In 2024, McArdle broke precedent and sent the certificates to the state parties knowing full well that some states were considering not following the will of the delegates, including Colorado, Idaho and Montana. Montana Libertarian Party@Montana_LP The Montana Libertarian Party has officially rejected Chase Oliver as our presidential candidate. We have maintained that we will always prioritize Montana first, and we…
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The solution was not adopted. What was it? What about the rest of the Party leadership? The Libertarian Party prides itself on being The Party of Principle. That Principle came from Party founder David Nolan. Working in an era when anti-war activists used explosives and incendiaries to present their views, Nolan crafted a Libertarian Pledge foreswearing first use of force…
Back to Kennedy: A group of Libertarians formed months prior to the national convention to encourage Kennedy to run for the nomination. On May 3, 2024, Libertarians For Kennedy announced a group of state party chairs soliciting Kennedy to run for the nomination. They even nominated Kennedy at the Libertarian National Convention where Kennedy lost on the first round of voting. That didn’t slow…
Chapter Twenty Eight Learning From History This has been a painful book to write. For most of the past decade, (ending in 2000) our Party has been in the grip of a cabal whose working methods, principles, and objectives have been less than entirely consistent with Libertarian Principle. Who is responsible for what happened? And what should we do about…
Silencing general@lpma.org How did Massachusetts Libertarians take to this range of opinions as to how a Libertarian Party organization ought to be advanced? In fact, most of them were unaware that there was any disagreement. The Massachusetts email lists, as noted above, did not always carry a full range of Libertarian opinions. Many Massachusetts Libertarians appear to receive their information…
In Summer 2002, Bill Winter announced his intent to step down as editor of LP News. He was put on part-time status, at full-time pay, while working from a remote site, to discharge debts the party owed him. In 2002, the campaign groundswell for Carla Howell encountered a series of difficulties. Instead of a three-way race against a Democrat and…
LP News Is Now Being Edited. Antilibertarian articles are now being deleted. The one we reported below is now gone. Our article will remain here as a reminder that people need to watch the store, but the LNC has corrected its error. Yes, really. We quote the article and add a screen shot. Our attention was brought to the article…
Last week I sat through most of the February 1 LNC meeting, covering it for Third Party Watch. Our national party is in serious trouble. Financial? The LNC has a substantial structural deficit, with expenditures considerably larger than income. Acording to the FEC filings, December 2025’s revenue decreased to $58,931. There was also $1900 in bank interest. December Expenses totaled…
The Georgia State Convention Rumors were to continue that Howell was being groomed as a 2004 Presidential candidate. These rumors were confirmed at the 2001 Georgia State Libertarian Party convention. As described to me by Donald Gorman: “Saturday, April 28 , was a busy day, with a New Bedford, MA campaign seminar and flight to Atlanta to the Georgia LP…
From the LP FEC report for January, the donation described by Tuniewicz would appear to be from Robert Willis of Mendon, Massachusetts, who identified himself as the President of Alpine Computer Systems, Inc. My search of the Party’s FEC filings for 2000 report that the Party’s major donations in 2000 were $50,000, $20,000, $15,000, $10,000, and two donations of $5000.…