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Start Your Own Political Party

Sick and tired of politics as usual?  Tired of being played for a sucker by both the big parties?  Here’s an idea:  Start your own Party!

Do you sometimes feel like you’re in the middle of a stampede of Elephants and Donkeys who are managed by powerful interests and who don’t listen to you and your views?  The answer is SECESSION!

I’m serious.  Secede from the big parties and start your own.  Right now, you have one vote, but within a couple of hours you can have ten votes by just asking a few friends to join you.  Ten votes – not enough to swing very many elections, but when ten people agree that they are going to vote for a few good candidates (or against a few very bad ones), and that you are going to vote without regard to party, you place a small roadblock in the path of the big parties.

These first ten are your own personal team.

Now, let’s invite each one of them to repeat the process.  And let’s say that five of them do it.  Those five are promoted to the First Tier of Team Captains.  You now have their 50 voters plus your personal team of ten, so you are looking at 60 votes in the next election.  In a couple of weeks you can probably find another five from among their fifty who will repeat the process, giving you a maximum of 100 voters who are just like you — sick and tired of being taken for granted by the big parties.

You now have what we’ll call a Maverick Party — you call it anything you like.  A hundred votes will get the attention of any candidate for any office.  They will travel to you to speak to you and your team — if you convince them that you can deliver 100 votes.

Host a meeting in a restaurant, where your team of ten, plus any they want to invite to hear more, can all have their say about ways to build the party and support a select team of candidates.  (Some of them might even want to run for office.  In time, we want to cultivate that.)  At this meeting, you listen to people talk about the candidates you will all agree to vote for, based upon your values.  You discuss the seriousness of what you’re doing — it’s called guerilla campaigning, and it scares the socks off the big parties, because they don’t control you.

At your second meeting, you are going to have to take reservations, and limit participation to 100 — where you’ll do two things:  (a) there will be an accounting of how many votes each person actually can deliver for the Maverick Slate in this election, and (b) you’ll let a couple of candidates come to see if they want your support.

Imagine inviting one of your favorite candidates to listen to your team complain about the world of politics, and to hearing people stand up and say, “I’m Bubba, and I am here tonight representing 27 voters.  My question for you is€¦ .”  Then another stands up and says, “I’m Jane and I represent 143 voters, and my question is€¦ .”  Do you think the guy will be taking notes and doing the math?  You betcha, he will!  When he goes home, he will be telling his campaign staff, “Whenever this group of Mavericks wants an audience with me, you give it to them.”

A hundred votes will have their attention, but the third level is 1,000 votes, in round numbers, and when you reach that level, even congressmen will welcome a delegation from you and your team when you call their office and ask for an appointment.  If they don’t, you’ll bounce them out of office next time around.

The neat thing is that this doesn’t take tons of money, it doesn’t take an office and a staff.  It takes one spark plug like you, with a data base, keeping up with your small party of ten friends, their ten friends, and their ten friends.  Your circle of influence, with three levels, is actually closer to 3,000 votes, but let’s keep it conservative here.

You can find this plan, and much more, at www.IndependentConservativeVoters.com/

© Daniel D. New, Permission to copy, with credits, is hereby granted.-

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