Posted at Liberty For All on December 5:
by Angela Keaton

How’ve you been? I’m doing well. Been doing some serious thinking about the events of 2008. Hard thinking. Know many of you have been. The distance has given me some perspective. And while I am thrilled with the addition of Wes Benedict as Executive Director and [...]

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Noting the federal government’s lack of recognition for civil domestic partnerships, Outright Libertarians has issued a press release highlighting the social consequences, and price tag, of the proposed Domestic Partnership Initiative recently endorsed by the Libertarian Party of California

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Posted by Thomas Sipos in Libertarian Peacenik blog and in California Freedom, the monthly newsletter of the California Libertarian Party. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Aaron Starr has said that he finds the photoshop image reproduced below to be offensive, not funny.

My editorial in the January 2009 issue of California Freedom, which subscribers should [...]

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Phillies, in group email:
“…my state chair (Dave Blau) had a phone call from the LNC Acting Director, and in one of the early sentences the first two words form Mr. Krauss’s [sic] lips were, I am told, “please” and “disaffiliate”.”
The Massachusetts LP has passed resolutions at odds with the national LP leadership:
Libertarian Party [...]

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My plans are to return to Portugal on the 10th anniversary of my near arrest because I didn’t take Rick Steve’s advice after I read the book and squatting 20 lbs over my body weight by December of 09. My running mate is working on her golf game. I don’t approve.

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I have today contacted six active or prospective 2012 Libertarian presidential candidates — Michael Jingozian, Angela Keaton, Thomas Knapp, Robert Milnes, Wayne Allyn Root, and Barbara “Joy” Waymire — offering them the chance to “tell IPR readers what your plans are for 2009 and beyond” in 500 words or less. I will post “without [...]

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Following up on Sean Haugh’s article, Sexual Harassment at National? (discussed at IPR: Libertarian Party employee Sean Haugh: ‘Open season on women’ as long as Bill Redpath is LP national chair; Libertarian Party Transparency Caucus debate), Liberty For All has been publishing a number of followup articles.
In Sexual harassment at National: What to do [...]

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Members of the Libertarian Party Transparency Caucus are debating the controversy between chair Bill Redpath and Political Director Sean Haugh.
West Virginia LP chair Matt Harris writes,
I think we need to issue a release in support of Bill Redpath. A big part of Haugh’s assault was that Redpath chose to deal with the Keaton [...]

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Posted at the LP Transparency Caucus website.
Whereas the LP Transparency Caucus has been founded in the hopes of fostering a cohesive Libertarian Party where members of all factions can participate knowing that decisions are made in the sunshine – not the dark – by fostering greater openness and accountability in the running of the [...]

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In remarks published in Liberty for All, LP Political Director Sean Haugh details allegations of sexual harassment against former LNC member M Carling, and says that they led to the current sexual harassment policy in the LNC manual, which he quotes in his article. Haugh goes on to say,
The Resolution of Discipline against Angela [...]

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Letter from Angela Keaton. Posted at Ideas from Free Minds by Michelle Shinghal.
Dear friends and colleagues:
By the time you read this, I will be on a cross country flight back east. Earlier today, I resigned my seat on the Libertarian National Committee. You each deserve an [...]

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Friends:
This is to confirm that I have resigned my position on the Libertarian National Committee.
I did not do this as a result of pressure from either Mr. Garris or the LNC. In fact, a few LNC members apologized for any part they may have played in this. However, as long as Redpath, Sullentrup [...]

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Characterizing the LNC’s charges against Angela Keaton as a “witch trial,” Antiwar.com’s Eric Garris says the leaders of the Libertarian Party are “fixated on alienating those in their own party who still take libertarian principles seriously. Those who dissent from the LP’s new strategy of a watered-down platform and soft-Republican national politics will be unwelcome, [...]

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In an open letter to the LNC, LPNY chair Eric Sundwall says
In my estimation this is an internal political pogrom whose results may render the very fabric of our enterprise inoperable or at the very least permanently unpalatable to a large segment of membership. If we cannot function with a general transparency and proceed to [...]

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H/T George Phillies, in IPR comments:

MASSACHUSETTS PASSES RESOLUTION SUPPORTING KEATON
Whereas, Angela Keaton was elected with the strong support of the delegates at the 2008 Libertarian National Convention, and
Whereas furthermore, the lack of performance of the Libertarian Party this past election cycle, under what should have been ideal electoral circumstances, should be cause for serious reflection, [...]

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