James Robert Goodluck, August 3, 1954 (Ohio) -
VP candidate for Tuition Cut Ticket (aka Tuition Cut Party) (1976)
Running mate with nominee: Ron Luther (b. ca1951)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
There is not a lot of information out there concerning the Tuition Cut Ticket of Ron Luther and Jim Goodluck, based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is probable they were students in higher education at that time and this was a single-issue party designed to highlight the rising cost of tuition. Not only were they too young to serve if elected, but they were also from the same state which is a potential Constitutional roadblock.
I did find a school newspaper for Milligan College in Tennessee that summarized the Party platform: "The 1976 tuition cut ticket emphasizes the high cost of college tuition costs and warns that student enrollment will continue to fall if college tuitions costs aren't directly subsidized."
This was a write-in ticket, apparently unregistered, with an unknown vote result on Election Day.
Election history: none
Other occupations: attorney
Notes:
I was a college student here in Washington State at the same time, but our public institutions of higher education did not experience a dramatic jump in tuition until Jan. 1981, just as I was in grad school.
