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	Party of Citizens Who Have Decided to Think for Themselves and Be Their Own Politicians
		The Party of Citizens Who Have Decided to Think for Themselves and Be Their Own Politicians is a minor political party in British Columbia, Canada.
		The party is about "thinking for yourself" and "being your own politician".
		The party supports the use of Electronic Direct Democracy, and encourages people to develop their own political platforms and post them on the POC web site.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/p/pa/party_of_citizens_who_have_decided_to_think_for_themselv.html (175 words)

	Replace the Pick A Party Primary
		The response goes to those who decided to set this primary up, and that response is "who do you think you are?" As soon as I got the ballot and saw that I had to choose a political party in order to cast my vote, I reread everything again to make sure I understood.
		People are blaming the county auditors for having to choose a party to have their vote count in the primary election.
		The reason for this is because the powers that be, at that time, decided that the voters of this state could not vote for the candidate of their choice because this was considered by them to be unconstitutional.
	www.replacethepickapartyprimary.blogspot.com (2848 words)

	List of political parties in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names.
		Party of Citizens Who Have Decided to Think for Themselves and Be Their Own Politicians (2001 election)
		From approximately 1898 to 1905, political parties were active, however, legislative government was eliminated when the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of the heavily populated area of NWT.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_parties_of_Canada (830 words)

	List of political parties in Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		2.5.1 Parties represented in the House of Assembly
		The below political parties are believed to possess an extant national organization of some extent and have indicated they plan to gather signatures for the purposes of registration.
		Parti de la loi naturelle du Québec 1994-2003
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_political_parties_in_Canada (886 words)

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		Its full registered name is "Party of citizens who have decided to think for themselves and be their own politicians".
		Individual members are encouraged to think for themselves and launch their own campaigns.
		POCsters make and tow their own lines, individually or in concert with those who choose to be of like mind.
	www.geocities.com /partyofcitizens (528 words)

	Life of the Party
		The party embraced immigrants, Catholics in particular, who were set upon by “anti-Papist” mobs and moralists who tried to outlaw their saloons.
		Their core electoral base was in the former Confederacy, a fact that tarnished their claim to be the defenders of the hardworking masses against the privileges of a few.
		But it is also a nation whose citizens revere volunteerism and local decision making and mistrust politicians who craft their ads and speeches to fit the latest survey.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2005/01/01_451.html (1763 words)

	"If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines"
		Maybe it's true that the citizens of Georgia simply decided that incumbent Democratic Senator Max Cleland, a wildly popular war veteran who lost three limbs in Vietnam, was, as his successful Republican challenger suggested in his campaign ads, too unpatriotic to remain in the Senate.
		You'd think there would be a paper trail of the vote, which could be followed and audited if a there was evidence of voting fraud or if exit polls disagreed with computerized vote counts.
		And during the era of Teddy Roosevelt, who said, "There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains," numerous additional laws were passed to restrain corporations from involvement in politics.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0131-01.htm (1721 words)

	Jonah Goldberg's Goldberg File on National Review Online
		Their shtick goes something like this: "I'm an independent-minded guy (or gal), I don't let the parties do my thinking for me. I choose each individual candidate based on his or her individual merits.
		The modern presidency involves thousands upon thousands of political appointments, and these folks are drawn nigh-upon exclusively from the ranks of their own party — which in very broad brushstrokes has its own agenda, regardless of who's at the top.
		The Democratic party at the national level is, generally speaking, pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-welfare state (yes, yes, I know the GOP is inching closer to the Dems on this one), pro-gun control, anti-death penalty (with some clever exceptions), and quite comfortable with high taxes and strict regulations.
	www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg200401281036.asp (1441 words)

	Dennis Fox’s Weblog » Blog Archive » British Columbia Political Fringe
		However, B.C. appears to have a party to fit every movement: the Green Party, the Natural Law Party, the Western Refederation Party; every belief: the Idealist Party, the Freedom Party; and every anarchist twinge: the Party of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think For Themselves and Be Their Own Politicians.
		But I kind of like The Party of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think For Themselves and Be Their Own Politicians.
		Canadians, for the most part, don’t grow up thinking that their country is the center of the universe or that they are the toughest kid on the global block in the way that most Americans do.
	blog.dennisfox.net /index.php/archives/2005/04/21/british-columbia-political-fringe (847 words)

