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Media contact:
Markham Robinson
Parliamentarian
American Independent Party of California
mark@masterplanner.com

Sacramento CA - June 28, 2008

California’s American Independent Party, which has a forty-year history in the Golden State, today announced its affiliation nationally with the newly-formed America’s Independent Party of Fenton, MI. The Party had previously affiliated on a national basis with the Constitution Party of Lancaster, PA.

The State Central Committee of the American Independent Party voted unanimously in its Friday meeting to make the switch, after which the new 2008 national affiliation was duly filed with the Secretary of State’s office in accordance with the requirements of California’s Election Code.

State Chairman Edward C. Noonan, on hand in Sacramento for the official filing, stated, “We believe it is time to affiliate with a new party, one that has a will to win. In sixteen years, the Constitution Party has never elected a candidate. America’s Independent Party may be the best chance we have of stopping the never-ending advance of socialism.”

Friday’s move makes the newly-minted America’s Independent Party the third largest national political party in the United States based on voter registration.

Peoples opinions do not define proof.

Winning elections do not define wether a candidate is successful either. In politics there is more going on than winning or losing the election.

example: George Bush Sr (who I worked for on his campaign in Texas when he ran for president against Ronald Reagan in the primary) lost the nomination but maneuvered his political machine into place which won him a presidency later and set up his son with a tiny resume to be president twice.

Many candidates shape the issues debates to promote the issues they champion to the forefront. Tom Tancredo was able to force borders and immigration to the top of the presidential debate issues list this year.

Most everyone mocks Ron Paul in the media and yet they marvel at his grassroots support, ability to raise money, and many of the issues he champions are picked up by the Democratic Party and Republican Party.

Alan Keyes has been very instrumental at framing debates in the Republican Party. John McCain fears Alan Keyes on a debate floor and works hard to keep Alan Keyes off the debate list or avoids going to a debate where Alan Keyes is due to Alan Keyes success at holding McCain’s feet to the fire and making him answer for his liberal record.

You pointed out one persons dismay at not getting replies from some organizations such as AFA, Family Research Center, Conservative leaders, Pro-Life leaders. You failed to mention the many who have responded favorably or the many conservative radio talk show hosts who have recently had Alan Keyes on air as well as the numerous speaking engagements Dr Keyes has been at recently or is scheduled for coming up.

Liberal media avoiding conservatives is nothing new and most Republicans mention the same thing.

Big time top 10 conservative talk show hosts can’t acknowledge Keyes until he has a 10% rating in the polls as an Independent as Bill OReilly stated about Mike Huckabee. Especially when Alan Keyes is not spending dollars on campaign commercials with their network.

Comparing the way various networks treat the two evils candidates (lesser of two evils) to Independents and third party candidates is like comparing hot air balloons to soap bubbles. By the way; the big hot air wind bags get a lot of attention but the small soap bubbles will get ya clean.

Now that we covered your spin doctoring dodge; how about backing up all your opinions above with some real fact?

“We’ve sent hundreds of emails to organizations, asking them to support Alan, in one way or another.

.... to no avail. (AFA, Family Research Center, Conservative leaders, Pro-Life leaders, ...)”

yeah….it must be only my biased view….suuuuuuuuuuuuuure

(quote)
“Alicia Says:
May 20th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
You are called others “sheep” when you are exactly that with Keyes. He lacks integrity and common sense. He lies. He cheats his campaign out of money and his daughter out of an education.
A president is someone to look up to. Keyes is someone to pity. He’s a joke. He acts as though he is a joke, people treat him as if he was a joke.
Enjoy your comedy.” (end quote)

Alicia states that long time conservative Alan Keyes lacks integrity and common sense and offers nothing of substance to substantiate her point.

Alicia claims that Alan Keyes lies and she offers no fact to support the statement.

Alicia claims Alan Keyes cheats his campaign out of money although she offers no proof of their having been any cheating or illegal activity. As much as the McCain campaign would like to be rid of Alan Keyes completely; it would seem that if campaign finance in Alan Keyes grassroots campaigns was cheating or illegal they would have jumped all over it already like the Democratic Party did to Congressman James Trafficant. McCain stopped Dr Keyes from being in a debate and avoided other debates where Alan Keyes was scheduled to speak.

