Chapter Twenty Election Day. Browne Loses. Now the show reaches the end of the road. On November 7, 2000, the American people, or at least some of them, cast their votes. In a few states, the vote total was close. The final popular vote outcome was: Al Gore 51,003,238 George Bush 50,459,624 Ralph Nader 2,882,985 Pat Buchanan 449,120 Harry Browne…
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I just sent this e-mail out, and if anybody knows any of the people who it should be forwarded to, please pass it along. Additionally, in about a week I’ll be asking those of you who want to run for an LNC or JC spot next year to answer some of the questions for the website’s soft launch, but first…
A New Campaign Strategy Throughout October and on to Election Day Browne’s campaign also continued to raise money for its own coffers. After October 18, the Browne campaign launched a new campaign strategy, a strategy not announced to its donors and volunteers. To understand Browne’s new strategy, start with how FEC regulations affect Federal Campaigns. Federal Election Laws create an…
Hello Libertarians. This is the eighth 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. Grossly oversimplified,…
As delivered to the LNC at the end of September: From: Bill Redpath To: LNC Board <lncboard@lp.org> LNC Financial Statements- August 2025 Attached please find the Libertarian National Committee, Inc. financial statements, as of August 31, 2025. Due to Joint Fundraising Committee (JFC) impacts on the financial statements on Pages 5, 9 & 10 (because of Cash that is included…
Browne justified his lawsuit by complaining about FEC regulations. As a free speech issue, Browne had a point. Browne’s political complaints were of less merit. Browne said that if he listed major donors on his FEC report, the donors were potentially subject to harassment by duopoly party supporters. This issue has already been litigated, successfully, by one of the Socialist…
For the curious, the LNC is planning to have a very special meeting on October 1, and a normal meeting on October 5. Details on both of them are found on https://groups.google.com/g/lnc-public, a few entries down from the top, on the first page. LNC debate has become increasingly contentious. Claims that the LNC needs to be rid of Communist and…
Browne didn’t even pretend to return the Party’s favor. The Browne campaign could have asked its volunteers to help with ballot access petitioning. It didn’t. Of course, there is some question as to how many volunteers Browne actually had, but at several dollars a signature every volunteer mattered. Browne and his campaign didn’t try to help the National Party. And…
Chapter Nineteen The Political Scam of the Century In late October, the Browne Committee treated the Libertarian party to the political scam of the century. There do not appear to have been criminal acts committed. Everything it did appears to have been perfectly legal, protected by First Amendment guarantees on political free speech. Recall how we got here. At the…
There was a Duke of York. He had ten thousand men. He marched them up he hill. He marched them down again. (in Portugal in Napoleon’s time, as it happens). The LNC is now following the Duke’s fine example. There was a motion that the LNC should join in the New Mexico ballot access lawsuit. It was on its way…