The Libertarian Party of New Mexico has rejected the ultimatum from the Libertarian National Committee. In a letter to the LNC dated August 17, the Libertarian Party of New Mexico wrote “On August 9th, the Libertarian Party of New Mexico received a letter from the Libertarian National Committee Chair regarding our LPNM’s July 12th Constitutional Convention. “Below is our letter…
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However, all coverage is not good coverage. Taegan Goddard’s PoliticalWire.com, which is very widely read, reported: New Hampshire Candidate Rips 19th AmendmentJeremy Kauffman, who is running for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire as a Libertarian, called the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, as “the death of liberty.”
This is the liveblog of the LNC meeting on Idaho. Comments are at the bottom of the page.
On July 23, 2022, the Libertarian National Committee ("LNC") met online for several hours and heard complaints from members of the Libertarian Party of New Mexico (“LPNM”) regarding its most recent online convention held on or about July 12, 2022 (hereafter, “Constitutional Convention”).
LAMA, the “Libertarian Association of Massachusetts”, was until recently the Massachusetts affiliate of the national Libertarian Party. LAMA has a remarkable record of political inaction. It is still in operation, will likely put on the ballot a slate of candidates for statewide office, but the Libertarian National Committee now recognizes a different group, the Mises-associated “Legitimate Libertarian Association of Massachusetts”,…
John Rensenbrink, a co-founder of the Maine Green Party and the Green Party of the United States, died July 30 at age 93. Born in Minnesota, Rensenbrink was unable to attend high school as the death of his father required him to work on the family dairy farm. Nevertheless, he eventually earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University…
With original credit to Charles Curley, Editor at L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise. Murphy knows the Libertarian Party has the reputation of being fools, buffoons, knaves and worse. L. Neil Smith, after putting a lot of effort into it during its early years, withdrew and excoriated it for years thereafter. The recent convention did nothing to improve that reputation.…
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