The Liberty Alliance of Massachusetts, the state affiliate of the Liberal Party USA, will have its annual State Convention at the end of the month. They report: Our convention will be on Sunday, May 31st, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The cost to attend is $30. If you need to renew your membership, that’s another $30. The convention will…
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The Free State Project by Jason Sorens Note from the author (7/2/04): This article was the first exploration of the idea of a “free state strategy.” Needless to say, the present-day Free State Project differs from the proposals of this article in some respects. In particular, the article overemphasizes the possibility of secession. Nevertheless, I think it’s still of historical…
On examination of the FEC filings for the Libertarian Party of California, as previously reported by Jake Porter based on work of former LNC Treasurer Todd Hagopian, we find that the LPCA failed to make mandatory FEC filings for the Third Quarter Report and for the post-General-Election filing. In addition, their end of June filing revealed $5619 cash on hand…
The attention of readers is drawn to Matt Taibbi’s substack column https://www.racket.news/p/the-democrats-dirty-tricks-playbook and schemes used to disable various third party candidates. As I warned in a comment there, and as I shall comment editorially here, scattered about though all political parties are people whose mental stability leaves something to be desired. Some of these people may see news like this…
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…
Colorado Libertarians have issued a new newsletter, The Clipboard, available here as a downloadable file. Bimonthly publication is planned. Contributors include BetteRose Ryan, Michelle Poague, Daniel Lutz, and ‘Staff Reporter’. The Publisher and point of contact is BentBriarBooks@gmail.com. They report six Libertarians in elective office. Coverage of the dispute over the Presidential ballot line indicates that Oliver-Ter Maat will be…
Third Party Watch is led to believe that a group of Massachusetts Libertarians, some of whom were expelled from LAMA or disassociated from ULMA, are contemplating forming a new political group “Prosperity and Freedom”. The group would encourage supporters to run for office and do other political-supportive things, and is considering operating state and Federal PACs. Members are considering whether…
We quote their X account The Montana Libertarian Party has officially rejected Chase Oliver as our presidential candidate. We have maintained that we will always prioritize Montana first, and we do not believe his campaign advances our goals in this state. Similarly situated states should follow our lead, and we call upon the LNC to consider suspending and replacing him.…
In the lawsuit of the Saliba group over the appointment of Michigan delegates to the Libertarian National Convention, the Federal judge ruled that the matter was not ready for his consideration, in that the plaintiffs had to go through the Michigan LP Judicial Committee first. That’s a highly standard outcome; internal processes need to be exhausted first. There was thus…
The United Libertarians of Massachusetts have circulated the following message, calling for a special state convention to remove Janel Holmes and Paul Lynch as National Convention delegates and to create a path to remove other delegates from the Massachusetts National Convention delegation: The Unified Libertarians of Massachusetts experienced the theft of its Facebook page the day of our regular convention,…