I would like to explain my actions at the Florida Press Association’s candidate forum on Thursday at the Ritz Carlton in Sarasota.

I was only notified of the event about an hour beforehand by an alert campaign volunteer. I dropped what I was doing in Tampa and drove to Sarasota. On the way I called Adrian Wyllie, the campaign media director, to let him know what was happening. He also called the Dean Ridings, President of the FPA, to ask why I was not included and to ask for the opportunity to speak.

Adrian informed them we were on the way and my voice will be heard. We alerted the media to inform them of our presence. I arrived late and sat down midway through Kendrick Meek’s question and answer session. Afterword, Marco Rubio addressed the audience. It was only after Marco Rubio had finished that I stood to speak at a microphone placed in the aisle for guest comments. I did not interrupt any of the candidates.

I said, “I’d like to make a statement. I think denying a person who served eight years in the United States Marine Corps defending your right to have this today…is an atrocity.” I asked for the opportunity to address the group and to answer questions just like the other four candidates, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist and Jeff Greene. They denied my request.

Their justification was that only candidates polling above 10% in a credible poll were welcome to speak. I pointed out that Greene had not received 10% in a credible general election poll. Ridings cited a Quinnipiac poll that showed Green had more than 10%. However, this was a poll of Democrats only, and was limited to candidates in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. If we applied the same rules to the Libertarian party I would have undoubtedly polled above 10%, especially considering I am not facing a primary challenge and I already am the Libertarian nominee. If Greene has met that criteria of having at least 10% within his own party, then so have I.

The bottom line is this: There is a good possibility that I would be polling ahead of Green in a general election poll right now. Our internal polling data suggests it. Since the media has never included me in any of their polls, how could they possibly know whether I am polling above or below 10%? We can only assume that they made a judgment call to exclude me based on their own preconceived notions and bias.

What would you do under these circumstances?

It is not obvious I that the media is attempting to determine who the candidates will be?

Do you think my actions were justified?

It seemed to me that the media would continue to ignore our grassroots campaign. I could not let that stand. I have been actively campaigning since June of 2009. In April of this year, I paid the $10,440 state qualification fee to ensure my name is on this ballot. It is against everything this country stands for to exclude me.

I spoke for less than five minutes and then left without incident. Many in the press have described my actions using terms like “disruptive,” and described my speech as “frothing at the mouth.” I did not “storm out” as one reporter put it. In the hallway, I was greeted by several enthusiastic reporters asking for more information about my campaign. We did what was necessary for the media to recognize us. We made our point and left. We were heard. Let’s hope that they acknowledge that, and that they give a regular citizen a level playing field to compete vs. the career politicians and big money candidates in this race.

In Liberty,
Alexander Snitker
Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate, Florida

As a proud member of the tea party movement, I am overjoyed by the enormous accomplishments we’ve made. I am humbled by the support so many of you have given me in my run for the U.S. Senate seat in Florida, and I would like to express my sincere thanks.
Our movement was formed over our outrage in the direction the two-party political class was taking our great nation. We stand together to tell the Washington insiders that we will not sit idly by while they ignore and subvert the United States Constitution. We will not sit quietly while they spend our nation into oblivion, and saddle our children and grandchildren with crushing debt. We will not abdicate our personal and financial freedom to them.

The tea party movement is the voice of the people. Just like you, I am one of those voices. I have never sought political office before. Until recently, I had absolutely no desire to do so. I have no political ambitions other than to serve my Country, and help to restore it to our Founders’ original intent.

Like you, I watched in outrage as Republicans and Democrats ignored the Constitution. I felt the anger and sorrow as they spent and spent, while at the same time chipping away at our cherished freedoms. Like so many of you, I called and wrote to my Representative and Senators in a futile attempt to make them hear my voice.

They refused to listen. It was then that I realized that I must take action.

That is why I am running for office. I sincerely believe that it is my duty as an American to do whatever I can to restore our Republic. As a U.S. Marine, I swore a solemn oath to defend the Constitution, and I take that oath very seriously.

Today, some tea party groups are standing in strong support of my competitor for the U.S. Senate seat, Marco Rubio. While Marco says he supports the tea party agenda, his actions are suspect. He is an attorney and career politician who always seems to be just one step ahead of scandal and corruption. He is a man whose words and actions are not always in sync. I fear that he is another politician who will campaign on the virtues of our Founders, but then govern through backroom deals and compromise like a typical politician.

We have seen this pattern many times in the past, and I fear we are doomed to repeat history.

I am asking you to take a stand for Liberty. I am asking you to take a risk on the little guy. I am urging you to support me.

In return, I vow never to compromise my principles. I will work to defeat any legislation that exceeds the Constitutional authority of the federal government. I will oppose any legislation that burdens our future generations with debt. I will fight any legislation that cedes our sovereignty to another nation or global body. I will only vote for judicial appointees who will defend and uphold the Constitution.
Together, we can restore our Republic, and return liberty and prosperity to ourselves and our posterity.

If you are still undecided who you will support in this race, I propose that tea party groups host four U.S. Senate candidate debates. The debates could be located in various regions across the state to give as many people as possible the opportunity to attend. I will gladly appear at every debate, and I challenge Marco Rubio to do the same. Let’s find out once and for all who the tea party candidate really is.

