Blossom Vedalyn Brackman, August 3, 1959 (Birmingham, England) -
VP candidate for None (2016)
Running mate with nominee: Wiley Smead Drake Sr. (b. 1943)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Wiley Smead Drake Sr. of California, in his second bid for the office of US President, filed under the party affiliation of "none" with the FEC on Sept. 1, 2015. A day later his running-mate Blossom V. Brackman of Reading, Penn. filed with the FEC for the office of Vice-President. Earlier in 2015 Drake had endorsed Republican candidate Mike Huckabee.
In 2008 Drake had been Alan Keyes' American Independent Party running-mate, only in California. The controversial minister's name had already been in the news several times. On the humanitarian side, he had provided a place for the homeless on his church parking lots and legal assistance for illegal immigrants. On the homophobic side, he called for a ban on Disney for recognizing Gay partnerships as the same as straight marriages in terms of employee benefits. Drake loudly opposed the appointment of an American ambassador strictly based on sexuality.
In 2007 Drake's name was in a letter of support for James Kopp, convicted sniper, terrorist, and murderer with his targets being abortion doctors. Drake claims he did not authorize the use of his name.
Drake campaigned partly from his pulpit. At first for Gov. Huckabee in the Republican primaries but then for Keyes later in the season. The Americans United for Separation of Church and State advocated for an IRS investigation of Drake. Drake's response was to pray for the death of his enemies.
Drake went on to, in a very public way, pray for the death of President Obama and of anyone else who displeased him as he urged God to be his hit man. Keyes, Drake and AIP Elector Markham Robinson filed a petition with the Superior Court in California at Sacramento challenging the right of Obama to assume the office of President based on spurious "birther" claims. The action was filed by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, an organization characterized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-Muslim hate group.
Drake filed with the FEC in March 2012 with no party affiliation for his own run for President. He unsuccessfully sought the nomination of the California-based American Independent Party and had already selected Christian hip-hopper Robert Ornelas as his running-mate. Ornelas, also known as "Battle Ax," or Robert SOG Ornelas [SOG = Son of God] had been inspired to become an evangelist by Drake's work with the homeless.
Drake's 2016 platform was very theocratic--
WILEY DRAKE FOR PRESIDENT 2016.
Introduction
"A new Godly party is urgently needed today because the leaders of the two existing parties, Democratic and Republican, have deserted the principles and traditions of our nation's founding fathers. Both of the existing parties have become the proponents of big government, crushing taxation, dictatorial federal power, waste and fiscal irresponsibility, unwholesome and disastrous internationalism, compromise with our nation's enemies, and authoritarian regimentation of the citizens of this Republic. Control of the government, under the domination of these two existing parties, has left the hands of the people our government was created to serve."
The declaration pledged the support of any party "limited constitutional government, with emphasis on the rights of the several states to govern their own local affairs and educational systems without federal bureaucratic or court interference." As to foreign affairs, the declaration stated that "the American Independent Party supports a foreign policy based on America's best interests, not world opinion," and "preservation of our national sovereignty."
We Acknowledge the Creator's Gracious Gifts
We gratefully acknowledges God as the Creator of all and appeals to Him for help in protecting all He has graciously given us. With all these gifts comes the right to use them justly. Hence all such rights are the gifts of God—as affirmed in our Declaration of Independence. These include the right to life and liberty.
Declaration of Independence Rights are God-Given
All rights are unalienable in that none have a right to take them unjustly. Liberty includes the pursuit of happiness, which is the possession and exercise of virtue. Liberty includes the right to use and claim as an individual possession any unclaimed thing received from the hand of God, in or upon or above the Earth. This right to any possession includes its entire use, that is, its exchange, control, protection, and entire disposition. And the first and greatest of these possessions is our life.
God-Given Duties to Individuals
God gave Man this earth to make of it a well-tended Garden—not to leave it an uninhabited wilderness. He gave us our lives—not to be lived to ourselves alone—but in love to one another. And the duty to love certainly includes the duty not to act hatefully towards others. Therefore, we have a duty to be at peace with each other. Our duty to love one another includes a duty to protect each other from unjust harm. We have further a duty to cooperate with each other in the fulfillment of these duties. Such duties are the basis for just government.
As the only creature made in God's image and likeness, all men have an equal duty to love themselves and others to honor that image of the God they are commanded to love. To obliterate that image by unjustly taking a life is the highest crime that one may do to another. To take a life justly is the most somber obligation God ever imposes.
Our Constitution Enables Us to Protect Our Rights and Fulfill Our Duties
To secure and fulfill all God-given rights and duties, governments are instituted among men. To fulfill those duties and protect those rights, We the People of the United States of America ordained and established a Constitution for ourselves.
Rights and Duties of Association, Including that Forceful Association—Government
God created Man with two great dimensions—individual and social. In so doing He gave us the right to associate with each other to take advantage of our rights and to fulfill our duties. The right to associate includes the right to choose one's associates, but does not include the right to force others to associate.
God has imposed on men a duty to associate in governments to put a justified fear into the hearts of evildoers. These duties are given for the good of all—but not to deprive any of the rights they are designed to protect! Governments should never commit the crimes they are created to prevent!
No association of men has any rights of itself, but only by reason of the rights contributed to it according to the covenant established among its members. That fundamental limit on associations includes the greatest and most forceful of all human associations—government. However, among all our rights we find those derived from our duties, for we all have a right to justly pursue our duties.
