Meeting came to order at 7:01 PM. The Secretary called the roll. All ExComm members were present. Agenda is discussion of the New Mexico trademark suit. A motion to move to executive session for 45 minutes was passed. They have gone into executive session. We remain in executive session. 10 people who are not LNC members are waiting outside; unlike…
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Evan McMahon did a superb job of running the LNC meeting. Yes, he did once seem to have missed that the vote had been on the amendment not the motion, but the outcome was not changed. He had the good fortune that some of the less fortunate LNC members were not re-elected. The LNC has at least one excessively exuberant…
Live blog soon. The meeting is drifting toward order. There are 52 people including LNC members present. The meeting is being recorded; the livestream is not cooperating. Meeting comes to order at 7:07. Secretary calls the roll. All 18 members and all 9 alternates were present. Public comment: Chadderdon says we are defending our affiliate in New Mexico and should…
On time. Also, Remarkably early relative to some recent past Treasurers and their reports. Knebel writes: Attached please find the Libertarian National Committee, Inc. financial statements, as of May 31, 2026. Due to the Joint Fundraising Committee (JFC) impacts on the financial statements on Pages 5, 9 & 10, it is best to focus on the balance sheet data at…
With a tip of the hat to Kenny Martens, we are able to report the court documents filed to date in the LNC-LPNM litigation. He reports: The whole set are zipped up here: http://strangerthansf.com/lnc-v-lpnm/lnc-v-lpnm.zip I found the most interesting documents to be #1, the complaint, and exhibit #24, the bequest escrow agreement. This page gives a nice overview of the…
A week and a half after the LNC voted to disaffiliate LPNH, the LNC National Chair formally notified the LPNH that they were no longer the Libertarian Party’s affiliate party in New Hampshire. A PDF of the notice appears at this link. The 30 days for the LPNH to file an appeal, should it choose to do so, now begins.…
A message to our fellow Libertarians, from your newly elected Judicial Committee We’d like to again thank the delegates at the 2026 Libertarian National Convention for their trust and votes electing us to the Judicial Committee this year. We had quite a decision to make for filling the other five positions, and we received a lot of solicited and unsolicited…
Today is the Libertarian Party of Wyoming’s convention. Our affiliate will be hearing two discussion points that Wyoming is considering bringing to the JC. 1. The bylaws have strict requirements for affiliate autonomy, the LNC has violated the bylaws by using the trademark to infringe upon affiliate autonomy, using an asset to expand authority that is expressly forbidden under the…
We continue with Jake Porter’s coverage of the Rescue the Republic operation. Odd that the Libertarian Party would support a rally where their opponent is featured on the graphic. McArdle went so far as to authorize official Libertarian Party email blasts to promote this explicitly pro-Trump event. Pay-to-Play? The Post-Election Windfall The most alarming aspect of the JFC…
A Date with the Devil-Rendezvous at Mar-a-Lago The operation to neutralize the LP began with a text message in November 2023. Ric Grenell, Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence, reached out to then-Libertarian National Chair Angela McArdle, asking a simple question: What do Libertarians think of Donald Trump? Within weeks, Grenell flew to Texas to meet McArdle. During that trip, McArdle was…