Jon Barrie is likely to qualify for the November 2012 ballot for U.S. Senate candidate in New Mexico. If he does so, he will be the first non-Democrat, non-Republican candidate for U.S. Senate to appear on a New Mexico ballot since 1996, when a Green and a Libertarian each qualified.
Independent candidates in New Mexico face a severe petition burden, 3% of the last gubernatorial vote. Therefore, Barrie created the Independent American Party of New Mexico, and submitted 5,900 signatures by the April 2012 deadline. That was almost twice as many signatures as were needed. But New Mexico forces qualified minor parties to submit separate petitions for each of their nominees. So he must also submit a petition of 6,018 valid signatures, by late June, to qualify for the ballot. The two petitions combined, requiring a total of 9,027 signatures, still total fewer signatures than the statewide independent petition, which requires 18,053 valid signatures.
Barrie’s campaign web page is jonbarrieforsenate.com. Barrie is not opposed to having his party nominate like-minded candidates for other partisan office this year.
Is this party related to the IAP of Nevada?
They’re a seperate national political party
Is this petition effort in any way related to the Constitution Party petition effort? While I was collecting signatures for the Green Party effort I ran into a man collecting signatures for, as he told me and other people, “an independent party on the ballot.” I looked at his petition and it distinctly said Constitution Party at the top. Several people I then and since have spoken to repeated that they signed a petition to help get the Independent Party on the ballot and some even knew that Ralph Nader had run on the Independent party ticket in 08, assumed this was the same, and signed. Nader’s Independent Party however already has ballot access in New Mexico at least curretly. They were aghast to think they had helped a conservative party, but which one?
Cody Quirk. You say the IAP of New Mexico is a “separate national political party.” I thought the post said they were only a state party created by Mr. Barrie? I also looked at their website and Mr. Barrie’s position on the issues and one would hardly tell it from the Constitution Party platform. You folks ought to work to get Mr. Barrie and his party to affiliate with the national Constitution Party and build up the the IAP of New Mexico. Just as the words “Independent” and “American” have helped parties of similar names in California and Nevada grow, it could do the same in New Mexico. Someday I hope the national Constitution Party leadership will realize this.
I should clarify that the IAP is a national party and we gathered signatures to place it on the New Mexico ballot. The name of the party is the IAP New Mexico, so we did not create a party but placed the national party on the ballot. It is similar to saying the Republican party of New Mexico. The state of New Mexico makes it extremely difficult to put a minor candidate and party on the ballot but we will accomplish this by the June 26th application date. We hope to submit 10-12,000 signatures by that date. While we were gathering party signatures there was also the constitution party collecting signatures. The petitions for both clearly stated either Independent American Party or Constitution party so that may be where the confusion came form. My campaign did not collect signatures for the constitution party, only for the IAP.
Each election is NEW.
EQUAL ballot access requirements for ALL candidates for the same office in the same area.
Much too difficult for the lawyer/judge MORONS in ballot access cases since 1968 to understand — a mere 44 years.
How many more decades/centuries until 5 of 9 SCOTUS robot party hacks detect the EQUAL in 14th Amdt, Sec. 1 — for ballot access ???
AI, its been already tried long ago, believe me.
However that indeed is a big accomplishment for a national party that is dwarfed by the CP. If John and the New Mexico IAP works just as hard as before, they could certainly get John himself on the ballot too.
Perhaps this IAP is certainly on the rise?
I met Jon Barrie early on in this political season – just about the time he decided to run. He is indefatigable. I am very impressed with how he started practically from scratch, put together a team who did an extraordinary job of getting the IAP on the ballot, and who are equally determined to have him listed as the IAP nominee for US Senate. I cannot emphasize enough his focused, energized, and postive approach to this campaign. If anyone will beat the political duopoly at their game of total control of electoral politics, it’ll be Jon.
Jon Barrie has been working closely with the National Independent American Party, and has every intention with affiliating with us (the National Party). Although we consider all true patriots our brothers, we are a separate Party from the Constitution Party or any other.
Personally, any CP’er that won’t support Jon Barrie is an idiot.
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This was an intelligent strategy on his part for getting on the ballot. Other aspiring independent candidates should consider this strategy.