There is significant circumstantial evidence that some factions within the Libertarian National Committee were pursuing disaffiliation in order to secure a friendlier state party delegation at the next National Convention. In 1996, the Arizona Party delegation had been filled with supporters of Rick Tompkins, who was supported by the Phoenix group. There were sound reasons to believe that a delegation…
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The dismissal has now been granted. You can read the very short document at https://thirdpartywatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Dismissal.pdf This is a request by Jacobs and the LNC to end without a hearing Jonathan Jacobs’ appeal of certain LNC actions at their June meeting, on the grounds that issue no longer exists. Hector Roos has written the Judicial Committee on this topic. He writes:…
Voter registration instead became part of the Kahn for Mayor campaign in Tucson, which by report received $50,000 in state Clean Elections funds, and apparently used the larger part of those funds to register Libertarian voters. The National Party apparently provided manpower for the effort. The Tucson group then launched the first of a series of lawsuits to establish its…
LNC Chair Nekhaila announced that he would offer at the 9/7 LNC meeting a motion to censure Austin Martin, his announcement reading: I move the following: Whereas, LNC Policy Manual §1.07.4(B)(I & II) prohibits LNC members from (I) disparaging the LNC or the Party and (II) engaging in ad hominem or otherwise indecorous attacks against fellow board members in any…
Meeting comes to order at 7:32. Roll is called. 16 in attendance. Agenda passes after amendments. [Addendum: Apparently there is a new financial report out there someplace, or so I thought I heard claimed. Minor additions at the end. Thanks to Caryn Ann Harlos for pointing out that Resolution 2 was adopted again.] Nekhkaila passes gavel to Darr. Motion to…
Historical Notes on Arizona Libertarianism The Libertarian Party of Arizona was founded in 1975, and put its first candidates on the ballot in 1976. One of these was Michael Emerling (Cloud), who ran for U.S. Congress in Tucson and received 2.4% of the vote. The Party progressed and grew. Its 1989 State Chair was Peter Schmerl, who was a Pima…
Courtesy of the FEC Filings For the first seven months of the year, individual contributions to the LNC came to $389,000. That’s $666,000 annual rate. For the month, individual contributions came to $47,491. Other income, notably a large transfer from the Libertarian Mutual Aid PAC, were slightly more than $31,000, for a total income for the month of $78,517. Total…
There are three forthcoming LNC and related committee meetings. They may be available on Zoom. Aug 24, 2025 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) LNC Special Meeting Resolutions and Appointments. Sep 3, 2025 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Judicial Committee hearing on J.J.’s appeal. Sep 7, 2025 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) LNC Monthly Meeting
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…