 more than it took in. LNC, Inc. then made accounting changes which yielded a one-time income stream that cancelled some of these losses. As Dasbach…
At the December 2000 National Committee meeting, National Treasurer Mark Tuniewicz secured amendments to the Party’s Policy Manual, changing the specified duties of the National Treasurer. Tuniewicz had been unhappy with National Chair Bergland’s treatment of issues relating to Tuniewicz’s office. In particular, Bergland had forbidden Tuniewicz to communicate directly with the Party’s Auditors or with consultants on FEC Filings.…
The following table shows the finer details. I give pre-convention spending, post-convention spending, the full-year total for 2000, and the total for all four years of the campaign. Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand. I’ve dropped some of the least-paid employees from the list. In some cases, payments to people were either payroll or salary. In other cases, the…