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September LNC Financial Transactions Show Disastrous Fundraising Numbers

The FEC Filing for the LNC covering September has now been published.  From it we learn: LNC Income and Outgo during September of this year show a disastrous lack of conventional fundraising via donations. For the month, the LNC brought in $56,388 in individual donations.  The LNC also had huge cash transactions due to the Kenedy Victory Fund.  The debts…

The Hagopian Letter to Select LNC Members

Recently, there has been public controversy over a letter that former Treasurer Todd Hagopian sent to a considerable number of members of the LNC.  The letter was sent privately but has apparently become public knowledge in some circles.  We had not discussed this here previously, because other matters were occurring, and we did not want to flood our finite bandwidth…

The Hagopian Letter to the LNC

Recently, there has been public controversy over a letter that former Treasurer Todd Hagopian sent to a considerable number of members of the LNC.  The letter was sent privately but has apparently become public knowledge in some circles.  We had not discussed this here previously, because other matters were occurring, and we did not want to flood our finite bandwidth…

Longstreth Urges: Sign the JC Appeal

Richard Longstreth, former LNC Member who voted for the prior suspension of Caryn Ann Harlos from the LNC, calls on Libertarian Party members to sign the appeal petition defending Harlos.  You can read and sign the appeal petition at https://www.jotform.com/242868268003056.  Longstreth writes: To friends who remain in the Libertarian Party, I have given much thoughts to the current activities of…

Draft of the Harlos Appeal

What you read below is the draft of the appeal against the Harlos suspension. The actual appeal gets some additional boilerplate, such as a list of interested parties: In this case, that would be the LNC, the signers, the Oliver campaign, the Colorado LP Executive Committee however titled, and of course, all delegates at the last national convention, as it…

More Main-Stream Press Anti-Third-Party Bigotry

We have a count of Third-Party Presidential candidates who are on the ballot in a significant number of states.  We see: Chase Oliver is on the ballot in 47 states. Jill Stein is on the ballot in 38 states. Robert Kennedy is on the ballot in 31 states, after withdrawing and being removed from some ballots <– correction courtesy Porcus…

News from the LNC Secret Session

Our sources on the Libertarian National Committee tell us what transpired in the executive session part of the LNC meeting a few days ago. Our sources were present in the secret meeting and heard directly what was said. The meeting discussed removing Caryn Ann Harlos as National Secretary. Our sources report that National Chair McArdle pressed heavily for suspending Harlos…

Reason Magazine Covers Harlos-McArdle Disputes

In an article “Libertarian Party Secretary Files Lawsuit To Remove Party Chair Angela McArdle” by Brian Doherty, Reason magazine covers Caryn Ann Harlos’s suit as Libertarian National Committee, Inc., to remove Angela McArdle as National Chair.  The article also reports in detail “The Libertarian Party National Committee, meanwhile, is seeking to remove the Secretary.”  The article notes in particular the…

Harlos Receives Investigatory Report, Claims NDA Violations

Third Party Watch has learned that Ms. Harlos has been provided with a copy of the Investigatory Committee report, complete with the votes of the investigatory committee. According to Ms. Harlos, the votes of the LNC on the various charges were not included in the report.   There were certain reported anomalies with the delivery of the report. It arrived…

Chase Oliver on the Joint Fundraising Campaign

The statement is not quite recent, but we just found out about it: Chase Oliver @ChaseForLiberty In order to clear up any misconception, I wanted to make this brief statement. No, my campaign has never supported nor given “the green light” for the LNC to create a joint fundraising committee for RFK Jr. We support the Libertarian Party supporting Libertarian…