Franklin, You re-posted the following:
----- The Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus has posted propoganda on the Boston Tea Party site, asking members to vote for their Republican candidates. ----- Not exactly. One of the founding members of (but not currently an officer of, or spokesman for) the Republican Liberty Caucus (Eric Dondero) has posted propaganda on the Boston Tea Party site, but most of that propaganda has been aimed at garnering support not for Republicans, but rather for "independent" Democrat Joe Lieberman. Suffice it to say that Mr. Dondero has not found a very receptive audience. ----- Soon, the Republicans will infiltrate and have their subversives elected to officer positions ---- They'd better hurry. Our convention begins this Saturday; nominations for officer and national committee positions are already under way, and I've seen no nominations yet which I would classify as "Republican mole efforts." Of 241 members, 160 have responded to the party web site's non-scientific poll as to their former or other party association. Of those 160, only 6% identified themselves as former or current Republicans. If those results resemble reality at all, then even if every member who has NOT responded to the poll is a Republican, they'd still be in the minority. ----- so they can make sure no BTP party candidates are run for election. ----- Only the membership, not the national committee, can change the bylaws -- and as of now the bylaws dictate that the Boston Tea Party _will_ run a 2008 presidential slate. The absolute most an infiltrated national committee might be able to do would be to prevent the national organization from recognizing state affiliates (but that wouldn't stop state parties from organizing themselves and running candidates -- it would just prevent the national organization from endorsing those affiliates or their candidates). ----- If you are a member of the BTP, don't vote for any prosepective officer who is not a registered Libertarian voter. ----- That would eliminate a lot of prospective officers, since a lot of states don't offer registration by party, and since many states which do offer registration by party don't offer it to Libertarians. I do hope, of course, that the Boston Tea Party's members will look closely at the candidates and carefully consider their votes. Regards, Tom Knapp ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
