Ballot Access News reports:
The Reform Party has set a teleconference national committee meeting for December 19, Saturday. Now that the Texas-based officers have won the federal lawsuit in New York establishing their ownership of the party’s trademark, the party hopes to rebuild. It is still ballot-qualified in Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. That is more states than any other nationally-organized party, except for the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green and Constitution Parties. The Working Families Party is still not a nationally-organized party.
paulie, thx, but will you agree that in the 21st century FLorida is relatively easy to get and keep ballot access ?
Having done it for the Boston Tea Party in Florida in 2008, yes, absolutely, very easy. Possibly the easiest in the country now.
paulie, thx, but will you agree that in the 21st century FLorida is relatively easy to get and keep ballot access ??????? If the 1999 factoid is factual then I publicly apologize to Janice and Ruben.
The other [first person observation] lies, no apologies, no retractions!
So, here in New Jersey we have a dedicated little group ready to rebuild our shattered state affiliate!
We set up a Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/reformpartynj
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Reform-Party-of-New-Jersey/211194808909?ref=ts
and Twitter:
http://twitter.com/ReformPartyNJ
FLorida as Donna Shankle and your husband Rubin Hernandez continue to fail to mention, is relatively easy to get ballot qualified.
That was not the case back in the 1990s. Back then it was one of the hardest states until ballot access reforms were passed. Richard Winger would know what year exacly…I want to say maybe ’99?
Lifted from Ballot Access News (today)
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in PA it was Nader’s personal decision, not his staff’s.
# Janice Miller Says:
December 20th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Florida has been the backbone of the Reform Party from the very beginning.
It takes a ton of work to get ballot access. We did it in 1998.
The states that “waited to see” what was going to happen are part of the problem ,in my view. Yeah, sure, sit back and just watch.
That’s reform? That, shows no loyalty to the people who endured all of these lawsuits for the last few years. They all ran like rats off a sinking ship. Now, that we’ve won………they’re willing to put in with us. Gee, thanks. You let the party dwindle from the national presence it was because you didn’t want any part of the process to keep us a major force, as far as 3rd parties go.
Now, I want to see THOSE states fight as hard as we have [Lake: Ha!] and pledge their loyalty to the RPUSA and work, work, work. David Collison deserves your help. HE is loyal !!!
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# Don Lake and Citizens For AQ Better Veterans Home Says:
December 20th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Now, now, now, there you go again, you lying bitch! The degree of local DIFFICULTY from state to state differs greatly. FLorida as Donna Shankle and your husband Rubin Hernandez continue to fail to mention, is relatively easy to get ballot qualified. Reform when [so called] reformists lie cheat and steal is mimicking the Democans and the Republicrats ???????
It does not take John Blare or Frank MacKay or Pat /Bay Buchanan to be ‘gypsies, tramps and thieves’ but it seems to help!
Item: Donna Shankel [sp] “oh yeah, I really did NOT mail a roll of stamps to Sand For Brains Madison [Texas Twisted Sister of Bad Bag Lady Kennedy], I just said that to get her out of a lie that she told. Now that you [and Ruben] have tossed her and Beverly Kennedy off of their virtual monthly print house organ news letter, I am not going to mail you, or have her mail you said postage. Get over it, it never happened,I LIED!” [or words to that effect ……]
Item: Janice Miller/ Mrs Ruban Hernandez, “oh what’s up Don Lake ???? Oh, lots of folks are going to be at the [fakey dakey] Tampa Saint Pete ‘national convention’ in a few days. Locally that includes P2000 Presidential hopeful fellow USAF rocket scientist Bob Bowman. You heard differently ????? Sorry I can not help that!”
“Oh, Lake, you again? You just got off of the phone with Doctor Bowman? He’s in his RV out side of Kansas City, headed west ????? Oh! Well, these paint fumes are getting to me. I (on a mobile phone) have to get out doors and have a cigarette ……”
Item: “It takes a ton of work to get ballot access. We did it in 1998.” No worries in FLorida you consummate liar!
