Fellow Lovers of Liberty,
As many of you know I’m running for the open At-Large seat on the BTP Nat-Comm. Two of my main campaign issues are getting a functional BTP newsletter started and opening up the Albert Gallatin Institute. I know there has been some discussion of both these things but little has been done on getting them started. I’d like to get some action done on both, even if I don’t win a seat on the committee. Here are some of my ideas; feel free to committee on them and to add your ideas, that’s kind of what I’m trying to get started by writing this.
We need to find a state party with a bank account willing to take on the project of publishing a print newsletter. The newsletter needs an Executive Editor to oversee the entire project and at least two Contributing Editors to write additional material. I don’t know who would be willing to do one of these jobs but I think several people on the Nat-Comm might be fit to help with this project. Once we have an Executive Editor and a few Contributing Editors they can start on an email newsletter right away. I’m not really sure how often the newsletter should come out but I’m thinking a seasonal print one (with like a $10 fee) and a free monthly email one. The newsletter should have BTP news in it along with some editorials or something.
Steve Newton proposed the Albert Gallatin Institute last year, discussion on the project can be found at http://bostontea.us/node/446. If he would like to be its President (or Chairman) I think that would be great. But if he doesn’t we need to find someone with a high level of education (preferably a masters or higher) to lead the project. We should also find a few people with college educations willing to be fellows at the Institute. A Gallatin Institute website can be up pretty fast and studies/ papers can be published online there for the time being, but the ultimate goal of the Institute should be to publish an academic journal. People working for the Institute don’t have to be members of the party but they should at least agree with the platform.
I know we can find energetic people willing to work for liberty and help our party by doing one of the things above. I don’t currently have the education to be a fellow at the Gallatin Institute but I do have some limited Journalistic experience, so if we can’t find anyone else I could be a Contributing Editors for the newsletter. I’m going to work to organize a more formal youth caucus to spur those who cannot yet vote into activism after the election but I can take some time away from that to work on the newsletter.
That’s it for me right now, I hope I can get some impute from the committee and from the membership at large, so we can get some real work done. If I do get elected to the committee, I look forward to working with all of the committee’s members and with helping out all of our party’s other members. If I don’t I still would like to help on some of these projects.
Thanks,
Raymond Lady
Candidate for the Boston Tea Party National Committee
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
My Agenda for the Boston Tea Party
I’m running for the national committee because I want to help my political party, the Boston Tea Party, become a force in American politics. I want to see our party grow over the next four years so that, in 2012, our presidential candidate can be placed on the majority of state ballots. That’s a tough goal, but I think if we work hard towards it we can do it. I believe in liberty and I believe in you, the activists of this party. I’m not running to lead you or anyone else in the party; I’m running to help make this party work better for you and for America.
Below are some of the projects I’d like the national committee to work on. I’d listen to any impute or advice you might want to give me on these, or any other project you might want the committee to work on.
• STARTING A PARTY NEWSLETTER- There has been some discussion of starting a party newsletter by the National Committee, but there has been little action on getting one started. If elected to the committee I will help the committee work towards creating a functional print and e-mail newsletter. A newsletter would inform our members of important events, inspiring them to becoming more active within the party, and provide libertarian commentary on recent news, giving our membership intellectual fire to defend the cause of liberty.
• SUPPORTING THE GALLATIN INSTITUTE- If elected to the committee, I would lead the effort in providing support to open the Gallatin Institute. I would work towards the Gallatin Institute functioning as the intellectual arm of the Boston Tea Party, conducting research that would provide support to our party’s candidates. More information on this proposal can be found at http://bostontea.us/node/446.
• ORGANIZING BALLOT ACCESS- If elected, I would work towards having a national level Boston Tea Party partisan organization that would work with state parties and non-partisan organizations such as Freedom Ballot Access, Free and Equal, and The Coalition for Free and Open Elections to put Boston Tea Party candidates on the ballot.
• PROVIDING SURPORT TO OUR STATE PARTIES- I understand the proper role of the National Committee is to support our state and local Boston Tea Parties. If elected, I will help to focus the committee to provide the framework for national actives, without stepping out of the bounds set by the bylaws. I will not allow the committee to step out of its proper role and become overreaching like the LNC.
Like I said above, I’m running for your interests. So if I’m elected and you have any comments or suggests for the party, I will take them to the national committee. I will do this even if I disagree with them, because I want everyone’s voice to be heard in this party. I want to make this party work, will you help me?
-Raymond Lady
Below are some of the projects I’d like the national committee to work on. I’d listen to any impute or advice you might want to give me on these, or any other project you might want the committee to work on.
