The Constitution Party held a presidential convention on April 27, and nominated Randall Terry. He defeated Joel Skousen by a vote of 144-80, and there were 40 votes for other candidates. That may not seem close, but the outcome was partly dictated by the party’s rules. They permit some solitary delegates to cast many votes. If a state has the right to have 34 delegates, but it only has a single delegate, that single delegate can cast all 34 votes. Terry received all 34 votes from Florida, but only one delegate from Florida was in attendance, so that one delegate has disproportionate power.
The new rules, effective in 2028, limit each delegate to only one vote. If that change had been effective in 2024, the outcome might would have been different. In each of the last two presidential conventions, the party’s national choice has been rejected by multiple state Constitution Parties. This year, the ballot-qualified Constitution Parties of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming, have all refused to list Terry on the ballot.
Similarly, in 2020, the ballot-qualified Constitution Parties of New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wyoming wouldn’t list the national convention’s choice, Don Blankenship. It is unprecedented for any nationally-organized minor party in U.S. history to have chosen a presidential nominee in a national convention and then had as many as four ballot-qualified state units of the party refuse to list that candidate, two elections in a row. Clearly the Constitution Party in recent years has a big problem with party disunity, and perhaps a different nomination process at the national convention might help in the future.
I can understand Don Blankenship, but why don’t several state parties like Terry?
I guess the last Constitution party nominee that experienced party unity was Castle?
And yes, one voter having the power of 34 votes is extremely undemocratic lol.
@Progressive Leftist they probably dont like him due to the fact that he wasnt a member until 2024
Did Wyoming nominate Skousen?
Richard,
Back in 2008, at Kansas City of the CP I was the the elected head of the AIP CA delegation. Deemer claimed he was in that head. Clymer as Chairman recognized me. Wm Shear’s daughter thought the proxy’s of her late father
Though they were good so she got staff to giver her the ribbon for all positions for Arizona and California.
We had a floor fight and I won out over both Wm. Shears daughter with her father’s proxy and Deemer Claim.
I took a poll of the CA delegation.
80% backed Alan Keyes. 1 person wanted to vote for himself, namely
Don Grundmann (who could find no one
Other than himself to vote for him).
I was told by Clymer that I could do unit rule and cast all votes for Keyes
from Clymer’s wife.
The bottom line Alan Keyes got 80% of the vote. 20% went to another. Don Grundmann went into a fit of rage on the floor and withdrew form being consided in the mix and cast his vote against Keyes.
The Chairman of the Independent American Party of Nevada contacted Noonan and suggested both party’s leave the Constitution Party. AIP
did. Then King sued Noonan and three
Lawsuit began between 2008 – 2010. KIng lost all three of the lawsuits.
Terry was not consided on last Thursday vote because Don Grundmann is the Chairman of the Constitution Party of California. Grundmann caused a disturbance at the 2010 convention of AIP so Sacramento Police was call by Vincent May to have Grundmann removed from the hall Grundmann was told to live the hall by police once I showed the police they lease agreement for the hall.
Wyoming Constitution Party has no presidential nominee.
Constitution members will probably just vote for Trump this year and be done with it. Constitutional has never fully recovered from the American Independent Party breaking off support in 2012.