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…
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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…
John Ponty has filed an extended, detailed amicus brief with respect to the Roos Appeal to the Judicial Committee over the LNC Special Investigatory Committee report and actions taken with respect to it. The brief claims to demonstrate extensive defects in the original appeal, as detailed in the amicus document. The brief includes significant supporting documentation that advances its position.…
The LNC’s September FEC filing covering its August financial transfers has been posted. It shows itemized donations of $82,058 and unitemized donations of $25,877, to be matched against expenditures of $110,783. The income is about $3000 short of the expenditures. However, the itemized donations included a maximum donation from one person, $10,000 from an LNC member, and $5000 from a…
In a letter that we received in the afternoon of September 20, Trendalyn Hallesey wrote the LNC: Dear Chair Nakhaila and Members of the LNC, Effective immediately, I hereby resign from my position on the Libertarian National Committee. It has become abundantly clear to me that the current state of dysfunction within the Committee is beyond repair under existing leadership…
An open letter to the LNC: Esteemed members of the LNC: I call your attention to the recent ExComm motion urging the LNC to ratify the two prior motions to dismiss in the LNC vs Vest suit as recommended by the Executive Committee. I strongly urge that you begin with due diligence. You are in no hurry. The motions in…
During August, sustaining membership in the national Libertarian Party increased from 9399 to 9868, an increase of 469 members. National Director Hannah Kennedy warned that a portion of the increase arose from continued efforts to clean up membership records, which had not been entirely well-maintained. As a result of these maintenance issues, the July membership numbers were probably also in…
On 9/19/2025 there was a meeting of the LNC Executive Committee. They passed a resolution asking the LNC in effect to approve joining and spending $25,000 on the Vest lawsuit, the money having already been spent. Further spending is being handled by the LNC’s D&O insurer, which incidentally apparently means that the insurer is in control of all legal activity.…
There is now an LNC response to the Roos Appeal. There is an amicus from Mr. Jacobs. There is an amicus from the LP of Hawaii Secretary.