WE WILL HAVE THE NEXT SPRING
SUMMER, A CONVENTION AND PUT
TOGETHER A PLATFORM.
RIGHT NOW OUR FOCUS IS GETTING
ON THE BALLOT AND TRYING TO
EDUCATE PEOPLE ON THINGS LIKE
VOTING, OPEN PRIMARIES, MAKING
IT EASIER FOR EVERYONE WHO IS
LEGALLY ENTITLED TO VOTE TO
VOTE.
>> LET ME ASK YOU, BECAUSE AS I
LAID OUT AT THE TOP AND AS YOU
WELL KNOW, THE HISTORY OF THIRD
PARTIES HAS BEEN A COMPLICATED
ONE.
WHY IS THIS MOMENT DIFFERENT?
WHY SHOULD PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT
YOU HAVE A REAL SHOT AT
CREATING PARTY WITH A REAL
PLATFORM AND WITH A NUMBER OF
CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT ACROSS
THE COUNTRY?
MAKE ABOUT 50% OF THE CLINICAL
-- AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD LIKE
TO SEE A NEW PARTY.
SO MANY ARE REGISTERED VOTERS
AND THEY ARE REGISTERED
INDEPENDENTS SO THAT IS TELLING
US -- WE DON'T LIKE THE
CANDIDATES YOU ARE OFFERING, WE
DON'T LIKE THE POSITIONS YOU
ARE TAKING, WE DON'T LIKE THE
DYSFUNCTION WE ARE SEEING.
THE ARGUING PARTISAN DIVIDE
THAT IS SO NASTY. PEOPLE DON'T
WANT THAT.
JUST AS WE ANNOUNCED, AND THAT
WAS LAST WEEK, WE HAD ABOUT
15,000 PEOPLE WHO WERE SIGNED
UP TO BE WORKERS IN THEIR STATES
AND WE HAVE PEOPLE FROM EVERY
STATE IN THE UNION.
THERE IS AN APPETITE FOR THIS.
THE OTHER PARTIES, WHEN THEY
RAN A PRESIDENTIAL RACES THEY
WERE EITHER FOCUSED ON A NARROW
SET OF ISSUES OR THEY WERE
ABOUT A PARTICULAR PERSON.
WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS
THE 500,000 ELECTED OFFICES
THAT THERE ARE ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND WE ARE GOING TO BE
WORKING AT OFFERING A THIRD
ALTERNATIVE OR A CHOICE FOR
PEOPLE WE HOPE IN ALL OF THOSE
OF VARIOUS PLACES.
>> AND TALK ABOUT THE PLATFORM
YOU HOPE TO HAVE IN THE FUTURE.
RIGHT NOW YOU ARE FOCUSED ON
EXPANDING VOTING ACCESS IT
SOUNDS LIKE, BUT COULD YOU HELP
PEOPLE UNDERSTAND MORE
SPECIFICALLY WHAT MIGHT BE
INCLUDED IN YOUR PLATFORM?
I KNOW YOU CAN'T LAY EVERYTHING
OUT RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW.
CAN YOU GIVE US A SENSE ABOUT
SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT
YOU HAVE HAD?
>> WE HAVE TO HEAR FROM THEM.
THAT IS WHY WE ARE STARTING
FROM THE GROUND UP RATHER THAN
COMING FROM THE TOP DOWN.
THAT IS WHAT MOST PARTIES DO.
SO WE ARE ASKING PEOPLE, FOR
INSTANCE WE KNOW, AND WE HAVE
SAID THIS, YOU CAN START
PEELING BACK SOME OF THE MOST
CONTENTIOUS ISSUES WHETHER IT
IS GUN-CONTROL OR ABORTION AND
FIND AREAS WHERE PEOPLE REALLY
AGREE.
I AM NOT PRO-ABORTION BUT I AM
PRO A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CONTROL
HER BODY BUT WHEN YOU START TO
PEEL IT BACK AND YOU GET TO
THINGS LIKE THIRD TRIMESTER
ABORTION I COULD LIVE WITH SOME
RESTRAINTS ON THAT.
SO COULD MANY PEOPLE.
THIS IS THE KIND OF THING WE
WILL BE LOOKING AT.
IS THAT REALLY WHAT THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT TO FOCUS
ON OR DO WE WANT TO FOCUS ON
THE ECONOMY AND WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
JOBS.
IT IS PREMATURE TO SAY WHAT THE
PLATFORM IS GOING TO BE BECAUSE
WE DON'T WANT TO COMING FROM US.
WE WANT TO COMING FROM THE
PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE WE WILL
BE TALKING TO.
>> DO YOU KNOW WHO THE
STANDARDBEARER MIGHT BE OF YOUR
PARTY?
>> AGAIN, WE ARE LOOKING AT ALL
500,000 RACES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY SO WE ARE NOT -- IT IS
WAY PREMATURE TO TALK ABOUT THE
PRESIDENTIAL. WE ARE BUILDING