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LNC Meeting This Weekend

We expect to cover it with a more-or-less-live blog.

LPNH Chair Weir Threatens LNC

We have been in receipt of a message said to be from LPNH Chair Weir.  We sent emails to LNC members, asking for comment.  We indeed received one response, correcting one minor detail in the report, but confirming its reality.  The message from Ben Weir reads: “Make no mistake: any member of the LNC who votes in favor of this…

We Have Been Here Before — Funding Liberty Chapter 2, Part 6

Browne’s Fall Campaign For the third quarter, FEC reports show that William Winter was paid $1142, again for consulting and reimbursement for office supplies, in three not-quite-uniform monthly payments. Willis was not paid by Browne in the third quarter. For the fourth quarter, FEC filings show that Bill Winter was paid $688 for “consulting and reimbursement for office supplies”. On…

Incoming!

We have been forwarded an interesting statement on the possible censure of New Hampshire, and have reached out to several people for their possible comment.  More Later.

We Have Been Here Before – Funding Liberty Chapter 2, Part 5

2025 Comment: Don’t worry, it gets worse. Finally, keep your eye on the above list of names. It may be [decades] later, and a few of the people are less visible, but many of the same people are still active in the Party. … In the third quarter of 1995 Willis was not paid at all by the Browne campaign.…

Angela McArdle on Negotiating with Trump

The following is a transcript of a recent speech by Angela McArdle on how she negotiated about the Presidential Election with Donald Trump. The speech was scheduled to be given at the 2025 New Hampshire Liberty Forum in Concord, New Hampshire on Saturday, April 26 in the late afternoon. My thanks to Jordan Willow Evans and Dan Fishman for handling…

Party Membership and Finances Near and After 2000

I pause to present two images from my book Libertarian Renaissance.  They have been used elsewhere. The first is a plot of membership in various years around 2000. You will notice that there is a peak near the year 2000. That’s when the LNC voted to adopt Project Archimedes. Membership never climbed a great deal. Soon thereafter, membership began to…

We Have Been Here Before–Funding Liberty Chapter 2, Part 4

As written in the early noughts: My sources with old issues of Mass Liberty, the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts newsletter, quote from ‘An Interview with Harry Browne’ published in the June, 1995 issue: “As far as money is concerned, I don’t know how much we’ll raise, but we are aiming at 50 million dollars… We have a lot of avenues…

Redpath Moves for NH, CO Censures

  Bill Redpath wrote ask for 20 minutes on the agenda for consideration of the following two motions: Whereas, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has regularly posted social media content that reasonable people would consider to have racist meanings, which, with other inflammatory posts, has cast the Libertarian Party in a bad light on the national stage; Whereas, the…

The LNC Report –Analysis The Report Continues off the Rails

Our discussion last time did not reach a central question?  Why are membership and donations falling? On one hand, from the perspective of many members, the Libertarian party has dropped out of sight.  LP News is no longer published. News emails are uncommon.  For some time, the LNC’s public email list disappeared.  We have not done a complete survey, but…