According to this story, Americans Elect starts collecting signatures in Wyoming this week. Other parties that are circulating in Wyoming are the Constitution Party and the Country Party. The Constitution Party is virtually finished.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
And the beat goes on…and the beat goes on.
We are very excited about what is happening in Wyoming for the Constitution Party. The petition campaign is a strictly volunteer effort and is doing very well as Richard noted above. The party has the support of Taylor Haynes who is fast becoming something of legend in Wyoming. Virgil Goode spoke there to good size crowds before and after the recent CP national committee meeting in Idaho.
Wyoming, due to its sparse population, may not be considered an important state to some, but it is another important step for the Constitution Party which had virtually no organization or really even a presence in that state for the first 18 years of its existence. Many thanks to Western States chairman, Frank Fluckiger, for his most effective organizational work in sending the Wyoming party on its way.
Richard probably know this answer better than anyone, but is Americans Elect working to get ballot position for a political party of that name in each state, or is it working solely for the Presidential spot on each ballot under that label or some other label?
To Gary Odom:
Please don’t take this as “picking a fight” but why does not the Constitution Party call itself the “ConstitutionAL Party” (the capital letters of AL being used here to clarify? In other words, use the adjective tense of the name “Constitution” just as the Democrats use the adjective tense “Democratic” for the word “Democrat” and the Republicans use the adjective tense for the word “Republic.”
To me, the party name – used in the noun tense – sounds like a “one issue” party – i.e.,the Constitution. This is what kept the Prohibition Party from ever accomplishing more because its’ very name implied it was only interested in one issue – Prohibition. Would you not think many voters would think you are only interested in the Constitution and nothing else?
I would just think the party would have a wider and broader appeal if it used the CONSTITUTIONAL name rather than simply CONSTITUTION.
What say ye?
#3, if everything goes well for Americans Elect, the group will be the first party since 1892 to have its name on the ballot in every jurisdiction. Although the New Alliance Party got Lenora Fulani on the ballot in all jurisdictions in 1988, and although the Reform Party got Ross Perot on the ballot in all of them in 1996, and although the Libertarian Party got its presidential nominees Ed Clark, Andre Marrou, and Harry Browne on the ballot everywhere in 1980, 1992, and 1996, none of those groups had its party label on the ballot in all places.
The Socialist Party did not get on the North Carolina government-printed ballots before 1932. If it had, then it would have had its name on in all places in 1904, 1912, and 1916.
Who is Virgil Goode? Nobody knows this guy.
Anybody know what the “Country Party” is that’s mentioned?
“# RJ Says:
October 18th, 2011 at 11:34 am
Who is Virgil Goode? Nobody knows this guy.”
Former congressman.
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@7 http://www.wycountryparty.org
Formed by previous leaders of the Wyoming Libertarian Party. Focusing exclusively on the Wyoming state legislature. Unique in that it will not run candidates against small-government Republicans (unlike the Libertarian Party or Constitution Party), but only against RINOs of which there are many in the most Republican legislature in the country.