The LNC will meet this Sunday at 5PM EST. Meeting length is estimated as three hours. LNC Member Jonathan McGee has announced three items of business: In my capacity as a member of the LNC, I am noticing the following three business items for the October 6th LNC Meeting: 1) Notice to hear the Investigatory Committee Report with recommendations of…
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Readers will recall that LNC Chair Angela McArdle attacked LNC Treasurer Bill Redpath for not doing his job as Treasurer. Redpath indicated that so soon as petitioning had finished for the cycle he would indeed be reporting. He has now advised the LNC that they will receive a report from him soon. There is an amended FEC report forhtcoming. There…
The Libertarian Party of Georgia governing board has voted to join the Kennedy joint fundraising campaign. Readers will not that Georgia is Chase Oliver’s home state, so we see Oliver’s own state party stabbing him in the back, raising money for one or another of his opponents. (Third Party Watch has thusfar been unable to confirm rumors that money raised…
For the 2024 US House of Representatives elections, the count of candidates is quite small. The three major third parties are running candidates, in their usual order by party size (count according to Ballot Access News): Libertarian Party – 71 candidates Green Party – 34 candidates Constitution Party – 17 candidates Other parties are running even fewer candidates. In some…
The Kennedy Victory Fund raised $947,182 in large donations. The LNC received $92,300 from the Kennedy Victory Fund for administrative expenses, $11,804 from the Mapstead and Ter Maat campaigns corresponding we believe to parts of the hotel bill, and $14,091 in other itemized donations. There were also $56,994.21 in unitemized donations. These total to $175,192. For the month, the normal…
The state of financial support by Libertarians of the Oliver Presidential campaign is a disgrace to the good name of our party. Most Libertarians should be ashamed of the state to which our Presidential campaign has been reduced. As of the same date in the campaign, here is the amount of money raised by the Oliver campaign and each of…
In an email to at least some Libertarians, LP Vice Presidential candidate Mike Ter Maat has revealed that he is being threatened by the FEC with Federal legal action, because he did not file the legally-mandated personal financial disclosure. For readers less familiar with Federal Elections forms, there are three that are likely to be be relevant. There is the…
In a recent post on X.com, the author of @LPNH, allegedly Jeremy Kaufman, said that Americans would view as a hero the person who assassinated Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris. LPNH also claimed that this statement is protected by the First Amendment. The hero statement appears to be well outside the penumbra of First Amendment protections. The LPNH posts on…
Recently, there has been interest in electing a better Libertarian National Committee in 2026. However, interest does not translate to plan. Here I offer a few general suggestions on what sort of arrangement might yield the desired result. First, the current group got in successfully because it had an extremely large and well-organized caucus behind it. Indeed, as I…
We are presented with rumors that the LNC secret leadership group is contemplating limiting the LNC public list to actual votes and meeting announcements, with all discussion behind closed doors. Readers may choose to disbelieve this. We have been here before, several times with past LNCs. Third Party Watch will be delighted to receive and report, entirely anonymously, whatever is…