Meeting starts at 7PM. Twelve members are present. Others arrived later. Public comments: Member urges for open comments. Redpath moves to amend the agenda. Merge to one executive session rather than two, to include New Mexico litigation, FEC matters, Convention Oversight Committee. Chadderdon moves to strike a proposed amendment to the policy manual. Issue is members communicating with LNC attorney…
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And the volunteers? There are strong reasons to suppose that the claimed volunteers were not what they sounded like, though it may well be that there was some definition of ‘volunteer’ under which that number of volunteers were out there: 1) The author has been in close contact with Richard Watras, Jr., chair of the Massachusetts Browne volunteer group. Mr.…
Excerpted from my book Funding Liberty, for sale from Third Millennium, 3mpub.com May, Continued. In total, during May the associates of the campaign received more than $30,000, while firms connected with associates received almost $12,600, for a total of 37% of campaign spending of $116,182. For the month, the campaign received more than $94,000, spending down its cash on hand…
With the resignations of Adrian Malagon and Kathy Yenascavich, the remaining members of the Libertarian National Committee have a chance to regain trust from Libertarian donors. Will they take it? Dear Friends, If you have been following the internal news of the Libertarian Party, you have heard that long-time Mises Caucus organizers Adrian Malagon and Kathy Yenascavich both resigned from…
Two appeals have been received and approved by the LNC Judicial Committee. The appeals, drafted by Mr. Jonathan Jacobs, are titled Jacobs-vs-LNC and may be read here. These appeals are not the same as the three appeals generated by Hector Roos and friends, some of which have also been sent to the Judicial Committee. There are effectively two separate appeals…
Over the month, associates of the campaign received: Jim Babka $2,700 Erich Covey $372 Robert DeVoil $5,532 Debra Greeson $2,618 Thomas Peary (travel) $245 Stuart Reges $1,000 Steve Willis $2,965 Perry Willis $2,500 Stephanie Yanik $1,500 TOTAL: $19,187 Robert Brunner and Jennifer Willis apparently received no pay in April. Between them, Robert DeVoil and Stuart Reges received $6532, roughly what…
Instead of providing an answer, the campaign attacked its scapegoat. In the April 24th LibertyWire, Perry Willis wrote: “Our fundraising has been declining since Jacob Hornberger began his latest series of attacks against Harry Browne and the LP leadership…Unfortunately, our good name within the LP has been damaged to the point where the good will of a significant segment of…
Chapter Fourteen Browne’s Campaign Went Broke, It Claimed April 2000 On April 24, 2000, the Browne Campaign made a surprise announcement: It was out of cash, with $83,343 in bills it could not pay. If Party members did not open their checkbooks, the campaign would have to shut its doors. Either the Browne campaign got a serious cash infusion immediately,…
Chapter Thirteen Refusing to File March 2000 In March, campaign income plummeted from February’s $118,500 to less than $75,000. Despite a further loan from the candidate, the Browne campaign was very nearly broke. Only $6302 was on hand at the month’s end. The Browne Campaign responded with a new fundraising gimmick, a prospective lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission. I…
How did the Browne campaign survive these failures? Membership recruitment was said to be a task for the National Party. Failure to recruit members was a failure of the National Party, not the Browne Campaign. To his credit, Browne repeatedly urged Libertarians to support Project Archimedes, so these failings lay not on his shoulders but on the shoulders of his…