An email exchange on the LNC Public list vanished. Part of it later rose from the grave. The LNC-Public list featured a question by Keith Thompson followed by an exchange between Thompson, LNC Chair Evan McMahon, and Regional Representatives Austin Martin and Alfa Shaw. At the end, the emails all vanished from the LNC-Public list. On looking, I received a…
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LP Judicial Committee Censors Krawchuk’s Dissent in Martin v LNC The Judicial Committee has acted on Austin Martin, et al.,’s appeal of the LNC decision on seating James Wylie as an LNC Regional Alternate. The Judicial Committee’s version of the opinions of its members has been issued. The Judicial Committee stated, last sentence of their report: “Mr. Krawchuk’s opinion has…
Mr. Nekhaila also called upon Mr. Martin to resign from the LNC. An extended discussion followed, involving also Mr. Chadderdon, Mr. Bohler, and Mr. Wiley. The discussion follows. It is long. In places, it is heated. The Bylaws Justification for removing Mr. Martin from the email lists, is unclear. From: Austin Martin <austin.martin@lp.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 2:07 PM…
LNC Chair Nekhaila announced that he would offer at the 9/7 LNC meeting a motion to censure Austin Martin, his announcement reading: I move the following: Whereas, LNC Policy Manual §1.07.4(B)(I & II) prohibits LNC members from (I) disparaging the LNC or the Party and (II) engaging in ad hominem or otherwise indecorous attacks against fellow board members in any…
Note that the first of the following messages predates the Martin-Nekhaila dispute we reported on yesterday. We close with Nekhaila’s message announcing he will seek censure of Martin. From: Matt Johnson <matt.johnson@lp.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 6:07:13 PM To: Austin Martin <austin.martin@lp.org>; Meredith Hays <meredith.hays@lp.org>; Steven Nekhaila <steven.nekhaila@lp.org> Cc: Paul Darr <paul.darr@lp.org>; LNC Board <lncboard@lp.org> Subject: Re: Breach of…
Third Party Watch has learned from an unimpeachable source that Austin Martin, Hector Roos, and others have prepared three appeals to the LNC Judicial Committee. The first was sent to the Judicial Committee on [Ed.: July] 21. The other two are to be submitted. [Ed. The second has apparently also been submitted.] Appeal One discusses LNC actions held to be…
LP Member Austin Martin has proposed a series of tactical steps to advance the Libertarian Party. The steps are somewhat reminiscent of those proposed by former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean to advance his party, the details being different, namely large numbers of boots on the ground tasked with doing party-building. His full proposal appears as Resolution-in-Support-of-PDR (1). Knowledgeable readers…
Readers who joined your Editor in watching yesterday’s LNC meeting will have noted repeated interruptions by the same person, so far as could be told the LP Hawaii Chair, screaming denunciations of the meeting until he was ejected. We have since learned that he apparently also sent a threatening message to every LNC member. The message follows: From: LPHI Chair…