The Liberal Party USA has added state affiliates in Montana and New Hampshire following its inaugural convention in Texas over the weekend. The party now has affiliates in twelve states, with more reportedly in progress.
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The two affiliates were added to an official map of state groups maintained by the Liberal Party USA following the convention, which took place from Friday to Sunday. During the event, delegates reelected interim chair Trish Butler, adopted a formal platform, and established a process for nominating a presidential ticket for future elections. The convention also featured several guest speaker panels, including presentations from former and current elected officials.
As of this article, details about the Montana affiliate and its leadership remain unavailable, and the group has not yet created an active web or social media presence. However, the New Hampshire affiliate, named the New Hampshire Classical Liberal Party, already has a functional website outlining its platform and accepting donations, as well as social media accounts that were established as early as this July.
According to its website, the New Hampshire Classic Liberal Party shares the Liberal Party USA’s stated commitment to pluralism, liberty, equality, and the non-aggression principle. The platform largely mirrors that of the Liberal Party USA, with some additional focus on specific issues like individual liberty and zoning laws. The leadership of the New Hampshire affiliate has not yet been publicly disclosed. However, the organization previously shared an opinion editorial by Daryl D’Angelo in local New Hampshire media, where she encouraged readers to formally join the new party.
Notably, D’Angelo was also a panelist at this weekend’s convention.
In addition to the two new official affiliates, an independent map created by supporters using information provided by delegates shows the party organizing in at least nine other states: Washington, Arizona, Alaska, South Dakota, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Maryland, and Florida. The map includes timestamps indicating when the information was submitted, with all nine states reporting activity during the final day of the convention. However, the map notes that it is not maintained by the party itself.
@Stewart Flood
Kudos on registering that domain before the party (or anyone else) did! Do you plan to exclusively source info directly from the national and state parties, or also from third party sources – no pun intended?
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@SolipsisticDungfly
Gotta “love” a (national) socialist pretending to have any respect for Socrates or labeling themselves a “gadfly”, while simultaneously thinking that good morals and solid ethics are somehow not prerequisites of and inherent to all anarchist theory.
Please feel free to keep not coming here, because your watermelon brand of Brenton Tarrant and Greta Thunberg eco-fascism and anti-semitism won’t be missed. Or do, if you prefer, and keep entertaining us by humiliating yourself as usual… You are free to make bad choices and to bear their consequences. U+1F60F
Gotta “love” a person who appears to have Religious Right sexuality values, while he self-professes to be an anarchist, and yet doesn’t know what the 700 Club is.
The more and more I don’t come here, the more and more I don’t miss it, except for the laffs. (And, the clownish type of demagoguery on some other posts.)
As noted in my commentary on third party watch on Sunday, I maintain theliberalparty.org
One of the key features and intent of this site is to give you direct links to the most commonly sought after information when looking up a state affiliate.
I am in the process of obtaining information on the new affiliates being formed.
I have no clue what the “700 Club” is – a perfunctory search suggests some kind of modernist protestant schismatism, heresy or apostasy – but good that you also recognize your ignorance of the English language and irreverence of morals is laughably pathetic.
Now, are you denying that fornication is libertine? Are you pretending that sexual intercourse except between husband and wife, would ever be permissible, much less acceptable, to any libertarian? Or what is the cause of your risible loss of glutei maximi? U+1F60F
Sorry, I’m laughing my keister off at someone who still uses the term “fornication” and then refers to it as “libertine”. Someone needs to stop watching the 700 Club.
“it may emerge as a Libertarian-Lite party. […] i suspect that this party may […] be influenced by CATO type thinking.”
God forbid. The Cato Institute’s anti-libertarianism, is exactly why the Mises Institute and the Randolph Club were founded, and CATO has only gotten more statist and totalitarian since then. (See https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2024/06/libertarian-author-and-cato-institute-leader-david-boaz-passes-away-at-age-70/#comments )
“It is apparently that concept of libertarianism that particularly annoys Lew Rockwell”
As it should. Because what neoliberal LINOs pretend is “social liberalism”, is in fact cultural marxism, which is libertine not liberal – e.g. fornication, adultery, homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, feminism, infanticide, senicide, etc.
By that false definition of “social liberalism” then, libertarianism and classical liberalism must necessarily be socially conservative, but – to distinguish (paleo)libertarianism from (paleo)conservatism – on an individualist rather than on a collectivist basis. Which, to come back around, is completely compatible with actual social liberalism, in which individuals voluntarily (separately or together) take care of those in need (i.e. corporal works of mercy, Matthew 25)
Walter, when Ed Clark ran for President, he did not characterize himself as a “low-tax liberal.” There was a different source for the concept of “low-tax liberal,”
All through 1980, The Libertarian Party ran ads in Reason and Libertarian Review to promote the party and the Clark campaign. One ad, run several times, invited libertarians to join “the core of the new coalition…” which might include antiwar conservatives, low-tax liberals and others. Low -tax liberals, perhaps along the lines of William Proxmire or Jerry Brown, were seen as a potential source of supporters for Libertarian candidates. It was not a new way to refer to libertarians.
Sometime libertarians have referred to themselves as being “economic conservatives and social liberals” or “economically conservative, and socially liberal.”
It is apparently that concept of libertarianism that particularly annoys Lew Rockwell, who is opposed to social liberalism, except for legalizing drugs. And the description of The Libertarian Party as “economically conservative and socially liberal” seems to have led Michael Heise to form the “Mises” Caucus, with the apparent purpose of destroying The Libertarian Party.,
Anyway, no mascot will help them, but especially not something few people will even recognize.
Anyway, bisons are herd animals. This new party needs something with more individuality. Maybe a bobcat?
Rick posted:
“So… another left wing party? What’s wrong with what is currently out there?”
I think it is premature to conclude that the orientation of the new party is leftist. Given that many of the members of the new party are former Libertarians, it may emerge as a Libertarian-Lite party.
I recall when Ed Clark ran for President in 1980 as the Libertarian candidate, he characterized himself as a “low-tax liberal.” i suspect that this party may have a Clark-Crane character and be influenced by CATO type thinking.
I doubt many people would recognize the bison. The terrible name is just the tip of the iceberg of their problems.
https://thirdpartywatch.com/2024/10/21/opinion-the-era-of-parties-is-over/
Not a good party name but an excellent logo. Put little wings on the bison and watch the lawsuits happen!
Unless Laura Ebke has some horrible leftist skeletons in the cupboard that I am yet unaware of, nominating a candidate like her – i.e. to the right of every presidential candidate the Libertarian Party has nominated since Ron Paul – already suggests a marked difference with left wing parties.
Despite their bizarre anti-Mises Caucus, anti-Dallas Accord origins, if the Liberal Party manages to continue making such nominations, then I sincerely wish them the best of luck. The more not completely statist options to choose from, the merrier.
So… another left wing party? What’s wrong with what is currently out there?