Party On Wayne. Party on Garth.

[Cliff Clavin] “Ahhhh, it’s a little know fact Nawm, that uh, America does not have a two party system. There is actually to date quite a few political parties. Truth be told, this year I voted for the Cool Moose candidate, a Mr. Bill Winkle.”[end Cliff Clavin]

To wit:

AC	A Connecticut Party
AF	American First Coalition
AH	American Heritage Party
AI	American Independent Pty
AK	Alaskan Independence
AN	American Constitution
AM	American
BD	Builders Party
BT	Boston Tea
B	Better Schools
BR	Buchanan Reform
CC	Concerned Citizens
CE	Centrist Party
CF	Citizens First
CM	Cool Moose
CN	Constitutional
CP	Concerns of People
C	Conservative
CS	Constitution
CL	CT for Lieberman
DC	DC Statehood Green Party
D	Democrat
E	End Suffolk Legislature
FA	Fair
FE	Free Energy Party
F	Fusion Independent
FR	Freedom
Fr	Friends United
FB	Farmers & Small Business
FS	Freedom Socialist
FV	Family Values Party
GC	Green Coalition Party
GN	Greens No To War
GR	Green
G	Grass Roots Party
HC	Healthcare Party
HP	Home Protection
HQ	Heartquake ’08
IA	Independent American
IF	Independent Fusion
IL	Independent Grassroots
I	Independent
IN	Independence
IT	Integrity Party
IP	Independent Party
IR	Independent-Progressive
IC	Ind. Save Our Children
L	Liberal
LO	Looking Back Party
LA	Labor and Farm
LB	Libertarian
LF	Long Island First
LM	Legalize Marijuana
LU	Liberty Union
LP	Liberty Union/Progressiv
MJ	Marijuana Party
MM	Make Marijuana Legal
MN	Mountain Party
MR	Marijuana Reform Party
NA	New Alliance
NE	Nebraska
NH	No Home Heat Tax
NL	Natural Law Party
NT	No New Taxes
NO	No
NP	Non-Partisan
ND	No Party Designation
OB	Objectivist
OE	One Earth
OP	Open
OT	128 District
AO	Other
PC	Pacific
PN	Pacific Green
PP	Patriot Party
PA	Pacifist
PH	Personal Choice
PE	Petitioning Candidate
P	Party of Ethics & Tradit
PF	Peace and Freedom
PJ	Peace and Justice
PL	Pro Life Conservative
PO	Populist
PG	Progressive
PR	Prohibition
PS	Preserve Our Town
PT	Property Tax Cut
PV	People of Vermont
PW	Protect Working Families
R	Republican
RS	Resource Party
RC	Randolph for Congress
RJ	Restore Justice-Freedom
RM	Reform Minnesota
RF	Reform Party
RD	Republican Moderate
RL	Right to Life
SC	School Choice
SL	Socialism
SS	Save Seniors
SE	Socialist Equality
S	Save Medicare
SO	Socialist
SU	Socialist USA
ST	Star Tax Cut
SF	Student First
SW	Socialist Workers Party
BL	The Better Life
T	Tax Cut
TC	Tax Cut Now
TG	The Go
TL	Term Limits
TS	Timesizing
UC	United Citizen
UN	Unaffiliated
U	Unenrolled
UD	United
TX	U.S. Taxpayers Party
UY	Unity
VT	Veterans Party
GS	Vermont Grassroots
V	Voice of the People
VP	Voters Rights Party
WC	Working Class Party
WF	Working Families
WN	West Side Neighbors
WP	We the People
WV	Workers for Vermont
WW	Workers World
YS	Yes

7 thoughts on “Party On Wayne. Party on Garth.”

Angryclown’s favorite:

http://rentistoodamnhigh.org/

The funkiest party in America.

My favorite of all time:

Back in North Dakota in the seventies and eighties, there was this crazy old hippie, Harley McClain. He was a Democrat who’d go to the conventions with his guitar and play songs about whatever was going on. He was a media magnet. Along in there somewhere, he “broke off” to form the “Chemical Farming Banned” party (he was, I should point out, an “organic” farmer who presided over a “farm” that was mostly choked with weeds).

Anyway, he ran for president in 1980 on/as the CFB Party ticket. He lost (perhaps you recall) – after which he did two things:
1. He noticed that the ballots in NoDak (and many other states) put the GOP and Dem/NPL at the top, and all the other parties below, in an arbitrary order that gave the majors an unseemly advantage.
2. Because of #1, he “declared himself president of the United States”.

Because of #1, he filed suit in federal (IIRC) court, and got North Dakota’s ballot placement law ruled unconstitutional (in a precedent that caused several other states to be forced to change theirs as well).

Because of #1 and 2 together, he became a bit of a national…er, celebrity. He got his fifteen seconds of fame, anyway.

“Chemical Farming Banned” = one funky party.