Joe Seehusen announced his resignation as LP National Director today. His last day is August 5th, the day before the LNC meeting.

I’ve said for awhile that the LP was lucky to have Joe. He wasn’t the greatest administrative person – and even he admitted that – but he had the vision and the will to get the national LP involved in Washington politics in a real way. It was certainly better than the foot stomping tantrums the LP usually engages in.

When the LNC passed that insipid motion restricting the activity of HQ to only working on the DB conversion, it was a slap in the face of a staff that works long hours for crappy pay and has to take endless abuse from the membership. When the LNC didn’t remove the restrictions after the progress they made in the month since the resolution was passed I believe that was the last straw for Joe.

The National Party now faces two challenges: The rest of the staff is pissed at the LNC and ready to walk out, and second, Michael Dixon doesn’t have time to be Father, Consultant, Chair and ED. He was ready to quit if the LNC fired Joe in Dallas. I suspect he is readying his exit as I type.

Should Dixon resign the party is fubar. The bylaws don’t really say the Vice Chair will become Chair. Michael’s interpretation is that the person who got the second highest vote total would become chair. That’s George Phillies – the man who campaigns every convention to close down HQ and move it to some backwater town where the rent is cheap. That would pretty much undo all the credibility the LP has built up over the past few years. Only the marginal fringe will remain.

Which if you are trying to recruit people to join a faction of the GOP dedicated to slowing the encroachment of government is a good thing.

I want to thank Joe publicly for his kind words in his resignation and I hope he enjoys the rest of the summer with his family. I suspect we shall see him pop up somewhere working for the cause of liberty.