A joint media release from the national Constitution Party and the Constitution Party of Washington
2012 Third Party Presidential Campaign
To Be Focus Of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Meeting October 7-8
Lancaster, PA (September 20, 2011)--"A disillusioned nation, dissatisfied with a President and a Congress who insist on spending America into bankruptcy, are looking outside of the traditional political institutions for solutions that will put our country back on the road to economic sanity and recovery and return this land to being the place where 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is a reality and not simply an empty slogan," said Constitution Party National Chairman, Jim Clymer, in announcing that the Fall 2011 Constitution Party National Committee and Conference would be held in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, October 7th and 8th, at the beautiful Coeur d’Alene Hotel and Resort, 115 South Second Street, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83816. "The American voters are looking for sound answers and liberty-based choices and the Constitution Party intends to provide them," added Clymer.
The Friday night banquet speaker will be the Hon. Virgil Goode, who represented the 5th District of Virginia in the US House of Representatives from 1997 to 2009. Goode is considered to be the frontrunner for the Constitution Party Presidential nomination, though he has not yet made an official announcement of this candidacy. The Constitution Party National Committee is formally on record as urging him to seek the nomination. Other featured speakers include Chuck Baldwin, who now resides in Montana and who was the 2008 Constitution Party Presidential nominee along with his running mate, Memphis Tennessee lawyer, Darrell Castle. Also on the speaker's roster are Oregon media personality, Mary Starrett; Utah Constitutional Scholar and 2010 US Senate candidate, Scott Bradley; Radio Liberty Talkshow host, Sam Bushman, and former Colorado legislator, Pat Miller, who ran for Lt. Governor as Tom Tancredo's running mate in 2010.
The 2011 Fall Constitution Party meeting was actually awarded to Washington, and specifically the city of Spokane, however it was the Spokane area committee members who suggested that going across the state line to the Coeur d' Alene Hotel and Resort would be the best location to host the meeting. It will be the final national meeting prior to the 2012 Presidential election year and preparations for ballot access, the National Convention and the Presidential campaign will be high on the agenda for the meeting. The Constitution Party's 2012 National Convention will be held April 18-21 in Nashville, Tennessee at which time the Constitution Party nominees for President and Vice-President will be selected.
2012 will mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Constitution Party. Initially the party was known as the US Taxpayers Party but changed its name in 1999 to the Constitution Party. The number of candidates offered by the Constitution Party and their percentage of the vote total in legislative, congressional and statewide elections has continued to increase over the years, with record numbers received in many states in 2010. In Montana, Rick Jore was elected to office in 2006 as the first Constitution Party elected legislator. The Constitution Party narrowly missed electing a state legislator in a special election in Alabama earlier this year in a one-on-one election against a Republican. The party holds four elected partisan local offices in Nevada and six in Pennsylvania (four elected as Constitution Party members and two who have switched parties). The party also claims a number of other non-partisan office holders throughout the nation.
"Let the voters get their fill of Obama squabbling with the Republicans in Congress and the Republican Presidential hopefuls squabbling with each other," continued Clymer, "When it comes down to it in 2012 it will be the Constitution Party who will be speaking for the American people and providing solutions to show a way out of the unbelievable mess in which our nation finds itself. This time, the American voters are in a mood to listen."
CONTACT:
National Office Media Contact:
Gary Odom at 717-390-1993 or grodom@gmail.com
Northwest Regional Communications Director:
Karen Murray at 360-339-4767 or commsdirector@constitutionpartyofwa.com
For general information about the Constitution Party, please visit the national website: www.constitutionparty.com