Therefore:The Constitution: the Original Contract that America has with Itself
A ordered liberty in a nation under God. We believe in strict adherence to written law. We believe the Constitution is the contract America has with itself. Its willful distortion has led to the violation of our Tenth Amendment guaranteed right to limited government—which inevitably requires oppressive taxation. Its faithful application will lift that awful burden
Freedom from "Liberalism"
Freed from the lawless oppression of Liberal rule, we may then compassionately and justly use our energy and ingenuity to provide for ourselves and our families. We will then establish truly free and responsible enterprise and reassert the basic human right to property.
The Protection of Life, and the Duties and Rights of Families
We believe in protecting all human life however weak, defenseless, or disheartened; we endorse the family as the essential bulwark of liberty, compassion, responsibility, and industry; and declare the family's right and responsibility to nurture, discipline, and educate its children. We maintain that all humans are persons from the beginning of their biological development and especially deserve our love and nurture when they are weakest and most dependent.
Marriage Between a Man and a Woman
We insist that marriage is between a man and a woman and assert the role of the law in establishing and reinforcing the mutual rights and obligations of that God-ordained contract.
The Individual and Common Defense
We assert the absolute, concurrent Second Amendment guaranteed individual right to self defense against impositions by other citizens or our government, coupled with a strong common defense, a common defense which requires a national sovereignty not damaged by imprudent or un-Constitutional treaties.
Our Great Pro-Life Constitution
The Republic established by our Constitution is the greatest of all pro-life institutions. In the first place, it protects our lives from the impositions of foreign nations and internal disorder. Our Constitution in its Fifth Amendment also forbids the government to take life—or liberty or property—unjustly. The Fourteenth amendment requires all States to apply all the protections they provide for life equally to all visitors or citizens, and to all born or unborn persons within the territories governed by their laws.
Public Servants, Not Public Masters! All Governments Under God
We believe that all those who govern are the servants of God for the good of citizens. Therefore all governments are under God.
In consequence whereof, we call upon all men who value their God-given liberty to join us in pursuit of these political convictions!
Some Drake 2016 campaign quotes in the media--
"It's time for the Judeo-Christian voice to be heard by our policy makers. They can try to kick the word of God out of politics, but they will never stop the voice of God through 'We the People of the United States.' We are the People of His Presence."
"The Democrats have done a lot of damage, but the Republicans have done almost as much. Party politics have ruined this country. It's time we got back to our history of ministers of the Gospel running for office without a party."
"When I am elected as president, I will have no obligations to any party. We want to get America back to one nation under God. We, as politicians, need to be responsible only to Almighty God. Not Allah, not some other god, but the God that this nation was founded on."
"We must get back to justice. The justice system of this nation was based on the Word of God, and we must get back to that. We must show mercy to those that want to come to this country - we are a nation of immigrants. Mercy must be extended to those who want to leave other countries and come to the United States for true freedom. Mercy must also be shown to the seniors in our nation through a better healthcare system."
"[Trump] isn't spiritually mature enough to be President. He sort of has the concept, 'I have always been a Christian. I was born a Christian' and that of course is contrary not only to evangelicals, but most importantly it's contrary to the word of God. I have not heard Mr. Trump say, 'I personally invited Jesus into my heart and into my life and therefore he's my savior.'"
In June 2016 Drake had run unsuccessfully in the California primary for the Presidential nomination of the American Independent Party.
One biography of VP nominee Brackman included--
As a seasoned solider in God's Army, Prophetess Brackman's story is amazing and wonderful. Blossom was born in Birmingham, England. Blossom is living proof that what God has blessed, no man can curse.
Blossom Brackman was ordained as a Prophetess in 2007 and was commissioned by Israel as a watchman on the wall in the fall of 2006. Prophetess Blossom also holds an Prophetic Apostolic Ordination by Christian International Apostolic Network,founder Prophet Bill Hamon and a ordained Ministry License by Kingsway Fellowship International located in Des Moines, Iowa.
Thoughout her life she struggled with physical, emotion and spiritual abuse and was healed, in one day after an encounter with God. Her two and a half pack a day cigarette habit also disappeared and her testimony does not stop there. Later in life she was diagnosed with bladder cancer. When the surgeon scheduled a biopsy to remove it, there was no cancer!
In addition to her physical and emotional experiences and great effort to overcome life’s difficulties, she was also stricken with Hepatitis C. Only by God’s miraculous hand, she was completely healed. Prophetess Brackman stands as a testimony of what the power of God can do.
The Drake/Brackman ticket did not appear on any ballots, nor does it seem they registered as write-ins in any state. On Facebook Drake said he did not vote for Trump.
Election history: none
Other occupations: Chairman of the Congressional Women of Sovereign Authority International, prayer deputy for The Congressional Prayer Conference, motivational speaker, Executive Director at Eagles of Fire, Executive Director of Men of Sovereign Authority In Action, Executive Director of Women of Sovereign Authority, Executive Director of Ezekiel School of the Prophets - Apostles - Intercessor, life coach, pastor, author, radio and television host
Notes:
Brackman was born in England to a Jamaican father, which might have been problematic as far as the Constitutional requirements for office were concerned for holding the office she sought in the event of her election victory.
