We have recently received a copy of the LNC Budget for 2026, as passed by the Libertarian National Committee on December 7, 2025. One would ordinarily have expected this budget to have become available quite some time ago, for example, by the start of 2026, so that the staff would have known how much money it was authorized to spend.…
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LNC for November — Where Your Money Went But first, to acknowledge the generosity of some fine Libertarians, the six largest donations in November were: $44,300 $2,147 $1,029 $1,000 $925 $515 And where did that money go? Some of it went directly to politics: Outreach and activism $23 Voter Gravity $3000 Some of it went to things needed to do…
For November 2025 the LNC reported $99,331 of income and $65,435 of disbursements. Debts and obligations owed by the committee came to $35,958, essentially all of which was various credit card balances. Cash on hand at the end of the reporting period amounted to $893,845. The income included $68,962 in itemized income, including one donation of $44,300, and $27,612 in…
Hello Libertarians. This is the tenth of a series of opinion articles I’ll be privileged to write for you once per month on an “inside baseball” topic for the Libertarian Party. I encourage everyone who has an opinion on whatever we’re talking about this month to comment or send phillies@4liberty.net your longer editorials, which may well be published. A few…
[ADDENDUM FROM THOMPSON-See Bottom] From: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: 2026 Budget Submitted by ExCom to the LNC Good afternoon, In listening to the budget proposal meeting and looking over the spreadsheet, I’m interested in a few items. I feel like these could be answered by me re-reading the budget while wearing a tiny green accounting visor, but the list has…
An Open Letter from former National Treasurer Todd Hagopian As a former National Treasurer, I am writing this open letter to the members of the LNC. Please do your job. We elected you to make the tough calls, when nobody is looking, not to pass CYA budgets that keep everyone quiet, while pushing the party to the brink of bankruptcy.…
On November 29 at 10AM the LNC had a budget meeting. The budget went up on the screen, but was barely legible. The screen display sometimes made it hard to tell who was talking. Nonetheless: Present are Nekhaila, Darr, Watkins, Redpath, McMahon. Ford was absent. The other members of the budget committee are absent. Redpath: There is a proposed budget.…
Based on the numbers here, the LNC has about $90,000 free cash above its current debt, and is running a deficit of around $15,000/month, so in the absence of significant variations or other changes the LNC will run out of money by the end of the year. The full report is seen at …
LNC Treasurer Redpath submitted his end-of-February Financial Report. Of particular note: “It is my understanding now that [Editor: the Kennedy Victory Fund] will be running out in the next two or three months.” Redpath’s report indicates: Cash was at $244,723, while various liabilities summed to $126,136. Year-to-Date Total Revenue is $201,523, below the budgeted amount of $240,000. Of that, $117,089…
We have received a spreadsheet form an unimpeachable source, comparing our end-of-February 2024 data with the matching information from end-of-February, 2020. There were five checking/savings accounts, namely two unrestricted accounts, and three restricted accounts, the restricted accounts being Convention, Building, and Legal. The Legal account was empty. The LNC had just under $306,000 cash on hand in 2020, and over…