James Richard Perry, March 4, 1950 (Haskell, Tex.) -
VP candidate for Independent (2016)
Running mate with nominee: Cynthia Torres Cavazos (b. 1971)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Cynthia T. Cavazos, a San Antonio, Tex. hotel housekeeper and "social services coordinator for A Mission of God's Love," filed with the FEC on Oct. 26, 2015 as an Independent for President. Most of her campaign was conducted on social media, mainly Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.
Cavazos provided a bit of autobiography on a Oct. 4, 2016 Facebook post--
Religious Beliefs: From both parent's being catholic, to my father converting to Jehovah Witness- I was into all that church stuff when I was young. My grandma...well, she was a Catholic and I was able to see all them saints and candles of Jesus, with those palm crosses hung over the door. I grew up with that in my grandma's home.
My dad gave me my first bible- I from that after reading...I began to look inot other religions, I used to love when Mormons would come knocking on my door to speak- I allowed a whole group of kids to learn about John Smith.
I was baptized in The Baptist Church after the baptism in the Catholic Church at the age of 12- My children witnessed the dunking of a pool baptism. I was pregnant and finally after many years, I became confirmed, and, the neat thing...my lifestyle was as the poor in other countries living in a tent. Having to go door step to door step until I came to a church where I stayed in my tent for about two months.- weird Huh? 9:32p.m.
Her stand on the issues came across as slightly cryptic, and the same applied to her philosophy behind the choice of a Vice-President. For reasons never really spelled out, she wanted the names of 13 men as running-mates. Although not officially designated as her VP, I am going to profile the eclectic four names out of the 13 she identified as desirable for her ticket: Newt Gingrich, (probably) Danny Google Aguilar, Rick Perry, and Joaquin Castro.
Tracing Cavazos' Facebook entries regarding the VP saga presents a murky story--
Mar. 31, 2016:
Email your Vice Presidential Resume to: meetcynthia@outlook.com
June 7, 2016:
Still looking for a Vice President. [Accompanied with a short video where Cavazos makes a direct appeal for a VP]
July 14, 2016:
Searching for a Vice President....To make sure y'all understand, If elected, I will choose one for now...and once I have my Vice President running Mate...I will search for six more....this is the first time if I am elected we will have Seven Vice Presidents (all men) if Cynthia T.Cavazos is elected the next President of the U.S.
July 16, 2016:
I have several people in mind to choose from...but, based on what I am looking for, I will choose 13 Vice Presidential Elects ....The Electoral College will choose from the 13 nominated to be the next Vice President.
July 18, 2016:
Having to look for a Vice President with Immigration Standards is not too hard...based on the quality and communication these candidates have, I am thinking about choosing...
(Round 1) Without Immigration as to where they stand.... Newt Gingrich, Aguilar from Nevada, Rick Perry, Joaquin Castro,
California not sure of who and other states I have not searched, but I am keen when it regard Human Resources. "A few I have seen to be an asset".
Understand this, because I have not yet chosen a Vice President...I am not saying the names listed will be my choice....but, they may be the list of 13 *I will submit as my chosen for legislature to choose from..after the people have chosen.
Rick Perry, the former Governor of Texas, had made his second attempt to win the Republican nomination for President starting in June 2015, but by Sept. he had dropped out and endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz. Perry said Trump was a "mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense" and "Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded." However he did endorse Trump after Cruz dropped out. He was rewarded with a cabinet post as the US Secretary of Energy. This was the agency he felt should be abolished but could not name when he blew his moment at a Republican primary debate in 2012.
An anti-science creationist, Perry tends to explain that political events, such as the election of Trump, were ordained by God. He also called for "Christian warriors" to become more involved with politics. Here is a Perry quote from a "40 Days to Save America" conference call with Rick "AIDS is God's punishment for homosexual behavior" Scarborough--
This separation of church and state, which has been driven by the secularists to remove those people of faith from the public arena, there is nothing farther from the truth. When you think about our founding fathers, they created this country, our Constitution, the foundation of America upon Judeo-Christian values, biblical values and this narrative that has been going on, particularly since the ’60s, that somehow or another there’s this steel wall, this iron curtain or whatever you want to call it between the church and people of faith and this separation of church and state is just false on its face. We have a biblical responsibility to be involved in the public arena proclaiming God’s truth. You know, are we going to get up and say ‘you are going to vote for X’? No, but we’re going to talk about Christian values. When you think about the issue of life and protecting life, it’s so important that we as Christians put legislation into place, that we elect women that defend life. The idea that we should be sent to the sidelines I would suggest to you is very driven by those who are not truthful, Satan runs across the world with his doubt and with his untruths and what have you and one of the untruths out there is driven—is that people of faith should not be involved in the public arena.
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You think about what has gone here in the last few days around the world and never has there been a time that I think we need more spiritual courage, that we need more moral fiber if you will. The American family is under seize, traditional values are somehow exclusionary, a simple prayer in our public schools is the basis for these secular attacks; you think about this spiritual warfare that’s going on and [inaudible] going strong as President Obama and his cronies in Washington continue their efforts to remove any trace of religion from American life. It falls on us, we truly are Christian warriors, Christian soldiers, and for us as Americans to stand our ground and to firmly send a message to Washington that our nation is about more than just some secular laws. Activist courts, we see them chipping away from our values and remove so much that is very special and unique about the United States. I don’t want to get too far off course here but when you think about what’s going on in the Middle East and the president stood up in Cairo in 09 and either incredible naïve or very unschooled in the ways of these radical Islamists, and four American lives were lost in Libya. It is our founding fathers knew and understood the importance of the role of our Creator in public discourse and they didn’t shy away from referencing Him, using the values he brought and the message of his son Jesus Christ to build the system that we as a society have enjoyed for more than 200 years. Securing that system, rebuilding our nation is what these 40 Days to Save America is really all about. It’s about saving our nation, it’s about preserving the values that make us special, about rejecting the concept that freedom of religion means freedom from religion, about turning away from this growing tide of secularism and atheism, the way they preach tolerance and diversity while they engage in oppression and bullying tactics.
Cavazos was registered as a write-in, with no running-mate, in Washington and West Virginia. In the event of a Cavazos/Perry victory there would have been a potential problem with the Constitution since both were residents of the same state.
In 2017 Cavazos finished 4th out of 6 candidates for the San Antonio City Council.
Election history:
1985-1991 - Texas House of Representatives (Democratic/Republican)
1991-1999 - Texas Commissioner of Agriculture (Republican)
1999-2000 - Lt. Governor of Texas (Republican)
2000-2015 - Governor of Texas (Republican)
2012 - Republican nomination for US President - defeated
2016 - Republican nomination for US President - defeated
Other occupations: door-to-door salesman, US Air Force, cotton farming, US Secretary of Energy, author, actor
Notes:
Supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Presidential primaries. Switched parties and became a Republican in 1989.
Inducted into The Encyclopedia of American Loons.
Longest serving Governor in Texas history.
One of his opponents in the 2006 primary was Robert "Star" Locke."
