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Harlos Moves: Rescind Kennedy Fundraiser. McArdle: Out of Order! Dilatory!

From the LNC Public List: Harlos: I move to rescind the Joint Fundraising Campaign due to changed circumstances of RFK, Jr. endorsing Trump so that inevitably even in states he has not withdrawn from monies raised will go to support the duopoly we oppose and its character is thus fundamentally different from what was passed. McArdle: This is out of…

Editorial: Bottom Up or Top Down!

Readers who listened to the second day of the recent LNC meeting will have noted the argument about strategy. The Project Decentralized Revolution! that the LNC endorsed is based on running people for local, city, and county office. There is no mention of running people for statewide or Federal office. . The contrary opinion was advocated by one LNC member,…

LNC Creates Committee to Investigate Harlos

With thanks to Paul Darr whose computer microphone gave us some coverage of the second day of the meeting. Mister Haman moves that this Board adopts the following resolution (approximate text): McGee, Ford, Malagon to investigate allegations of misconduct against Caryn Ann Harlos, which if true cast doubt on her fitness to continue in office, and report resolutions if allegations…

LNC Adopts New Goals for the Next Three Years

Three cheers for Paul Darr for livestreaming the second day of the meeting, even though he only had his computer mike to pick up sound. LNC Votes on a Strategic Plan. So far as I could tell goals were 1) Recruit 500 candidates over three years. 2) Increase our annual budget to two million in three years and 1.5 million…

8/24/2024 LNC Meeting

We are grateful to Paul Darr for supplying a link through a telephone. Signal quality is a bit mixed. There is occasional loud static. Ter Maat is speaking.  He predicts that the country will have a financial collapse in mid-century.  Apparently the Board did something yesterday.  He is praising them for whatever they did.   I am here in part to…

Editorial: More Bad LNC Motions Forthcoming

The LNC has two major proposals for action, namely That the LNC endorse the initiatives to pass Defend the Guard legislation across the United States and  recognize doing so as an official strategy and issue coalition of the Libertarian Party. (Watkins) 10 minutes Move to make Project Decentralized Revolution the officially endorsed strategy of the Libertarian Party. Watkins (10 minutes)…

More States Oppose Joint Fundraising Agreement

The list of state Libertarian Parties passing resolutions opposing the Joint Fundraising Agreement with Kennedy has now grown to 12.  When previously reported  by this newspaper, the list was only eight states.  The twelve states are Louisiana Mississippi Idaho Oklahoma Missouri Texas South Carolina Utah Indiana Ohio Washington Illinois We have received a copy of the Utah Resolution, but gather…

Kennedy Drops Out of Race!

The Kennedy Presidential campaign has filed a statement of voluntary withdrawal with the Arizona Secretary of State, as reported by the Libertarian Party of Louisiana at https://www.facebook.com/groups/254985825071721/?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL.  He will no longer be on the ballot there. His campaign committee can keep raising money.  

More States Oppose Joint Fundraising Agreement

For unclear reasons, the software assigned this post to Mr. Flood.  This was an error, here corrected. The type of error in question has never been noticed before. The list of state Libertarian Parties passing resolutions opposing the Joint Fundraising Agreement with Kennedy has now grown to 12.  When previously reported  by this newspaper, the list was only eight states. …