The Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) has national officers and a national Board. The Board has just voted to admit the Boston Tea Party to membership on the COFOE Board. For more about COFOE, including a copy of the minutes of the annual Board meetings, see www.cofoe.org.
The Boston Tea Party was formed in 2006 by Libertarians who were unhappy that the national Libertarian Party platform had been shrunk down so much by the national convention that year. The party is not now ballot-qualified in any state. It plans to hold an on-line presidential nominating process on June 15. Charles Jay and Robert Milnes are seeking the presidential nomination. Charles Jay was the presidential candidate of the Utah Personal Choice Party in 2004 (that party is no longer on the ballot in Utah). He now lives in Florida. Robert Milnes is a Green Party activist who has been promoting the idea that there should be a single presidential nominee for both the Green Party and the Libertarian Party. He lives in New Jersey. See the party’s web page, www.bostontea.us.
The BTP is having a live presidential debate broadcast on internet radio! Click here for details:
http://news.indytruth.org/archive/2008/0612-btp.html
You’ll notice that the BTP has no listed voice mail or mailing address. [What are they afraid of ????]
Reminder, The Bay State not only has vetoed the P2008 Lib choice on the flimsiest of reasons, but they gave us the ‘Joys of Gerrymandering’! Oh, joy, oh, joy!
Mr. Lake,
Any time you don’t see a snail mail address and a phone number in the center of an organization’s front page, you start nattering about how that organization must be “afraid” of something. Not sure why that is, but it’s annoying.
If some reason arises that require us to have a snail mail address or a phone number, I’m sure we’ll get them … but we are very much an Internet-based party. Members join on the Internet, conventions are held on the Internet, etc. At this particular point, we seem to need a PO Box and a PBX about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.
Best regards,
Tom Knapp
We’ve put phone numbers and addresses on a number of pages of our site. My only fear is that Mr. Lake might like us.
In the phone book “Chula Vista, CAlifornia”
Be afraid, be very afraid……