Josh Blue

 

Josh Blue, November 27, 1978 (Cameroon) -

VP candidate for Independent (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Ronald Dee White (b. 1956)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

The Ron White/Josh Blue Blue ticket of 2016, comprised of two stand-up comics, brings to mind something Bob Hope said when he was given an award by Congress for his efforts in entertaining US troops. Hope told the politicians something like, "It is great honor for me, as a comedian, to be honored by my peers."

The White/Blue team was not the first color-coordinated ticket. In 1960 Gabriel Green and Addison Brown of the Outer Space Party created the Green/Brown option. White had originally asked comedian Lewis Black to be his VP.

Comedian Ron White announced his run for the Presidency in Nov. 2015. Some quotes from his campaign--

--"For the last 30 years of my life, I’ve done nothing but non-stop touring across this country, back and forth, making these people laugh, eating with these people, drinking with these people ... I know what they need, I know what they smoke, I know what they say, I know what hurts them, I know what they’re worried about."

--"This country is still at war. These guys and gals are coming home, blown to smithereens, worse than any war in the history of war. And it’s appalling how we treat them. They’re ours. They’re our young men and women forever, and we have to take care of them forever. They’ve given a sacrifice to this nation that should humble every one of us."

--"It’s the same trick every four years on the American people and most of the American people are gullible enough to fall for it every time. 'Here’s what you need to say, here’s what your buzzword is going to be, they want to hear this – now go say it and the louder you say it, the better it is'. Look, even though I think I have an 11th grade high school education, but I do have a G.E.D; which is really nice and if you don’t know what G.E.D. stands for then you probably have one too. I’ve gotten where I am by stacking words together, which is a really complex thing to do so I doubt the candidates are going to question my intellect. I hope they don’t anyway. Yet, me getting into a debate with any one of them would be a lot like playing ping-pong with a chicken. It would be very easy. I was watching that debate and they were talking the next day on the news about 'zingers'. Here I am thinking 'really, 'zingers' that’s what you’re giving points for? Well I’m in!' If you want to sit around a trade insults with each other then I’m president already.

You look at how qualified these people are. I like Donald [Trump] fine but should he be president of the country? NO! You cannot say the stupidest thing anyone says in the world every week and be president of the United States, you just can’t do it. For example, the wall between Mexico and the United States is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard in my entire life. Do you have any idea how good the Mexican people are at digging tunnels? Do you know where El Chapo is? No. You don’t. Do you think he went over that wall? He went under that wall. It was the nicest tunnel I’ve ever seen, a mile long. It had lighting, a fountain, a dairy queen and he was just gone. It makes more sense to build a net between the United States and Canada to keep the geese out, which I would LOVE to try."

--"My campaign slogan is 'Vote Smart' not 'Vote For Ron White', it’s 'Vote Smart'. Think about this, this is really important. I don’t have the candidate that I want to elect; there is nobody there that I want to be the president. I look at the field and I’m like 'where are the best and the brightest in this country'? They don’t want this job, it’s a horrible job. It pays nothing compared to running Google or any other major corporation. It’s just nothing. You get a book deal, which is great if you make it through eight years of hell and you look forty years older. We need to make it a better job so we can attract more talent."

--"Well, I’ve never been a straight party, one party guy. In fact, it’s really hard for me to understand how somebody can be. I think both parties have great ideas as well as horrible ideas. If I were president, I would let you keep your guns and if you want to break into somebody’s house, I wouldn’t break into mine because I got my guns, my father’s guns, his father’s guns and it would just be a really bad idea. In Texas though, it’s legal to brandish a loaded AK-47 at a McDonalds because of open carry handgun laws. I would make that an act of Terrorism and put that person in prison.
 
You can have these guns and to say that you can’t or make guns illegal in the United States is like making glaciers illegal, it’s just ridiculous. However, I want those guns in cases and I want them unloaded. You cannot walk up and down the street carrying a gun, you just can’t do it. I would say let’s control what we got a little bit better, that way when we see somebody carrying a gun that’s somebody we need to keep an eye on."

