Chapter Seventeen Arizona, Land of the Two Libertarian Parties We now take an aside from Presidential politics to visit scenic Arizona, land of the two Libertarian Parties. Or perhaps one Libertarian Party. The legal and political situation in Arizona has been, to put it mildly, complex. A full recounting of Arizona events might well consume a full book this size.…
Posts published in “litigation”
Sam Bohler is one of the two newly-elected LNC Members. From: Sam Bohler Sent: Monday, August 18, 2025 3:00:26 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik To: Entire LNC <entir…@lp.org>; lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi…@lp.org> Subject: Points of Order on June 9th Resolutions and August 10th Appointments Chair Nekhaila, I believe there are breaches of order of a continuing nature (RONR 23.6) and I am raising two points of…
Third Party Watch is the recipient of an interesting series of email exchanges. Our source, closely connected to the LNC Executive Committee, preferred to remain anonymous. Our sources assert: The first of these messages was sent on Monday to the four officers of the LNC. There was no public response or any publically-seen discussion. Our sources assert: During the derivative…
Meeting starts at 7PM. Twelve members are present. Others arrived later. Public comments: Member urges for open comments. Redpath moves to amend the agenda. Merge to one executive session rather than two, to include New Mexico litigation, FEC matters, Convention Oversight Committee. Chadderdon moves to strike a proposed amendment to the policy manual. Issue is members communicating with LNC attorney…
Two appeals have been received and approved by the LNC Judicial Committee. The appeals, drafted by Mr. Jonathan Jacobs, are titled Jacobs-vs-LNC and may be read here. These appeals are not the same as the three appeals generated by Hector Roos and friends, some of which have also been sent to the Judicial Committee. There are effectively two separate appeals…
The LNC recently received a report covering, among other things, claims the LNC funds were misappropriated and spent in ways not consistent with Party bylaws and LNC actions. I am not here speaking to the accuracy of the report’s analysis. Others have done that for me.The report then advanced the false argument that since the amount that was lost, a…
They start. Presentation by Debbie Mason of Strategists. Rather hard to hear. We seem to lose the lower frequencies. Condemns having the Board Chair being also the CEO. She is challenged on the Bylaws issue, which she did not know. She says she will recognize best practices. Says Executive Director should be CEO; Board Chair should be moderator. Proposes ED…
We infer that they keep finding more issues. The memo as forwarded to us reads
We now reach substantive content. We quote from the report: Members and donors vote with their wallets. Either those wallets are open or closed to support appeals from the organization. These wallet votes have spoken loudly for the past few years, and it has not been a ringing endorsement. Only a change in the board’s collective vision and behavior can…
We are told that the full text of the Leaked Report will be available in a day or so.