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 [...]
Latest Boston Tea Party endorsements, organizational news
August 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties
AFP: ‘11 other candidates’ also in presidential race
August 10th, 2008 · 27 Comments
Agence France Presse makes the rather odd assertion today that, in addition to John McCain and Barack Obama, there are “11 other candidates running for president.” Where AFP got that number is unclear — at most, only Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Cynthia McKinney, and independent Ralph Nader stand a [...]
Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party · Right-wing minor parties · Socialist/left parties
Boston Tea Party chair to Shadegg: You’re confused
August 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
In response to a statement made by Representative John Shaddegg during today’s protest by Republican congressmen on the House floor, Boston Tea Party Interim Chair Jim Davidson has issued a press release illustrating the difference between the two parties and what it would take for Shadegg to live up to his words:
Cyberspace — “How many [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Boston Tea Party now recognized in Florida
July 31st, 2008 · 7 Comments
A press release issued by the Boston Tea Party announces that the BTP is now recognized by the Florida Secretary of State and is an option for voters who wish to register into it. A later post by BTP Interim Chair Jim Davidson adds that they are currently working on assembling a slate of [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Boston Tea Party Vice Chair Todd Andrew Barnett condemns Landham
July 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
New Baltimore, MI — Boston Tea Party Vice-Chair candidate Todd Andrew Barnett, who’s currently serving as the Boston Tea Party’s Vice-Chairman, condemns the racist, anti-Arab remarks made by Kentuckian Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Sonny Landham. In the days following the racial epiphets first given by Landham to Courier-Journal columnist Joseph Gerth who broke the [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties
Boston Tea Party organizing updates
July 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments
From the BTP website
New news at the top 24 July 2008 The national committee has unanimously approved our new North Carolina affiliate. Good work guys! We now have 189 members of this site.
22 July 2008 Our Facebook group has something in common with the show “Room 222,” speaking of things long ago. We now have [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Charles Jay, Frank McEnulty, Brian Moore debate
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Candidates in this debate are: Brian Moore of the Socialist Party USA, Frank McEnulty of the New American Independent Party and Charles Jay of the Boston Tea Party.
Show archive at Miller Politics
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/millerpolitics/2008/07/24/Presidential-Debate
Tags: Non-left/right parties · Right-wing minor parties · Socialist/left parties
Barnett seeks re-election as BTP vice-chair
July 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Todd Andrew Barnett, the current vice-chairman of the Boston Tea Party, will seek re-election in October.
Earlier we reported that Jason Gatties — who, like Barnett is from Michigan — would be seeking the post.
Party chairman Jim Davidson will not be seeking re-election. Rumor has it that Chris Bennett — who has publicly stated his intention [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
LPNY chair to BTP: Drop dead
July 19th, 2008 · 48 Comments
In this essay, LP radical and LPNY state chair Eric Sundwall advocates that radical libertarians avoid the BTP and stay in the LP. It is entitled Party Like It’s 1973, an apparent ironic reference to Party like it’s 1773 by BTP interim chair Jim Davidson.
I was somewhat intrigued when popular Libertarian blogger Tom Knapp started [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties
Jay writes about Barr’s impact on race at BetUS
July 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Presidential candidate Charles Jay, in his capacity as a writer for BetUS.com, examines how Libertarian Bob Barr’s campaign may impact the results of the presidential election. Jay writes, “Whereas in the past the concept of libertarianism, which places a heavy emphasis on fiscal conservative and drastically reduced government, combined with a social liberalism that [...]