	Think-Israel
		Their hatred is not objective, although they go through the motions of being objective by citing opposition to Israeli policies and actions as they come up.
		Recently, the UN almost simultaneously decided (a) not to address the genocidal horrors the government of the Sudan is committing against its own citizen and (b) elected the government of the Sudan to membership on the Commission on Human Rights.
		It is even argued that nations dare not defend themselves or their vital interests without the permission of the UN or, even worse, that they should delegate the defense to the UN itself.
	www.think-israel.org /may04bloged.html (20150 words)

	Compendium de l'administration électorale au Canada
		Le nom Newfoundland and Labrador Party (NLP) a été refusé par le directeur général des élections parce que son acronyme ressemblait trop à celui du New Democratic Party (NDP).
		Le Confederation of Regions Party of Manitoba a présenté une demande pour changer son nom à Reform Party of Manitoba.
		Le parti a changé son nom pour The Moderate Democratic Movement; le directeur général adjoint des élections a donné une approbation provisoire, en attendant la réception des formulaires d'enregistrement nécessaires.
	www.elections.ca /loi/com2002/Statistics/sta01_f.html (1286 words)

	Is South Carolina ready for a progressive third party?
		Legette points out that many fl leaders don’t concern themselves with issues that are important to a majority of their constituents, such as a living wage, reform of the criminal justice system and improving access to health care for poor people.
		While UCP organizers think their party will help boost voter participation — bringing more progressives to the polls — and that the Democratic Party would benefit from the new blood, a decision to run fusion candidates this November might end up in court.
		Jim Hendrix, director of the state Election Commission, has told UCP organizers that it is too late to certify their own candidates for this fall, and that candidates from other parties would have to be approved by the chair of the respective party.
	www.scpronet.com /point/0006/p04.html (2444 words)

	MPs leave Center Party en masse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Among other demands put on the table by Mikser and Kreitzberg were a reorganization of the party's weekly newspaper, Kesknadal, and a public discussion of the infamous agreement signed between Savisaar and the pro-Kremlin United Russia party during the former's recent trip to Moscow.
		It's not the breakaway deputies who have changed their political course, he explained, but the faction that has done so in many things against its pre-election promises.
		Rain Rosimannus of the Reform Party faction voiced the opinion that the emergence of the new group of deputies was going to significantly change the disposition of forces in Parliament.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/10034 (941 words)

	Compendium of Election Administration in Canada
		The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, the Canadian Action Party, and the Rest of Canada Party made submissions to the Chief Electoral Officer highlighting their concerns with respect to the name change application.
		The Parti Progressiste Réforme du Québec made an application for registration that was denied by the Chief Electoral Officer because the name Parti Réforme du Québec was registered from 1991-1994.
		The Parti National Québécois was refused registration because of its similarity with the Parti Québécois.
	www.elections.ca /loi/com2000/Statistics/sta01_e.html (644 words)

	David Sirota: When Out-of-Touch Politicians Get Desperate - The Huffington Post
		David Broder and David Brooks now regularly use their columns to attack activists who have the nerve to get involved in their own democracy.
		And any politician or political operative who tries to thwart that contest shows an ugly contempt for the democratic tradition our country was built on.
		What will hurt Democrats ability to win elections is New York Senators sitting in their comfortable offices in Washington, D.C. embarrassing themselves by making statements that show their isolation from America's heartland and using their quickly fading power to try to depress the grassroots energy that makes all the difference at the ballot box.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /david-sirota/when-outoftouch-politic_b_23771.html?p=2 (747 words)

	Should We Be Worried About the Dropout Problem? Michael Waldman
		To be sure, polls are not the devil’s work, and the extent to which politicians use them to pander on issues is greatly overstated.
		They raise their own funds, assemble their own temporary coalitions and rarely act with the party’s interest at heart, such as avoiding bloody primary fights.
		Party leaders now have a chance to give New Jersey voters a better choice than they had.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/opeds/2002/waldman_dropout_nwcom_100302.htm (905 words)

	Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Allies of the hardcore faction firmly held control of the party from the late-1980s until the moderates seized control at the 2006 national convention and gutted the party's original platform.
		The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%).
		Their agenda is much in the style of the Western European socialist and labor movement -- and somewhat similar to that of the late-1990s formed Labor Party (but the NP has more of a controlled growth outlook on environmental issues).
	www.politics1.com /parties.htm (9389 words)

	OBSERVATIONS ON POLITICIANS
		Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them.
		While politicians and their allies are fond of decrying the fact that at any given time, millions of Americans lack health insurance, they forget that they themselves have played a major role in creating the conditions that have made going without health insurance a recipe for individual financial calamity." -- William L. Anderson
		There are those who view politics as a tactical game, a game in which they do not reveal any individuality, in which they lose their own face.
	www.freedomkeys.com /politicians.htm (8101 words)

	Arizona Politicians Welcome Bush's Immigration "Reform" Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Those in Arizona business and politics who support the creation of a federal guest worker program for Mexicans and other immigrants wishing to work the United States are welcoming a renewed push on that issue planned for next year by the Bush administration.
		All these people need to hear from American taxpayers/voters/citizens about what we think of their pandering to Mexican illegal aliens and to the corrupt leader of a third world crapho**.
		There are many old-fashioned regular Democrats who are very, very concerned that there simply are not enough jobs to go around now, and that we don't need to import candidates for most of them.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1275905/posts?page=26 (2794 words)

	The Fringe Festival of Democracy :: thetyee.ca
		ANNEXATION PARTY OF B.C. POLICY: Province should join the United States as 51st state of the union.
		The "wannabes" are out there, amongst our own, typically supporters of "the free market" and "Big Capital" set, and highly likely, we shouldn't fool ourselves, fair numbers of new immigrants, for whom this country was only second choice.
		Elvis is dead and so are the peole who were mostly from elsewhere (not Canada or BC) mostly from the US that signed that petition.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2005/03/28/Fringe (1493 words)

	Elections BC
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		New Democratic Party of B.C. New Democratic Party of B.C. BC New Democrats
		Progressive Nationalist Party of British Columbia, The (formerly known as The Bloc British Columbia Party)
	www.elections.bc.ca /reg/polpartiesreg.htm (263 words)

	List of political parties in Canada - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Party of Citizens Who Have Decided to Think for Themselves and Be Their Own Politicians
		Federal political parties that were active mostly or exclusively in Quebec
		Northwest Territories and Nunavut operate a consensus form of government and have no political parties.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=214801 (452 words)

	I love this crazy tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful life!: Oh the insanity!
		Sidenote: If you're a member of, candidate for, or believer in any of these parties that I'm rolling my eyes at, mocking, or being appalled at, just carry on.
		Perhaps I'll call mine "The Party That Was Created For the Sole Purpose of Being Number Fourty Six." All our dollar amounts will have $0.46 added to them.
		In the UK we have 318 registered political parties according to the Electoral Commission.
	hellohillary.blogspot.com /2005/04/oh-insanity.html (426 words)

	The Tyee’s Election Central Blog » What’s in a name?
		The Vancouver Island car dealer is a Liberal who happens to share a name with the NDP candidate in Malahat-Juan de Fuca.
		And while some party names remain a bit stilted â“ e.g., the “Party Of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think For Themselves And Be Their Own Politicians” â“ party slogans are always worth a second look.
		Any party that does not espouse freedom from government interfernce is doomed to lose any election this era.
	thetyee.ca /electioncentral/2005/05/07/whats-in-a-name (651 words)

	Toronto Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Franklin Wayne Poley placed last in a field of eight candidates in Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant, winning 42 votes (0.26% of the total).
		This article about a Canadian political party is a stub.
		Categories: Provincial political parties in British Columbia
	www.torontopost.biz /Info/?Party_of_Citizens_Who_Have_Decided_to_Think_for_Themselves_and_Be_Their_Own_Politicians (269 words)

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