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News and Information

Constitution Party Sets Sights

On The Next Four Years

At Orlando, Florida

National Committee Meeting!

Constitution Party Leaders Plan For Future

Growth, Development and Outreach.

The National Committee of the Constitution Party, in concluding its 16th year of operation, and determined not to waste any time in preparing for the next four years, held an important post-election national meeting in Orlando, Florida this past weekend. Topics on the table included, (among several other things): funding an outreach program to enable party speakers to travel across the country to take the message of the Constitution Party to various groups and individuals; improving the party's ballot access operation, particularly the funding thereof; adding a staff coordinator for the western states; discussing means by which to support the efforts of California Constitutionalists in their battle to re-assert their rightful leadership of the American Independent Party in that state; as well as consideration of the (successful) applications for affiliation by new Constitution Party state organizations in Nebraska and Alabama. (There are now affiliate state party organizations recognized by the National Committee of the Constitution Party in every state other than Alaska, Wyoming, Maryland, Oregon and Montana. In Maryland, a new Constitution Party group has been meeting for several months and is expected to seek affiliation at the next national committee meeting in Newark, New Jersey in April. Oregon and Montana, of course, each have independent, ballot qualified Constitution Party organizations. The Oregon CP enthusiastically supported the Baldwin/Castle ticket. The leadership of the Montana CP did otherwise, but there has been a change of leadership recently in that state and there is strong support for the national party among members across the state. It is certainly anticipated that there will be Constitution Party affiliate organizations in all 50 states by 2012 and hopefully as

soon as 2010)

Also of great interest were the outstanding presentations made by numerous speakers including Presidential nominee, Chuck Baldwin; Vice-Presidential nominee Darrell Castle (who made a particularly effective argument and appeal to "End the Fed"), CP founder, Howard Phillips, and former U.S. Congressman, John Hostettler of Indiana, as well as the panel discussion moderated by CP media Coordinator, Mary Starrett, on "The Constitution Party--Looking Forward", which included National Chairman, Jim Clymer, Darrell Castle and Howard Phillips.

The National Committee was also treated to an extremely dynamic presentation from Catherine Bleish, a Constitution Party member from Kansas City, MO and representative of the Liberty Restoration Project. Catherine emphasized the need for

networking with various patriotic and constitutional organizations and appealing to young voters.

For the first time ever, these national committee presentations were carried live by streaming video and audio by www.Republicmedia.tv and can still be accessed at the following link: STREAMING VIDEO RE-RUN OF THE ENTIRE BROADCAST IS ON AN INFINITE LOOP RIGHT NOW TUNE IN! The Constitution Party greatly appreciates Republicmedia for making these presentations available to people all across America live and now on a re-run basis. Special thanks go out to Mark Adams for facilitating this production.

The next (Spring) meeting of the Constitution Party National Committee (where CP members and supporters, as always are welcome to register, attend and observe all presentations and deliberations) will be in the Newark, New Jersey area April 17 and 18th, 2009. Further details concerning this will be forthcoming. Time passes quickly, so please mark your calendars and plan to attend. All state affiliates should be planning now to make sure they have representation at that meeting and those in the Eastern States, in particular, should be encouraging their rank and file to plan on attending and taking advantage of this opportunity to meet with Constitution Party leaders from around the country.

Also determined in Orlando was that the Fall National Committee meeting (there are two per year) of the Constitution Party is planned for the Phoenix, Arizona area . Mark Hubler, state chairman of the re-vitalized and re-organized Constitution Party of Arizona, attended the Orlando meeting and invited the Committee to bring its next scheduled meeting to be held in the Western region to Arizona. His invitation was accepted. This should be a great opportunity to expose Arizona, a state where the Constitution Party has never been on the ballot, to the Constitution Party. The Baldwin/Castle ticket did receive about 1,400 write-in votes in Arizona in 2008 and the new Arizona CP organization is making plans to begin the ballot access process soon for the 2010 election.

Although the post-Presidential Election National Meeting in mid December always brings the smallest turnout of every four year cycle,

this meeting did attract a healthy representation of CP leaders from a good cross-section of the country and, in particular, a strong participation by Floridians

including recent state chairman David Crowell, new state Chairman,

Dan Gonzales, Mayor Tom Eschenberg of Malabar, Florida, along with

a number of other Constitution Party activists from the Sunshine State.

The Constitution Party, as it looks forward to 2009 and beyond, is very optimistic and enthusiastic about its prospects for providing the political vehicle with which Americans can change the the nation's direction, restore Constitutional government and reclaim the dream of liberty and opportunity for all of its citizens.