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Virginia Constitution Party Meets!
Platform adopted; Candidates urged to run for Congress in '08; Howard Phillips announces plans to travel to Canada to challenge SPP/NAU!
The Constitution Party of Virginia, chaired by Constitution Party founder and past Presidential nominee, Howard Phillips, met Saturday, August 11, in Vienna, Virginia and adopted a comprehensive state platform which is highlighted by its steadfast opposition to the Bush Administration's plans to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership which critics claim would lead to the destruction of American sovereignty and result in a merger of the United States, Canada and Mexico into a North American Union. The new Virginia Constitution Party state platform, which will be publicly announced after Labor Day and covers a great variety of national and Virginia state issues, also features planks which call for: the protection of U.S. Border Agents from wrongful prosecution; a plan to give Americans better representation in the United States House of Representatives; and rejection of trade policies which threaten the economic security of American workers.
Those in attendance were implored by Phillips to strongly consider running for office, particularly for the US House of Representatives, in the 2008 election. He reminded the committee that "what makes a political party 'a political party' is running candidates for office." Several committee members indicated that they are, indeed, considering carrying the Constitution Party banner in next year's election.
The Virginians also discussed plans to upgrade the state party website and ideas for strengthening local organizations; began preliminary planning for the 2008 ballot access petition campaign which can start in January, 2008, and discussed their state's participation in the upcoming National Committee meeting in Council Bluffs, Iowa October 25-27, 2007. Several committee members indicated their intention to attend the Iowa meeting.
In related news, Howard Phillips announced that next week he will be travelling to Ottawa, Canada where he will meet with other distinguished Americans, including Dr. Jerome Corsi, to monitor and protest a meeting of bureaucrats and elitists from the US, Canada and Mexico who will be convening in private at a nearby luxury hotel for the purpose of furthering their plans to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership. It is expected that thousands of Canadian citizens will also be on hand to protest the meeting.