"There never was a Bull Moose Party, except in the minds of the press." I'll let the Progressive Party of Washington State know they've got it wrong when they claim: "The Progressive Party of Washington is a revival of the original Bullmoose Party of 1912."
That statement is just below the banner on their linked page.
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Some folks in Vermont also seem to have an affinity with a certain ungulate.
You've got to get up early and pack a lunch if you want to play gotcha with this historian.
I wasn't thinking of playing games. My original reply clearly implied you were inebriated when you posted, since I found your prose quite humorous.
So here I sit; ready for my next "lesson".
Claims are not facts. No wonder that modern Progressive Parties want the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt. Consider that the Democrats claim that Thomas Jefferson formed their Party. He did not, and he is spinning in the grave over the policies of the current Democrat Party.
I repeat: there never was a Bull Moose Party. If you check the records for ballot access in 1912, as I have, you will see Roosevelt on the ballot in 47 states, exactly as I said. This is not a new lesson, since you didn't get the last lesson correct.
Why do you persist in arguing with someone who has worked on ballot access questions for three decades, on the subject of access in a particular year? The Supreme Court explicitly accepted as valid and useful a brief I filed in Anderson v. Celebreeze, in 1983. What's your problem?
John / Billybob / Ben