Eduardo Rios
VP candidate for United Fascist Union (2000, 2004)
Running mate with nominee: Jackson Kirk Grimes (b. 1950)
Popular vote (2000, 2004): ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote (2000, 2004): 0/538
The campaign (2000):
Given the fact that Jackson Kirk Grimes once had a budding career as an off-Broadway actor, it might be easy to assume his United Fascist Union complete with theatrical costumes was a put on. But whenever that suggestion was made, Grimes and his followers would reply with angry profanity-laden denials and be quite definite that the UFU was a totally serious endeavor.
The information regarding Grimes and his organization is conflicting and murky, but I'll do my best here to be accurate as I understand the data.
Born in Tampa, Fla., Grimes dropped out of high school in Indiana, wandered a bit and joined the Army. He said during his 1968-1972 stint he served in Vietnam. He seems to have bounced around in various jobs after re-entering civilian life. Grimes said he was, as mentioned above, an actor for a time, a stockbroker, as well as a sous chef in Chicago. He acquired his GED in 1991 in Ohio.
His political life is alleged to have begun when he was 17 or so as a "Storm Trooper" for the uber-obscure Fascist Freedom Front from 1967-1975, which means he was a member during his entire Army career.
According to his own Facebook biography, Grimes was a Former Grand Dragon at Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 1981-1985, "Former dictator" at Aryan Racial Loyalist Party 1989-1998, and Former Director and CEO at United Fascist Union 1998-2008.
In 1994 the Wilkes-Barre City Council (Penn.) denounced Grimes' distribution of racist flyers attempting to recruit members for the Aryan Racial Loyalist Party.
The United Fascist Union appears to have been created in the mid-1990s. One account has it that it was actually just a name change from the Aryan Racial Loyalist Party. Grimes himself described how the United Fascist Union was something of a Trojan horse: "All of us, the leadership of the U.F.U., had either come from the American Nazi Party or the Ku Klux Klan, so the non-racial Fascist U. was our attempt to do an end run around the Jewish system. We hoped our party would become the central organ of state through an election, then we could introduce whatever kind of laws were deemed necessary to restore balance and harmony in America."
By 1997 Grimes had managed to elbow his way in the media to be an outspoken proponent for white supremacy. Complete with a dark SS-type uniform, he appeared on Jerry Springer's TV show and stated amid the loud jeers of the audience, "I believe it is my destiny to become the dictator of America and create a new Roman Empire based upon white purity." He also told Springer that Nostradamus predicted a Grimes dictatorship between 1999 and 2004.
Using Imperial Rome as his model, Grimes expressed admiration for Benito Mussolini and Saddam Hussein. The concepts of democracy, Christianity, and capitalism had to be swept aside for Grimes' version of his own New World Order.
Grimes' former membership in the KKK and Aryan Racial Loyalist Party make the following statement appear somewhat disingenuous, but Hitler supposedly did not make the grade with the UFU:
"Hitler was a Nazi. Hitler pretended to be a Fascist to capitalize on Benito Mussolini's popularity when he started the National Socialist German Workers' Party, but was NOT a Fascist EVER! More like a Judas goat hung around Il Duce's neck like a millstone with his anti-Semitic insanity. In Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini and in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the governments actually protected the Jews from anti-Semitic elements. Fascists did not persecute anybody because of race or religion, and the Nazi's did."
The VP on this ticket was Eduardo Rios, who seems to have been third in command of the UFU at the time. Other than occasionally weighing in on some online forum, he was not a major presence in the 2000 campaign.
The Grimes/Rios ticket were not registered as write-ins in any state and hence no votes were reported.
The campaign (2004):
Apparently Grimes had asked his aide Sally Parker to run as his VP in 2004, but she declined. So Rios was back for a second round.
The Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center/Pentagon/United Airlines Flight 93 terrorist attack had become fodder for conspiracy theorists and the "Truther" community took shape. These were people on both sides of the political spectrum who did not accept the mainstream news coverage of the event and felt that the attacks were an orchestrated inside job. Grimes was definitely in the Truther camp:
... this may be another reason for the phony terrorist attacks in the fall of 2001; it firmed up the foundations of their rotten, old republic and gave something that should have died decades ago an illusion of vitality. Do you begin to see a common thread running throughout this dialogue, when it comes to the machinations of Washington-based monster? The term smoke, mirrors, & lies apply. Parties are allowed to field candidates that have no hope of ever winning, to make the masses believe that they live in a democratic country. Rigging elections to put a retarded, drug-addicted, skirt-chasing, deserter like baby Bush in office because he's too stupid, too cowardly, and has too much dirty laundry to ever say no to the puppet-masters. The fictional terrorist attacks were staged to fool the populace, so they could sneak Orwellian legislation under the public radar that is designed to deprive the people of every liberty and right that they have now without the masses ever realizing what is being done to them. Stone by stone and brick by brick, Bush and Co. are transforming America into one big Stalinist gulag where the public will be locked down, bolted into their cells, and under constant surveillance.
Grimes had added a Roman centurion helmet to his wardrobe, which he wore sideways. He opposed all Homeland Security measures. Also in his platform was drug legalization, repealing gun controls, being pro-choice, eliminating Affirmative Action, and he supported increasing the budget for education and the military.
"I believe it is my destiny to become President," Grimes declared on his website. "The stars and planets say it is time for the United Fascist Union to rule America, so that Pagan Rome can be back in the Physical World once more. It was written in the stars from the dawn of creation that Jack Grimes would become president."
Rios was once again not a prominent factor in the campaign, but I did find this interesting post he made in a forum shortly before the election:
Poster: Eduardo Rios Date: Oct 29, 2004 6:05am
Forum: election_2004 Subject: Modern Morality
As the Japanese have made hentia anime like "Outlaw Star" and "The Extreme Ghostbusters", that have frontal nudity in some episodes, for several years now, I wonder why the Americans are so hung up on putting porno on TV and limit it to only pay stations like Stars and H.B.O.? The Japanese aren't the only people who allow nudity to go on during prime time programming. I went to France two years ago on a business trip, when I was in my hotel room one night looking at television I happened to see an ad for butter being shown with nudists sitting round a picnic table.
I am pondering when the Americans are going to catch up with the rest of the world and allow nudity on TV? I'd also like to know when they're going to quit the idiocy of a legal drinking age and preventing teens from buying tobacco products.
Director Grimes, thinks we ought abolish all moral and blue laws in this country, also do away with a drinking age restriction and allow anyone to buy cigars and cigarrettes at any age. He belives we should allow pornography on network TV and if publishers wish to put naked ladies in the daily newspapers as they do in the U.K. The United Fascist Union also promotes a "NO MORAL LAWS POLICY" as the state can NOT be allowed to dictate personal habits, therefore we support legalizing prostitution and gay mariages.
We think it was the moral habits of the Babylonians and Romans that made their civilizations great as libertinism makes the public happy and content. We think this is what our late, lamented Founder Benito Mussolini and our beloved Saddam Hussien would want us to do as they said we should embrace Babylon and revive the empire of the Romans. So, if you want America to achieve real greatness again, with happy, health, content citizens VOTE FASCIST 2004! Elect Jackson Grimes U.S. President 04!
Hial Musolini!
Hial Hussien!
HIAL GRIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again the Grimes/Rios ticket failed to be certified as write-ins in any state and once again no votes were reported.
Rios apparently fell from the UFU radar after the 2004 election. In an interview with Mike Pursely for his 2008 run, Grimes said, " ... Mr. Rios, who was my running mate the last two times, is unavailable. We've lost touch with him to be honest with you and we don't know where Eduardo Rios is if he's interested ... he seems to have quit on us."
The UFU evidently evaporated after the 2008 election, but Grimes continued to make hateful public statements. He displayed himself as an outspoken slur-slinging obscenity-spewing racist on his Twitter account and endorsed Trump in 2016. Here's a mild example of Grimes' tweets:
Jackson Grimes
@Jackson6_Grimes
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Nov 7, 2016
Race is all that matter's,the caucasians are superior people.Liberal's,like the Clinton's are pawns for the Jews,they bid doom to white peop
Trump's election apparently appeased Grimes to some degree since his Twitter account went quiet shortly after the election.
Election history: ?
Other occupations: ?
Notes:
Eduardo Rios is another mystery VP
