The Anti-Ukraine ‘Rage Against the War’ demonstration being organized by LNC Chair Angela McArdle has been ‘postponed’. Its fundraising generated under $10,000 of the estimated $100,000 needed. And announcement on Twitter read “After much consideration, we have decided to postpone our Defeat The Deep State event. We want to put on the best possible event for everyone. We need this…
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We hear from Josh Eakle: We’re hosting our first public forum to answer your questions about Project Liberal and outline our roadmap for the next year. Read the post at https://discord.com/channels/1096205409779470350/1177105815002415194/1198804810544185404 Join us on Saturday, January 27th at 3:00PM CST / 4:00PM EST in the public-stage in Discord Josh says that he looks forward with chatting with you! RSVP here:…
The national Libertarian Party’s Bylaws Committee is reporting out a proposal to increase national party annual dues from $25 to $50. The rationale is that dues were last fixed in 2006 at $25/year, and since then there has been much inflation. As is not noted in the motion, if prices have gone up, then contrariwise member services provided by the…
The Libertarian National Committee has voted to remove Robert Kraus, 2019 Meeting Planner of the Year of the Association of Meetings Professionals, from the LNC’s Convention Oversight Committee. The Committee is in charge of running the Libertarian Party 2024 National Convention. No debate was permitted on the motion. And now our meeting livestream; The meeting is coming to order. Computer…
Feel free to share: Fr: Robert Kraus To: lnc-board@lp.org Please note I fully expect to be removed from the COC but wanted to express my thanks for placing me on this committee & that it was an honor to serve. Several LNC Members have reached out to me to ask me to express the following to all of you: a)…
LNC loses two-thirds of a million dollars. Message sent to the public LNC-Business list disappears. We are in receipt of an email from Regional Representative Mark Tuniewicz. We have confirmed from Mr. Tuniewicz that the email is authentic. The email was transmitted to the public LNC–Business list, but contrary to normal processes has not appeared there. Mr. Tuniewicz advises us…
Friends of Third Party Watch have under discussion launching a weekly eZine “Libertarian Party News”. One motive is the dearth of main stream media references to the Libertarian Party. The LP is the largest orthodox third party, but it appears to have dropped completely off the main-stream radar screen. The possibility of covering other parties this way was noted, but…
Now with comparisons with the 2019 and 2021 conventions. Comparison data at end of report. Slip corrected; the prior data was from the end of 2019, not the end of 1999. For November, 2023, the LNC raised $125,927 and spent $112,064. The Committee started the month with $213,902 cash on hand and ended the month with $227,765 cash on hand…
Our sources stretch to the LNC, its staff, and far beyond. From them, we are in receipt of a copy of a letter from Cara Schulz, LP Minnesota Political Director, announcing her resignation from that post. She notes that in the past five weeks LP Minnesota monthly donors fell from 111 to 97. [Editor: We are advised that there was…
Recently, I have on at least two occasions been accused of making false statements about the LNC’s Chair. The statements appear to have been those referring to the pay of the Chair’s significant other as a contractor. Let us examine the record, as taken from FEC filings, which I believe refute the claims: For August, the report seen in late…