Tulsi Gabbard

 

Tulsi Gabbard, April 12, 1981 (Leloaloa, American Samoa) -

VP candidate for Independent Democrat (2016)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party (2020)

Running mate with nominee (2016): Bernard Sanders (b. 1941)
Running mate with nominee (2020): Douglas Scott van Raam (b. 1969)
Popular vote (2016): 79,341 (0.05%)
Popular vote (2020): ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote (2016, 2020): 0/538

The campaign (2016):

Some of the followers of Sen. Bernie Sanders refused to concede the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton and continued to campaign for the former candidate all the way to the general election. Sanders himself had somewhat tepidly and tardily endorsed Clinton.

Efforts were made by the "Sanderistas" to place Sanders on the ballot in a few states such as Vermont and Washington and deny either of the major candidates the 270 Electoral votes required to win. The idea was to give Sanders a third place finish so he would be one of the options for the US House when they would have to choose among the top three. And of course, the Bernie supporters reasoned, Sanders would be the only logical choice to break the gridlock.

As the Op Deny website wrote in their mission statement, "The Democratic party and Hillary Clinton cheated and stole the nomination from Bernie and the people who supported him. We do not want Hillary or Trump as President. Liars and cheaters (they both are) do not deserve to win. We support progressives and other parties. We believe more are needed in the future, to break the stranglehold of the 2 party system."

BernieVote.com had a focus on Vermont--

HOW WILL WRITING BERNIE SANDERS IN, POSSIBLY GET HIM ELECTED?

By The 12th amendment, if no candidate reaches 270, then the House chooses between top 3 winners.

Which could include Bernie, as 3rd choice, if he won just Vermont, and or other write in states

Such as, New Hampshire, Rhode island, Oregon, Washington, California, Iowa, etc

Each state delegation of reps gets one vote, and it will be the new house that decides.

Bernie will be the safe choice, and the house delegations are not as loyal as super delegates, and we believe they will pick Bernie.

USING THE TWELFTH AMENDMENT TO GET A PRESIDENT BERNIE SANDERS IS NOT A PROTEST VOTE, AND ELECTION ANALYSTS KNOW IT

Motivation

    This is our LAST chance!!!
    Bernie will NOT have a chance if we don't win Vermont.
    Vermont is the ONLY state that we are guaranteed to win.
    In Vermont Bernie beat Hillary 86% to 14%.
    In Vermont Bernie got 115,000 votes, Hillary got 18,000 votes and Trump got 20,000 votes.
    Right now in Vermont many Bernie supporters will either be voting for Hillary because they are afraid of Trump, or they will not be voting at all.
    We MUST call them ALL and let them know that their votes both count, and they matter. The rest of the entire country NEEDS them to vote for Bernie and we MUST tell them.

In California, where the permission of the candidate was not required, Sanders was registered as a write-in with US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as his running-mate.

An idiosyncratic and controversial Democrat representing Hawaii, Gabbard resigned her position as DNC vice chair in order to endorse Sanders' Presidential campaign, becoming one of the earliest members of Congress to do so. At the same time she was running for re-election.

Gabbard's anti-Gay policies of the past made some progressives wary. Also her involvement with the Science of Identity Foundation, considered a toxic group by cultbusting organizations, was another concern to some of the Sanders' activists. Considered a "Blue Dog" Democrat with libertarian leanings, Gabbard's ability to get under the skin of her party leaders appealed to an element of Trump's supporters. She was a frequent talking head on Fox News offering critical views of President Obama's foreign policy.

The Sanders/Gabbard ticket earned 0.56% of the vote in California. Even though they were write-in candidates they still impressively outpolled the La Riva/Banks Peace and Freedom Party ticket who were on the printed ballot.

A faithless Democratic Party Elector in Minnesota cast his vote for the Sanders/Gabbard team, but was "dismissed" and "excused" by the Secretary of State.

The campaign (2020):

Douglas "Dutch" van Raam, a stagehand and landscaper from Martinez, Calif. filed with the FEC for President under the banner of the Free Soil Party on Feb. 5, 2020. Something of a perennial candidate he had run for President in 2008 and 2012, the US House in 2014, and the US Senate in 2016. His favorite President was "Martin Van Buren because he was of Dutch descent and a founder of the Free Soil Party."

van Raam's platform included legalizing marijuana as well as industrial and agricultural hemp. He also supported expanding and upgrading America's rail transportation. In addition, van Raam was concerned about the future of water resources.

On his Facebook page, van Raam frequently made reference to Tulsi Gabbard as his running-mate, starting in April 2020 after Sanders dropped out of the race. He also used terms like "sheeple," "fake news" and "drinking the Kool-Aid" to describe mainstream voters and their behavior.

Some Facebook post samples of his political viewpoints during campaign 2020 uses terms that are consistent with the pseudo-legal "sovereign citizens" movement--

June 24, 2020
Slavery starts first by warring tribes probably non-white except English vs. Irish. The losers were collected and sold to the highest bidder which could have been any color buyer. The investor class created a berth or birth certificate so his "property" could be "insured" then put on a boat and "shipped". If the ship did not make it to port the "berth (or birth) certificates" of his "property" were how they got their insurance claims settled. So if you have a birth certificate instead of a record of living human being, then you are an economic slave owned by a Federal Reserve Banking Cartel that trades your certificates as future surities. The chains are mostly paper now but it's the same concept only slightly modified so that the stupid people do not figure it out. Lincoln gave us the 13th Amendment saying we could not be forced into slavery but we could always still consent to it ("by consent of the governed"). Then the 14th Amendment was unlawfully ratified saying you are born into "citizen-ship" (another "commercial" "shipping" term) before you even reach the age of consent. English is a slave language. Free humans are born free at home. Slaves are "delivered" (another commercial shipping term) in commerce, a.k.a. hospitals.
Vote Free Soil Party 2020.