Sincerely,


Alexander Snitker

Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate, Florida
http://www.snitker2010.com

Contact: press@snitker2010.com

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SARASOTA, FLA – When the Florida Press Association invited U.S.
Senate candidates to speak to the media at the Ritz-Carlton on
Thursday, there was one name absent from the list. Charlie Crist,
Republican Marco Rubio, and Democrat Kendrick Meek all made the list.
Even long-shot Democrat billionaire Jeff Green was included.

However, Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Alex Snitker was not
invited.

But that didn’t stop him from crashing the event to ask the FPA why
he was excluded. After Marco Rubio finished his 15-minutes at the
podium, Snitker stepped to the microphone in the aisle and said,
“I’d like to make a statement. I think denying a person who served
eight years in the United States Marine Corps defending your right to
have this today…is an atrocity.”

Snitker admonished the assembled press, saying, “You keep saying
that career politicians are the problem, and you’re only going to
allow career politicians and a billionaire on stage. You want to talk
about the tea party candidate? It’s not Marco Rubio – it’s Alexander
Snitker.”

FPA President Dean Ridings told Snitker that he would not be granted
the opportunity to speak and called for security. Shortly thereafter,
Snitker was politely escorted from the event by security, with a flock
of reporters in tow.

Snitker is the first Libertarian ever to appear on the ballot for
U.S. Senate in Florida. The Libertarian Party is fully recognized by
the State of Florida, and is the third largest political party in the
state.

According to Florida Division of Elections procedures, Snitker’s name
will appear above Charlie Crist on the ballot, because Crist is
running with no party affiliation. In a May poll, Snitker received 12%
support in among likely voters familiar with him, Rubio, Crist, Meek.

“The mainstream media has intentionally ignored Alex, despite the
groundswell of grassroots support, and despite all our efforts to
reach out to them,” said Snitker campaign manager Kelly Lobean.
“We’ve made the decision that we can no longer play by the status
quo rules of typical politics.”

The decision appears to have paid off. Within minutes of Snitker’s
impromptu speech, tweets were flying among media insiders. Several
newspapers and 6-o’clock news programs were running the story, and
even the Associated Press had weighed in.

“We’re just looking for a level playing field, that’s all,” said
Adrian Wyllie, campaign media director. “We have called press
conferences, sent out dozens of press releases, called countless TV
news producers…if they won’t report the news, then we are forced to
make the news.”

—end—

Contact: press@snitker2010.com

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APRIL 19, 1775

Remember, that as wayward children of King George, we (as British subjects), were commanded by our government to surrender our guns and powder.

The actual British order to seize and destroy the American’s guns and supplies, for that day, reads as follows: 

“Having received Intelligence, that a Quantity of Ammunition, Provision, Artillery, Tents and small Arms, have been collected at Concord, for the Avowed Purpose of raising and supporting a Rebellion against His Majesty, you will March with the Corps of Grenadiers and Light Infantry, put under your Command, with utmost expedition and Secrecy to Concord, where you will seize and destroy all Artillery, Ammunition, Provisions, Tents, Small Arms, and all Military Stores whatever …” (Per Order of General Gage to Lt. Colonel F. Smith, of the Kings Troops. The Minute Men The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution, by John R. Galvin, at page 100).

At Concord, house to house searches were conducted by the British to carry out the above order. Remember, the possession of powder, cannon, and other supplies of war might have meant arrest for revolutionary activities. The supplies of arms were substantial:

“Within the town, scattered through the cellars and attics and outbuildings of at least twenty-five houses, the provincials had concealed ten tons of musket balls and cartridges, thirty-five half barrels of powder, 350 tents, fourteen medicine chests, eighty barrels of beef, eight and a half tons of salt fish, seventeen and a half tons of rye, 318 barrels of flour, 100 barrels of salt, … hundreds of axes, canteens, reams of cartridge paper … and … a substantial number of cannon and gun carriages of varying sizes… .” (emphasis added). The Minute Men the First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution, by John R. Galvin, at page 140).

On April 19, 1775, the Americans were prepared to, and did, fight for their liberty and freedom. What would you have done?  

Lexington and Concord, battles of (1775), first battle of the American independence war. On receipt of peremptory orders from London on 19 April the military governor of Massachusetts Gen Gage reluctantly sent a force of 700 soldiers from Charlestown to seize militia stores in Concord, followed by a support column out of Boston. An earlier expedition to Salem had retreated in the face of threatening Minutemen (militia who undertook to be ready ‘at a minute’s warning’) and Gage knew that his orders made a showdown inevitable.

Signal lamps and mounted couriers, including the now-legendary night ride of Paul Revere, gave warning. Minutemen made a demonstration on Lexington Green, but they were dispersed with a loss of eight killed and ten wounded. By the time the main column arrived at Concord, the stores had been removed or destroyed, and at the North Bridge Minutemen fired the ‘shot heard around the world’, the first time any British soldiers were killed. In imminent danger of being cut off, the column retreated under heavy sniping. Order broke down in the face of guerrilla tactics for which the troops were unprepared and the rout continued until they came under the guns of the support brigade at Lexington. For the remainder of the retreat the redcoats gave as good as they got, but lost 273 men in exchange for no more than 95 rebel casualties.

Never was it more true that the first clash in a war tends to set the tone. Lexington and Concord emboldened the rebels to besiege Boston/Charlestown and to stand at the battle of Bunker Hill in June, after which Washington took over as commander of what was now the Continental Army. Gage’s successor Howe evacuated the isolated garrison to attack New York the following year.

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