On August 27, the Illinois State Board of Elections ruled that the statewide Constitution Party slate didn’t have enough valid signatures, but that the statewide Libertarian slate does. Both slates had been challenged. The “binder check” had showed the Constitution Party to have 25,017 valid signatures, but in proceedings afterwards, the challengers persuaded the board that the Constitution Party slate was slightly below 25,000 valid signatures.
None of the statewide independent candidates survived, except for Scott Lee Cohen, who is running for Governor. He had won the Democratic primary earlier this year for Lieutenant Governor, but then had withdrawn after the party pressured him to resign from the ticket so they could replace him with someone else.
The Eighth US Parliament
8/6/2008 to 8/5/2012
http://www.usparliament.org
Prime Ministers:
Gail Lightfoot [Libertarian], Ralph Hoffmann [Democratic-Republican], and Mary J. Ruwart [Libertarian]
Secretaries:
James Ogle [Free Parliamentary] and David Olkkola [Democratic]
100 Elected Members of the Parliament (MPs)
Libertarian Party – 22 Members of Parliament (MPs)
Gail Lightfoot, Michael Badnarik, Mary J. Ruwart, Starchild, Ned Roscoe, Richard Winger, Gary Nolan, Cory Nott, Lawrence Samuels, Kristi Stone, Doug Tuma, Aaron Starr, Gabriella Douglas, Mark Hinkle, William J. Wagoner, Dwight Bailey, Richard Vinable, Aarde Atheian, Alex Plewniak, Howard Stern, Bob Barr, Zachary Scott Gordon [American Libertarian]
Parties with One Seat – 16 MPs
Vanessa Morley [Defender of the Republic], Darryl W. Perry [Boston Tea], Pat Buchanan [Reform], Orion Karl Daley [Balanced], Noam Chomsky [New], Mike Bogatirev [Environmentalist], Michale Treeplanter [Co-Operative], Michael Davis [Natural Law], David Frey [Socialist USA/California], Mark P. Steele [Discordian], Eric Charles [Orwellian], Michael Looney [Houseless], Eric Stevenson [Pizza], Lloyd Llewellen [Flying Saucer], John Coffey [Unity08] and Mike Banon [Skateboard]
Green Party – 14 MPs
Winona Laduke, David Cobb, Medea Benjamin, Mike Nelson, Susan Estes, Kevin Clark [Green/Libertarian], Patrick Purcell, Thomas Leavitt, Mike Rogers, Tad Robinson, Michael Grazian, Gary Swing, Brett Johnsen, Dinah Coffman
Democratic Party – 9 MPs
Dennis Kucinich, PRAVDA McCroskey, David Olkkola, Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, John Edwards, Jerry Brown, Victor Cantu, Ralph Hoffmann [Democratic-Republican]
Independent – 8 MPs
Arianna Huffington, Rob Elliott, Dale Gieringer, John Anderson, Kat Penisten, Michael Moore, Casper Leitch, Ralph Nader
Republican Party – 8 MPs
Ron Paul, Jim Doyle, Colin Powell, John McCain, Lani Guinier, Arnold Swarzenegger, Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Peron
Pot Party – 5 MPs
Nate Brown, Myra Fourwinds, Sister Somayah [Pot / Nigritian Kief], Brandon Garcia, Scott Comings
Free Parliamentary Party – 4 MPs
Laura Booth, Marcellius Smith [Parliament], Daniel Penisten [Free Parliament] and James Ogle
Marijuana Party – 3 MPs
Sabrina Melicia, Kelly Russell, J. Roach
Peace and Freedom Party – 3 MPs
Jan Tucker, Maureen Smith, Stewart Alexander
Comedy Central – 2 MPs
Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart Info.
Not Avail. – 2 MPs
Clint Eastwood, Woody Harrelson
Radical Revolutionary Party – 2 MPs
Annie Garner, Jennifer Perkins
Radical Revolutionary Party – 2 MPs
Annie Garner, Jennifer Perkins
Constitution Party – 2 MPs
Michael Peroutka and Don J. Grundmann
Total: 100 Members of Parliament (MPs)
President Ron Paul [Republican]
Vice President Gail Lightfoot [Libertarian]
Updated on August/15/2010
MP = Member of parliament (100 MPs)
MSP = Member of super state parliament (States grouped in 12 population balanced super states with 100 elected MSPs in each super state)
MMP = Member of mini state parliament (Counties grouped
12 population balanced mini states per super state, with elected 100 MMPs in each mini state parliament)
Map of the 12 Population Balenced Super-States
http://www.usparliament.org
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How many signitures were they short?
Wow! The CP just can’t seem to catch a break. First Wyoming and now Illinois.
James,
Have all of those people you have listed actually agreed to be part of your parliament funkadelic, or is that just wishful dreaming? George Clinton wants to know.
The Constitution Party has had some good petitioning successes this year also. Alabama (US House) and West Virginia (US House). If it weren’t for the Constitution Party, there would be no alternatives in Alabama this year in any congressional race to the two major parties.
Peroutka is NO LONGER a member of the CP!
First, Is there a conservative/constitutionalist option in Illinois for 2010? Second, On 1, ?????
Doremus Jessup Says:
August 27th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
“James, Have all of those people you have listed actually agreed to be part of your parliament funkadelic, or is that just wishful dreaming? George Clinton wants to know.”
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If any names want to “stand down”, I will happily remove their name and the next highest ranked name will automatically be elected in their stead.
Therre are plenty of back-up names.
In addition, I am currently researching Peroutka’s [Constitution] name, to update his status with the correct party/category.
Thank you very much for your interest.
–James
Look into the Chilean CONCERTACION and how it started. Have the Greens, Constitutionalists and Libertarians (as well as any independents who fit in any of the 3 molds) form an electoral alliance, with the goal of having all parties uniting behind one candidate. Would be good for ballot access and fundraising.
The Constitution Party in Illinois will be filing for Judicial Review. So while the State Board of Elections removed us from the ballot, there is still a chance that the court will order us back on.
If the Judicial Review fails, there is still the Appellate and Supreme Courts in which to file.
Derek–it was tried in 1992-1996 (approx) with a goal of a combined ticket of Libertarian, Constitution (then U.S. Taxpayers Party), plus others. It didn’t get very far because a couple of parties said they would run their own candidate if they didn’t win in the voting for president. Plus, Howard Phillips, the chairman and founder of the Constitution Party didn’t want the party leaving his vest pocket.
Michael, I was doing some surfing on the net and came across an article from April ’96 talking about a coalition with the Reform Party, Constitution Party, Right to Life Party and Conservative Party. This coalition was going to be a definite go at the time, whether Buchanan got the GOP nomination or not.