New Jersey Libertarians Pass Resolution Denouncing Colorado and New Hampshire Affiliates Over Messaging

Independent Political Report ^ | May 26, 2025 | Jordan Willow Evans

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The New Jersey Libertarian Party’s Executive Board recently approved a resolution denouncing the rhetoric and online messaging shared by the state party affiliates from Colorado and New Hampshire. The denunciation does not include a call for censure or disaffiliation.

The state party originally approved the resolution by a 7–2 vote last Monday, later announcing it this past Saturday. According to the party, Libertarian National Committee Region Representative Pat Ford was present during the board’s vote. The resolution states that it represents “Concerned Libertarian Party Members from across several State Affiliates,” and comes in response to an “alarming growth in the casual dissemination of harmful materials and comments on official Party channels and platforms.”

“These statements include, but are not limited to racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia and Islamophobia,” the party wrote. “While not limited to any one Affiliate (sadly even our own States have struggled to remain sane at times), the most public examples are coming from the social media accounts of the Libertarian Parties of Colorado and New Hampshire.”

The party does not provide a list of state affiliates it represents beyond its own organization. However, it later wrote online that it is asking for support from other affiliates and that its letter was delivered in a way that others can “easily use it for themselves.”

The resolution specifically accuses the New Hampshire affiliate of using slurs and inflammatory rhetoric on its social media platforms, including homophobic and racially charged language. It cites a series of posts allegedly downplaying the harms of chattel slavery, embracing racial stereotypes, and referencing apartheid-era South Africa in ways described as sympathetic. Meanwhile, it criticizes the Libertarian Party of Colorado for what the resolution describes as the “defended use of anti-gay slurs” by its chair and executive director, which later prompted a response from Libertarian National Chair Steven Nekhaila. The resolution claims the incidents have also fueled perceptions that the affiliate is acting as a “bulwark for Coloradan Republican candidates.”

The resolution comes almost two weeks after LNC Treasurer Bill Redpath introduced two separate motions to censure the state affiliates over their use of social media. Redpath’s motion also calls on the New Hampshire affiliate to voluntarily disaffiliate itself. The motions were expected to be taken up during the organization’s most recent in-person meeting but were pushed to a later date after members were unable to reach them on the agenda.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; US: New Hampshire; US: New Jersey
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[alloysteel]

Libertarians rebuking other libertarians - for being libertarians?

Honestly, it is hard to know where the head of any individual libertarian is at, and surprising in the extreme that they even form any kind of organization.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Colorado Ping.

[montag813]

Imagine being a Libertard.

[cgbg]

The Libertarian Party was always an exercise of herding cats.

Now that the drugs are stronger it has gotten even crazier.

[Sirius Lee]

Libtardians: Is there anything they can do? Ever?

[cowboyusa]

😂😂

[catnipman]

sounds like a new War Between The States, well, at least a LIBERTARIAN War Between The States ...

Still, ya just gotta love their clown-car antics for comic relief ... who needs enemies when you can attack yourself? ... never has Pogo’s, “We have met the enemy and he are us!” been more appropriate ... sounds like Pogo must have been thinking of Libertarians when he said that ...

[HYPOCRACY]

[DugwayDuke]

Just remember the libertarian party was all in favor of unlimited immigration only a few years ago. Just show up a border crossing and pass a health test and you were in. No limits.