For the period January 2023 to date. We see that the Green Party raised less than a sixth of the funds raised by the Libertarian Party, and the Constitution Party raised slightly more than six percent as much as the Libertarian Party. LNC Beginning cash on hand $255,395.26 Total receipts $2,266,776.50 Total disbursements $2,172,385.54 Ending cash on hand $349,786.22 Debts/loans…
Third Party Watch
We anticipate that FEC reports for significant third parties will be filed by day’s end, so that we will have a comparative report and more detailed reports in a few days. For the Libertarian Party, the full staff report to their National Committee is now at the link. I summarize: The LNC financial report covering July is now available. Of…
The issue was whether or not the LNC had acted correctly in claiming that Wisconsin was part of Region 1. The issue was whether or not the Wisconsin State Chair had the authority under the state party bylaws to sign the needed agreement. The Judicial Committee ruled that the signature and agreement were valid. There are actual two reports, the…
This filing is from the Saliba (non-Chadderdon) faction seeking relief from actions of the Chadderdon faction. You can read the filing, presented here as an attachment.
Angela McArdle, LNC National Chair, has demanded that the Libertarian Party candidate for President, Chase Oliver, be removed from the Colorado ballot, via the mechanism of removing the Oliver Electors. The above was received by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, as confirmed by public release as part of a data dump from CORA (Colorado Public Records). You can read…
After several days of quiet, we have a surplus of news items. The LNC Judicial Committee has ruled against Wisconsin in the State Committee complaint against the National Committee. Their ruling is 21 pages long. We have uploaded it so that you may read it. More news later.
Harlos withdraws from the legal committee. She writes: Please consider this my resignation my from the legal committee. I learned a great deal from my work but cannot continue. I wish to concentrate on APRC and Secretarial work. The BAC ends in November so that time will be freed then. ————— The LNC ExComm is voting on a contract with…
Angela McArdle has moved that the ExComm approve a contract with Strategists, Inc. for board training. She wrote: Last term we considered doing boardroom training and then decided not to. I think that was a mistake and I’d like us to do a training at the August meeting. Steven Nekhaila referred us to Debbie Maison, who gave me an excellent…
We are in the process of adding links to PDFs of a series of Libertarian news magazines having foci similar to ours. You can see them on the dropdown list Other Magazines. Note Liberty for America, Liberty for Massachusetts. Let Freedom Ring/CMLC Liberator, and Libertarian Strategy Gazette.
[Editor: We received this as a comment, but it is long enough, well-thought-out enough, and important enough that we are elevating this comment to the status of a full post.] Opinion Post by Bob: While I can respect the desire for judicial restraint in the majority opinion, their interpretation is so vapid and toothless that it would leave the LNC…