--"I say we legalize marijuana nationwide and tax it. And then I say we have a real war on drugs – this will not be your grandma’s war on drugs. We have a serious problem with meth dealers and meth houses infecting this country. We’ll take some of that tax revenue from pot sales and offer American citizens $20,000 to find the meth houses and labs and just bust in and start blowing them away. We’ll give them an 8-minute warning to get the meth babies out. No reason to hurt the meth babies – not their fault."

--"I’m not talking about stopping the drug war. I’m talking about a twenty-thousand dollar bounty so you show me where a meth lab is, operating with people in it, we will have boots on the ground, go there and give you two minutes to give up your meth-babies and if you show one inch of resistance we will kill everybody in the building, including the people there that are visiting their meth lab buddies. Everyone will go straight to hell, which is exactly where they belong and deserve to be. I wouldn’t even think two seconds about it."

Josh Blue, the Vice-Presidential choice, was born in Cameroon to American parents. His cerebral palsy condition is sometimes used as a springboard for his humor.

[Washington State trivia alert!!!] Blue is a graduate of The Evergreen State College, which also happens to be my undergraduate alma mater. We did not attend at the same time. In fact, he was born during my senior year, so there is a bit of a gap there in time. However, when he was attending Evergroove I was also living in the area.

As the campaign season heated up White cooled down the political jokes and rhetoric in his gigs, "Because my fans are pretty much a dead split on the issue, anything I said would piss off half the crowd."

Election history: none

Other occupations: comedian, actor, sculptor, painter

Notes:
Comedian Ron White should not be confused with USA Memory Champ Ron White, who ran for President in 2012.
Brush with fame: My brother once worked with Lewis Black in NYC in the 1980s.

Addison Brown

Addison Brown, April 23, 1922 (Los Angeles, Calif.) - January 17, 2000 (Portland, Ore.)

VP candidate for Outer Space Party (aka Flying Saucer Party aka Universal Flying Saucer Party aka Independent Nonpartisan) (1960)

Running mate with nominee: Gabriel Green (1924-2001)

Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/537

The campaign:

It all started with economics. Addison Brown had cooked up an economic theory in 1947 called "Prior Choice Economics," and this was expanded upon in 1955 by Gabriel Green. This system could be described as sort of a competitive free-market  utopian system where physical money and taxes are abolished and purchasing power is gained by how many "points" one has earned on a labor card, the amount to be determined by some sort of government body.

Shortly after publishing his 1955 economics book, Gabriel Green went public with his belief that he was in contact with aliens and organized the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Group in 1956 which morphed into the national group, Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs in 1959.

In 1958 Green ran for US Congress in California under the Economic Security Party (ESP, get it?) banner.

Green was sitting in his home in Whittier, Calif. in the spring of 1960 when an alien in a business suit from Alpha Centauri paid him a visit and told him, in English, "We want you to run for President of the United States." Or at least that's his story.

Prior Choice Economics godfather Addison Brown was named as the running mate. He was living in Illinois at this time. Yes, I know, a Green/Brown ticket. Brown was also known as "John Believer."

The Party platform included: "... Free permanent insurance on everything, no more taxes, free medical and dental care for everyone without the disadvantage of socialized medicine and cradle to grave economic security."

Green quotes from media:

"With the help of spacemen I believe I can carry millions of votes ... Hundreds of space people are walking the streets."

"All of our high scientists have been taken to other planets. President Eisenhower flew out to Edwards Air Force Base for a briefing with a saucer crew. I know Nixon has been contacted, but I am not sure about Kennedy."

"I may not win in 1960, but I'm sure of 1964."

Green endorsed JFK shortly before the election saying an "extraterrestrial electronic brain" predicted a Democratic landslide. Also, he explained, "Not enough Americans have yet seen flying saucers or talked to outer space people."

Outer Space Party campaign manager Elary John Willsie (1921-2005) told the press that JFK's razor-thin victory was due to Green's endorsement, otherwise "it appears likely that he [Green] would have polled at least 500,000 votes." Since the Green/Brown ticket was not on any ballots, those votes would have been write-ins.

Within a short time Green had managed to integrate Prior Choice Economics into his extraterrestrial/political agenda, informing us that this economic system was also used by alien civilizations. We will read more about this in elections to come. Meanwhile, being the VP nominee did not seem to be a milestone in the life of Addison Brown, who was involved in much more important projects.