• STARTING A PARTY NEWSLETTER- There has been some discussion of starting a party newsletter by the National Committee, but there has been little action on getting one started. If elected to the committee I will help the committee work towards creating a functional print and e-mail newsletter. A newsletter would inform our members of important events, inspiring them to becoming more active within the party, and provide libertarian commentary on recent news, giving our membership intellectual fire to defend the cause of liberty.
• SUPPORTING THE GALLATIN INSTITUTE- If elected to the committee, I would lead the effort in providing support to open the Gallatin Institute. I would work towards the Gallatin Institute functioning as the intellectual arm of the Boston Tea Party, conducting research that would provide support to our party’s candidates. More information on this proposal can be found at http://bostontea.us/node/446.
• ORGANIZING BALLOT ACCESS- If elected, I would work towards having a national level Boston Tea Party partisan organization that would work with state parties and non-partisan organizations such as Freedom Ballot Access, Free and Equal, and The Coalition for Free and Open Elections to put Boston Tea Party candidates on the ballot.
• PROVIDING SURPORT TO OUR STATE PARTIES- I understand the proper role of the National Committee is to support our state and local Boston Tea Parties. If elected, I will help to focus the committee to provide the framework for national actives, without stepping out of the bounds set by the bylaws. I will not allow the committee to step out of its proper role and become overreaching like the LNC.
Like I said above, I’m running for your interests. So if I’m elected and you have any comments or suggests for the party, I will take them to the national committee. I will do this even if I disagree with them, because I want everyone’s voice to be heard in this party. I want to make this party work, will you help me?
-Raymond Lady
Announcement of Campaign
My Fellow Boston Tea’ers,
I’ve watched as several of our National Committee members, most recently Tom Knapp and Steve Trinward, have resigned. Resignations are rarely a good thing and they often create unstable situations. But this situation has not come of the blue, our party has been plagued with problems and our National Committee has seemed to do nothing but escalate these problems.
I hope that I can change this. That is why, after much consideration and discussion with fellow patriots, I am announcing my intention to run for the open At-Large seat on the Boston Tea Party National Committee. I want to bring the message of our party once again to the forefront and leave silly personal vendettas behind. I want to bring the Boston Tea Party back to what it was founded to be, a populist party with a purely libertarian message. And most of all I want to bring the “party” back into the Boston Tea Party. I want to do this by helping to lead youthful (in both sprit and body) people not only into the membership of our party but into activism on behalf of liberty.
I am not new to this party; I have been actively involved in the Boston Tea Party since last summer. During the election I created a Yahoo message group to support our presidential candidate. I also wrote several editorials supporting our 2008 candidate on libertarian and Ron Paul websites across the internet. I created and still maintain our party’s Digg.com account. Since October of 2008 I have served as the Vice President of the Indiana affiliate of the Boston Tea Party and I’ve also organized the active Monroe County (IN) Boston Tea Party. I am committed to seeing this party succeed.
With all that said, I hope you will find me to be the best candidate for our party and vote for me in the poll during the special election, after I have been nominated. Thank you for your time and consideration.
-Raymond Lady
I’ve watched as several of our National Committee members, most recently Tom Knapp and Steve Trinward, have resigned. Resignations are rarely a good thing and they often create unstable situations. But this situation has not come of the blue, our party has been plagued with problems and our National Committee has seemed to do nothing but escalate these problems.
I hope that I can change this. That is why, after much consideration and discussion with fellow patriots, I am announcing my intention to run for the open At-Large seat on the Boston Tea Party National Committee. I want to bring the message of our party once again to the forefront and leave silly personal vendettas behind. I want to bring the Boston Tea Party back to what it was founded to be, a populist party with a purely libertarian message. And most of all I want to bring the “party” back into the Boston Tea Party. I want to do this by helping to lead youthful (in both sprit and body) people not only into the membership of our party but into activism on behalf of liberty.
I am not new to this party; I have been actively involved in the Boston Tea Party since last summer. During the election I created a Yahoo message group to support our presidential candidate. I also wrote several editorials supporting our 2008 candidate on libertarian and Ron Paul websites across the internet. I created and still maintain our party’s Digg.com account. Since October of 2008 I have served as the Vice President of the Indiana affiliate of the Boston Tea Party and I’ve also organized the active Monroe County (IN) Boston Tea Party. I am committed to seeing this party succeed.
With all that said, I hope you will find me to be the best candidate for our party and vote for me in the poll during the special election, after I have been nominated. Thank you for your time and consideration.
-Raymond Lady
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