The LNC Ballot Access Committee has presented a report identifying $130,000 in Presidential ballot expenses for this year. $15,000 has already been allocated.The lead current expense is $45,000 to run a candidate for Auditor in Massachusetts. If he gets 3% of the vote, few signatures would be needed in 2028 to put the Libertarian candidate on the November election ballot.…
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In Summer 2002, Bill Winter announced his intent to step down as editor of LP News. He was put on part-time status, at full-time pay, while working from a remote site, to discharge debts the party owed him. In 2002, the campaign groundswell for Carla Howell encountered a series of difficulties. Instead of a three-way race against a Democrat and…
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…
Coordination between campaigns was rather limited. As it turned out, none of the Libertarians who had volunteered to run for state legislature were in my Congressional District, so I was unable to share petitioners. The statewide slate did no advertising on Worcester-area (my Congressional district) media outlets, under the pretext that they advertised on Boston outlets that could be heard…
Having declined to seat the PVLA representative, the State Board used the meeting to take a de facto stand on local organization. Presented with nearly 20 candidates whom they had recruited to run for the State Legislature, the State Board agreed at the meeting to give those candidates no help in getting on the ballot. If the candidates wanted to…
In 1998, the eastern group that was running the State Party decided both to run a full slate of candidates for state office, or as close as could be obtained. They also decided to encourage Party members to run for the state legislature. Candidates were obtained for five of the six statewide offices (no Libertarian attorney would agree to run…
From My Book Funding Liberty. In 1996, there was a small Libertarian activist group in Worcester. Our candidate for State Representative missed getting on the ballot through a fluke. His erstwhile Democratic opponent, Representative Binienda, was, nonetheless, annoyed by our candidate’s efforts to run for office. He rammed a bill through the state legislature doubling the number of signatures required…
We return to 1996-1998. I allowed that because the Party had managed to get its candidates on the ballot in 1994, we would also do so in 1996. I do not remember reservations being raised by other members of the state party. Indeed, the-then-State-Chair proposed that after we got me on the ballot, we should try to get a second…
LNC Income Improves from Spring In September 2025, the LNC’s itemized and unitemized donations came to $82,939. The LNC also had $3394 in other Federal receipts. Correspondingly, it had $67,392 in expenses and $5,127 transferred to other political committees. In August 2025, the LNC had $107,936 in itemized and unitemized donations and $110,783 in expenses. For the month of September…
We report their half-year financials: LAMA (the Liberal Party Associate) raised $1,965.00 spent $998.31 and has $1,753.12 in its Federal account. Spending included $319 for its State Convention and $257 for postage. Liberty Tree (the state PAC of the Liberal Party associate) raised $0, spent $0, and has $1,673.47 in its state account. Unified Libertarians of Massachusetts (the LNC affiliate)…