Election history: none

Other occupations: author, physicist, economist, inventor, futurist

Buried: ?

Notes:
Addison Brown managed to somehow expand the Prior Choice Economics theory into a whole complicated cosmology that included "resonation physics" and the ability to overcome Death itself. Brown and his Canadian disciple Alan K. Wu had developed a piece of software that was downloadable on any home computer called "Miracle.zip" that would somehow enable one to begin this process. After Brown's stroke in 1996 and death in 2000, Wu had set up a website (now extinct) as a way of honoring Brown's desire to set up a foundation continuing his work.

Summarizing Brown's cosmological model looks to be extremely complicated, but Wu gave it go:

We are dedicated to the preservation and continuation of the work of the Prophet-Writer-Inventor Addison Brown, sometimes known as John Believer, of Portland,  Oregon.

April 23 1922 - January 2000

     Mr Brown is a writer of scientific and economical theories. He is a Prophet in the Eastern and original sense of the word, yet he 'sees' life and life's mysteries and their unraveling through the eyes of contemporary science. He is an inventor as well as a futurist, a visionary in the formost avangarde tradition, or anti-tradition, as some would have it. His theories and New Cosmology leads to Human Understood Reincarnation and Resurrecting the Dead Project.

PERSONNEL :

        Before his stroke in 1996, I used to work with and under the supervision of Mr Brown.  At the present time I am the sole member of this research.

        It was the hope of Mr Brown before his stroke to found a foundation which would continue his research. 

BASIC THEORIES and WORKS : 

       Addison's work consist mainly of these basic parts : A New Cosmology in Resonation Physics with application to Human Understood Reincarnation and Resurrecting the Dead Project, and Theories on Economics known as Prior Choice or Permanent Credit System Economics which if implemented will solve all of the problems of unemployment, taxation, Medical care, old age retirement, funding for public and private education, child and adult welfare, joblessness and loss of jobs to the third world or a foreign country, and most of the economical problems of the latter 20th century. It will also help to fulfill, along with resurrection of the dead, the major CREATIVE prophecies of Christianity. It serves as a Mirror that reflect and echoes prophecies of the Christian religion, how "in the Last Days the dead shall be resurrected ' and how "by thy WORK, thy shall be judged (as to how  much work is done and performed etc." for the whole world to see.

       It also fulfill CREATIVE prophecies of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and other major religions.

...

The main work is how to time the birth of a child using computerised horoscope timing so as to exhibit the highest possible Human Potential Quotient, or duplicate the soul shape and consciousness of a person previously alive but now 'deceased'. (Soul seperated from body because body no longer exist due to expiry at old age or some other causes.) The term Human Potential Quotient is developed and introduced by Addison and I based on computer programs developed here for the IBM PC and applies to the overall intelligence, abilities, potential, courage, integrity and personalities etc. of a unborn child based on, for lack of a better term, 'Astrological considerations' or computerized Horoscope timing. This computerized Horoscoping  is based on the theories and techniques developed by Mr Brown, the Prophet from Portland, Oregon.

       You can download programs ---Miracle.zip--- developed for the IBM PC on Human Understood Reincarnation and Resurrecting the Dead project. As mentioned before, the programs will enable you to predict the best time for birth of a child so as to have the highest Human Potential Quotient.  

       If you find this incredible or hard to believe, and if you are not interested in over coming death, there are other files and programs available in the zipped file that discuss economics, life's mysteries and other topics and problems.
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More trivia I cannot resist. The concept of resurrecting the dead is a main theme in Ed Wood's cult-classic late 1950s film Plan 9 From Outer Space. In the movie, the leader of the aliens, the one who has approved the plan to bring the deceased back to life, is played by the actor John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge in his only cinematic role. Breckinridge was the great-grandson of another John Cabell Breckinridge, who ran for President in 1860 as part of a third party-- the Constitutional Democratic Party! And to add to our joy of  trivia involving the Pacific Northwest, his third party VP running mate, Joseph Lane, died in Oregon just like Addison Brown! As one of Plan 9's gravediggers says, "Yeah, kind spooky-like."