Alicia declares Alan Keyes cheated his daughter out of an education. How he cheated her out of an education is very unclear since there are no laws demaning parents to provide for their children’s college education, many parents require their children to pay their own way through college or get a scholarship and much of the population cant afford to send their children to college.

Maya Jeane Marcel-Keyes had much more opportunity than a lot of children to go to college due to her high profile. Maya applied to and was accepted at Brown University, where she was admitted but deferred matriculation to spend a year teaching in southern India. “In my father’s view, financing my college would be financing my politics, in a sense,” Maya says, “because I plan to be an activist after college.”

Maya Keyes says of her dad “I disagree with nearly all his views, but he’s very honest and has a lot of integrity.”

Maya Keyes did get a scholarship. The Point Foundation, a San Francisco-based charity that provides scholarships to students “who have been marginalized because of their sexual orientation,” decided to pay Maya’s expenses so she can attend Brown University.

Alicia states Dr Keyes acts like a joke and people treat him like a joke. Mr Baldwin didn’t think Dr Keyes was a joke when he approached him for the VP position. Conservative radio hosts that seek Alan Keyes to be on their broadcasts dont view him as a joke. All the numerous conservative organizations, schools, colleges, church organizations that seek Alan Keyes as a speaker don’t think he is a joke. Liberals try to act as if conservatives are jokes and the liberal media will rarely mention Dr Keyes but then again; Alan Keyes is running grassroots campaigns and not spending dollars at their stations for commercials so far. I wouldn’t expect the major networks to get behind the Keyes campaign much unless he starts spending millions to win votes with commercials on their broadcast stations.

As best as I can tell; Alicia tossed out her biased opinions against a candidate she doesn’t like and hoped no one would check the statements out to see if they were so.

Almost have to think Alicia is a liberal with the tactics she used in her statements.

Obama is far left, Ms Clinton is left trying to move to the middle left and McCain is middle moving left.

Leaders of the social conservatives tried to endorse liberal candidates in exchange for judicial appointments and the compromise failed to get the followers to follow the compromising leaders.

Only James Dobson out of the original four largest social conservative leaders held his convictions so far and just said no to liberal candidates in conservative clothing like Guiliani, Romney and McCain.

Add to that the fact this is the first time since Nixon vs Humphrey a governor has not been in the presidential nominee position for one or both major parties.

There is no Ross Perot this time for conservatives to flock to and the Clintons cant hide behind southern Baptist conservative Democrat status this go around.

The time is ripe for third party and Independent candidates with name identification and who make a big splash with their VP choice.

Anyone in a known red or blue state that votes for either of the lesser of two evils party wastes their votes since they can not change the outcome and fail to push the causes they believe in by empowering a third party or Independent candidate to help create a mandate on those issues.

With over half of the conservative base not following the liberals in the Republican Party and not even voting in the Republican Primary; the opportuniy for third party and Independent candidates is very good this fall.

Yes, Alicia. But I wouldn’t be so bold as to say MOST EVERYONE knows the answer, as there are several. If they (you) knew the answers anyway, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

ANSWER:
Bush (Hilter), Hillary (liar), Obama (bend for a vote. Imagine what he’d do for money! Think he’ll bend for China, too?), McCain (riding the failing GOP platform-bender also), the media (just the media) AND ALL THEIR IGNORANT SHEEPLE (slaves).

Go ahead…be one, it’s super easy. I did it for 35 years. It’s like water, the path of least resistance. Everything worth somthing usually takes a lot of hard work to get. This country is worth the fight. Thousands lay dead and now it seems their fight was for nothing. How sad.

Keyes: Bends for no one, has never lied, left a party that doesn’t stand for what it used to…and he’s ok with it! Refuses to work with the media and insists if he’s going to win, it’s going to be BY THE PEOPLE. What an upstanding man!

I’m awake…and at the rate the this country is going, by the time you’re all awake, too…it will be WAY too late. Our future generation will look back and see that America’s people had become cowards.

I promise not to say I told you so. Say a prayer.