On January 3, John Lampros was chosen Chairman of the White Pine County, Nevada County Commission. Lampros had been elected a member of that Commission in a partisan election on November 2, 2010. He was the nominee of the Independent American Party, which is the Constitution Party affiliate in Nevada. Lampros is the highest-ranking elected official from the Constitution Party anywhere in the nation, since the party had a state legislator, Rick Jore, in Montana. See this story. Thanks to Cody Quirk for the link.
White Pine County is in eastern central Nevada, bordering Utah. The county seat and largest town in the county is Ely.
The IAP keeps moving forward!
Yes, Cody, the IAP keeps slowly but surely moving forward. I’d like to see it become more of a “populist” party as I believe it would grow if it would shake it’s image of being “Republican lite.” I believe the average Joe in Nevada is as opposed to Republican “capitalism” as they are opposed to Democratic “socialism.” I wish IAP leaders would recognize this. But maybe I’m wrong.
It’s a right-wing populist party- that’s good enough.
Plus, those areas of Nevada where we win elections are VERY conservative when it comes to attitude and voting- to move to the center would be the downfall of the IAP.
If your best vote comes from the “conservatives” then the IAP is indeed Republican lite. So why not join them and become a branch of the GOP? You might win more elections.
If fate found me a resident of Nevada, and I decided to run for Congress under the IAP label, I’d support Social Security, Medicare, Healthcare, Aid To Education, Minimum wage laws, but also I’d support enforcing the laws against illegal aleins, against abortion, for traditional family values, for freedom of religion, and against gun control. Would the IAP still allow to say run for Congress -assuming no other IAPer wanted to run?
Then we’d see just how “right-wing populist” you really are.
If your best vote comes from the “conservatives” then the IAP is indeed Republican lite. So why not join them and become a branch of the GOP? You might win more elections.
= AI, you’re in no position to tell us how to run our Party.
And there’s no fucking way were going to model ourselves after those ‘Independent’ parties out in the eastern states, including NY; we minus well all become prostitutes and move to Vegas Strip if we’re going to sink to that level.
If fate found me a resident of Nevada, and I decided to run for Congress under the IAP label, I’d support Social Security, Medicare, Healthcare, Aid To Education, Minimum wage laws, but also I’d support enforcing the laws against illegal aleins, against abortion, for traditional family values, for freedom of religion, and against gun control. Would the IAP still allow to say run for Congress -assuming no other IAPer wanted to run?
= There’s a reason why our platform is short and brief; to go into further detail and address every issue there is would cause devision and conflict; that’s why its fine the way it is, and we already run candidates that do agree with some of those issues.
And it’s funny because we’re still big on our candidates and Party leaders having to adhere to the platform, and yet we’re still growing and always can find dozens of people willing to run for office :p
So it sounds like you’re saying, Cody, that if I moved to Nevada, joined the IAP, ran for Congress and no other candidate from the IAP opposed me, you guys would let me run for Congress on MY platform, even it clashed with your official position on some issues?
Or, would the IAP officials go out of their way and publicly claim that my candidacy didn’t exist, similar to what Mr. Seidenberg of the California AIP said of Chelene Nightingale’s candidacy for Governor in 2010, in which she polled a respectable 166,000 votes.
I would certainly hope IAP officials would not do the latter, but wouldn’t be too surprised if they did. As I’ve said before, Americans are NOT going to elect doctrinaire parties – from the right or the left. 3rd partisans are their own worst enemies.
So it sounds like you’re saying, Cody, that if I moved to Nevada, joined the IAP, ran for Congress and no other candidate from the IAP opposed me, you guys would let me run for Congress on MY platform, even it clashed with your official position on some issues?
= Read our platform first to see what will clash with you.
Or, would the IAP officials go out of their way and publicly claim that my candidacy didn’t exist, similar to what Mr. Seidenberg of the California AIP said of Chelene Nightingale’s candidacy for Governor in 2010, in which she polled a respectable 166,000 votes.
= Ha ha ha! You don’t know jack about our state election laws! Here, if you’re not selected by our party at the state convention, you DON’T get on the ballot- the Secretary of State only accepts those that our Party chooses.
Please do your research!
I would certainly hope IAP officials would not do the latter, but wouldn’t be too surprised if they did. As I’ve said before, Americans are NOT going to elect doctrinaire parties – from the right or the left. 3rd partisans are their own worst enemies.
= Funny, Nevadans are already starting to do that.
Cody: I don’t have to re-read your state Platform to know where we differ. When I said “let me run for Congress” this included either a state convention nomination or a primary nomination. Your attempt to discredit my intellect didn’t and won’t work.
And at the rate you’re electing doctrinare IAP candidates, Jesus will have returned to Earth and set up His Kingdom and be almost at the end of His 1000 year Rule, where there will be No Libertarians, No Constitutionalists, No Socialists, No Communists, No Democrats, No Republicans, No Liberals, and No Conservatives.
But until that happens, don’t worry about me moving to Nevada. I have enough work to do here in Alabama. Stay tuned.
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Cody: I don’t have to re-read your state Platform to know where we differ. When I said “let me run for Congress” this included either a state convention nomination or a primary nomination. Your attempt to discredit my intellect didn’t and won’t work.
= Don’t you know we don’t have primaries? We have to get major-party status in order to qualify for that, so you’re stuck with having to be endorsed by the state committee to be on the ballot, and that sure wouldn’t happen if you’re telling everybody that they’re wrong.
LOL, we Nevadans don’t like being told what to do- intellect or no intellect.
And at the rate you’re electing doctrinare IAP candidates, Jesus will have returned to Earth and set up His Kingdom and be almost at the end of His 1000 year Rule, where there will be No Libertarians, No Constitutionalists, No Socialists, No Communists, No Democrats, No Republicans, No Liberals, and No Conservatives.
= Yeah, like a snowball stays the same size while rolling down the hill- NOT.
But until that happens, don’t worry about me moving to Nevada. I have enough work to do here in Alabama. Stay tuned.
= What work have you done in Alabama? Have you lobbied your state legislature? And/Or build up whatever party you’re in?