New BTP State Affiliates

On Saturday, May 10, 2008, the National Committee of the Boston Tea Party voted unanimously to grant charters to our three latest state affiliates.

Congratulations Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Tennessee! They join New York as affiliates of the Boston Tea Party, which now number four!

Mike Reid is President of the Pennsylvania affiliate. Alex Fitzsimmons is President of the New Jersey affiliate and Rocco Fama is President of the Tennessee affiliate. Dr. Tom Stevens remains President of the New York affiliate.

Onward & Upward!

In Liberty,

Dr. Tom Stevens
Vice-Chair
Boston Tea Party

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Submitted by DrTomStevens on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 21:22
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Wes Pinchot:

Never give up! I misspoke in a previous post in saying the attempt to form a Colorado affiliate was suspended.

We only need five Colorado members to start with.

Please register on this site and post the fact that you wish to join the new Colorado affiliate.

I'm not clear on the best strategy to take from that point, but if we can raise $500 we can put our candidate on the November Colorado ballot, although without party affiliation.

Then we can all vote for him or her if we wish.

Wes Pinchot
Interim Colorado chair, Boston Tea Party

05/26/2008 - 12:38
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planetaryjim:

Reviewing the bylaws of the Boston Tea Party on this site, I find no requirement for five Colorado members to organize an affiliate. I find no requirement that you submit bylaws to the vice chair.

If you and Dan Kilo were to consent to the platform, and meet the other requirements stated in article 7, paragraph 1 of the bylaws http://bostontea.us/bylaws I would move to have the Colorado affiliate accepted by the party national committee.

Following which, I would make a similar motion on behalf of Texas, Kansas, Wyoming, and North Carolina. I believe a Michigan affiliate would follow in short order.

05/28/2008 - 04:08
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Wes Pinchot:

[I originally wrote this Sunday night. I edited this Monday afternoon]
A few hours ago, I attended the informal convention in Denver and volunteered to be interim chair of a prospective Colorado affiliate.

I've done a little research about Colorado ballot access, and it doesn't look good. Richard Winger's site, at http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/030108.html (and http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/040108.html), includes a table entitled "2008 PETITIONING FOR PRESIDENT". The Colorado row, if I understand it correctly, indicates that getting a new party on the ballot requires 1000 REGISTRATIONS by June 1.

A previous table in http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/030108.html says the LP has a total of only 6,817 in this state, and that seems to be the only feasible source of significant new BTP registrants. After the Memorial Day holiday, that leaves only four weekdays in which to jump through whatever legal hurdles to get the LP list, contact those people, talk enough of them into this, and get registration paperwork physically turned in. I'm not convinced it could be done, even with massive funding.

Or we could pay $500 by June 17 to get our candidate's name listed without party designation. I fail to see the point of that, but I'm very very very new at this party chair thing.

If anybody interprets this situation in a better light, please let me know. Until then the effort to form a Colorado affilitate is suspended. [I've changed my mind about this; see 12:38 post]

Sorry to be a wet blanket. Our informal dinner convention was exciting.

Wes Pinchot
Interim Colorado chair, Boston Tea Party
-- Anybody who thinks they can do better is welcome to it! :-)

05/26/2008 - 12:42
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southernpatriot:

I vote for (if we have $500) paying to get ballot-listed as an Independent, every ballot that we get our candidate listed on is one more ballot that gives voters another choice.

05/28/2008 - 01:18