Latest affiliates and endorsements from the Boston Tea Party
New news at the top 12 August 2008 The Boston Tea Party’s national committee has voted to endorse Tom Knapp for Congress in Missouri. Tom represents the Libertarian Party in that race. Our Indiana affiliate has voted to endorse Rex Bell in Indiana.
10 August 2008 Our ranks continue to swell. We now have 222 members on this site, 276 on our main Facebook group. We added a Kansas group to our set of affiliate groups on Facebook. http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27131827190
Invite your friends to join the party today!
8 August 2007 The Boston Tea Party national committee has unanimously endorsed George Phillies for president of the United States and Chris Bennett for vice president in the states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, where the two are on the ballot representing the Libertarian Party. The vote was six in favor with one not voting (Chris Bennett is an at-large member of the Boston Tea Party’s national committee and chose not to vote given his conflict of interest in the result).
Commenting on the news, Boston Tea Party chair Jim Davidson said, “We nominated Charles Jay and Tom Knapp for the offices of president and vice president of the United States because we did not find the nominees of the Libertarian Party to be suitable. We did not do so because we have any essential objection to the Libertarian Party, nor to many of the fine people working within it. We did so because we wanted a libertarian candidate to be on the ballot. Obviously, we don’t have time to get our candidates on the ballot in every state. So, we were especially gratified to learn that actual libertarians who favor smaller government on all issues and at all levels are on the ballot in New Hampshire and in Massachusetts.”
Charles Jay may qualify as a write-in candidate in either state for those Boston Tea Party enthusiasts for whom there are no substitutes. New Hampshire has officially declared that George Phillies will be on its ballot, and unless a lawsuit brought by the ACLU changes things in Massachusetts, George and Chris are also on the ballot there. While it is clear that neither Charles nor George is going to be president at the beginning of next year, it is essential that there be presidential candidates to carry the message of libertarian values to the American people in this election year. The national committee of the Boston Tea Party regards it as excellent news that there happen to be two presidential candidates qualified to carry that message this year.
7 August 2008 BTP at-large representative Chris Bennett has accepted the request of George Phillies to be his running mate in New Hampshire. The national committee is considering an endorsement for the two in NH and Massachusetts, where they’ll be on the ballot.
29 July 2008 Good news everybody! We’re officially a party in Florida, so members there can register to vote as Boston Tea Party-goers. We have a team in Florida putting together electors for the ballot application there. The same is true in Tennessee and in Louisiana. The Jay campaign is raising funds for ballot access work in other states - visit CJ08.com for details.
We have affiliates forming in several states. If your state isn’t listed on our contact page, please contact the chairman for help in forming one! We now have over 200 members on this site and nearly 250 members on our Facebook group.
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1 thearmyranger31 // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Smaller parties like the BTP and others really seem to be attracting members. Not that there are many similarities apart from names based on history, but here is the latest news from http://www.modernwhig.org. They seem to be on the same track apart from the fact that the Modern Whigs are not endorsing anyone. Modern Whig Party also redid their website.
10,000 members and counting
We are pleased to announce that we have reached our initial phase goal of 10,000 members, a modest milestone that is well ahead of schedule. Ten state chapters also have been recognized so far. It also should be noted that 6,500 official members are affiliated with the military, to include hundreds of deployed soldiers from all branches of service.
10 AUG 2008
Whigs on campus
Various student chapters are currently being organized. The first of these recognized affiliates is the Modern Whig Party @ UNCG (University of North Carolina - Greensboro). This chapter also can be seen on Facebook.
2 Trent Hill // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:39 pm
…seriously? Guy,if you have something to post,email us about it–but dont brag about the Whig Party in EVERY comment in EVERY blog-post.
3 thearmyranger31 // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I was merely comparing two recent news postings on party sites from two similar organizations. I view them as similar to my comment above. I apologize if it sounds like bragging, just proud to have found a political home that relates to my personal views. The discussion emails that go around between members I am connected with espouse the same. I realize this is a somewhat pretentious Libertarian-oriented board, but I do like to see coverage every once in awhile of a completely different party.
4 Trent Hill // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Nono, not admonishing you for bragging. you have reason to be happy about your political party. But if you have news, email it to us. Dont just post a similar comment in every thread here.
As for this being Libertarian-oriented. I’d say, Libertarian/Constitutionalist-oriented. But we have plenty of Nader/McKinney fans here too.
5 Mike Theodore // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:28 pm
“As for this being Libertarian-oriented. I’d say, Libertarian/Constitutionalist-oriented. But we have plenty of Nader/McKinney fans here too.”
Trent, I’d call it more of Third Party and Independent oriented. All parties and ideologies are welcome here, even if they will be open to debate from the majority of posters.
Just my take on it.
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