One Mt. Party Candidate Elected; 3 More Running

On May 4th 2010 Mountain Party member Bob Siebel was elected Soil Conservation Supervisor in Putnam County.  Bob joins current Mountain Party Chair Bob Henry Baber to become the second Mountain Party person elected to public office in West Virginia. Baber was elected Mayor of Richwood in 2004.  The Mountain Party has candidates for four offices in the upcoming November general election

Jesse Johnson, of Charleston, is running for two offices on the Mountain Party ticket. Johnson is the Mountain Party's nominee to the remaining two years of the U.S. Senate seat opened up by the death in June of long time Senator Robert C. Byrd.  Johnson is also running for the WV House of Delegates in Kanawha County's 32nd House District.  You can see more about Johnson's two concurrent campaigns here.     

David Bruce Hall of Pinch is the Mountain Party candidate for State Senate in Kanawha County's 17th Senatorial District.

And Dr. Mark S. Myers of Spencer is the nominee of the Mountain Party in Roane and Jackson County's 11th Delegate District.

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"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power."
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

The Mountain Party

RR 1, Box 108 Ripley WV 25271
Phone: (304) 372-3945

The Mountain Party was born as a direct result of the Denise Giardina for Governor campaign in the year 2000 general election. (Under West Virginia election laws, a political party is a group or organization whose candidate for governor got one percent or more of the vote for governor in the most recent general election.)

• Clean Air, Water and Land
• Responsible mining and logging practices
• Economic Fairness, including an end to corporate welfare
• Small community schools and limits on busing
• Universal Health Care
• Campaign Finance Reform
• And many more issues to come

Hundreds of people hand carried petitions to obtain thousands of voter signatures to get gubernatorial candidate Denise Giardina and the Mountain Party on the ballot.

Now The Mountain Party can run candidates for any and all public offices in West Virginia, without the need for petition signatures!

The Mountain Party needs you to help it organize and run candidates for the 2008 general elections.

To help organize The Mountain Party you can volunteer for any of its organizational committees. Please contact the Mountain Party by e-mail at info@mtparty.org , or by telephone at (304) 372-3945.

To help with fundraising or to make a contribution please contact: Frank Young, Mountain Party treasurer by e-mail at frankly@mtparty, phone (304) 372-3945. 

Mail your contribution, payable to The Mountain Party, to:

The Mountain Party, RR 1 Box 108, Ripley WV 25271