Way to go Thomas!--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > 07/05/06 > P.O.C. Thomas L. Knapp > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 314-705-3042 > > LIKE IT'S 1773: NEW PARTY IN WAKE OF LIBERTARIAN CONVENTION DEBACLE > > "Cyberia" (PRWEB) July 5, 2006 - Citing the Libertarian Party's > "abdication of its political responsibilities to the American > people," activists have founded the Boston Tea Party > (www.bostontea.us) as an alternative, Internet-based vehicle for > libertarian political action. > > "For various reasons, the ball got dropped in Portland," says Boston > Tea Party founder Thomas L. Knapp, referring to the Libertarian > national convention, held over the July 4th weekend in Oregon. > "Factional disputes led to a wholesale gutting of the party's > platform -- a muddle in which the party was left without a mechanism > for expressing its positions on several of the foremost public policy > issues facing America's voters." > > Rather than setting up the new party as a splinter group, Knapp says > that he thinks of it as a "hopefully a pinch hitter, going to bat for > America while the LP nurses its wounds and prepares to get back in > the game. Until and unless that happens, the Boston Tea Party will > fill in. Americans deserve -- and desperately need -- a pro-freedom > party which forcefully advocates libertarian solutions to the issues > of the day." > > Those solutions will be set forth in a program to be put together by > the new party's organizational convention, to be held online, Knapp > says, in the next 30 to 60 days. > > -30- > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
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