Readers will be aware that I have historically not been sympathetic to Harlos’s approach to using parliamentary procedure. Nonetheless: Were you a 2022 delegate? Did you support Caryn Ann Harlos for Secretary? If so, or even if you didn’t, she needs your help. There is an active move on the LNC to remove her as Secretary. The front part of…
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As submitted for this Sunday’s meeting: Adam Haman: I am noticing the attached at the request of Mr. Chadderdon. He will speak to the motion at the meeting. Motion to amend policy manual to remove the “public list” for discussions and debate, encourage substantive business requiring debate to be done in meetings. In Section 1.02 – Meetings, – Strike subsection…
The Libertarian Transparency Caucus VEHEMENTLY objects to Amendment 1.02 Clause 10. The LNC is obligated in all moral and ethical sense to be transparent to the membership in its activities and meetings to the maximum extent possible, not to mention fiduciary duty. Requiring a majority vote of the LNC to livestream or webcast LNC meetings is tantamount to censoring the…
Readers will recall that LNC Chair Angela McArdle attacked LNC Treasurer Bill Redpath for not doing his job as Treasurer. Redpath indicated that so soon as petitioning had finished for the cycle he would indeed be reporting. He has now advised the LNC that they will receive a report from him soon. There is an amended FEC report forhtcoming. There…
The Libertarian Party of Georgia governing board has voted to join the Kennedy joint fundraising campaign. Readers will not that Georgia is Chase Oliver’s home state, so we see Oliver’s own state party stabbing him in the back, raising money for one or another of his opponents. (Third Party Watch has thusfar been unable to confirm rumors that money raised…
The Kennedy Victory Fund raised $947,182 in large donations. The LNC received $92,300 from the Kennedy Victory Fund for administrative expenses, $11,804 from the Mapstead and Ter Maat campaigns corresponding we believe to parts of the hotel bill, and $14,091 in other itemized donations. There were also $56,994.21 in unitemized donations. These total to $175,192. For the month, the normal…
The state of financial support by Libertarians of the Oliver Presidential campaign is a disgrace to the good name of our party. Most Libertarians should be ashamed of the state to which our Presidential campaign has been reduced. As of the same date in the campaign, here is the amount of money raised by the Oliver campaign and each of…
Recently, there has been interest in electing a better Libertarian National Committee in 2026. However, interest does not translate to plan. Here I offer a few general suggestions on what sort of arrangement might yield the desired result. First, the current group got in successfully because it had an extremely large and well-organized caucus behind it. Indeed, as I…
We are presented with rumors that the LNC secret leadership group is contemplating limiting the LNC public list to actual votes and meeting announcements, with all discussion behind closed doors. Readers may choose to disbelieve this. We have been here before, several times with past LNCs. Third Party Watch will be delighted to receive and report, entirely anonymously, whatever is…
LP-Colorado has endorsed a Republican candidate for office. LP-Colorado Member Sean Vadey has filed an appeal of the action with the LP-Colorado Judicial Committee. It may be seen as a PDF here.