Re: [btpnc-talk] Re: [btpnc] Color of the BTP

[KCUF Media [Mike Blessing]]

Jim Davidson wrote:
>
>> --- On Sat, 11/1/08, Darryl W Perry <dwp...@dwp2016.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Darryl W Perry <dwp...@dwp2016.org>
>> Subject: [btpnc] Color of the BTP
>> To: bt...@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 11:26 AM
>> I'm not sure if I'm following correct procedure or not, but since
>> there has been talk on the site about the "color of the BTP". I would
>> like to formally propose adopting "goldenrod" (the color assigned to
>> us by the website OurCampaigns.com)
>> http://www.ourcampaigns.com/PartyDetail.html?PartyID=3634
>
> Dear Darryl,
>
> It isn't clear to me that there is a power delegated by the members to
> the national committee to establish an official color. Assuming
> plenary powers is probably not a good assumption. Leaving aside the
> authority to make such a pronouncement, why make one?
>
> And if you are going to pursue this idea, why not poll the members?
> There is an active thread with several colors mentioned now on the
> site.
>
> http://bostontea.us/node/438
>
> Goldenrod, brass, gold, purple, black, and green have been mentioned,
> along with discussion. In the event a power to designate an official
> color for the party were not delegated in the bylaws to the national
> committee, you could poll the members and they could choose themselves.
>
> Mind you, I don't think there's any purpose to having an official
> color (or colors? could it be a checkerboard pattern, or gingham -
> that's it! Pink gingham!) until we have won a state's electoral votes.
> The whole red state and blue state controversy reflects electoral
> votes.
>
> Now when Darryl W. Perry runs for president in 2016, we ought to be
> ready (based on our current growth curve, we ought to have 80 million
> members ;-) to win at least one electoral vote. So, there is a little
> time to choose.

Jim, I'm with you on this one -- I don't see any real purpose to
having an "official" color, when the whole "red vs. blue" gimmick got
started in 2000, when the lamestream snoozemedia designated red for
the states won by Bush and blue for the states won by Gore.

Should the BTP get to a point where the presidential candidate gets
some electoral votes, then the media will arbitrarily pick a color,
just like they did back in November 2000.
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