Hector Roos has announced that he is doing a series of articles on his perspectives of teh 2024 election season. He authorized us to copy this article (sans a video that does not easily transfer) from his substack. You can see the substack at https://libertariansrus.substack.com/p/announcing-a-multi-part-series-on The substack takes subscriptions, the path for rewarding him for his work. His future articles…
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With the resignations of Adrian Malagon and Kathy Yenascavich, the remaining members of the Libertarian National Committee have a chance to regain trust from Libertarian donors. Will they take it? Dear Friends, If you have been following the internal news of the Libertarian Party, you have heard that long-time Mises Caucus organizers Adrian Malagon and Kathy Yenascavich both resigned from…
Hello Libertarians. This is the sixth 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. The previous…
Two appeals have been received and approved by the LNC Judicial Committee. The appeals, drafted by Mr. Jonathan Jacobs, are titled Jacobs-vs-LNC and may be read here. These appeals are not the same as the three appeals generated by Hector Roos and friends, some of which have also been sent to the Judicial Committee. There are effectively two separate appeals…
Over the month, associates of the campaign received: Jim Babka $2,700 Erich Covey $372 Robert DeVoil $5,532 Debra Greeson $2,618 Thomas Peary (travel) $245 Stuart Reges $1,000 Steve Willis $2,965 Perry Willis $2,500 Stephanie Yanik $1,500 TOTAL: $19,187 Robert Brunner and Jennifer Willis apparently received no pay in April. Between them, Robert DeVoil and Stuart Reges received $6532, roughly what…
Instead of providing an answer, the campaign attacked its scapegoat. In the April 24th LibertyWire, Perry Willis wrote: “Our fundraising has been declining since Jacob Hornberger began his latest series of attacks against Harry Browne and the LP leadership…Unfortunately, our good name within the LP has been damaged to the point where the good will of a significant segment of…
Chapter Fourteen Browne’s Campaign Went Broke, It Claimed April 2000 On April 24, 2000, the Browne Campaign made a surprise announcement: It was out of cash, with $83,343 in bills it could not pay. If Party members did not open their checkbooks, the campaign would have to shut its doors. Either the Browne campaign got a serious cash infusion immediately,…
Your attention is drawn to Liberal Patriot’s description (https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/a-fascinating-new-look-at-americas) of Echelon Insights—a Republican-leaning polling and data firm—latest results from their Political Tribes project. You can read more details at https://echeloninsights.com/tribes/ In short, Echelon insights used a three-axis study to determine typologies, the axes being economic, social, and ‘trust in institutions’, of actual voters. Readers considering where a new third party…
We are in receipt of a letter from Larry Gillis of Florida announcing that he is running for one of the vacant At-Large Seats on the Libertarian national Committee. He writes: Dear Steve [Nekhaila]: Depending entirely on the actual needs of the Party, I would appreciate being considered to fill one of the two current vacancies on the LNC. I…
Hornberger also sent a letter to the FEC. The letter included the key phrase that the letter was not a complaint. As released to the public, it was also not notarized. The FEC has extremely specific rules about what it may act on as a complaint (You can find them for yourself at www.fec.gov.). Under FEC regulations, Hornberger’s letter was…