FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Media contact:
Contact@aipnc.com
www.SelfGovernment.US
America’s Independent Party expected to nominate
Keyes and Rohrbaugh tonight
Fenton, MI – August
20, 2008
Alan Keyes of Maryland and Brian
Rohrbaugh of Colorado are expected to be nominated as the Presidential and
Vice-Presidential candidates of the new America’s
Independent Party in its inaugural National Convention tonight.
The event, which will be held by electronic
means, will include delegates from all parts of the country. The credentialing
process will begin at 8:30 Eastern time, with the convention officially opening at 9:00
Eastern time, and continuing until business concludes.
The new America’s
Independent Party is being built by Reagan pro-life, pro-family, “Peace through
Strength” conservatives who believe that the Republican Party, with the pending
nomination of John McCain, has abandoned the principles of Ronald Reagan – particularly
the Reagan pro-life platform plank which recognizes the personhood of the
unborn and their protection by the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution.
The Party also opposes John McCain on many
other important points, including his opposition to a federal amendment
protecting traditional marriage and the natural family; his sponsorship of the
McCain/Feingold legislation, which they view as a direct attack on their First
Amendment rights to political free speech and grassroots citizen activism; his
long-time support for so-called “comprehensive immigration reform,” which they
consider to be amnesty; and his support for the global warming agenda, which
they believe will destroy our economy and strip us of our national sovereignty
if pursued as public policy.
Since the founders of AIP are primarily
long-time Keyes supporters, their opposition to Barack Obama is simply an
extension of the work against the presumptive Democrat nominee that they
started four years ago during the Illinois Keyes/Obama U.S. Senate race.
Chairman Tom Hoefling, commenting on the
use of electronic means to conduct the event, said, “We may not have balloons,
funny hats, and millions of dollars pouring into our coffers from corporate
sponsors, but we have something that is much more important: regular folks –
housewives, small business people, factory workers, truck drivers, accountants,
executives, pastors, moms, dads – good-hearted people who love their country
and want to save it, but who are too put upon financially to afford plane
fares, fancy hotel rooms and all the things that go with the empty, deceptive,
media events that the conventions of the existing parties have become. The
Republicans and the Democrats no longer represent ‘We the People.’ That’s why
we intend to change American politics from the bottom up, by example.”
Please watch www.AlanKeyes.com and www.SelfGovernment.us for further developments in the hours and
days ahead.