This is from the Constitution Party’s FaceBook page:
ATTENTION NEW YORK!!! From Gary Gunsher (Constitution Party of New York State Chairman), If anyone in New York is truly interested in Organizing and actively growing the Constitution Party here in New York please send me an email at [email protected] or give me a call @ 716-262-2769 leave a voice mail if I don’t answer I will call back. It’s time we either started to do something or pack our bags and go home and let the liberals have NY.
Give the recent revelations from Joshua Fauver…maybe their name could be changed to the Third Reich Constitution Party and they could get their signatures from whites only. Achtung!
Well, let’s reorganize, get a candidate for Governor vetted, and work on ballot access and the 50,000 votes we need for ballot access for the next four years! We can do this!
Also, support for the Constitution Party is much weaker in NY than is Libertarian Party support.
In 2012, Goode received approx. 6000 votes in NY, while Gary Johnson got approx. 47,000.
Jed–In New York, the only way to maintain “party” status and ballot access for four years is to get 50,000 votes for Governor. The Green Party did it twice (in 1998 and 2010); the Libertarian and Constitution Parties have never done it although the LP came very close in 2010 when the owner of this website got 48,386 votes.
It would be great if the LP and CP make it in 2014. Right now, NYS has six official parties, but three of them (Conservative, Independence and Working Families) are parasites of the big two and only the Green Party presents a real alternative.
With due respect to Gary, we are far better organized and experienced than the Constitution Party is in New York. Although we have to petition, the LP has run candidates for the last 40 years in New York, including eight in New York City alone last year.
I wish the CP the best of luck getting Anthony and others on the ballot once again.
Virgil Goode got on the ballot with little to no help from NY. What we are doing is putting a call out to individuals who want to help organize on a local level. From all corners of NY. Mark is correct. Without ballot access we are not a recognized party in NY. We have a platform, we have by-laws, we have a website, a chairman and vice chairman but none of it means anything without ballot access. This is why we put out the notice for those who want to help us
I thought the CPNY was already organized?
What happened?
They got Virgil Goode on the ballot for President and Anthony Tolda on the ballot for U.S. House, so while the state might not recognize them as a political party, they clearly are.
Of course, the CP is not a party here. Instead, like the Libertarian Party, it is an independent body without ballot access in New York.