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Candidates endorsed by the Boston Tea Party surpass a million votes

November 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Darryl W. Perry, Chair of the Boston Tea Party National Committee: Preliminary results show that over 1 million votes were casts for BTP endorsed candidates (1,129,631). While no BTP endorsed candidate won election Tuesday night, there were several good showings. Eighteen candidates received at least 20% (8) or 20,000 votes (13); [...]

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Charles Jay: Eulogy for former running mate Marilyn Chambers

April 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Email from Charles Jay When it comes to Marilyn Chambers, I really have a hard time finding a place to begin. Only now have I sufficiently been able to get my thoughts together to write anything. We talked often, and certainly on holidays. When I didn’t hear from her on Easter Sunday, I decided to [...]

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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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Jay unlikely to run for president again

November 10th, 2008 · 43 Comments

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel today has a feature on this year’s Boston Tea Party presidential nominee, saying that “when he loses, Charles Jay loses big. … The number of votes Jay won in the three states in which he was on the ballot — Florida, Colorado and Tennessee — topped 2,300. In Florida, he took [...]

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Documentary profiles Charles Jay and Brian Moore

November 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Video found at tilzy.tv

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How did IPR contributors and readers do on election day?

November 5th, 2008 · 42 Comments

IPR founder GE shared 23,740 votes with 16 others in a slate of presidential electors pledged to Bob Barr, .4% of the vote. Contributor Paulie Cannoli shared 4,983 votes with 8 other Alabama presidential electors pledged to Bob Barr, .2%. Contributor Tom Knapp took 8,576 votes in Missouri’s 2nd congressional district, for 2.3%. He additionally [...]

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AP profiles Boston Tea Party’s Jay

November 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

The AP has a generally positive feature piece on Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Charles Jay today. Jay said, “Obviously this is a party that wants low or no taxes, and I think we’re just naturally rebellious. We’re bad boys and bad girls.” Jay “said he and his party, which counts 500 members nationwide on [...]

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23 Presidential candidates are on the ballot in at least one state

October 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Ballot Access News reports This year, 23 presidential candidates are on the ballot in at least one state. That is the highest in U.S. history except for 1992, when there were also 23. Generally there are more such candidates in periods of great public unhappiness. Here is a list, with the predominant party label for [...]

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Boston Tea Party adopts Campaign for Liberty four point program, elects new officers

October 26th, 2008 · 57 Comments

The Boston Tea Party is having its convention, as IPR previously reported. In the interest of disclosure, two of the at-large candidates (Tom Knapp and Neil Stephenson) also write for IPR. Here is a press release from party founder Tom Knapp sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com on behalf of the party: Midway into its second biennial convention [...]

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Boston Tea Party Chairman: ‘Charles Jay is lying’

October 20th, 2008 · 145 Comments

Boston Tea Party Chairman Jim Davidson has responded to the criticisms made by his party’s presidential candidate Charles Jay. The internecine conflict has its roots in allegations of child molestation levied against one of the party’s many “favorite son” vice-presidential candidates, John Wayne Smith of Florida — who also happened to be the state party’s [...]

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Charles Jay slams BTP Chairman Jim Davidson; Florida BTP disaffiliates from national

October 19th, 2008 · 59 Comments

“I didn’t involve myself in all of this to play in a sandbox with children,” says Charles Jay, in reference to internal disputes within the Boston Tea Party. “This stuff is getting more ridiculous with each passing day,” Jay continues. “Apparently [National Chairman Jim] Davidson feels he has the right to monitor private conversations that [...]

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My presidential vote total predictions

October 14th, 2008 · 76 Comments

I am heading out of town for a while, so I figured I’d go ahead and give my guess about the vote totals for alternative party presidential candidates to leave you with something to talk about. I will refrain on offering a final prediction on the overall winner, though right now I expect the Democratic [...]

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Thirteen presidential candidates on ballot in Florida

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Florida’s Herald Tribune writes, “Getting on the ballot in Florida is a breeze for minor-party candidates. They just have to show their party held a national convention, reported the name of their nominee to the state by Sept. 1, and have at least 27 members.” While candidates like independent Ralph Nader and Libertarian Bob Barr [...]

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Coalition for October Debate Alternatives debate

October 9th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Below is the complete video of the Coalition for October Debate Alternatives presidential debate held Monday at Vanderbilt University. Presidential candidates Charles Jay, Gloria La Riva, Bradford Lyttle, Frank McEnulty, and Brian Moore, and vice presidential candidate Darrell Castle, participated in the forum. The Nashville Tennessean reported on the debate on Tuesday.

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Pictures from Third Party Debate

October 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Alternative Presidential Candidates Debate will be streamed live tonight

October 6th, 2008 · 18 Comments

According to http://www.alternativecandidatesdebate.com/ An Alternative Presidential Candidates’ Debate will be held in Nashville from 7 to 9 pm (central time) on October 6th, one day prior to the McCain-Obama debate in Nashville. The debate is open to all third party candidates for President in the United States as well as the major party nominees. The [...]

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Boston Tea Party organizational update

October 6th, 2008 · 116 Comments

Organizational news New news at the top 6 October 2008 414 members on this site. Wow! 4 October 2008 396 members here, 531 on Facebook. We currently endorse or have nominated 30 candidates on our voter’s guide, including the only branded Libertarian Party candidate we know of in Florida. Charles Jay has registered as a [...]

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Update: What percentage of voters can vote for what percentage of candidates?

October 2nd, 2008 · 14 Comments

IPR previously reported that Ralph Nader would be an option on the ballot for 85.2% of voters and Cynthia McKinney will be on the ballot before 70.5% of voters. Now, because of a series of updates at Ballot Access News, we can bring you a more complete picture of national ballot access. These numbers are [...]

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Boston Tea Party Presidential candidate Charles Jay answers Obama-McCain debate questions

September 27th, 2008 · 19 Comments

Posted at cj08.com (I wasn’t invited to Friday night’s presidential debate, but you knew I was going to weigh in anyway. My “participation” comes in the way of interspersing my responses into the actual text of the debate, which you will see below. All of those responses to the questions asked by moderator Jim Lehrer [...]

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Coalition for October Debate Alternatives to hold Third Party Presidential candidates debate in Nashville, October 6

September 23rd, 2008 · 25 Comments

CODA press release 9.23.08 Nashville, TN: The Coalition for October Debate Alternatives (CODA) announced today the Presidential Candidate’s Alternative Debate to take place October 6th, in Nashville, Tennessee. The debate is open to all third party candidates for President in the United States as well as the major party nominees. The debate, which is scheduled [...]

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