The 1998-2000 National Committee was to be chosen at the 1998 National Convention, held in Washington, D.C. over the 4th of July weekend. Members and supporters of the Browne campaign worked vigorously to install a sympathetic National Committee. The National Chair candidate was David Bergland, Harry Browne’s 1996 Campaign Chair. In Bergland, Browne had a highly reliable supporter who was…
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Debate over the P Transaction continued through the April 1997 LNC meeting. According to its Minutes, “Steve Dasbach described an arrangement where contributors to the Harry Browne for President campaign received a subscription to LP News and the campaign gave $25 to the party. He noted a correction to the 1996 income statement: it should show a $58,050 credit to…
The P Transaction Accounting software is seldom the stuff of political machinations. Accounting and programming can be dry-as-dust topics. The P Transaction was different. Through the P Transaction, Perry Willis and the Browne Campaign cost the Party tens of thousands of dollars, enhanced Willis’s salary, and selectively increased the 1998 and 2000 delegate counts of pro-Browne states. How could an…
Chapter Four Pursuit of the Nomination Browne’s Opponents Speak We now reach 1996. The machinations of the Browne campaign remain underground, largely out of sight of loyal Libertarians across America. Until the revelations of 2001, only a select few suspected that matters were not quite as open and above board as they appeared. Among those select few were staffers and…
December 1995: The LNC Acts The December National Committee Meeting resumed its consideration of conflict of interest issues. LNC Treasurer Hugh Butler proposed a resolution: “Whereas, the LNC is aware that LP headquarters employees have accepted outside consulting work, and, in as much as the LNC deplores conflicts of interest within the Party, Therefore be it resolved that consulting work…
December 1995: The LNC Acts The December National Committee Meeting resumed its consideration of conflict of interest issues. LNC Treasurer Hugh Butler proposed a resolution: “Whereas, the LNC is aware that LP headquarters employees have accepted outside consulting work, and, in as much as the LNC deplores conflicts of interest within the Party, Therefore be it resolved that consulting work…
2025 Comment: Don’t worry, it gets worse. Finally, keep your eye on the above list of names. It may be [decades] later, and a few of the people are less visible, but many of the same people are still active in the Party. … In the third quarter of 1995 Willis was not paid at all by the Browne campaign.…
As written in the early noughts: My sources with old issues of Mass Liberty, the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts newsletter, quote from ‘An Interview with Harry Browne’ published in the June, 1995 issue: “As far as money is concerned, I don’t know how much we’ll raise, but we are aiming at 50 million dollars… We have a lot of avenues…
Dasbach’s interpretation is astonishing. The Policy Manual provided a blanket ban on ‘support’ with absolutely no qualification as to whether the support consisted of material goods or intangible services, whether it was donated or paid for, or whether or not it was reciprocated by the campaign. The claim that ‘support’ ceases to be ‘support’ if the supporter calls himself a…
Chapters are from my book Funding Liberty, available from Third Millennium 3mpub.com. (A few days ago, their money handler indicated that they are closing, so they are in the middle of switching to a new contractor. Momentarily, email me phillies@4liberty.com if you want a copy of the PDF of the entire volume.) Ahmad further noted that there was a…