Judicial Committee Hearing November 23 on Phillies Appeal of Harlos Suspension

This Saturday at 5:00 pm Eastern, the Judicial Committee will decide whether removing an officer for following the bylaws is allowed under the bylaws.

Dear Friends,

As you may have heard, the Libertarian National Committee suspended LNC Secretary Caryn Ann Harlos for filing nomination papers with the Colorado Secretary of State to put the 2024 Libertarian nominee for President, Chase Oliver, on the ballot because LNC Chair Angela McArdle had asked her to delay filing the nomination papers, something contrary to the Libertarian Party bylaws.

There are two appeals of this suspension, one from George Phillies that the LNC vote to suspend was contrary to the bylaws, and another from Caryn Ann Harlos herself as a matter of right under the bylaws.

The hearing on the Phillies appeal will be Saturday, November 23 at 5:00 pm Eastern time via Zoom.

Former Judicial Committee member Chuck Moulton has a very thorough amicus brief that details all the ways that the Libertarian National Committee has violated its own bylaws in an attempt to railroad an officer for supporting Chase Oliver instead of Donald Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Angela McArdle has been selling the Libertarian Party out to Donald Trump for the entire election cycle. She herself says on video that she made a deal with Donald Trump at Mar a Lago to use the Libertarian Party as a tool to win the election for the Republican candidate.

MAGArdle Confesses She Has Been Working for the GOP

Two different LNC members have brought derivative lawsuits against Angela McArdle’s actions, Best Vest and Caryn Ann Harlos. The documents from those cases describe in explicit detail how Angela McArdle has been diverting resources away from the Libertarian National Committee and toward the candidates of other political parties and toward nonprofit organizations that pay her bills.

She’s the most corrupt person to ever be Chair of the Libertarian National Committee, just take a look at the list of everyone who has ever held the position, names like David Nolan and David Bergland and Steve Dasbach and Jim Lark.

Angela McArdle is the first Libertarian Party Chair in history who has actively worked against the Libertarian candidate and for the Republican candidate.

Chuck Moulton’s closing in his amicus sumarizes the absurdity:

We don’t have to accept this as Libertarian Party members and supporters. We can fight back.
What can you do to help?

1. Attend the Judicial Committee Hearing. Don’t let them do their work in secret. They’ve already held Harlos’s trial in secret, in violation of both the bylaws as well as D.C. Open Meetings law which applice to the Libertarian National Committee. Be there to witness what gets done. Show up.

2. Contribute to the derivative lawsuit legal fund! We need to raise at least $10,000 more in order to fight back against Angela McArdle’s motion to dismiss. If the cases are dismissed, there is no meaningful way to take the Libertarian National Committee back from the people who have made it a tool of the Republican Party.
   
   

   McArdle and the Mises Caucus majority on the committee have already voted to spend $25,000 of the member’s money to try to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit against corruption.¹

3. Don’t contribute to an organization run by a Republican operative. In this video, Angela McArdle makes it very clear that she is working entirely for Trump and was during the entire election. It’s a literal confession to working for a rival political party and a rival party’s candidate. There’s no need to contribute to that unless you support the Republicans. She complains in the video that membership and revenue have both collapsed due to her actions, the latest financial show the party is barely solvent.

Hold fast!

-Nick

1. Even writing that sentence makes me furious.