United States Pirate Party

Polls are now closed, and we have two new officers.

For Operations, Glenn Kerbein wins with 14 votes, against Jay Emerson's 5 votes, and 2 abstain/none of the above.

For Promotions, Travis McCrea wins with 11 votes, against Nate Blanchard's 9 votes, and 1 abstain/none of the above.

Congratulations to our new officers!

Congratulations to our two new officers, Bradley Hall for Records, and Shirley Runyon for Financial! Both were unopposed when the deadline for nominations passed last night, so now they join Marcus and myself as officers of the national party.

On February 16th, we will be holding the elections for the Operations and Promotions positions.

The candidates for Operations are:

The next meeting will be on February 9th, at 9 PM EST. All are welcome to attend. It will take place in http://tinyurl.com/piratepartyIRC (irc.name141.com #uspirateparty). The agenda for the meeting is http://memwiki.pirate-party.us/index.php?title=2010-02-09

Currently, we only have two officers at the national level--myself, and Marcus Kesler, head of the State Advisory Board. Besides the open positions on the SAB, we have openings for the Operations, Promotions, Records, Legal, and Financial officers, and at last count, four willing candidates to fill three of these positions. Jay Emerson is running for Operations, Bradley Rush is running for Records, and Travis McCrea and Nathaniel Blanchard are running for Promotions.