According to our man on the inside, the platform remains “90-95% of what it was from 2008.”
The new platform, with revisions, “runs 20 pages of small print.”
“However, a very smart move by a MN delegate … was to submit a 5 page summary of the platform that was designed to be put on the website – visitors can see the two or three sentence summary and click on it for the entire plank. The summary of the Preamble reads: “The goal of the CP is to restore American gov’t to its Biblical foundations established in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States, which together establish a Republic, administered by elected representatives, to protect life, liberty, and property under the rule of law.”
… But we decided, at Darrell’s (Castle) direction, not to adopt it as part of the platform – as a preamble to the preamble – but we made a motion to recommend it to the national committee to place it on the website – unanimously.”
And again this year there is a move to petition the Social Security plank onto the convention floor.
The Constitution Party of West Virginia proposed a revision to the Electoral College platform to require the names of Presidential Electors to be printed on ballots. West Virginia election code (and probably many other states) explicitly prohibits the names of Electors to be known. Bizarro world! Look up §3-1-14 at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/Code.cfm Hope this gets adopted tonight!