The recently founded and fast-growing Modern Whig Party has announced new state chapters in both Wisconsin and Colorado.
The chairman of the Colorado chapter, Jack W. Wood, has served as the Arkoma, Oklahoma Chief of Police and a forensic investigator. At his current home in northern Colorado, he is “in the process of implementing numerous ideas to build the Colorado Chapter of the Modern Whig Party.”
Joseph Mendez, a machinist, is chairman of the Wisconsin chapter.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Andy Craig // Sep 13, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Why don’t we just cut right to the chase where every non-Republican/non-Democrat has their own individual political party and only votes for themselves?
That’ll change things!
2 Andy Craig // Sep 13, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Though I do have to give them credit for doing something the LP should have done decades ago- come up with a unique party symbol that can be used, both by the LP and the media, to represent the party the same way the elephant and the donkey are used to represent the major parties. Using the Statue of Liberty doesn’t make any sense- no one outside the LP will ever use it. I think the two best ideas would be a non-SoL torch (like the British Conservatives used to use) or, more in the elephant/donkey vein, a porcupine (symbolizing non-aggression).
The Statue of Liberty is bland and so ubiquitous as a generic symbol of “patriotism” that it can never really be claimed by the LP as our “brand”.
/thinking past the Great Trainwreck of 2008
3 Spence // Sep 13, 2008 at 4:29 pm
You corporate statist fool. How dare you. The symbol of libertarianism is ONLY embodied in the Statue of Liberty. This is to show that we are indeed above everyone else. We, Libertarians, are not animals. We must not come off as such. We transcend every political ideology, so why should we lower ourselves to the same corporate branding every other party uses?
…Whoops, mixed my reply up with G.E.’s.
In reality, I’m glad to see more people getting this idea. For a party that prides themselves on the free market, they do a poor job branding themselves.
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