 Mr. Bertocchi was a charter member the Constitution Party of Maryland. He
joined the party soon after the national organization led a successful
effort in the summer of 2008 to gather the required 10,000 petition
signatures required under Maryland law to achieve ballot access for the
2008 Constitution Party presidential ticket of Chuck Baldwin/Darrell
Castle. Bertocchi served as the Interim Vice Chairman.
For the first six months following the State Board of Elections verification the signatures and declaration of our group as an officially recognized party, Bertocchi organized and held regular monthly meetings in Columbia, keeping the party going until the other three officers joined in March 2009 to complete the leadership and get down to the business of preparing for the 2010 election. In June 2009 as State Vice Chairman he joined with our State
Chairman to request affiliate status from the national party. The party
received our application and, on June 12, 2009, the Constitution Party
of Maryland was awarded affiliate status by a unanimous vote of the
Constitution Party National Committee.
He served as Vice Chairman until December 2010 when we was elected Secretary. Bertocchi served in this position until April 2011 when the party lost ballot access. Bertocchi is a 1988 graduate of Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland. He went on to earn a B.A. in Mass Communications from Towson University in January 1993. He
began his career as an intern with the Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR). FAIR works to support legal American workers -
not illegal immigrants, and seeks a moratorium on legal immigration.
Bertocchi has been with his current employer since 1999 in Washington,
D.C. Michael may be reached at 301-814-2005 or mike1970@aol.com We have two other Board of Directors. |