CONVENTION: Main Floor

OPENING REMARKS

Douglass Gaking
Chair, Boston Tea Party National Committee

Good evening, fellow libertarians! Welcome to our founding members, long-time members, new members, and guests. Welcome to our national committee, which finishes its term this week. I want to thank our national committee members for their service to the party over this long term. They volunteer their time because of their genuine commitment to the principles of our perfect platform. Tonight, our committee and our members open the party's 2010 National Convention. As far as we know, the Boston Tea Party is the only political party in the country to hold its convention online.

The Boston Tea Party is as revolutionary as the event it is named after. Like the colonists who broke the law in civil disobedience against the British crown, we act boldly to defend liberty, working outside of the political paradigms of the day. We conduct all our business online. We have no national finances. We endorse candidates in other parties than our own if we feel that they will work toward our platform. We have the country's shortest political platform. We support "reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose." And we will never change that platform.

We are the true party of principle. We have a platform that leaves no room for compromise. I urge our members this week to stand behind that principle. Consider the platform before every vote you cast in this convention.

Right now, we officially open the 2010 Boston Tea Party National Convention. Over the next seven days, all members may vote to elect national committee officers and at-large members. They may also move to pass resolutions. Over the next twenty-four hours, all members may move to amend the bylaws and vote on the program committee's proposals for the new party program. Keep checking in to www.bostontea.us throughout the week for news and new business.

BUSINESS

Program Proposals (all passed)

Bylaws Proposals (2 passed, 4 failed)

Resolution Proposals (4 resolutions passed)

National Officer Elections (polls open all week)
Chair (Darryl W. Perry elected)
Vice Chair (Dan Kilo elected)
Secretary (Brandi Duncan elected)

National Committee At-Large Elections (polls open all week)
Todd A. Barnett (elected)
Michelle Luetge (elected)
Kimberly Johnson (elected)
Matthew Wagnar (run-off)
Neil Kiernan (out)
Rion Ametu (run-off)

Vote in the at-large run-off: http://bostontea.us/node/862

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Submitted by inDglass on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 17:05
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inDglass:

Because of the site acting up, I have to post this all in one comment here, rather than on each poll. Here are the nat-com election results:

Darryl W. Perry elected to chair by vote of 8-3 against NOTA

Dan Kilo elected to vice chair by vote of 11-3 against NOTA

Brandi Duncan elected to secretary by vote of 12-1 against NOTA

Todd Andrew Barnett elected to nat-com with approval vote of 9-3 (75%)

Michelle Leutge elected to nat-com with approval vote of 10-3 (76.9%)

Kimberly Johnson elected to nat-com with approval vote of 13-1 (92.8%)

Finally, we have a tie between Matthew Wagner and Rion Ametu for the final at-large spot on the nat-com. Both received approval votes of 8-5 (61.5%)

Neil Kiernan received an approval vote of 8-6 (57.1%)

The run-off process will work as follows (article 11, section o of the bylaws):

"If no candidate has received a vote from a majority of voting members, then successive 24-hour polls shall be conducted in the same manner, with the candidate receiving the fewest votes in the previous poll eliminated, until such time as a candidate emerges with both the largest number of votes and votes from a majority of voting members. If, at the conclusion of any poll in this process, "None of the Above" receives both the largest number of votes and receives votes from a majority of voting members, the process shall end and the Party shall not nominate a candidate to the office in question for that election."

06/02/2010 - 20:55
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inDglass:

Vote in the run-off: http://bostontea.us/node/862

06/02/2010 - 21:16
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inDglass:

Please be patient with the closing of the convention. I am running into a lot of timeouts and error messages trying to close polls, edit pages, and even post this comment.

06/02/2010 - 20:08
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brighton4343:

I am very excited to be a part of this :)

I am working at a friends shop while she is out of town ...but I am in and out :)

Kimberly

05/28/2010 - 20:26
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southernpatriot:

Kim,
I'm so glad to have you in the Party (and active)...

Darryl

05/28/2010 - 21:44
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brighton4343:

Thank you Darryl ....it feels right in my "HEART" ...:)

05/28/2010 - 22:35
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DanKilo:

I will drive to St Louy in the morning to try to hold off any social conservative from taking control of the party. I will show up and ask how I run for national chair of the LP. (I could not figure it out form the LP site.) If I can run, I will give a speech that will rock the LP.

I am running for Governor of Colorado and am in a primary with another LP. My latest post with regard to that can be found here: http://www.dankilo.com/colorado-governor/colorado-governor-ritter-signs-...
Sorry, I can't seem to get the insert link to work here.

Read the post and please give me your input.

I hope all of you will support me as vice-char of the BTP. And as chair of the LP in St Louy.

Thank you, DK

05/28/2010 - 01:45
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inDglass:

Our new five-point program is passed! View it at http://bostontea.us/program

05/27/2010 - 19:59