From Glenn Davis at the Independent Voter Network:
According to Karen Murray, the national communications director of the Constitution Party, “gaining ballot access is a major priority for any alternative party.” Murray claims the party has already secured ballot access in 13 states and is confident the number will grow even more going into the 2016 election cycle.
The Constitution Party’s 2016 presidential candidate will be nominated by state delegates at the party’s convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Virgil Goode, Jr., the Constitution Party’s nominee for president in 2012, received 122,000 votes in the election, placing him in fifth place overall.
Several individuals have expressed interest in running in 2016 under the Constitution Party’s banner, including its 2008 vice-presidential candidate, Darrell Castle, a Tennessee attorney and host of the conservative podcast, The Castle Report.
Other potential candidates, according to [Peter] Gemma, include:
•Rev. Scott Copeland, who served three two-year terms on the executive committee of the Texas Southern Baptist Convention, and is the author of Your 2012 Middle Class President.
•Chad Koppie, a member of the Illinois Kane County Regional Board of Schools. He has also served as a township trustee.
•Owen Schuler, CEO of Shuler Capital Corp., a Georgia investment company with interests in oil, gas, transportation infrastructure, real estate, and specialized technologies integration across several sectors.
Of these, only Shuler has formally announced. Gemma says there are also efforts underway to recruit:
•Dennis Lynch, entrepreneur, documentary film maker, and conservative commentator from New York.
•Steve Stockman, former two-term Republican congressman from Texas and well-known conservative advocate.
Read the full article here.
Adrian Wyllie (FL Gov 2014) 222,908
Dale F. Ogden (CA Gov 2010) 150,898
Sharon Hansen (IL Sen 2014) 131,543
Rebecca Paddock (TX Sen 2014) 133,467
Andrew ?Andy? Horning (IN Sen 2014) 145,282
Jonathan Dine (MO Sen 2012) 165,468
John Jay Myers (TX Sen 2012) 162,354
Gail Lightfoot (CA Sen 2010) 175,242
Just from candidates for Governor & US Senator 2010-2014
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2014/11/lp-blog-libertarian-results-for-governor-and-us-senate-2010-2014/
Their presidential candidate only got 122,000 votes. In Montana the Libertarian Candidate for the Clerk of the Supreme Court had over 185,000 votes running in one state. In a report on NPR on presidential candidates it mentioned this : Marc Feldman, a libertarian candidate, filed in January. While he isn’t a household name, he’s also not completely new to the campaign trail: Feldman ran for attorney general in his home state of Ohio in 2010 and garnered more than 100,000 votes. How many other candidates came close or beat the CP’s 122,000 vote total.
Something like that. The details are fuzzy, like the math.
New math?.. Let me guess, is the number ‘Eleventy’ included?
But they are using the new math, which puts them ahead of the LP and GP and ahead of where they used to be.
13? Are you sure it’s not 12? After all, the Oregon CP isn’t affiliated with the national one, and they especially don’t feature the National CP’s candidates on their ballot.
Either or, in comparison to the LP & the GP, 12-13 states only is pretty sad.
If you had made that guess a bet, you could have been a winner right now.
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Let me guess someone is going to show up and make a snarkey comment.
Mmmmmmm….chocolate!
The chocolate ration has been increased from 15 grams to 12 grams! In 2016, it will grow to 8 grams!