Mug Wumps, Jedis, Discordians, and Aerosmith: A Listing of Louisiana Party Registrants

1. Reed E September 23, 2012

   Hey, if anyone comes to read this thread, the Libertarian Party of Louisiana just got a list of Lilbertarians and Libertains. We will be calling and sending them a letter, requesting they change to Libertarian. We are doing the same for American’s Elect in Louisiana.
2. Nate January 18, 2012

   @14: Actually, I think the Lilbertarian Party is named after Bertrand Small, known to his friends as “Lil’ Bert”.
3. Ad Hoc January 17, 2012

   Some definitions from urbandictionary.com

   – Facist (not fascist) is a part of “Facist Fashion” which declare that certain art, music, fashion and culture cannot be explained by the logic and common sense of human thoughts, but need to be observed and accepted the way it is, in reality, an irrational and uninhibited nature of what is real. In short, Facist is the part of the arts which math and logic can never express.

   – a person who has a bias against facebook and people who use it. this bias can either be rational or irrational.

   – One with a terribly delusional sense of his or her own beauty, importantce, or charisma.
4. C. Al Currier January 17, 2012

   “Maybe the Facist Party is for people who like faces. ” ….Nate

   “Facist” might be some kind of local-Italian spelling of the word. I plan to look into it.

   No. 5) …on list… Libertarian (4813)
   No. 21) …on list… Lilbertarian (59)

   The Lilbertarian party might be run by Lil. I have no problem with that. Lil is a little more liberal than libertarian (if it’s the Lil I think it is), but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t mean well. I don’t think it would be a good idea to assume that the lilbertarians would fit into the LP. They might *sorta* fit with the extreme “left” wing of the LP, but they aren’t fiscal conservatives (if you know what I mean).
5. Trent Hill Post author | January 17, 2012

   I lol’d too.
6. Ad Hoc January 17, 2012

   Maybe it’s for people who like feces?
7. Bill Blair January 17, 2012

   @10

   I lol’d.
8. Nate January 17, 2012

   Maybe the Facist Party is for people who like faces. 🙂
9. Trent Hill Post author | January 17, 2012

   Quite true, Randall–I was making a suggestion to the CP because I know they have activists who read here.

   I once suggested a similar idea to the CP of NY leadership–that they join the Right to Life Party of New York en masse and try to boost the registration statistics/vote totals to where they’d need to be to retain ballot access–since the RtL Party in NY had much better name recognition, far more registrants, and more positive identification.
10. randallthayes January 17, 2012

    Trent:

    When Ross Perot ran for President in 1992, his ballot label in Louisiana (but nowhere else) was “Prudence Action Results.” Since Perot got over five percent of the vote in Louisiana, that party got recognized status. The Prudence Action Results Party was added as a pre-printed option on the Louisiana voter registration form, though it took elections officials a few months to actually get around to amending the form. I believe the party ran a state legislative candidate in 1995. However, the party lost recognized status after the Presidential election of 1996.

    PRUD ACT RSLTS is the party’s abbreviation and those 111 registrants are people who, I’m sure, registered with the party when it was on the form in 1993-1996 and never switched to anything else. That’s a fascinating example of (1) the advantage of having a party name pre-printed on the registration form and (2) how relics of a “losing” third party campaign can survive for 20 years.

    Regarding your suggestion that the Constitution Party contact the members of the Conservative Party asking them to switch, I think it should be the other way around. The Conservative Party is a lot closer to the 1000 registrant threshold and they’ve been making pretty steady progress for at least the last few months since I started following these numbers. I believe that in April 2009 there were only about 235 Conservatives in Louisiana, but they’ve greatly improved that number with no apparent effort. Further, “Conservative” is a very attractive ballot label. Regardless of how effective the party organization might be, I’m sure lots of candidates in Louisiana would love to have “Conservative” after their names on the ballots.
11. Catholic Trotskyist January 17, 2012

    I will try to find a way to write to the CHRSTN Socialist and Christian Prog members.
12. Catholic Trotskyist January 17, 2012

    I like all of these “United” and “Unity” parties with just one member!
13. Trent Hill Post author | January 17, 2012

    Perhaps. All I know is that we never tried organizing it at all–the name was my idea and I never registered. I just found it funny, especially since the idea started right here on IPR.
14. just saying January 17, 2012

    @1 there were probably more members of La Taxpayers that have since switched back to GOP to support Dr Paul again
15. Trent Hill Post author | January 17, 2012

    There’s a spelling party–but it has no members 😛
16. Dar January 17, 2012

    “INDENPENDENT: 451
    INDEPENTANT: 60
    INEDEPENDENT: 55
    INDEPEMDENT: 23”

    So, where is the Spelling Party?
17. Trent Hill Post author | January 17, 2012

    Some additional notes: The LA Taxpayers Party, which was a vehicle formed exclusively to put Ron Paul on the ballot in 2008 in LA, has 3 registrants. WOO!

    PRUD ACT RSLTS, with 111 registrants must’ve been an organized effort. For some reason I’m thinking Nader-connected. Anyone know?

    The DANSEREAU Party has 57 registrants–again, sounds like an organized effort. Does this refer to Canadian Ecologist Pierre Dansereau or to Arthur Dansereau, the Canadian who championed the Liberal-Conservative Party? Or other? Anyone know?

    How on earth did the Banana party get 20 registered voters? My guess is a couple high school kids pranked the Register-to-Vote drive.

    There are 15 members in the Facist Party–which is spelled wrong. The Fascist Party has no registrants.

    There are lots of registrants from parties that were popular years ago, but are now defunct in LA–American Independent, States Rights, Peace and Freedom, Natural Law, Dixiecrat.

    One clear observation–the big third parties in LA could benefit from looking through this list and using it to their advantage. Libertarians could gain 59+13 voters just from mailing the registrants who spelled their party name wrong. The Constitution Party should be sending letters and voter registration cards to the 423 Conservative Party members, 161 Tea Party members, 133 Christian Party members, 102 American Party members, 39 Constitutional Party members, 8 US Taxpayers Party members, 7 Federalist Party members, 6 Tax Payers Party members, 4 States Rights Party members, 3 American Independent Party members, 3 American First Party members, etc. Socialists could similarly benefit from the many different versions and spellings of their names.

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