Amid the controversy and turmoil surrounding the nascent Boston Tea Party, party founder Tom Knapp has published Part 1 of a “brief history” of the BTP at Last Free Voice.
Since the Boston Tea Party seems to be coming back to life (and into the internal conflicts that tend to characterize third parties), and apropos of recent discussions with GE, now seems like a nice time to briefly reprise the party’s existence from the perspective of its erstwhile founder. I’m going to do so as a self-administered Q&A.
Q: What’s with the name?
I don’t remember when I first came up with the name “Boston Tea Party,†but it was one of those “wow, that sounds like a really good name for … well, something†moments, and I registered the domain name not long after (a whois search shows that date as May 3rd, 2006).
At that point, I wasn’t thinking of using it to describe a “real†political party. My first thought was that it would be interesting to set up a web-based advocacy site and maybe even make a few bucks — people who were pissed off at their congresscritter would be able to drop in and pay a small fee to have a teabag, with their complaint printed on the tag, mailed to said politician.
Q: OK, well, things changed. What things were they, and how did they change?
It’s no secret that what prompted me to launch the BTP as an organization rather than as a project was the Libertarian Party’s 2006 national convention in Portland, Oregon. However, the details are probably a little more … detailed … than many might surmise.
@William – you would go to http://bostontea.us and register
Yeah, I hope this stuff is correct because Iam using it for a school project……
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The Boston Tea Party is a political party founded by Tom Knapp in 2006. Some of us joined up right away, including me. Many of us were very disappointed with the LP in 2006 after their convention eviscerated their platform.
An earlier event, called the Boston Tea Party, took place in 1773 and included participants like Sam Adams, probably. Since most of those involved wore disguises, we have only eye witness accounts to go on.
Thomas L. Knapp is the founder of the BTP – he ran for Congress last year and was also the Party’s first VP nominee and is running for President in 2012
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It seems that the Boston Tea Party is having a wild resurgence. We have rapidly increased the membership on the party’s site and on our groups at Facebook and Myspace. Several people are working diligently to form new state affiliates. Ballot access is being developed – we should be on at least two or three states by the end of July.