Urgent Message from the State Chairman
I
am writing to you regarding an urgent and extremely important matter. As most of you know, in order for a
political party to maintain ballot position in Utah any one candidate of that
party needs to garner a minimum of 2% of the total vote cast for all U S
Congressional candidates in the state. With Utah having three Congressmen that
means that any one candidate of the Constitution Party must win at least 2% of
all the votes cast in all three of those races. The only way this can feasibly be accomplished is to run a
statewide candidate. This translates
into the necessity of running a candidate for either governor or for the U S
Senate. With Utah being considered a
model party for the Constitution Party nationwide, it is imperative that the
party run a candidate for one of those two positions. The U S Senate race is the most logical of those options for us
to pursue.
Scott Bradley has agreed to again serve as our candidate for
the U S Senate, but he can do so only if he has the solid backing of our party
members. This means that we as members of the party will need to support him
financially in his campaign in everyway that we possibly can. We need to be
able to ensure that he can count on a steady flow of funds into his campaign so
that he can effectively deliver the message of returning to and restoring the
sound constitutional principles upon which this nation was established.
One of the best ways for this to happen is to have as many
good candidates as possible file for the state house and state senate
races. Beginning at the county level we
want to begin teaching classes on the Constitution from Scott's book "To
Preserve the Nation," and the supporting DVD's, CD's and other materials that
go along with that course. Our county
officers, state senate and state house candidates and our local county
candidates need to lead out on this. With a little bit of training these people
will become class facilitators. The materials are designed so that expert
instructors are not necessary. Including the Introductory Lecture, there are 17
classes in all. Each person attending
will be asked to bring at least one new person with them to the following class
even though those people did not see the first one. In time, everyone will have been able to see all 17 lessons. As new volunteer facilitators are located,
they can then begin classes in their own homes and this is how we will be able
to get our message out to the public. The process will be repeated again and again. By the end of the campaign we need to have these classes being
taught in every neighborhood across the state that we possibly can. We know
that the Constitution Party message resonates with the public, but we need to
bring it to them first.
There is a seismic
political shift that is sweeping over this nation. The dimensions of this dramatic shift are beginning to show in
the national polls, but the major parties are hoping that the public will not
become aware of what is happening. According to Ballot Access News over two million Republicans have
changed their registration from the Republican Party since the 2008
Presidential Election. Even in Utah an
October, 2009 voter registration report shows a decline of 58,000 registered
Republican Party voters. The voter
registration of Democratic voters in Utah has also declined but to a lesser
amount. The beneficiaries of this change have been an increase in the voter
registration in the Constitution and Libertarian Parties and an increase in the
number of voters who consider themselves Independents. Voter registration of
those two parties is now nearing the 6,000 mark.
What is more
astonishing is that a growing number of national polls are showing that as many
as one in five voters now say they would rather sit out an election rather than
to vote for the candidate of either major party. What does this all mean? It means that the argument can no longer be made that a third party will
draw votes away from the less liberal of the two major party candidates. This is indeed a monumental shift in the
attitude of today's voters. It is our intent to give these voters a
reason to feel good about voting again. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Chuck Baldwin was not on the ballot
in such populous states as CA, PA, NY, TX, NC, and IN and yet the party
garnered an all-time high number of votes. Furthermore, in 27 of the 37 states in which the party was on the
ballot, the party received a new record high in votes. The Western States led
the rest of the nation in that increase. A sample of this is our own experience in getting the Constitution
Party ballot qualified in Wyoming, one of the most difficult of all states to
qualify a new political party. As many as one in three registered voters in
that state who are asked sign the petition to allow the CP to be recognized in
that state will do so. In one county
alone nearly 16% of those who voted in the 2008 Presidential Election have
signed the petition to get the CP on the WY 2010 ballot, and the petition drive
is not yet over. This is all being done on a volunteer basis. No third party has ever gained ballot
position on a volunteer basis in Wyoming before.
My message to each of you is that never before in our
lifetime has there been a window of opportunity to build a new strong party as
there is between now and 2012. Economic
conditions are going to deteriorate far more than they have so far, and it is
when people begin hurting, as they surely will in the coming months, that they
will be willing to listen to and subsequently embrace the message that the
Constitution Party has to offer. We
could not ask for a more gifted or knowledgeable candidate than Scott Bradley.
His knowledge of the history of our nation and the proper understanding of the
writings of our Founding Fathers is most impressive.
My Challenge to Each of our Party
Members
What does this mean to each of us? It means that each of us needs to look deep into our hearts and
souls and seriously ask how much our freedom and liberty is worth to us. Then
we need to each pledge to ourselves, to our God, and to our county what we will
do to restore that which our Founding Fathers gave us. We need for each of you to give every month
on a steady and consistence basis whatever you can give to the CP and to the
Scott Bradley campaign. If only five hundred of our members gave just $25.00
per month that would bring in $12,500.00 monthly for the campaign. Five dollars
of that needs to be donated to either your county or your state party and the
other $20.00 needs to be donated directly to the candidate. If you can not
donate that much then please donate what you are able to, but do so on a
regular and consistent basis. We must also be willing to share our message with
neighbors, family and friends and invite them into our homes and to share this
message with them.
It means that we
need to open our homes to hold precinct caucus meetings on March 23rd
and elect county and state delegates who will support Scott and our other
candidates in this effort. In 2006,
Scott ran for the U S Senate at great personal sacrifice. Many people have requested that he run for
the U S Senate seat again this year. He is willing to do so, but only if the
rest of us carry our share of the financial load. We have been working for
months to prepare for the upcoming challenges that we now face. We expect to at least quadruple the number
of precinct caucus meetings over what was held in 2006. Those meetings are less
than three weeks away. We will keep an updated listing on our new web site of
the precinct meeting locations.
Can we count on your support? The first thing we need to do is to raise funds to cover the US
Senate filing fee, which is $1,305.00. Scott is not seeking to run for the office of the U S Senate. He would much rather not run at all.
However, neither will he reject the call of his country to serve. We need to
follow the advice given us by the Founding Fathers in that we as a people need
to seek out from among us men who are good, honest and above all, wise and then
approach them and ask them to represent our voice in the office to which we
elect them. We have approached not only Scott, all of our candidates in this
same spirit and feel confident that many will step forward in this hour of our
nation's greatest need. Never, since the Revolutionary War, has our nation been
in such danger as today, and things will not begin to change until we again
step forward and shoulder the responsibilities that we have for too long passed
on to government. If we are going to change the disastrous course our nation is
following, we must begin at the
grassroots level. We must first put our
homes in order, then our local city councils and our county and state governments. Once this is accomplished, our national
problems will pretty much take care of themselves. This will not be easy, but
there is no other alternative if we are going to heal our nation.
Make your checks payable to the Constitution Party of Utah
or to the Scott Bradley for US Senate
Campaign and mail them to the Constitution Party, P O Box 1215 Bountiful,
UT 84010. Please do so without delay and pass this message on to others. The
McCain-Feingold Act limits the amount of a donation from an individual to any
Federal Candidate to $2,300.00. Also
required is the donor's occupation and employer. If the person is retired or self employed, he may simply so state
that he is. We will keep you updated on our progress periodically on our state
web site, which is www.cputah.org.
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My sincere thanks and deepest appreciation to each of you.
Your State Chairman,
Frank Fluckiger
