[pp.int.general] USPP Status

[Brad Hall]

Good day.

I have been receiving a few queries from Pirates from around the world who
have been asking about the recent situation involving the United States
Pirate Party (USPP). Until a week or so ago, I was the Administrator of the
USPP. Right now, I'm working with the various state parties in trying to
figure out the new structure of the USPP.

The organization known as the United States Pirate Party has been dissolved.
However, this does not mean there is no longer a Pirate Party presence in
the United States. As of right now there are two Pirate Parties that have
official third party status, those are the Massachusetts Pirate Party and
the Florida Pirate Party. There are several other such parties forming in
Washington, Oregon, Oklahoma, and elsewhere.

There are two parts to this dissolution.

1. We dissolved the corporation known as the USPP. We were registered as a
corporation in Arizona. For our purposes, we realized that having the USPP
listed as a corporation isn't really what we needed. (This actually still
needs to be done, I haven't filed the paperwork yet)

2. We dissolved the central organization known as the USPP, as that too,
didn't suit our needs. Instead of having a central USPP control the various
state parties that exist (such as the Florida Pirate Party, Massachusetts
Pirate Party, etc), it would be better to let the state parties control
their own political destiny. In effect, the various state parties are in
control of the Pirate Party. It is possible that they may chose a
"spokesperson" to be the voice of the party as a whole. We are still
discussing this.

Each state party will, of course, have its own website, but we planned on
using the main USPP site to be like a central location to find information
related to the Pirate Party in the United States. We're still in the
planning stages on how this "new" USPP will work. But we have been talking
about having a forum where people from different states can meet and form
their own state pirate party chapter. Most pirates are separated by many
miles, even within the same state. Each state also has its own laws
concerning how third parties are formed, we planned on having this
information easily accessible on the site as well for each state.

But rest assured, as long as there is one person here that calls themselves
a Pirate, there will always be a Pirate Party presence in the United
States.

This is kind of the way political parties in the US are run anyway. There is
no singular "Democratic Party" there's the "Florida Democratic Party" and
the "Georgia Democratic Party" etc. They come together every four years for
something like the Democratic National Committee where they decide who will
run for President.

Does this help?

Brad Hall
-- 
Former Administrator, United States Pirate Party
Vice-Chairman, Florida Pirate Party
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