Question: Which political party affiliation does this former U.S. Representative who founded the Queens Tribune identify with?

Context articles: Burt Saunders
Queens Tribune
Evan Jenkins (politician)
Open primaries in the United States
Moses S. Gibson
European Conservatives and Reformists
Gary Ackerman
Libertas Spain
Identity politics
Macropartisanship

Burt L. Saunders is a registered Republican and a former member of the Florida Senate, representing the 37th District since 1999.
 Previously he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1994 through 1998.
 In 2008 Saunders ran for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 14th District with no party affiliation.
 He lost, finishing third in the four-way general election, receiving 14.7% of the vote.
 However, Saunders was one of the top 5 candidates to run for the United States House without any political party in 2008.
The Queens Tribune is a free weekly newspaper founded as the monthly "Flushing Tribune" in February 1970 by Gary Ackerman.
 It is based in Whitestone, Queens.
 The paper's main offices moved to Whitestone from Fresh Meadows, Queens in November 2010.
 The "Tribune" is a member of the New York Press Association.
 Its CEO is Micheal Schenkler, and the executive editor is Michael Nussbaum.
 The editor-in-chief for the "Queens Tribune" and its sister paper, The PRESS of Southeast Queens, is Nathan Duke.
 Reporters for the "Queens Tribune" and "PRESS of Southeast Queens" include Jon Cronin, Trone Dowd, James Farrell and Ariel Hernandez.
Evan Hollin Jenkins (born September 12, 1960) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for West Virginia 's 3 congressional district since 2015.
 He is a member of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations.
 He is a member of the Republican Party, having switched his party affiliation from Democrat in 2013.
An open primary is a primary election that does not require voters to be affiliated with a political party in order to vote for partisan candidates.
 In a traditional open primary, voters may select one party's ballot and vote for that party's nomination.
 As in a closed primary, the highest voted candidate in each party then proceeds to the general election.
 In a nonpartisan blanket primary, all candidates appear on the same ballot and the two highest voted candidates proceed to the runoff election, regardless of party affiliation.
 The constitutionality of this system was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2008, whereas a partisan blanket primary was previously ruled to be unconstitutional in 2000.
Moses S. Gibson was an American banker from Hudson, Wisconsin who served as a Representative in the last two sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Wisconsin Territory, as a member of the First Wisconsin Constitutional Convention, and was elected to a term in 1859 as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly after statehood, an election successfully contested by Marcus W. McCracken.
 Gibson's political party affiliation is unknown.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) is a Eurosceptic and anti-federalist political group in the European Parliament.
 The ECR is the parliamentary group of the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) European political party (formerly known as the "Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists"), but also includes MEPs from four other European parties and thirteen MEPs without European party affiliation.
Gary Leonard Ackerman (born November 19, 1942) is a former U.S. Representative from New York, serving from 1983 to 2013.
 He is a member of the Democratic Party.
 On March 15, 2012, Ackerman announced that he would retire at the end of the 112th Congress on January 3, 2013 after fifteen terms, and would not seek re-election in November 2012.
Libertas Spain ("Libertas España") is the name given to the activities of Declan Ganley's Libertas.eu in Spain.
 Unlike Libertas in other countries, Libertas Spain was not a political party in its own right.
 Instead, candidates with no national party affiliation and candidates from Citizens – Party of the Citizenry, Partido Social Demócrata and Unión del Pueblo Salmantino contended the 2009 European Parliament elections in Spain under a common list branded with the Libertas identity.
 The candidates retained their membership of their national parties and the national parties retained their legal identity.
Identity politics, also called identitarian politics, refers to political positions based on the interests and perspectives of social groups with which people identify.
 Identity politics includes the ways in which people's politics may be shaped by aspects of their identity through loosely correlated social organizations.
 Examples include social organizations based on age, religion, social class or caste, culture, dialect, disability, education, ethnicity, language, nationality, sex, gender identity, generation, occupation, profession, race, political party affiliation, sexual orientation, settlement, urban and rural habitation, and veteran status.
 Not all members of any given group are involved in identity politics.
 Identity politics are used by minority and civil rights organizations to form a coalition with members of the majority.
In the United States, macropartisanship is the shifts in political party affiliation with relation to presidential popularity and political events such as wars or scandals.
 There is strong evidence to prove that in the presidential popularity and party identification move together.
 For example, in the 1980s, there was strong support for Republican President Ronald Reagan.
 Although the number of Republicans did not actually increase, the voters simply responded to the political world.
 Another example of this occurred in the 1960s with the election of the popular Democratic President John F. Kennedy.