Quoth Robert Milnes:
Please forward to interested persons or groups. I have been informed that 100 signatures of Green Party members must be received as part of approval process for presidential candidates. With this email I request Green party members to consider supporting my candidacy by sending a letter of support to Presidential Campaign Support Committee. [...]

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Robert Milnes — who has thus far failed in his attempts to capture the nominations of the Libertarian and Boston Tea parties — has officially declared his candidacy for the Green Party’s presidential nomination. This, despite the fact that Cynthia McKinney already has enough pledged delegates to assure her nomination on the first ballot.
Milnes via [...]

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The Boston Tea Party has its presidential ticket: Charles Jay and Thomas Knapp.
Jay, who ran for president in 2004 under the Personal Choice Party banner, won the BTP’s presidential nomination with 76% of the vote. None of the Above finished second with 24%, and Robert Milnes finished third with 14%. The reason the percentages total [...]

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posted at Last Free Voice by ElfNinosMom
In the Boston Tea Party’s online convention, there is some very serious concern about fraudulent voting.
It appears that some people may be creating multiple accounts - one seems to have as many as 12 accounts from the same IP - so they can vote multiple times; it appears those [...]

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The mainstream media rarely give third-party and independent candidates a fair shake — hence the need for sites like IPR and Third Party Watch. But the new media — the online media — is supposed to give candidates and parties the coverage they deserve.
If this is true, then Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr and independent [...]

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Robert Milnes nominated himself for the Boston Tea Party’s presidential nomination. His nomination was seconded by former Manhattan campaign manager for Mike Gravel, Dodge Landesman, who said, “Hell, I may as well second the nomination for Robert Milnes. You have to respect that guy for fighting.”
In acceptance, Milnes said:
I thank you for the second and [...]

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According to Boston Tea Party chairman Jim Davidson, Chris Bennett will be vying for the party’s vice-presidential nomination at its upcoming online nominating convention, June 15. He joins two others competing for the party’s #2 position, Thomas Knapp and Todd Andrew Barrett. The presidential contest, for the moment at least, is a one-on-one match-up between [...]

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Thomas Knapp has agreed to run for vice president on the Boston Tea Party ticket. The party will hold its online convention June 14th and, as of yet, Knapp’s only potential opponent for the nomination, Tom Andrew Barnett, has seconded his nomination.
Charles Jay is the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, although at least two other [...]

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Reason’s Dave Weigel published a quick reference guide to “the people you’ll never hear about again” in the LP. Christine Smith, Alden Link, Daniel Imperato, Jim Burns (”the sane fringe candidate”), and Robert Milnes are profiled.
Of Milnes, Weigel says:
[He is a] sad figure who spent months 1) saying he’d accept the mantle of a cross-party [...]

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In a letter to Oklahoma Indian tribes, former Libertarian presidential candidate — now running as an independent — Robert Milnes says he needs 43,000 valid signatures between now and July 15 to appear on the Oklahoma ballot. Milnes says he would be willing to pay a “premium wage” to signature gathers, however, “unfortunately” he has [...]

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