For November 2025 the LNC reported $99,331 of income and $65,435 of disbursements. Debts and obligations owed by the committee came to $35,958, essentially all of which was various credit card balances. Cash on hand at the end of the reporting period amounted to $893,845. The income included $68,962 in itemized income, including one donation of $44,300, and $27,612 in…
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When Mises Caucus Chair Angela McArdle seized control of the Libertarian Party and sold it out to Donald Trump and RFK Jr., Libertarian women on the LNC stood up against open corruption on the board. NICHOLAS SARWARK Dear Friends, Unless you are in healthcare compliance law or live in Louisiana, you probably don’t know Beth Vest. If you’re not in…
Otto Dassing To: LNC Board <lncb…@lp.org> Subject: Resolution to Censure Ben Weir, Region 6 Alternate Dassing says of his motion: “Want me to make it dumber or is this good enough?” His motion reads: WHEREAS, Ben Weir, the Alternate Representative for Region 6 on the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), circulated a public communication (the “Statement”) calling for the censure of the Libertarian…
Regional Alternate Ben Weir has called for censuring the LP’s Ohio affiliate . Their alleged offense, according to Mr. Weir, is running a candidate for Governor when there is a Republican in the race. Weir’s position was denounced by LNC Regional Representative Keith Thompson, who maintains that Libertarians should always run candidates. We quote the correspondence: From: Ben Weir <ben….@lp.org>…
The Video coverage failed after a bit, due to local wifi linkups failing. The meeting is being recorded and will be up on You Tube eventually. Thanks to intermittent sound and Keith Thompson liveblogging I can report: Dassing, Brocco, Ford, Weir, Hays, Lam, Martin, Johnson, Nanna, Watkins are absent. Ford arrived after the count was made. 12 are present. Evan…
Hello Libertarians. This is the tenth of a series of opinion articles I’ll be privileged to write for you once per month on an “inside baseball” topic for the Libertarian Party. I encourage everyone who has an opinion on whatever we’re talking about this month to comment or send phillies@4liberty.net your longer editorials, which may well be published. A few…
[ADDENDUM FROM THOMPSON-See Bottom] From: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: 2026 Budget Submitted by ExCom to the LNC Good afternoon, In listening to the budget proposal meeting and looking over the spreadsheet, I’m interested in a few items. I feel like these could be answered by me re-reading the budget while wearing a tiny green accounting visor, but the list has…
An Open Letter from former National Treasurer Todd Hagopian As a former National Treasurer, I am writing this open letter to the members of the LNC. Please do your job. We elected you to make the tough calls, when nobody is looking, not to pass CYA budgets that keep everyone quiet, while pushing the party to the brink of bankruptcy.…
Commenters saying that the LNC’s treatment of its building donors was deceptive should realize that such deceptions have a long and unfortunate history. We return to 2001, and LP News’s deceptive coverage of teh scandal that John Famularo revealed. Chapter Twenty Four of My Book Funding Liberty Aftershocks The LP News Cover-Up LP NEWS is [George writes: Well, it was…
On November 29 at 10AM the LNC had a budget meeting. The budget went up on the screen, but was barely legible. The screen display sometimes made it hard to tell who was talking. Nonetheless: Present are Nekhaila, Darr, Watkins, Redpath, McMahon. Ford was absent. The other members of the budget committee are absent. Redpath: There is a proposed budget.…