Michael Cavlan // Dec 18, 2009:
Is this the Pat Buchanan wing or the Jessie Ventura wing?
Lake: Neither, Rodney Martin (California) still being kept out of the official Secretary of State site and Texans (Sand For Brains Madison and Beverly Kennedy —— the Twister Sisters) verses the American Reform Party verses the Reform Party ‘Action Group’ verses the John Blare California Jewish First gang and the Independence Party paymasters of Frank MacKey!
But IMHO the Ventura crowd can waltz back in as they did not steal $12.5 million in 2000!
This is the Reform Party that is void of left-and right-winged extremists. I will be heading up the movement here in Indiana.
Paulie is right. Ralph Nader was nominated by the Reform Party on the third ballot during a lengthy conference call on May 12, 2004. (Shawn O’Hara and other Reform Party leaders were gracious enough to allow me to participate in that call.) At the time, the Reform Party still enjoyed ballot access in seven states, including six states carried by George W. Bush in 2000.
In order to comply with Florida’s election statutes and anticipating a challenge to his nomination by Democrats in that state who still blamed the longtime consumer advocate for Gore’s narrow loss four years earlier, Nader was nominated again at a national convention in Irving, Texas, in late August.
Interestingly, Michael A. Peroutka of the Constititution Party and Miami Beach investigative journalist John Buchanan, author of Fixing America: Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media, and the Religious Right, were among those who actively sought the Reform Party’s presidential nomination that year.
The little-known Buchanan, who was widely credited with uncovering Prescott Bush’s connections to Nazi Germany at the National Archives — a story that made the front-page of The Guardian and other international publications, but was virtually ignored by the U.S. media — had challenged President Bush in the New Hampshire primary earlier that year.
This is the Reform Party that features a group of people from a little of all, but what matters is this the OFFICIAL Reform Party after numerous years of childish lawsuits and terrible party building.
From meeting and talking to RP members, a majority of the people were interested/excited about the ideals of Perot and the original Reform Party constitution/ideals.
Also, Minnesota has a building Reform Party with what seems to be some solid people behind it.
It’s good to see the RPUSA getting some attention from IPR and Ballot-Access.
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure it’s not the Pat Buchanan people. Those left the RP shortly after 2000 to start the America First Party, which fizzled. Buchanan later called his third party run a mistake. As far as I know he is a Republican again.
I seem to recall what was left of the Reform Party endorsing Nader in 2004, but I’d have to go back and check.
I’m not sure whether this version of the Reform Party has anything to do with Ventura, either. Although he’s talking about possibly running in 2012, so maybe.
Hopefully Richard Winger or somebody else who is more knowledgeable on this will have a better answer.
Paulie
Yeah, I think so. But then they joined with the Reform party THEN split after the Pat Buchanan Ventura thing.
that is what has prompted me to ask.
Wasn’t the Independence Party around before it joined the Reform Party for a period of time?
Serious question here.
Is this the Pat Buchanan wing or the Jessie Ventura wing?
I ask because the Reform Party has gone by the way of the dodo bird in Minnesota while the Independence Party, which came out of this is still a major party here. For the moment anyway.
Sure, post it here in the comments, and we may very well repost it as a story, and/or send it to [email protected]
I will hopefuly be on the line as a listener/ observer.
I am very excited to hear which SPOs will be calling in and the progress that the Reform Party will be making in the next year with building SPOs, running candidates in ballot qualified states, and seeing the interest level soar.
Specifically, in NJ we are in the very early stages of rebuilding the party. We are getting in touch with registered Reform voters, contact people on our e-mail lists, and establishing websites / viral marketing. By the summer/fall of 2010 I would expect an up and running party in the Garden State.
Also, if IPR wants some details about the meeting I can do my best to write up a quick little report. Just stating the facts keeping it not as opinionated as stuff george phillis writes.