Claims were circulated in some quarters that these issues had never been raised before to the LNC Executive Committee. I quote from the LNC Executive Committee Minutes, available to all LPUS members at archive.lp.org: LNC ExComm Teleconference September 26, 2000 “…Dehn asked why the EC has not been receiving updated financial information on a regular basis. Dasbach said he has…
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My sources in the Watergate Building indicate another reason that might have motivated some people to want to dispense with the monthly filings. In the first two months of 2001, the National Party spent $80,000 more than it took in. LNC, Inc. then made accounting changes which yielded a one-time income stream that cancelled some of these losses. As Dasbach…
Employee net pay came to $17,609. Social Security was $2829. Federal withholding was $1627. Employer 401K contribution was $1500. Health insurance was $1305. Pennsylvania withholding was $661. Medicare was $661. To pay these people, we gave PayCheck Flex $2421. There were consultants. Ballot access fund.raising to the Miles Press cost $6906 Mountaintop Creative received $6300 for Graphic Design. Oliver Hall…
At the December 2000 National Committee meeting, National Treasurer Mark Tuniewicz secured amendments to the Party’s Policy Manual, changing the specified duties of the National Treasurer. Tuniewicz had been unhappy with National Chair Bergland’s treatment of issues relating to Tuniewicz’s office. In particular, Bergland had forbidden Tuniewicz to communicate directly with the Party’s Auditors or with consultants on FEC Filings.…
Hello Libertarians. This is the ninth of a series of opinion articles I’ll be privileged to write for you once per month on an “inside baseball” topic for the Libertarian Party. I encourage everyone who has an opinion on whatever we’re talking about this month to comment or send phillies@4liberty.net your longer editorials, which may well be published. This month…
Please share widely: George Phillies writes: On one hand the stock market and associated businesses are moving into a tall bubble. A few days ago, the S&P 500 set a new record, even though on that day 398 of the 500 S&P stocks fell. We see more and more reports of AI companies that have no path to an income…
Bill Redpath reported to the LNC on its September finances: Attached* please find the Libertarian National Committee, Inc. financial statements, as of September 30, 2025. Due to Joint Fundraising Committee (JFC) impacts on the financial statements on Pages 5, 9 & 10 (because of Cash that is included that will be expended on liabilities of the Kennedy Victory Fund), it…
Noting the unsatisfactory procedures of the past, Willis explains an alternative process for developing a campaign committee and infrastructure. His approach is astonishingly similar to what Willis and collaborators are now doing with Real Campaign Reform and the American Liberty Foundation, and are in significant respects similar to what Michael Cloud and Carla Howell are now doing with the Massachusetts…
Chapter Twenty Two from my book Funding Liberty Willis Launches His 2004 Campaign In January 2001 the Browne campaign began a series of after-action reports, discussing how it had spent its money, and what it felt its strengths and weaknesses were. Perry Willis’s chief report appears as the January 20, 2001 LibertyWire. The Campaign acknowledges raising 2.42 million dollars for…
The following table shows the finer details. I give pre-convention spending, post-convention spending, the full-year total for 2000, and the total for all four years of the campaign. Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand. I’ve dropped some of the least-paid employees from the list. In some cases, payments to people were either payroll or salary. In other cases, the…