[pp.int.general] USA pirates?

[Philip Hunt]

These are good results. The 23% and 19% ones are excellent, and AFAIK
the best percentages achieved by Pirates to date.

On 3 November 2010 14:27, Marcus Kesler <marcus at d-usa.info> wrote:
> None of the candidates endorses by the Pirate Party of Oklahoma (which
> is a member of the USPP) won their respective races. But we had some
> good results, especially considering that Independents have never done
> well in Oklahoma.
>
>    * Angelia O'Dell, US Representative, District 1: 23.19%
>    * Clark Duffe, US Representative, District 5: 1.75%
>    * Zachary Knight, State Representative, District 46: 19.7%
>    * Edward Shadid, State Representative, District 85: 10.53%
>
> Marcus Kesler
> Administrator
> Pirate Party of Oklahoma
>
> On 11/3/2010 12:03 AM, Andrew Norton wrote:
>> On 11/2/2010 7:29 PM, Rodrigo Pereira wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>
>>> Brazilian TV covers legislative election in the USA. USPP participate in
>>> this elections? Have candidates? What about the results? Anyone have
>>> news about the USPP in legislative elections in the USA?
>>
>> We did not run any of our own (ballot access laws are SO hard to achieve!)
>>
>> We did endorse some candidates, but the only one for which the results
>> are fully in, was Tennessee's 5th district. The Libertarian candidate we
>> endorsed about a year ago, Stephen Collings, came third, with 0.33% of
>> the vote (567 votes)
>>
>> In Oregon at present, the Pacific Green candidate we endorsed (and whose
>> campaign manager is also head of the state pirate party) is fourth of 4
>> candidates in the US House's 3rd district there, getting 1.95%, or 2,932
>> votes AT PRESENT. however, as I write this, only 106 or the 198 precints
>> have reported in. However, it's looking like a solid Democrat win there
>> (70%), with the Libertarian party coming second, beating the Republicans
>> (15 and 13% repsectively)
>>
>> We'll have more information later, as polls only closed 3 hours ago in
>> Oregon, and the west coast, while it's 1am here in Georgia.
>>
>> When we have the final counts in the morning, we'll release a statement.
>>
>> Andrew Norton
>> Legal Office
>> US Pirate Party
>>
>>
>>
>>> Best regards,
>>
>>> Rodrigo Pereira
>>> Brazil
>>
>>
>>
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Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at gmail.com>