Dear Libertarian,
Have you considered designating the Libertarian Party in your will?
Many Libertarians have done this and we are very thankful for their generosity. Their bequests have done tremendous good by growing the Party and spreading the timeless and precious message of Liberty.
To better honor these special folks, we are starting a new program called Legacy Libertarians.
Legacy Libertarians are Libertarians who want to leave a legacy of liberty and are doing so by designating the Libertarian Party as a beneficiary in their will.
The Libertarian Party will honor these generous supporters by listing their names on a permanent plaque at our headquarters.
Please know that current law places limitations on the amount we accept per year from any donor, including estates.
So, when generous Libertarians leave sums larger than the yearly limitation, the remainder goes into a trust that then transfers funds each year until all the money has been transferred.
We have sued the FEC over this law but that case is still pending.
But the important point is that there is no maximum limitation on the amount of money you can leave to the Libertarian Party in your will.
If you have any questions about including the Libertarian Party in your will, please email Head of Development Lauren Daugherty at [email protected].
I hope that you will consider becoming a Legacy Libertarian.
As always, thank you for your support of the Libertarian Party!
Wes Benedict
Executive Director
“Sad it took so many dips into the money bag before Willis decided to go elsewhere. I just got off the phone with Gail Lightfoot. We will be publishing a statement, with our relevant experiences, on Rebooting Libertarianism and on other venues which do not engage in censorship. ”
I will look forward to reading this.
Sad it took so many dips into the money bag before Willis decided to go elsewhere. I just got off the phone with Gail Lightfoot. We will be publishing a statement, with our relevant experiences, on Rebooting Libertarianism and on other venues which do not engage in censorship. IPR will receive a courtesy copy. Until then, read about the Torrance Refinery or other happy news.
Melinda, I recall the 1990s Dave Nolan as being very optimistic that the LP would be achieving major state and national electoral success by the early 2000s. So optimistic that I wondered what he had been smoking because, as you say, the pre-1990s Nolan was concerned about the direction of the Party when Mr. Turney was Chair. Why did the Perry Willis days in the mid to late 1990s generate this optimism in Dave or was it generated because he thought a new LP would arise when Willis eventually crashed and burned?
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March 28, 2017 at 10:49 Melinda, this statement of yours seems very curious to me:
“The LP was formed to be a resource enabling us to organize locally and move outside of the governmental framework using the free market and cooperative action.”
Didn”t David Nolan, in his call to form a Libertarian Party, explicitly visualize the LP working within the governmental election framework to get on the ballot, appear in debates, and reach the voters through the election process? And didn’t the LP, once it got rolling, actually take the steam out of other libertarian groups -such as the Society for Individual Liberty – who were trying “to organize locally and move outside of the governmental framework?”
I met Dave when he moved to Southern California and we started talking about the LP because we shared a concern for it as a freedom tool. Our common assumption was that the LP was just that, a tool. Both of us felt it was not working to produce what had been intended.
There was a fairly long series of conversations which included Dave relating to me the attempts by crane to employ him at one of their stink tanks. According to Dave Charles Koch nixed that. This incident took place before Cato moved to DC.
By the 90s and 00s the issues of concern were the scams being run by the LP nationally on donors and the lack of success in any meaningful direction. Dave agreed we needed to refocus local. He never said to me anything about working with government.
Cheers,
Melinda, this statement of yours seems very curious to me:
“The LP was formed to be a resource enabling us to organize locally and move outside of the governmental framework using the free market and cooperative action.”
Didn”t David Nolan, in his call to form a Libertarian Party, explicitly visualize the LP working within the governmental election framework to get on the ballot, appear in debates, and reach the voters through the election process? And didn’t the LP, once it got rolling, actually take the steam out of other libertarian groups -such as the Society for Individual Liberty – who were trying “to organize locally and move outside of the governmental framework?”
This is funny! The LP was formed to be a resource enabling us to organize locally and move outside of the governmental framework using the free market and cooperative action. If the LP had kept on task the job would be done today. Organizations are human tools. A tool which fails should not be perpetuated. It is like that clunky piece of furniture which occupies a corner in your house where you really want to put something useful but you hang onto it because your friend Ferd left it when he moved out after graduate school.
Leave the corner empty so you can imagine what is possible. Then, you can see what you want to make happen.
I think this is great! Instead of leaving all my debts to my children I can leave them to the LP instead! Wunnerful, wunnerful! 😉
Hmmmm, now I know who to leave all my office supplies to if I die in DC area!! I guess you can do a codicil that reads “as long as it keeps this, that and the other plank” of the platform…