Hear Ye, Hear Ye… Call to Serve

wbdopf — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:07:51 +0000

United States congressional apportionment is the process by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are redistributed amongst the 50 states following each constitutionally mandated decennial census. Each state is apportioned a number of seats which approximately corresponds to its share of the aggregate population of the 50 states. In Florida, the lines of Congressional Districts have not been finalized. Because of this uncertainty, the rule requiring signatures be gathered only from the candidates home district are relaxed to permit signed petitions from any registered voter in the State. This presents an expanded opportunity for candidates to gather the required number of signatures for ballot access. If you are considering candidacy, please consult the Florida Division of Elections website.

Reform is actively seeking candidates that support the Party’s platform and goals to help change America for the better!

2012 Annual Convention

Cleave Drummond — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:21:15 +0000

The 2012 Annual Convention remains scheduled for February 1, 2012 at 7pm EST.

The Annual Convention will be a call in event only. Those who wish to participate please e-mail wbdopf@gmail.com to receive numbers and participant codes.

Principle items of discussion will be a review of by-law changes that secured Reform’s status as a viable political party with continued ballot access in Florida, the scheduling of a Nomination Convention for the Florida Reform’s candidate for President of the United States, and discussion regarding delegate selection to the National Convention.

No State Executive Committee positions are subject to re election this year.

Recent Changes

wbdopf — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:37:05 +0000

State election officials in Florida recently conducted a review of all registered minor political parties to determine their viability and compliance with Florida’s Election Laws. The deadline for compliance was November 16, 2011. Prior to the review there were 31 listed on the Division of Elections website. Notables were of course Reform of Florida, but also including the Libertarian Party, Americans Elect, the Green Party and the Tea Party.

Central to the review was a legal perusal of the Party’s governing documents to be certain they complied with current State law. Reform of Florida has been registered for many years and the governing documents (By-Laws) were complete and well constructed. Never the less, nearly a dozen revisions had to be made to update verbiage to new standards.

In addition to modifications to the By Laws, Florida Reform made changes to its slate on the Executive Committee, moving Donna Shankle from Secretary to Vice Chairman, and introducing William Cleave Drummond to the Treasurer’s position. Cleave also holds the role of Secretary.

With these changes in place, Reform of Florida will retain its minor political party status and ballot access for the foreseeable future. Expanding the Party’s membership and fielding a group of qualified candidates for 2012 will be the focus in the coming months.

William Dopf - Chairman, Reform Party of Florida

Annual State Convention

wbdopf — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:38:22 +0000

Reform Party of Florida’s annual convention will be held on February 1. We are expecting to hold the meeting by teleconference to involve the maximum number of participants.

Ross Perot to speak at National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum Veteran’s Day Muster Nov 12

FLAdmin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:33:55 +0000

FORT PIERCE — Ross Perot, the patriotic plain-speaking billionaire businessman who captivated millions of voters in the 1992 and 1996 presidential races, will speak at the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum’s annual Veteran’s Day Muster Nov. 12.

The Reform Party: A political party focused on solutions

FLAdmin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:24:40 +0000

With unemployment over 9%, corporations outsourcing jobs, the federal government operating trillion dollar deficits, and our politicians adding over $10 trillion in 20 years to our national debt, we should not wait until the elections in 2012 to determine our next steps as voters. We need to field candidates for office who are not associated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. We need people who are willing to deliver real solutions. We need another political party.

Why?

First, the Democrats and Republicans are not built to solve problems any longer. Without meaningful competition from a third group, they instead compete amongst themselves to win elections. Second, during the elections both parties become subjects to their special interest groups and ideologies, which further limits their long-term effectiveness at meeting the needs of the country as a whole. Third, neither party is capable of identifying alternative ideas to solve problems or to compromise, which leaves us all stuck alternating between two failing sets of ideas.

What the country needs now is an alternative political party that is appropriately focused on identifying the challenges impacting the country, and then developing the solutions – without regard to ideology or special interest commitments. The Reform Party is that party.

We are proud to announce our new initiative called “Our Solutions” (www.oursolutions.org). The Reform Party is dedicated to identifying as many ideas as possible to solving our country’s complex challenges. The purpose of the Our Solutions website is collect solutions to a series of important challenges. Our first challenge, “How can we create jobs in America?”

We invite all Americans to submit their solutions at: www.oursolutions.org. And while we collect your responses, we will hold online town hall meetings designed to hear from political leaders, business owners, members of academia and concerned Americans to go over these and other ideas. We also will vote on many of the ideas people propose to see which ideas have the most support. A few weeks from now, we will share those results with the media and our elected officials.

Our goal is to push forward the solutions we need to fix our economy and help our country. And if our elected leaders won’t listen to the people, then we, the people, need to step forward and take action. We are the owners of this country. It is time to take our country back from the professional politicians. Join our effort today.

Debt Ceiling Debate Shows True “Deficit” Is With Democratic and Republican Leadership

FHopper — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:58:47 +0000

Reform Party national chairman David Collison called the debate between Democrats and Republicans on raising the nation’s debt ceiling another reminder that the country is faced with a deficit in leadership on the most critical economic issues.

“The Democrats and Republicans continue to prove to the American people that they are incapable of addressing the $14 trillion debt they created,” said Collison. “This is a debt that has grown by over $10 trillion in less than 20 years, and neither party has a plan to make it stop. Well, it needs to stop. We can not afford to keep raising the debt ceiling and sacrifice the future of our children and their children.”

Collison added that the Reform Party believes that the American economy cannot withstand the poor leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties any longer.

“The only way America will balance our budget and end our out of control debt to China, once and for all, is through shared sacrifice by ALL Americans, an end to corporate welfare, serious across the board spending cuts and elimination of special interest budget projects, along with addressing serious structural economic issues in America.”

Collison noted that none of current proposals by either side would do anything to keep the national debt from reaching $20 trillion in less than ten years and will not keep debt payments under $800 billion in the same time frame. Current government projections have payments on the national debt approaching 80 percent of all revenues in the coming years, which will make funding the nation’s military, social security and other key programs impossible.

“Unfortunately, both side have waited until the last moment to try and deal with the most complex issue facing the country,” Collision said. Calling such a move “totally irresponsible governance,” Collison called on all Americans upset with the continued status quo to contact the Reform Party to help build a strong alternative to Democrats and Republicans running for elected office.

“Right now,” Collison said, “we have Democrat and Republican politicians that are more concerned about elections than the best interests of the American people or the financial future of our country. We need people committed to honest leadership and new ideas to unseat these lawmakers before they do more damage.” The problem exists because only two extreme positions are represented at the table.

The public needs the Reform Party, a balanced party, focused on practical, American solutions – not political ideologies.

To inquire about getting involved in a state party, e-mail us at: info@rpusa.info.

The Reform Party has been on record opposing a raise in the nation’s debt ceiling since January of 2011: http://reformparty.org/the-reform-party-says-no-to-increasing-the-federal-debt-limit/

Reform Party seeking 2012 Federal, State, Local Candidates

FHopper — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:58:18 +0000

The Reform Party is soliciting potential candidates for office including:

President and Vice President
Federal Legislature
Governors and other State-level offices
State Legislatures
County and other Local Races

If you are interested in seeking office either on the Reform Party ballot line or as a Reform Party-supported independent, please contact us at info@rpusa.info.

The Reform Party has already been informed of three individuals from a strong self-made background who have expressed an interest in running as President or Vice-President, and we are actively seeking others.