By a vote of 14-0-3, the Libertarian National Committee passed a resolution recognizing the group headed by Mr. Cordio as the LNC’s Massachusetts affiliate. The only obvious consequence of this action, in the short term, is that the group headed by Mr. Graham will no longer receive lists of new national party members.
Libertarian National Committee Recognizes Cordio Board
That discussion did finally help me figure out who is who. I just assumed whoever as Mises dominated would win given the rapey takeover. So I’ll save this as the explanation of what happened should MisesCaucusExposed ever hit the ropes. Anyone with wordpress chops and a desire to eviscerate want to help?? ha ha ha Meanwhile there is https://twitter.com/MisesEXPOSED
However, the Libertarians must run a Lieutenant Governor candidate in order to put the Governor candidate on the ballot.
Echoing George on this, it’s my understanding that both the Graham and Cordio factions are favorable of Kevin Reed, the Libertarian gubernatorial candidate nominated at the Graham State Convention. I can’t confidently say the same for his running mate, who is associated with the Graham faction. Ditto on the Secretary of Commonwealth candidate who was nominated at the Graham State Convention. Lastly, there’s a candidate for Congress in the 6th district; however, I don’t think he’s necessarily affiliated with either faction.
It’s a fun time in the Bay State, clearly.
Tom, I sent dues to the Graham group, in good part so that I could read their members only pages and newsletter, which is closed to the public. I am in the same boat as the 47 people they expelled (or so a sample of the 47 says)…I never heard from them. I would do the same to the LLAMA group, if I ever find their web pages, assuming that their dues are reasonable.
I missed an effect of the expulsion. The Graham group Federal PAC is now arguably subject to the general PAC donation limit, not the larger affiliated state committee Federal PAC donation.limit.
Joe, I believe the Cordio group has nominated people for the statewide offices. Whether they can get them on the ballot is another question. However, so far as I know the Graham group has also not yet gotten their people on the ballot for statewide office. So far as I have heard, neither group has candidates for state legislature.
The point of the Mises PAC is simply to own the libs. Nothing more. They have been very successful at that due to a complete unwillingness of people to address the problem, literally for years. Many of those same people are now crying about their lost party and newfound victimhood. It will be interesting to see how the 2024 convention and ballot-access plays out.
How is the Cordio Board a legit organization? If a political party (or association in this case) isn’t running candidates for office, it can’t be considered a real political party.
@Thomas I confirm that the Graham group (of which I am Operations Director) retains control over all funds and other assets of LAMA, outside of a few Facebook pages of no significant value.
Ballot lines are controlled by candidates.
Ballot access for the POTUS/VPOTUS candidates in 2024 will be automatic only if we obtain 3% of the vote for one of the 5 statewide candidates (out of 6 total offices) that we are running. To my knowledge, the Cordio group isn’t running anyone for statewide office. For context, in every past election in which we have run at least one statewide candidate, we have reached the 3% threshold.
George,
Are you affiliated with either of these groups?
And do you know which one happens to have control of funds, any ballot lines, etc.?
Bob, yes. George
LAMA does not use the LNC computers to store its membership data or host its web site (though at one point they had voted to use CRM, they never went over to it, or so was stated during the hearing), so that computer usage was not an issue.
The LNC made the right decision.
Okay, so the LAMA had a convention, and the Cordio group had their own convention. Since the Cordio group is Mises PAC, the Mises PAC LNC voted to recognize them. I think I’m caught up now.
The board is being called the ‘Cordio Board’, as opposed to the ‘Graham Board’.
The Cordio group is to some extent going to be using the name ‘United Libertarians of Massachusetts’. Its officers, with perhaps one change, are
• Andrew Cordio, Chair
• Charlie Larkin, Treasurer & Archivist
• Scott Gray, Recording Secretary
• Jason Brand, Membership Director
• Janel Holmes, Political Director
• David Burnham, Operations Director
• Thomas Eddlem, Communications Director
• Brodi Elwood, Technology Director
• Daniel Garrity, Fundraising Director.
The Graham group has as its officers, according to its web pages:
Chair Don Graham [email protected]
Treasurer Cris Crawford [email protected]
Recording Secretary Derek Newhall [email protected]
Political Director Tara DeSisto [email protected]
Membership Director Christopher Thrasher [email protected]
Communications Director Vacant [email protected]
Operations Director David Blau [email protected]
Technology Director Julien Lafleur [email protected]
At Large Peter Everett
Wasn’t Cordio voted out at the last convention?