Chapter Twenty Eight Learning From History This has been a painful book to write. For most of the past decade, (ending in 2000) our Party has been in the grip of a cabal whose working methods, principles, and objectives have been less than entirely consistent with Libertarian Principle. Who is responsible for what happened? And what should we do about…
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In writing this, Gorman of course understood that LNC, Inc. is a large, complicated organization, with 4 National Officers, 5 At-Large members, 9 Regional Representatives, 9 Alternates, paid staffers, interns, contractors,… It was exceedingly likely that some of them did not know what was going on. Blaming everyone without exception for not blowing the whistle is not appropriate, even though…
Commenters saying that the LNC’s treatment of its building donors was deceptive should realize that such deceptions have a long and unfortunate history. We return to 2001, and LP News’s deceptive coverage of teh scandal that John Famularo revealed. Chapter Twenty Four of My Book Funding Liberty Aftershocks The LP News Cover-Up LP NEWS is [George writes: Well, it was…
My contacts associated with the Browne campaign report that Browne was a truly excellent small-business manager. He was closely aware of all the details of his campaign’s activities. Could he have been unaware of events? Why was there an interest in suggesting that Browne might be absolved of responsibility, in the absence of a denial from Browne that he had…
The Executive Committee further voted a “recommendation” that no action be taken to involve the Libertarian Party in any other project proposed or managed by Browne or Willis, until the full LNC had acted. Dehn as author of the resolution placed into the record of the meeting what his own motion meant: ‘it is also important to make it clear…
The following table shows the finer details. I give pre-convention spending, post-convention spending, the full-year total for 2000, and the total for all four years of the campaign. Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand. I’ve dropped some of the least-paid employees from the list. In some cases, payments to people were either payroll or salary. In other cases, the…
Slight typo in headline fixed. For the quarter most spending went to long-time campaign associates and their firms, including: Jim Babka $8,517 (salary) Harry Browne $1,000 (travel office supplies phone) Robert Brunner $5,375 (travel office supplies salary) Laura Carno $3,452 (salary) Robert DeVoil $5,726 (printing office supplies & data entry) Robert Flohr $3,785 (salary) Jennifer Willis $2,800 (salary) Steve Willis …
Myth #4. Libertarians on the average have some preference for the Republican Party over the Democratic Party. In fact, to the extent that they had a preference, more Libertarians were apparently willing to sacrifice their Libertarian vote to rescue a Democrat than they were to sacrifice their Libertarian vote to rescue a Republican. I compared the change in the Harry…
Myths in Ruins The election outcome did, however, crush several myths about Libertarian Presidential strategy: Myth #1. If we run a celebrity we’ll get substantial vote totals, five or ten percent of the vote, and become a major player. In 2000, the Green Party did this. They ran Ralph Nader, who is about as well known as you can get…
Excuse #2 “The election was close. Our 1996 voters instead voted for the Democrat or Republican.” The election was close in a few states. In many other states the election was anything but close. Gore carried Massachusetts by 24 points; Bush carried Utah and other states by 40 points. Most people in most states have a reasonable sense of who…