Martin Suspended for the Third Time | Retaliation for Data Breach Request?

The LNC Executive Committee suspended Region 1 Representative Austin Martin two days after he demanded records on the Kyle Davis exports and the sale of the party’s CRM.

On October 25, the LNC Executive Committee voted unanimously to suspend “all rights and privileges” of Region 1 Representative Austin Martin pending his November 21 trial. It was the third action limiting his access in seventeen days.

Two days earlier, Martin had sent the officers a formal records demand on the sale of the party’s CRM assets to Moellman Enterprises and on an IS Committee project involving Kyle Davis. Directors Alfa Shaw and Sonja Feintech joined the request.

He Reported It. Now He Is on Trial.

In February, an LP Alliance figure writing as John Ponty published claims drawn from member records, including that Martin had never signed the membership pledge. Martin reported the apparent breach to the board on February 16. Chief Technology Officer Andy Buchkovich’s incident report that same day found full-system CRM exports from a shared IS Committee account and called them unauthorized and undisclosed to staff or the committee.

Octillo, the party’s breach counsel, found that the exports were performed by Davis, who acknowledged them and declined to sign an attestation that he destroyed the data and did not share it. Counsel could not determine whether the data was shared or deleted, and found no evidence of misuse for identity theft or fraud. Names and dates of birth were in the export, and the LNC notified 394 North Dakota residents and that state’s Attorney General. We covered Davis’s data issues in June.

The Chair’s Version, and the Sale

Chair Evan McMahon released the breach files to the public list on October 24, the same day Secretary Jonathan McGee called the Executive Committee meeting. His message says Davis was moving member data from Zoho to the National CRM Project “as authorized by the Information Services Committee,” calls the downloads “frequent, authorized downloads of the schema,” and says the firm’s report “did not confirm any culprit.” The released files say otherwise on each point: the February report calls the exports unauthorized, counsel counted six downloads of a backup containing the full dataset, and a database schema holds no names or dates of birth.

The party’s July 2025 FEC report lists a single receipt of $1,536 from Moellman Enterprises for the CRM assets, sold at fair market value. Martin says he found no recorded vote authorizing the sale in the published minutes for 2023 through April 2025. Martin claims Ken Moellman wrote to him in February 2026 that he bought the assets and ended national’s access on November 1, 2025. Moellman now chairs the Judicial Committee.

Martin’s demand asks for the signed agreement, who signed for the LNC, who set the price and on what basis, what was conveyed, whether member records went with the system, the April 2025 notice to affiliates, which affiliates stayed and which left, and whether departing affiliates received complete exports of their data.

The Same People

This feud is older than the breach. In August 2025, an out-of-state membership surge and a remote credentialing push attempted to take over LPHI’s Hilo convention. LPHI identified Davis and Vice Chair Amanda Griffiths as the organizers through the LP Alliance. In March 2026, Davis demanded LPHI’s complete membership list and was formally refused.

Asked in September to recuse from the breach matter, Griffiths replied that she and Davis “do coalition work together and as of recently live nearby, though not together.” On October 1 she wrote that Davis “exported a spreadsheet schema as part of a project for the IS Committee.” She then served as secretary of the Special Investigatory Committee that charged Martin, is among the five members named in the first specification of Charge I, and voted for it. She and McGee, who chaired the committee and moved the Code of Conduct it enforces, are the trial managers.

The four charges cover attacks on board members, a post about other parties’ candidates, harassment, and a post offering to resign if donors give enough to the Mises PAC and the LP. The committee’s appendix rests partly on austinmartin.exposed, a 138-exhibit compilation that names no author. We covered the report in full last week.

An October 8 ballot cut Martin’s access to the public list forwarder, the board suspended his notification and voting on October 20, and the Executive Committee took the rest on October 25. Region 1’s chairs had voted 10-0 with one abstention on October 14 to withdraw the consent the committee relies on.

Martin’s Claims

Martin says the case is retaliation for his oversight of the breach. Answering McGee’s meeting notice on October 24, he wrote: “You are in violation of the bylaws, Mr. McGee. Did my records request upset you that much?” On October 26: “The Chair now calls those downloads ‘authorized schema pulls’ with no evidence. A schema holds no names or birth dates.”

Martin asked for the records within ten business days, which falls about November 6. The trial is set for November 21. LNC News will report more as the story develops.

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