Above, Wishnatsky ; below, Germalic
Martin Saul Wishnatsky, July 13, 1944 (Newark, NJ) - April 28, 2020 (Prattville, Ala.)
VP candidate for Black/White Party (2008)
Running mate with nominee: James R. Germalic
Popular vote: 1 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
James R. Germalic appears to be a roving perennial candidate, showing up on ballots in different states throughout the years running for a variety of offices. Always running outside of the two-parties, in 2002 he was a US Senate candidate in Oklahoma and at the same time he was attempting to get on the ballot in Nebraska and North Dakota for US Congress. In 2008 he was in Ohio and in addition to running for President as a write-in he was also attempting to run in a special Nov. 18 election for US Congress as an independent but failed to gain enough signatures.
Germalic's platform was based on his interpretation of Catholicism. He took out full page newspaper ads in 2008 asking for support in his Presidential campaign. Here are some snippets:
On July 25, 2008 the Lord had me establish the national headquarters of the Black/White party, an Abolitionist party to end all abortion, in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The Black/White party is built on the Ten Commandments, the Bible, and the universal teachings of the Catholic Church. The Black/White party will restore Christian laws by putting into office Christian leaders.
The Black/White party stands for objective morality: all abortion is wrong; all euthanasia is wrong: no same sex marriage. The Black/White party in the area of social consciousness is for the outcast, the Black, the Hispanic, the poor, the illegal, the unemployed, the poor nations, etc. Abortion cannot be ended, the Iraq war cannot be ended, the Illegal protected, without the power of God!
... Our Lady of Guadalupe is Patroness of the Americas and especially Protectress of the Mexicans. Thus, I, as President, will offer citizenship to all illegals, elimination of Homeland Security, and repeal of the Patriot Act.
Germalic's Black/White Party had been around as early as 2002. In his 2008 effort he selected as his VP Martin Wishnatsky of Fargo, ND, who was a self-described Christian activist who opposed abortion and Gay rights. Prior to arriving in North Dakota he converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1977 (which included a brief flirtation with Mormonism) and performed acts of civil disobedience that landed him in jail and cost him his computer programming job on Wall Street.
Arriving as an out-of-state agitator to Fargo with a group, he was sentenced to nearly a year in jail for continuing to protest in an illegal form. By the time he was released his original crew had already gone home, so he decided to remain in Fargo.
When Wishnatsky ran for President as a write-in in 2004 his running mate was Andrew "Andy" Vanyo, a fellow activist from right across the border in Moorhead, Minn.
A prolific letter to the editor writer and local thorn in the side of government, he was also the author of several articles and books, including Mormonism: a Latter-Day Deception (Xulon Press, 2003).
Germalic was a registered write-in in Minnesota (where he was reported as Germalio), Montana, and Ohio. The Buckeye State was the only jurisdiction where they received their single vote, which was probably the Presidential candidate voting for himself.
After the election Wishnatsky obtained a law degree at Liberty University. He later worked for Judge Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican. Wishnatsky became briefly famous when, in an effort not to appear anti-Semitic, Moore's wife Kayla announced at a rally in 2017 that "one of our attorneys is a Jew." Meanwhile, Germalic, now calling himself "Champion of Christians," made another attempt for the Presidency in 2012 still under the Black/White Party banner.
Election history:
1994 - Mayor of Fargo, ND (Nonpartisan) - defeated
2004 - US President (Nonpartisan) - defeated
Other occupations: teacher, account executive, computer programmer, radio station manager, attorney, author, lecturer
Buried: Prattville Memorial Gardens (Prattville, Ala.)
Notes:
Harvard College (A.B., magna cum laude in Government, 1966), Harvard University (Ph.D. in
Political Science, 1975), Liberty University School of Law (J.D. 2012).
Managed the campaign of Darold Larson, a fellow independent pro-life activist, for the US Senate in
North Dakota in 1992.
Accomplished singer and musician.
