It’s a multi-page fundraising letter. It announces that the LNC has returned to many of the activities it had abandoned in recent years. It’s a good news letter. It reads: You Were Right, We Were Wrong! But We’re Making Changes! Fellow Libertarian, You let your Libertarian Party membership lapse for one or more reasons. Are any of those reasons on…
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[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…
The Membership Responds During the 2000 campaign, there had been repeated warnings that all was not as well as might have been hoped with Browne’s campaign. A series of pointed letters from Bumper Hornberger, all given wide electronic distribution, had outlined issues of concern. Liberty Magazine gave significant coverage to Libertarian party issues. Writing prior to the revelation of the…
When Mises Caucus Chair Angela McArdle seized control of the Libertarian Party and sold it out to Donald Trump and RFK Jr., Libertarian women on the LNC stood up against open corruption on the board. NICHOLAS SARWARK Dear Friends, Unless you are in healthcare compliance law or live in Louisiana, you probably don’t know Beth Vest. If you’re not in…
Now go back to April 2000. On April 24, 2000, Willis claimed that the Browne campaign was in debt by more than $80,000. Between April 24 and the end of the month, only a small fraction of that alleged debt could have been paid off. According to the FEC reports, at the end of the month almost no debt remained.…
Browne justified his lawsuit by complaining about FEC regulations. As a free speech issue, Browne had a point. Browne’s political complaints were of less merit. Browne said that if he listed major donors on his FEC report, the donors were potentially subject to harassment by duopoly party supporters. This issue has already been litigated, successfully, by one of the Socialist…
What the LNC Should Do Opinion by Scott Kohlhaus Instead of stressing issues, which we already know and care about, it’s time to go back to basics and stress organizational issues. 1. 7 total renewal LETTERS (emails don’t count), up to 3 before they lapse and up to 4 after they lapse. 2. Direct MAIL fundraising pieces to current donors…
All from my books Finding Liberty as seen at 3mpub.com. You are free to obtain a copy of this book and circulate it to your fellow Libertarians. Chapter Eleven The Browne Campaign and the Federal Elections Commission Because this Chapter is a bit dry, I open with a: Summary Under Federal Law, Presidential candidates who have raised at least $5000…
The size of the ‘management fee’ is anomalous. On one hand, in Summer 1996 then-Party-Chair Steve Dasbach claimed to Dean Ahmad and Jesse Markowitz that Willis had been paid to produce a ‘document’ for Browne and that Willis produced Browne’s document “…on his own time and he was paid market rate for the work.” This document for the Browne campaign…
The state of financial support by Libertarians of the Oliver Presidential campaign is a disgrace to the good name of our party. Most Libertarians should be ashamed of the state to which our Presidential campaign has been reduced. As of the same date in the campaign, here is the amount of money raised by the Oliver campaign and each of…