In our previous story, about Virgil Goode signing on as the 5th District chair of the Trump campaign in Virginia, I wrote that Goode is a current member of the Constitution Party National (Executive) Committee. And, indeed, he was still listed that way on the party website yesterday, but has now been removed from that listing.
In IPR and Ballot Access News comments, JR Myers, CP Alaska state chair and contender for the Presidential nomination, and Jeff Becker, a party activist in West Virginia, both said CP national chair Frank Fluckiger told them Goode had actually resigned back in October, before the party’s last meeting in Albuquerque. Goode was the most recent Presidential candidate of the Constitution Party and represented VA-5 in Congress from 1997 to 2008 as a Democrat, Independent and Republican.
Good(e) riddance to him if true.
With what happened to me and Joshua Fauver with the CCTUC project back in 2013, I have a very difficult time in trusting Frank Fluckiger’s word.
Is there solid, verifiable proof of Mr, Goode’s resignation from October?
Even if there is, the fact that Goode was still listed on the CP’s website and that the resignation was never communicated to the general active members in the CP until this article on Goode joining Trump’s campaign team blew up all over the minor-party media, which the CP finally took him off the website and the national chair publicly stated that he had already resigned only after being pressed with this matter.
This only says that the CP needs to seriously redo how party business and communication/PR is conducted, because the human error in this matter with Goode’s departure back to the major party system is more then apparent.