Jake Porter’s Analysis & Investigations is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. McArdle Cover-Up Continues Below, I take apart the objections from LNC Member Andrew Chadderdon Region 1 Representative, Andrew Chadderdon explains his vote against adopting the Special Investigatory Committee’s 94-page report detailing former Chair Angela McArdle’s misuse…
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Chapter Twenty Seven Building Toward 2004 A Browne Campaign Without Browne In 2000, it cannot have escaped the attention of the cabals surrounding Presidential candidate Browne, National Chair Bergland, and their collaborators that a third Presidential campaign by the same candidate would be even less convincing than the first two campaigns had been. Furthermore, Browne was not that young. Even…
[Editor: This post was elevated from being a comment.] That “baseline” [Ed.: the $57,000 income the LNC had in December] used to be JUST the monthly pledge club donations. You could automatically count on $55-60k in recurring revenue plus another $70K in new or renewals. So base line of $130K without doing any other fundraising. All that for a sunk…
LNC Treasurer Bill Redpath has circulated the LNC financial results for December 2025. December 2025’s revenue decreased to $57,068. December Expenses totaled $82,443. The LNC’s Net income in December was thus -$25,376. National Director Hannah Kennedy reportedly opined that the $57,068 corresponds to a ‘return to baseline’. Total revenue for January through December 2025 was $908,865. YTD Expenses through December…
The State Board did allow supplemental election of ‘Associate’ members at biennial State Conventions. These elections were beauty contests. In 1998, following the state convention the Party state newsletter Mass Liberty listed addresses for 29 core party activists, ranging from the State Chair and Regional Chairs through to board members. Of these, 18 lived in Suffolk (Boston) or Middlesex (largely…
As reported on Jake Porter’s substack jakeporter.substack.com. The substack is donor-supported; consider going there and subscribing. Other Items The report also found: McArdle hired a neighbor on behalf of the party A website contract didn’t benefit the party and there are some potential conflicts surrounding it The committee investigated possible conflicts of interest regarding board member Pat Ford and McArdle for establishing…
LAMA Breathes Its Last What I had not anticipated when I left the LPMAPAC Board was that eastern Massachusetts activists would use their joint control of the LAMA and LPMAPAC Boards to destroy LAMA—the long-term LPUS affiliate— under the guise of a merger. The eastern group announced that they were going to merge the two organizations. The presentation of the…
As reported on Jake Porter’s substack jakeporter.substack.com. His substack is donor-supported; consider going there and subscribing. Jake Porter wrote: Swing Vote Strategist LLC-What the Report Found McArdle misled board member, Kathy Yeniscavich after I revealed payments from the party’s joint fundraiser with RFK Jr. were going to an address associated with McArdle. Background On 07/11/2024, the Executive Committee voted to…
From my book Funding Liberty LAMA used the clever approach to disaffiliation, namely changing the rules so that the PVLA was no longer eligible to be an affiliate. Quoting from my book Funding Liberty: “At the start of 2000, the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts Board, which was also controlled by the eastern group, changed its by-laws. They added a new…
As reported on Jake Porter’s substack jakeporter.substack.com. His substack is donor-supported; consider going there and subscribing. How much money did Freedom Calls, LLC raise for the party? The report claims that Freedom Calls LLC was paid $49,600 by the LP but only managed to raise somewhere between $0 and $2,468.57. McArdle Used Party Resources to Help Mises Caucus The following…