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Our chairman reports that the total membership on this site is now 1,656 active (non-blocked) members. Hurray! Our largest Facebook group has 1,467 members. Planning has commenced for our national convention in May 2010. It takes place here on this site.
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Boston Tea Party update
February 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Boston Tea Party Response to the 2010 State of the Union Address
January 28th, 2010 · 12 Comments
President Obama claims “that if we did not act” on “an economy rocked by
severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a
government deeply in debt” that “we might face a second depression.” I’d
like to remind the President that his actions, as well as Congressional
actions and those of the Federal Reserve have [...]
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Boston Tea Party endorses Joe Kennedy for US Senate
December 25th, 2009 · 20 Comments
Boston Tea Party National Committee has, by a vote of 4-0 with two members not voting, endorsed Joe Kennedy for US Senate. Joe Kennedy is running as an independent in the special election to fill the seat vacated by the late Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts (he is not related to the late Senator).
Joe Kennedy recently [...]
Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties
Boston Tea Party National Committee Approves Resolution in Support of “Honest Money”
December 9th, 2009 · 8 Comments
Boston Tea Party National Committee has approved a resolution in support of “Honest Money” by a vote of 5-0 with 2 not voting.
Darryl W. Perry, At-Large Representative to the National Committee, proposed the resolution, which reads:
Whereas, the currency of the United States of America is fiat and not commodity based, and
Whereas, Article 1 Section 10 [...]
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Boston Tea Party Response to the Presidential Address to the Joint Session of Congress
September 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Posted at BostonTea.us and emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com
On Wednesday Sept. 9 President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to push his health-care agenda. He opened his speech by saying he “would not let up until those Americans who seek jobs can find them…those businesses that seek capital and credit can thrive…(and) all responsible homeowners can [...]
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Neil Kiernan Stephenson: ‘Formation of Resource Based Economy Caucus’ in the BTP.
August 14th, 2009 · 335 Comments
Posted by request from Neil Stephenson
Resource-Based Economy Caucus formed in the Boston Tea Party.
On Wednesday, August 12th 2009 Neil Kiernan Stephenson, a member of the Boston Tea Party’s national committee announced the formation of a new caucus on his blog at Bostontea.us. An excerpt of this post follows:
“Due to the recent changes in my political [...]
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Coverage varies on the release of FEC 2008 election results
August 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments
As reported here at Independent Political Report by Peter Orvetti, the FEC has released its vote totals for the 2008 election. The information gives important statistics for third party presidential and congressional candidates. There was a wide range of how the numbers were reported in the media. An opinion piece at onthewilderside compares coverage at: Ballot Access News; Independent Political Report; and The Hill.
Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party · Third parties, general
Boston Tea Party becomes 5th party to endorse self-determination for Puerto Rico, and other BTP news
July 8th, 2009 · 18 Comments
Mailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
ALLOW SELF-DETERMINTION FOR PUERTO RICO
Boston Tea Party National Committee Endorses HR 2499
The Boston Tea Party National Committee passed a resolution “in support of HR 2499 To provide for a federally sanctioned self-determination process for the people of Puerto Rico” 5-0 (with 1 not voting).
Puerto Rico’s Governor Luis Fortuño says, “The reality is that [...]
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Boston Tea Party at Kansas TEA Party
April 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Posted by Jim Davidson at http://www.bostontea.us/node/663. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.
I attended the Tax Day Tea Party in Overland Park, Kansas on Wednesday. It was much fun.
According to the local Fox Snooze affiliate, there were a thousand people there. I did see a helicopter overhead, probably from Channel 9, so someone might even have [...]
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News from two different kinds of Boston Tea Parties
April 16th, 2009 · 13 Comments
Over at http://www.bostontea.us/, Jim Davidson writes
It is with a heavy heart that I report that one of our vice presidential candidates in 2008, Marilyn Chambers, has passed away.
Her story here.
Today we have 1,339 members on this site. We have 1,297 members of our largest Facebook group. Please ask your friends and family to [...]
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Tax Day ‘Tea Party’ Astrology: Mars conjunct Uranus
April 13th, 2009 · 16 Comments
Astrologer Jude Cowell writes in Stars Over Washington:
Across America this April 15 ‘Tax Day Tea Party’ rallies are being staged at town halls and state capital buildings (most are at noon) to protest spendthrift deficit government spending – some sources say ’stimulus package’ also which in my book has to include the Bush administration – [...]
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Third Party candidate and adult film star Marilyn Chambers dead at age 56
April 13th, 2009 · 17 Comments
Third party vice presidential candidate and adult movie star Marilyn Chambers (Marilyn Ann Taylor) has died at age 56 years old.
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Article Deleted: Did not meet editorial standards
February 24th, 2009 · 44 Comments
Editor’s Note: This article had some unneccesary skewing, it was so obviously biased that I could not even mark it as an editorial. If Paulie or VTV would like to rewrite the post as an unbiased news article, that is permissible.
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Boston Tea Party restarts the poll in its election for secretary of the national committee
February 18th, 2009 · 244 Comments
After a good deal of controversy, the Boston Tea Party’s national committee finally voted to restart it’s poll in the election for the national committee’s Secretary.
In the running was Todd Andrew Barnett, and “None of the above”.
The controversy was started when the poll stayed open past the seven day deadline that the party’s bylaws called [...]
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BTP National Committee unanimously condemns “stimulus”, Fed
February 17th, 2009 · 27 Comments
A press release from the Boston Tea Party:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Boston Tea Party National Committee passes unanimous resolutions against the “stimulus” & FED
February 16, 2009
The Boston Tea Party national Committee unanimously passed two resolutions on Monday. Both resolutions speak to specific bills, one of which just became law, opposing the “stimulus” and the Federal Reserve. “Both [...]
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