Charles Jay will be interviewed live on RevolutionBroadcasting.com at 8PM ET. Thursday the 25th. If the readers of IPR would like to suggest questions for Charles, I will do my best to include them in my interview.

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21 September 2008 Here: 329 members. Facebook: 461. Today we received the final vote to make the national committee unanimous. We now have a state affiliate in Kansas. 19 September 2008 Here: 321 members. Facebook: 457. We continue to grow. The national committee is considering the addition of a Kansas state affiliate, for a full [...]

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In his column for the Duke University Chronicle, Drew Everson takes a caustic look at some third party presidential and vice presidential candidates: Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin “believes no non-American citizens should be able to own any property or asset in America. Only Americans are allowed to own America. He also thinks anyone should [...]

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Charles Jay, the presidential nominee of the Boston Tea Party, will appear on Fox’s “America’s Election Headquarters” this Sunday, September 21. The live interview is scheduled to air at 12:45 p.m., Eastern, on Fox News Channel.

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First on June 11, and then on July 17, IPR posted the results of “Google News Primaries” — the number of Google News hits for each “alternative” presidential candidate. Well, the September 13 results are in, and the top four are still in the same position — though the gap between them has narrowed considerably.
“Bob [...]

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The AP reports that “at least 15 presidential candidates” will be on the ballot in Colorado this year, saying voters “may recognize Bob Barr of the Libertarians, Cynthia McKinney of the Greens and the unaffiliated Ralph Nader on November’s ballot. They may not recognize Thomas Stevens of the Objectivist Party, Jonathan Allen of HeartQuake ’08 [...]

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While Bob Barr didn’t want to be seen “with people like [Cynthia] McKinney,” Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Charles Jay is more than happy to endorse the Campaign for Liberty’s four-point platform: “The statement calls for four things that all freedom-loving Americans should be able to agree on,” says Jay. “A sane foreign policy, seizing [...]

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In a telephone conversation, Boston Tea Party Presidential candidate Charles Jay told me that individual(s) associated with the Barr campaign and/or known Barr supporters are working to remove the Objectivist and Boston Tea parties from state ballots by challenging their electors. He also alludes to it on his blog, The Boston Tea Party of Florida, [...]

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Tennessee voters “may have as many as eight candidates to choose from on the November presidential ballot” following Thursday’s petitioning deadline, the Tennessean reports. Libertarian Bob Barr and independent Ralph Nader qualified for the ballot earlier this summer, and Green Cynthia McKinney “has petitioned, but her signatures have not yet been certified.” In addition to [...]

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The internet-based, libertarian-leaning, newly-minted, and creatively-named Boston Tea Party turned in the results of its first ballot access petition drive ever. Volunteers turned in 400 signatures, 125 more than required by Tennessee law. The petition, once certified as valid, will ensure presidential candidate Charles Jay and vice presidential candidate Thomas L. Knapp a spot on [...]

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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 [...]

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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 real [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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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 is [...]

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Last month, IPR reported that Bob Barr received a staggering 57.69% of Google News hits for all the “major” (defined very loosely) third-party and independent candidates. This month, though Barr’s lead remains commanding, it has slipped noticeably to under 50%. Independent Ralph Nader‘s position is relatively unchanged, remaining at #2 with 35.38% vs. 34.37% last [...]

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Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Charles Jay offers a different take on the Fannie/Freddie mess than the LP’s Bob Barr — who says the government “has to do something” to bail out the two floundering GSEs that effectively socialize risk while privatizing profit. In general agreement with a press release put out earlier by the [...]

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“Recently, ultra-right wing moral conservative presidential candidate Bob Barr wrote a statement in effusive praise of ultra-right wing moral conservative racist former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms,” says Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Charles Jay at his campaign Web site. Jay then goes on to compare statements made by Barr and Helms in what he called [...]

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A representative of the Boston Tea Party filed paperwork with the Flordia Secretary of State yesterday, formally declaring the BTP to be an officially organized party in the Sunshine State. Now the nascent libertarian-alternative party just has to provide a list of 27 presidential electors by August 29 for its presidential candidate Charles Jay to [...]

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