Libertarian National Committee Formally Censures New Hampshire Affiliate

The Libertarian National Committee has voted to censure the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire and invite it to voluntarily disaffiliate from the national organization following months of internal friction and public criticism over the affiliate’s online messaging.

A vote to censure closed September 19 with ten members in favor, including LNC Chair Steven Nekhaila. Four voted against the motion, with two abstaining and one not casting a ballot before the deadline. Among the no votes was Region 6 Representative Pat Ford, who represents the region in which the New Hampshire affiliate is located. Ford noted that he polled his member states before voting.

As the Libertarian Party’s bylaws do not include a formal process for censure, the resolution was treated as a main motion, requiring only a majority of votes cast to pass. A formal disaffiliation would have required three-fourths support from the full committee.

The measure was introduced September 12 by At-Large Representative Sam Bohler, who cited what he described as antisemitic and homophobic content shared by the affiliate. The motion referenced a 9/11-themed image depicting a Hasidic Jewish man piloting a plane toward the Twin Towers with the caption “We did it,” as well as the use of slurs in other posts. Bohler argued that the affiliate’s use of social media undermines the Libertarian Party’s commitment to individual dignity and damages its national reputation.

“LPNH’s posts have devolved into low-effort rage bait,” Bohler wrote. “The audience those posts attract is toxic, and as some of them join the affiliate, it will only push it further into deplorable rhetoric.”

This is the second censure targeting the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire introduced in 2025. A similar motion brought forward in May by Treasurer Bill Redpath, which also cited racist and antisemitic imagery and the state party’s endorsement of Republican Donald Trump during the 2024 election, failed in a 5–10 vote after it was combined with a proposal to censure the Libertarian Party of Colorado.

At the time, New Hampshire Chair Ben Weir warned that supporters of Redpath’s motion would face the state party’s “wrath” and released a set of self-imposed standards that the affiliate said would guide future messaging, while declining to apologize for its approach.

In response to Bohler’s newer motion, Weir, who also serves as Region 6 Alternate on the LNC, denounced the effort as a distraction from more pressing party needs. “Anyone who votes in favor of this or co-sponsors it is either a COINTELPRO operative or a woke communist infiltrator that needs to leave the Party,” he wrote ahead of the voting deadline. He later invited critical members to censure him as well, saying they “care more about virtue signaling than actually doing something positive to bring people together.”

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has not issued a formal statement following the censure. In a post on its X account responding to the Libertarian Party Alliance, an intercaucus coalition that shared news of the vote, the state party wrote: “We would tell you to suck our dicks, but we don’t want you to get your hopes up.”