Spending by the Harry Browne Campaigns: April 1996 Payments to staff members included: Stuart Reges $5,850 Lisa Paley $1,570 Harry Browne $1,151 Terry Bronson $1,090 Robert Martin III $1,006 Michael Cloud $906 Alexis Thompson $860 Diane Williams $580 while disbursements to vendors included: Accumail $4,790 Carlson Wagonlit Travel $3,900 Mount Vernon Printing $1,914 Dean Spear & Associates $1,500 …
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Positive Action: A Libertarian Candidate for Every Federal Office in 2026 The Libertarian National Committee has a lot of house cleaning to do, but Libertarians don’t need to wait for the party to give America a Libertarian option in 2026 May 26, 2025 Dear Friends, My last update was about the opportunity that the Libertarian Party has to reboot using…
Assembling the FEC report for April, in round numbers: Employees received $18,500 in net pay. Employee related expenses reached toward $12,000. Consultants received $45,300, which is only slightly less than party conventional income for the month. Directors and Officers Insurance came to $15,000. For April, expenditures included employee net pay: $6240 to Hannah Kennedy, $4475 to Canyon Gargon, $3000 to…
For April, the LNC had $314,323 cash on hand at the beginning of its reporting period, had $336,204 in cash on hand at the end of the period, and ended the period with $74,135 in debts. The LNC reported $18,709 in itemized contributions and $35,665 in unitemized contributions, for a total of $54,375 in contributions. The LNC also received $14,244…
In an open letter issues on New Jersey Libertarian Party Stationery, concerned Libertarians from several states strongly condemned the conduct of the Libertarian Party leaderships of New Hampshire and Colorado for issuing statements laden with racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, and Islamophobia. “…we are formally denouncing their message, behavior, and leadership. The two-page letter called for the good liberty-loving people of…
With that caveat, what can we say about the 1996 Browne Campaign? The link to the prior Chapters is the Willis Invoice. At some point in 1995 or early 1996, Willis entered into the ‘February Contract’, nominally with Dean, Spear & Associates. The Dean in question is Jack Dean, a regular supplier of Internet services to some Libertarian campaigns and…
Chapter Four Pursuit of the Nomination Browne’s Opponents Speak We now reach 1996. The machinations of the Browne campaign remain underground, largely out of sight of loyal Libertarians across America. Until the revelations of 2001, only a select few suspected that matters were not quite as open and above board as they appeared. Among those select few were staffers and…
On Disaffiliation Hello Libertarians! This is one 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. For some…
Third Quarter 1995 For July-September the campaign raised $171,000, an increase of more than 20% over the previous quarter. The campaign spent a shade under $174,000. Disbursements to individuals, including consulting fees and reimbursements, included Michael Cloud $16,515 Sharon Ayres $14,074 Autumn Wilson $9,730 Stuart Reges $8,315 Harry Browne $6,443 (repayment of loan) Lisa Paley $6,294 Robert Martin III $4,870…
Readers who want to read the e ntire book, at least as a PDF, can get it on 3MPub.com. There is one question mark over this image of a campaign with strong spending controls. We have the contrary testimony of Dean Ahmad. In his June 2001 memo, he wrote: “There is one other important element in the timeline relating the…