The outcome, after an executive session meeting:
Harlos: Move to authorize the Chair to proceed with the legal actions regarding Massachusetts discussed in Executive Session.
Motion passes 5-0-0 Smith absent, Chair not voting.
Public comments Roland Braelith Virginia Asks LNC support for reaching out to VA members that there will be a VA state convention.
Paul Lynch MA Thank you for taking the time tonight to deal with our issue.
Bowen: Move to adjourn. Without objection. A two hour meeting.
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At the start of the meeting, I used chat to give the LNC one piece of advice and one piece of information. The advice was that in addition to considering what your friends want, you should consider how their opponents are likely to respond to whatever they do. The news, not good news but news, was that the Association of Libertarian State Parties has risen and now has a web site ALSP.VOTE, and working emails for CHAIR and INFO.
Caryn Ann Harlos asked that I be removed from the zoom meeting and directed to youtube, because I refused to do something. She proposed to offer a motion to remove me.
I stated that her claim was a lie, that I had not been asked to do anything. Chair McArdle ruled that removing my comments was not what she would do. Harlos decided not to offer a motion. It appears to me that Harlos is not fond of receiving contradictory inputs.
“Move to authorize the Chair to proceed with the legal actions regarding Massachusetts discussed in Executive Session.”
“I move that we secretly do that secret thing that we discussed in secret” seems like a defective motion.
The supposed purpose of executive session (secret meetings) is to DISCUSS things. DOING things has to happen in public.
Steve,
The LPMC really isn’t the best fit for her–ideologically, she is much more in aligned to the Radical Caucus–but of course they rallied to reinstall her because she crusaded against the LNC during the LPNH debacle.
Given that she violently torched her bridges to the traditional LP factions and has no friends left outside the Mises Caucus because she accused everyone the least bit critical of her behavior of corruption and bigotry (against women, against Aspies, against Christians, against pink-haired eccentrics, etc.), going on profanity-laced binges of targeted verbal abuse leading up to Reno, the loyalty of her new caucus is all she feels she can count on. And for all her boasting about brutal logical and moral consistency, she has proven herself to be a first-rate hypocrite, or at best woefully naive and blind to the irony of the Mises LNC inserting itself into the affairs of non-Mises-controlled affiliates.
I’m kind of surprised the relationship hasn’t cooled yet, considering her two-faced, histrionic obnoxiousness and self-described “SJW” tendencies, but time will tell. Eventually the Secretary will outlive her usefulness. They’re still busy pushing non-members out of the party. Once there’s no external opposition left to a Rothbardo-Hoppean, MAGA-adjacent takeover, they’ll turn on their own impure and thorny gadflies such as Harlos, replacing her with someone less irritating and more manageable.
My experience has been well she is manipulative and can’t be trusted to provide info that doesn’t support the outcome she wants.
I don’t think this is the kind of national attention the LP wanted . . . yet here it is and it was very predictable. The LP has destroyed itself from within.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3680007-the-libertarian-party-is-collapsing-heres-why/
Yes, but only because she knows what she knows with certainty and is more principled than anybody else.
She called George a “liar” and said she too ” has a media outlet”.
George is many things , a liar is not one of them.
Also she must have a VASTLY different idea on what makes a “media outlet” lmao
Whatever her other gifts or drawbacks, Ms. Harlos is definitely not fond of being contradicted.