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We Have Been here Before: Chapter 1, Part 4

Those of you who want to read the whole thing immediately can find Funding Liberty for sale for cheap on 3mpub.com. Browne’s Illicit Payment Procured Him the Nomination In the usual script for a political confession, the politician doing the confessing says that while he did break the rules, his actions really didn’t matter: If he had obeyed the rules…

The Leaked Report to the LNC

We are told that the full text of the Leaked Report will be available in a day or so.

We Have Been Here Before — Chapter 1, Part 3

Willis is imprecise as to whether or not Browne’s money influenced his decision to break the Libertarian Party’s rules.  He claims on page 11 of his memo “Most of what I did for the Browne campaign I did for free.  When I first decided to disobey the policy I figured ‘If I’m going to disobey the policy I might as well…

We Have Been Here Before — Chapter 1 Part 2

The suggestion was made that we might focus less on the people, and more on analysis since these events were a quarter-century ago.  The answer is that some of the same people are here today A Surprise Confession Three weeks after the Invoice was disclosed to the LNC, Perry Willis published a response to Famularo’s revelation. Most Americans know how…

Debate on Abortion

Debate on abortion is allowed in the comments on this post.  It is not allowed, in general, elsewhere in this newspaper.  Civility is still required. The use of this post has moved a great deal of heated discussion to where uninterested parties do not have to read it.

We Have Been Here Before — Chapter 1

Recent events are reminiscent of events in the period 1994-2004.  History does not repeat, but there can be variations on a theme.  We return now to the turn of the millennium, and LNC funding.  The original Project Archimedes (hint: it failed) will by and by be seen. We appear to be recycling the old plans. I plan daily posts. Readers…

LP: Nekhaila Rules Malagon Motions Out of Order

The LNC Chair has ruled as requested by the LNC Secretary on three motions that LNC Member Adrian Malagon put on the agenda for the May in-person LNC Meeting.   The Chair ruled that the three Malagon motions were out of order. Dear Colleagues, I have been asked to review the three motions recently noticed, in accordance with Robert’s Rules of…

Notes from the Leaked Report [Addendum 1]

Third Party Watch is not in possession of the full report on the situation of the Libertarian Party.  We have, however, been sent sections that we believe are authentic, which we will reprint and update here.  Fresh updates will appear at the top of the Report section. Addendum We are advised by an extremely reliable source that the claim that…

Nekhaila: “full collapse” of LNC is potentially imminent

In a letter sent today, LNC National Chair Steven Nekhaila warned that the LNC was in imminent danger of full collapse.  He did this after reporting that a confidential operational report on the LNC had been leaked by a board member (though not to us).  His description of the state of the LNC was “We are an organization in dysfunction.…

LNC Financials for March – Redpath Reports

Treasurer Bill Redpath has filed the LNC Treasurer’s Report  covering March.  The supporting staff document is available here as a file.  We quote his analysis: Attached please find the Libertarian National Committee, Inc. financial statements, as of March 31, 2025 Due to Joint Fundraising Committee (JFC) impacts on the financial statements on Pages 5, 9 & 10 (because of Cash…