Discussion from the LNC Public Email List: Keith Thompson wrote: Article 7, Section 15 of the bylaws requires that all meetings, except for functions requiring executive session, be conducted in open session. An “open session” is open to the public or membership where people can attend and observe the proceedings. Prohibiting live streaming except when specifically voted to allow would…
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As submitted for this Sunday’s meeting: Adam Haman: I am noticing the attached at the request of Mr. Chadderdon. He will speak to the motion at the meeting. Motion to amend policy manual to remove the “public list” for discussions and debate, encourage substantive business requiring debate to be done in meetings. In Section 1.02 – Meetings, – Strike subsection…
The Libertarian Transparency Caucus VEHEMENTLY objects to Amendment 1.02 Clause 10. The LNC is obligated in all moral and ethical sense to be transparent to the membership in its activities and meetings to the maximum extent possible, not to mention fiduciary duty. Requiring a majority vote of the LNC to livestream or webcast LNC meetings is tantamount to censoring the…
The LNC will meet this Sunday at 5PM EST. Meeting length is estimated as three hours. LNC Member Jonathan McGee has announced three items of business: In my capacity as a member of the LNC, I am noticing the following three business items for the October 6th LNC Meeting: 1) Notice to hear the Investigatory Committee Report with recommendations of…
Readers will recall that LNC Chair Angela McArdle attacked LNC Treasurer Bill Redpath for not doing his job as Treasurer. Redpath indicated that so soon as petitioning had finished for the cycle he would indeed be reporting. He has now advised the LNC that they will receive a report from him soon. There is an amended FEC report forhtcoming. There…
The Libertarian Party of Georgia governing board has voted to join the Kennedy joint fundraising campaign. Readers will not that Georgia is Chase Oliver’s home state, so we see Oliver’s own state party stabbing him in the back, raising money for one or another of his opponents. (Third Party Watch has thusfar been unable to confirm rumors that money raised…
For the 2024 US House of Representatives elections, the count of candidates is quite small. The three major third parties are running candidates, in their usual order by party size (count according to Ballot Access News): Libertarian Party – 71 candidates Green Party – 34 candidates Constitution Party – 17 candidates Other parties are running even fewer candidates. In some…
Michael Ter Maat and the FEC have a disagreement over his non-filing of a financial disclosure form. We have been supplied with a copy of their correspondence. The letter from the FEC to Ter Meet is here. Ter Maat’s response is here.
The Kennedy Victory Fund raised $947,182 in large donations. The LNC received $92,300 from the Kennedy Victory Fund for administrative expenses, $11,804 from the Mapstead and Ter Maat campaigns corresponding we believe to parts of the hotel bill, and $14,091 in other itemized donations. There were also $56,994.21 in unitemized donations. These total to $175,192. For the month, the normal…
Executive Committee came to order at 6:06 PM. All ExComm members other than Caryn Ann Harlos were present. (Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Yeniscavich, Watkins, Ford) Also Nekhaila, Bost, Vinson, Haman, Chadderdon, Thompson, Hays, Malagon, Dassing, and a couple people whose names I could not hear clearly. No one had public comment. Chair moves to encumber up to $25,000 for legal…