STATEMENT TO THE PRESS
From the Desk of
Edward C. Noonan – State Committee Chairman
1561 N. Beale Rd
Marysville, CA 95901
My name is Edward C. Noonan; I am the current State Party Chairman of the American Independent Party. I am announcing today that the American Independent Party has had only four American Independent Party voters elected by their respective counties to the office their County Central Committee for the American Independent Party.
Thus, we only have four people in the entire State of California qualified to act in the party’s name.
I feel it sad that the 40 to 80 people that were active in the party during the last two years either refused to run for state office, or run for their county central committee. I begged, and I pleaded for AIPers everywhere to run for State Office – there were 153 state positions open. The requirement was to either get 150 signatures or pay $3500. I also needed 1,450+ individuals (who were AIP voters) to run for their county central committee. But only 3 ran (and won) for county central committee, and 1 ran for Congress.
According to the state elections code, after the Primary this month, all former offices, terms and positions held by these former 40 to 80 members have ended. (It is limited to a two year term.)
What I am stating, is that the Primary is over… we have only one officer of the seven State Party Officers that ran for election in their County… that was me! Our Secretary, our Treasurer, and others did not run, and did not get elected. Hence, their appointed term is over because they failed to be elected by the voters of their county. They weren’t willing to go out and get 25 signatures to get elected!
In addition, most of our National Committee is dissolved. Only three of the 12 actually were elected by their county voters (Gerry Hill, and Grace Hill and I.)
We only had one person elected in the primary as a Congressional nominee. And that is Robert Lautenberg of Orange County. This makes him the ex-officio member of his central committee.
As some of you know, I have some APPOINTED DELEGATES who were appointed by the former State Chair are trying to run this party. However, they failed to achieve current official status by being elected by their county to the office of county central committee. None of them have been sworn in by their county clerk. What right do they as possible future appointees have to have more power over me…I have been elected and have complied with the elections code and they have not! The words “ELECTIONS CODE” means everyone that it refers to MUST BE ELECTED!
Therefore as of this June’s Primary, they have no official standing in our party.
They are attempting to take over the party…they are having a bogus STATE CONVENTION MEETING in Los Angeles and they are violating the Elections Code. Nowhere can they prove they have legal standing. Since they failed to be elected by the voters of their county, they have no say whatsoever in the running of the American Independent Party. If they want a say, they have to wait two years and be elected to take over the party properly.
I have conferred with the three other ELECTED State Committee members…and all three have sided with me on three issues.
#1. The American Independent Party will disaffiliate with the Constitution Party. Howard Phillips, and Chuck Baldwin (2008 CP Presidential Candidate) has sided with the Bogus Party mutineers and have supported Gary Odom and Nancy Spirkoff who do not live in California but have attempted to control me who is the State Chairman and make me a puppet to their will.
#2. The American Independent Party will support and campaign for Alan Keyes who is running for President of the United States. The four of us have decided that Alan Keyes has the best chance of getting into office and stopping the North American Union and the open border policies that the US exists under. And stopping the cut-throat, oppressive taxes and national debt that our Central Bank called the Federal Reserve System. This Central Bank has helped the US get into 9.2 trillion dollars in debt, and has bankrupted our economy. Foreclosures are high, our money is worthless, and we have become tax slaves.
#3. We believe it is time to affiliate with a new party. One that has a will to win. In ten years, the Constitution Party has NEVER had a candidate elected… in any state, any county… anywhere. We have decided that Alan Keyes’ new party called America’s Independent Party may be the best chance we have of giving resistance to the never-ending advance of socialism and communism within our borders. We need a strong Party that will work FOR US and not AGAINST US to stop the NEW WORLD ORDER and the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
The Constitution Party has consistently backed Nancy Spirkoff, the daughter of one of the founders of the American Independent Party. When this founder, Bill Shearer, died, Nancy thought she inherited the American Independent Party. This is not true. The American Independent Party cannot be inherited. She was the former State Party Chairman before, but state law requires that she can only hold one term as State Chair and then she is termed out.
The Constitution Party supported Nancy Spirkoff and her friend Gary Odom (Field Director of the Constitution Party) and never once has acknowledged my position as State Party Chair.
Neither Nancy Spirkoff nor Gary Odom have any official standing in the American Independent Party, both have moved out of the State of California but both are attempting to use Nancy’s sister, Ann Thomas (formerly the Secretary of the Party) (questionable status as a qualified member of the State Committee) and are interfering with the running of the American Independent Party.
As State Chairman of the American Independent Party, I say this must stop! It ends here today.
There are only four that have any legal standing in the party. I have appointed no-one from neither Los Angeles, nor San Diego mutineering group at this time and date. They have no standing, nor legal merit.
The time to run and campaign for the American Independent Party was over at the June Primary. They had their chance and now the running for office is over… no bogus claim to office will be accepted. The current American Independent Party is a joke and we need to re-chart our course and rebuild our organization with people that are willing to be elected to office…from county level on up.
Signed
(s) Edward C. Noonan
State Party Chairman – American Independent Party
