Boston Tea Party endorses Joe Kennedy for US Senate
KCUF Media
December 26, 2009
Boston Tea Party National Committee has, by a vote of 4-0 with two
members not voting, endorsed Joe Kennedy for US Senate. Joe Kennedy is
running as an independent in the special election to fill the seat
vacated by the late Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts (he is not
related to the late Senator).
Joe Kennedy recently announced his support of HR 4248, the Free
Competition in Currency Act, a bill endorsed by the BTP National
Committee as part of the "Honest Money" Resolution. At-Large Rep.
Darryl W. Perry said, "Joe Kennedy is the only candidate (in this
election) that supports a Competitive Currency (establishing an
effective monetary policy to maintain strong currency at home and a
competitive currency abroad for balancing trade,) and an Audit/End of
the Federal Reserve System."
BTP Chairman Douglass Gaking added, "He supports Ron Paul's Audit the
Fed and Free Competition of Currency acts and takes a strict
libertarian position on just about everything."
In accepting the endorsement, Kennedy commented, "I am very excited to
receive the endorsement of the Boston Tea Party. Before I was a
politician I was a TEA Party Activist and like millions of others I
see the looming problems with our government. Our great nation is
rapidly racing toward bankruptcy. Taxation is growing without
restraint and the freedoms and ideals we grew up with are vanishing.
All the while our politicians have stopped caring and stopped
listening to the wants and needs of the population. As a country we
deserve lower taxes and a smaller, more responsible and less intrusive
government. As TEA Party Activists we insist on more freedom, State's
rights and a government that listens to the people it represents not
one that takes our money and turns a deaf ear to the population it
supports. These are the needs of our nation and the foundation of the
Boston Tea Party and my candidacy. I am running on Tea Party
Principals and I will represent them fully in the Senate. My gratitude
(goes out) to the Boston Tea Party for the honor of their
endorsement."
The Boston Tea Party was founded in 2006 with a one sentence platform,
"The Boston Tea Party supports reducing the size, scope and power of
government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the
size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose." In
October 2008, the party's National Convention adopted the four point
program of the Campaign for Liberty. Their program calls for an end to
overseas occupation, a restoration of privacy and other liberties, no
increase in the national debt, and a thorough review of the Federal
Reserve.