Kathleen Elizabeth Monahan, December 2, 1946 (New York State) -
VP candidate for Independent (2016)
Running mate with nominee: Lynn Sandra Kahn (b. 1946)
Popular vote: 3,411 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Lynn Sandra Kahn with a campaign address in Kensington, Md. filed as an Independent for President with the FEC in Feb. 2015.
She described herself as "socially progressive and fiscally conservative," with "a long history in peace building and green energy." A psychologist by profession, Dr. Kahn had worked in that capacity and as a consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration and also had experience serving on the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. She was the author of Performance Networks: Transforming Governance for the 21st Century (2009), Results at the Edge: The Ten Rules of Government Reform (2003), and Peacemaking: A Systems Approach to Conflict Management (1988).
One of the more thoughtful and organized independent candidates, her platform was within the framework a seven-point agenda--
My goals for America include 25 million new jobs over the next 10 years; a world-class public health system; free tuition at public colleges; free early childhood education; community-based policing; a justice system that is just; a tax system that is fair; an immigration system that is compassionate; a realistic roadmap to an economy based on 100% clean, renewable energy; an energy grid that is independent of foreign governments and does not poison our air, water, soil and food; a 21st century economy where everyone who wants a job has a job at a living wage with benefits. Integrity demands this government honor our commitments to our veterans, our children, our seniors and our Native American brothers and sisters. This is the plan that will allow all that:
Track 1: CUT ONE TRILLION DOLLARS OF GOVERNMENT WASTE and invest the savings in our families and our communities!
Track 2: MULTIPLY SOLUTIONS
Track 3: REINVENT ALL OUR AGENCIES STARTING ON DAY 1
Track 4: BUILD PARTNERSHIPS
Track 5: COMMUNICATE HONESTLY
Track 6: MEASURE THE TRUTH
Track 7. BUILD PEACE AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD
More than any other Presidential candidate of any party, I know how to look under the hood of our federal agencies to see what works, what does not work and what changes to make. For example, the current mission of the U.S. Department of Justice is organized around three words: “control, enforcement and punishment.” That mission will never solve mass incarceration, school-to-prison pipelines and tensions between communities and law enforcement. We must change that mission, re-set agency priorities, insert new requirements in budgeting systems and reverse policies that deny the connections between poverty, lousy schools, unemployment, low wages and entanglement in criminal justice systems.
The same work must be done in every federal agency; they are all out of touch with the dreams of We the People. I do not need on-the-job training. I can start all that on Day 1. And with my experience designing and facilitating Citizen Summits and Conversations with America, we will have true citizen input to the shape of our government and community control over what federal programs get funded.
Dr. Kahn attempted to gain ballot access in California via the Peace and Freedom Party, finishing in third place with 20% in their primary. It seems she was also a contender for the Reform Party nomination.
Kahn had two running-mates. Kathleen Monahan, who lived in Pensacola, Fla., and Jay Stolba of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Monahan, an expert on border control and homeland security, was considered the official VP nominee with semi-retired businessman Stolba being the stand-in.
Reported votes for Kahn came to a total of 5,730, but not all states report write-in numbers so the number could have been higher. The Kahn/Monahan ticket was on the ballot in Arkansas (0.30%), and write-ins in Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, and West Virginia. The Kahn/Stolba ticket was on the ballot in Iowa (0.14%), and write-ins in Idaho, Nebraska, and New York. It seems that Kahn was initially to be on the ballot in New York but was invalidated.
In 2018 Kahn ran for US Congress in upstate N.Y. as a Green Party candidate.
Election history: none
Other occupations: Dept. of Homeland Security, consultant
Notes:
Also known as Kathleen Monahan-Murphy.
