Aug 18, 2023, 10:43:01 PM (2 hours ago) to lnc-business Members of the LNC, Tonight (8/18/23) the state chairs and proxies for Region 1 held an electronic vote of no confidence in Miguel Duque as Region 1 Representative. Per our agreement with Mr. Duque he will be stepping down voluntarily effective immediately. 5 of 7 states voted in favor of the motion.…
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The McArdle Memo — III — Fundraising, The Takeover, Third Party Watch has received a set of documents whose description matches the documents that Miguel Duque allegedly sent to the LNC. One of these was a memo from Angela McArdle to the LNC, whose retransmissal to the LNC apparently upset LNC members. We are now reprinting this memo in sections.…
Our source has supplied us with the memorandum that we infer led to LNC criticisms of Miguel Duque, including the committee appointed to prepare recommendations in his case. It’s rather long, so we will circulate it in sections over the next several days. You are reading a memorandum from Angela McArdle to the LNC, transmitted sometime in May 2023. We…
The attached file is a summary and analysis of the extensive files leaked from the LNC to Fakertarians. We received the files indirectly from a party we shall not name. This comprehensive account by Miguel Duque and Anna Johnson Duque is fully true as we know it. For background, we were among the first Mises Caucus organizers to take over…
We tip our hat to the Fakertarians group on Facebook, which has obtained the documents described by the LNC as a breach of confidentiality by Miguel Duque. As the documents were sent by him (in the form of a 17Mb zip file) only to the LNC, we decline to explain how confidentiality could have been violated. We also received a…
A petition has been launched, calling for the removal of Angela McArdle as National Chair. You can read it and decide whether or not to sign it at https://www.change.org/p/libertarian-party-chair-resolution Why this petition matters Started by Joseph Howe We, the undersigned members of the party, former members and concerned stakeholders, submit this petition calling for the immediate removal of Angela McArdle, board…
The LNC ExComm met this evening. Everyone other than Mr. Hyman was present. There were an extremely large number of other attendees, close to two dozen. Mr. Nekhaila moved to take the Executive Committee into executive session, with the LNC’s attorney invited to attend as a participant. Furthermore, all LNC members were invited to attend, except Regional Representative Miguel Duque…
Lainie Huston, who came on board a year ago to serve as the LNC’s Executive Director, ash announced that she is returning to Microsoft. A search for a successor will soon be launched. Her letter to the LNC announcing this change appeared on the LNC public list. to lnc-business Hi everyone, About one year ago, Angela asked me to come…
Revised LPUS membership counts, at end of month. Note in the past two months the drops of nearly 500 and nearly1000. 2022-12 16,988 2023-1 16,507 2023-2 16,308 2023-3 15,954 2023-4 15,539 2023-5 15,060 2023-6 14,080 There had been a slow loss of sustaining members due to an unanticipated consequence of a software feature, these people still being sustaining members but…
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