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Libertarian Party Secretary Files Lawsuit To Remove Party Chair Angela McArdle

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11.10.2024

Libertarian Party

Brian Doherty | 10.10.2024 5:11 PM

Caryn Ann Harlos, the elected secretary of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC)—the national governing board of the Libertarian Party (L.P.)—filed a lawsuit last week against the LNC and its elected chair, Angela McArdle, for being disqualifyingly disloyal to the country's third-largest political party.

Harlos charged in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that McArdle, who was reelected this May to a second two-year term as chair, "has violated her fundamental fiduciary duties and duties of loyalty to…the Libertarian Party…through self-dealing, divided loyalties, outright violations of core principles of the Party, diversion of Party assets to unrelated third-parties, misuse of Party assets, the ordering payments of tens of thousands of the Party's funds in self-interested transactions, and the failure to disclose and/or to timely disclose clear conflicts."

The legal action, known as a "derivative suit" (in which a member of a corporation sues a corporation's officers legally on behalf of that corporation), seeks to remove the chair from office "as a last resort to stop McArdle before her continued actions ultimately destroy the Libertarian Party."

McArdle's enumerated derelictions include inviting "another political party's presidential candidate [Republican Donald Trump]…to hold a rally prior to the nomination of the Libertarian candidate [at the party's nominating convention] and, in effect, to mock the idea of even running a Libertarian ticket at all."

Harlos' suit grants that the Trump invitation "may have been described as simply giving him a forum to hear the Party's views," but that McArdle's "future actions make that interpretation impossible, including a mocking 'endorsement video' for the Party's official candidates in which she wore a clown nose and explicitly stated that the purpose of her endorsement and........

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