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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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…
The LNC continued to consider issues raised by the Famularo revelations: Several minor amendments were then accepted as friendly amendments or passed: Dixon moved to add “or any business controlled or owned by him” after ‘Perry Willis’ in the fifth paragraph. Dixon then moved to amend the fifth paragraph, increasing the specified time period from two years to five years,…
Several minor amendments were then accepted as friendly amendments or passed: Dixon moved to add “or any business controlled or owned by him” after ‘Perry Willis’ in the fifth paragraph. Dixon then moved to amend the fifth paragraph, increasing the specified time period from two years to five years, thereby extending the ban to include a Presidential election cycle. The…
The National Committee Acts The LNC met in August. It dealt at length with the Browne issue. Willis sent a written apology. Jim Babka read it to the LNC meeting. Babka said that he had received the message by FAX from Willis the day prior to the meeting. By report, the FAX read: “To the members of the Libertarian National…
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…
All Material in this article is taken from my book Funding Liberty, available at 3mpub.org. Chapter Twenty Three Apocalypse 2001 As Richard Nixon discovered in an earlier scandal centered in the same Watergate Building, it is a challenging task to keep quiet an elaborate conspiracy. The task is complicated by the correlations: Peculiar events occur in clusters. Nixon’s plumbers did…
Noting the unsatisfactory procedures of the past, Willis explains an alternative process for developing a campaign committee and infrastructure. His approach is astonishingly similar to what Willis and collaborators are now doing with Real Campaign Reform and the American Liberty Foundation, and are in significant respects similar to what Michael Cloud and Carla Howell are now doing with the Massachusetts…
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 …