Jake Porter’s Analysis & Investigations reports that LNC Regional Representative Pat Ford has a non-profit organization that indirectly receives money from the joint fundraising committee “Kennedy Victory Fund”. You can read Jake Porter’s reports here. There is an intervening Political Action Committee, the Libertarian Mutual Aid PAC. The PAC moves money from the joint fundraising committee to Ford’s non-profit. The Libertarian…
Third Party Watch
Writing on Facebook, veteran Libertarian petitioner Andrew Jacobs reports that 2024 ballot access for the Libertarian Party of Ohio was created by a Democratic Party PAC. Jacobs writes “The Democrats hired paid petitioners and Libertarians did nothing except for turning in the signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State at the end.” We have good reason to believe that his…
Paul Vallandigham writes: We have seen a similar, steady drop in LPCA memberships since the MC began to control our state party. We used to get most of our funding from memberships. Now we get the majority of our funding from supporting RFK, Jr. and from fleecing LP POTUS candidates for them to speak at our state convention.
The January National Party Membership report is out. There is a technical issue with the count of life members, so data on that is tagged as needing work. Sustaining (i.e., dues-paying [CORRECTION: and life]) national members: End of July 2024 — 11892 End of December 2024 — 10569 End of January 2025 — 10367 That’s a drop of 200 in…
I am posting from the LNC-Public page the announced agenda. I will liveblog. There is a revised agenda here. To view the meeting: The LNC will be having its monthly special e-meeting on March, 2, 2025. Advance registration is required at least one hour before the meeting. You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Mar 2, 2025 07:00 PM…
Judicial Committee Sustains LNC in Kosin Appeal The issue was required notice for a removal trial. In regards to the appeal brought by Ms. Kosin et al., the Judicial Committee has voted 5-2 to sustain the LNC’s decision. Opinions shall be published in the future. For the Judicial Committee, Michael Seebeck, Secretary
Our attention has been drawn to the disgraceful state of LNC thinking and discussion. We have been forwarded an image featuring the new national chair. It is pure text, but we would not display it on our pages. You can see it here. Be forwarned, many Middle School students are more creative with their insults.
There are new motions before the LNC. As readers will recall, Adrian Malagon was elected to his current LNC position by the LNC, because new LNC Chair Steve Nekhaila said that Malagon was essential. Adrian Malagon Move the following: To require the LNC to do a daily dump, effective immediately, of all their communication with each other where anything that…
Total receipts were $1,126,151. Of this $1,061,672 was due to the Kennedy fund and $64,479 were normal donations. Total disbursements were $1,102,756. Of this, $92,691 was the non-Kennedy spending. That’s (round number) $28K more than non-Kennedy income. Cash on hand at the end of the month was $487,852. Debt at the end of the month was $75,662. The normal income:…
Welcome to the live blog. People are logging in. Meeting starts on time. There were minor computer issues. The relevant link is https://us02web.zoom.us/w/81779086631?tk=lJZcj1mNLfCju_UrIt_TfOYCiBL0ufCKwsK49NTfaWg.DQcAAAATCmnVJxZIVWFrSHMyUVJ5MkpheDV3X2xiYTNBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&pwd=KEY6v7mt5A2elsIuRdO3VzjnrKrPUh.1 or so I am advised in a post by Mr. Montoni. Computer issues healed by 3:05. Chair announces the agenda. Seebeck moves to amend the Agenda to allow the LNC Chair to update the committee on the…