July 5, 2020
Here is my day after Independence Day rant for all y'all...
What is a slave? According to Constitution a slave is three fifths person. Did the government take the other two fifths from your paycheck before you received it?
Where you born "free" at home?
Or where you "delivered" in "commerce" at a "hospital" (originally a place where people went to die) and given a bank note slave certificate of birth as live stock commodity to be traded by your masters without you really knowing how or why?

July 11, 2020
i am reposting this message from July 6th for my dear friend Jo Jorgensen over at the Libertarian Party. i was about to comment how she would probably whoop my ass in this election after seeing she was born in a town called Libertyville. But one snafu is all it takes and she is getting slammed for going between what i said in this post by using three capital letters and that damned hashtag to piss people off.
Vote Free Soil Party 2020.
"If you say, "Black lives matter." then you believe in equity and know how to spell in proper English. If you say, "BLACK LIVES MATTER" then you only promote a fictitious business name that is linked to terrorist bullshit and are only in it for the money. It's simple linguistics. Learn to read. Anything spelled in all capital letters is dead fake. It's not English as English has zero allowance for all capital letters (which is why it will never be our national language) so it is considered to be "DOG LATIN" which may look like English words but spelled LIKE LATIN WORDS in all capital letters.
Vote Free Soil Party 2020 by writing out your candidate's name the way their mother spelled it. Do not check a box with a candidate's name in all capital letters next to it where the consent to the dead entity takes presidence over the living and implies your consent that you are dependent on them to do everything include spell for you. That puts you under their spell. It's witchcraft."

Aug. 25, 2020
i say f**k vaccines and microchips and let's let natural diseases rock and roll our population instead of paper debt notes issued by slave traders...
Free Soil Party 2020

Sept. 4, 2020
Sometimes i think people are completely oblivious to the fact that i am usually two steps ahead of them because they believe i am the one completely oblivious to the fact that their vibrations always reach me way before they themselves can...
Tulsi and Dutch
Free Soil Party now

Sept. 29, 2020
Hey, peeps! Got a favor to ask. i need to find Jimmy McMillan and Marion Barry. The people really like those two human beings and Tulsi and i would like them to join our administration. If you know how to get ahold of them please tell them to contact me. Their country needs them!

Marion Barry died in 2014.

A couple days after the election, von Raam offered this cryptic Facebook post--

Dear Hollywood pedophile elite human traffickers and New York slave holders,
     This real time scenario action movie of Russia versus China for the White House is amazing! These United States are diverse. It's the Russians and the Chinese that hate dark skinned people and use race to divide and conquer while spreading homosexuality at an alarming rate. 45 put a serious halt to your war provided global child f**k ring so you throw a tantrum and spread covid so nobody else gets to have any fun either??? Well, it's a good thing the human beings of Contra Costa allowed me passage from the Federal Reserve citizen ship to the geographical land location at 650 Pine Street, Martinez City, California as published so that Tulsi and i & i can start our own new city-state to rule the world. We are the only two actual "natural born" human beings in the 6020 Anno Lucis +4 (also known as 2020 A.D.) Presidential race whereas all the other candidates used their "legal fictions" and are disqualified as per the citizen rule book...
The New Amsterdam Order of Kamehameha with power accorded by the Bastard Sons of Martinez and hopefully the Kingdom of Hawai'i have assumed control.
This message brought to you as just another one of the many quality labor and custom services performed by Dutch Styles... And Sharpie...
Write out loud.

For her part, Gabbard had started her campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination in Jan. 2019. On Mar. 2020 she dropped out of the running and endorsed Joe Biden.

Her Presidential campaign was a rocky one, and it seems most of her ire was aimed at the Democratic Party establishment rather than the Republicans. She sought to sue Hillary Clinton when the latter suggested Gabbard was an unwitting tool of the Russians. She also went after Google for suspending her advertising account. Gabbard's status as an outsider was confirmed when she was excluded from several DNC events, including not being invited to the national convention even though she had won a delegate.

Another factor that did not endear her to most Democrats was her lone "present" vote during the first Trump impeachment vote in Dec. 2019.

Gabbard's endorsements and co-endorsements reflect the unusual mixture of her political views. Included among her supporters: Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Sean Ono Lennon, and David Duke. Gabbard rejected Duke's support in no uncertain terms.

The van Ramm/Gabbard ticket did not appear to be registered as write-ins in any state.

Election history:
2003-2005 - Hawaii House of Representatives (Democratic)
2004 - Hawaii House of Representatives (Democratic) - primary - defeated
2011-2012 - Honolulu, Hawaii City Council (Nonpartisan)
2013-2021 - US House of Representatives (Hawaii) (Democratic)
2020 - Democratic nomination for US President - defeated

Other occupations: Hawaii Army National Guard, United States Army Reserve, Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values, Stand Up For America, martial arts instructor, Healthy Hawai'i Coalition, legislative aide to Sen. Daniel Akaka, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee

Notes:
In the 2004 election Gabbard had filed for re-election but did not campaign, choosing military service in Iraq instead. She later was sent to Kuwait.
aka Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo.

Osborne Gallego Hart

 

Osborne Gallego Hart, May 9, 1952 (Buncombe County, N.C.) -

VP candidate for Socialist Workers Party (aka Independent aka Unaffiliated) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Alyson Kennedy (b. 1950)
Popular vote: 12,465 (0.01%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

A Kennedy/Hart ticket sounds like a dream ticket for liberal Democrats in the 1980s, but in 2016 it meant Alyson Kennedy and Osborne Hart of the Socialist Workers Party.

In his most excellent Ballot Access News website for Feb. 13, 2016 Richard Winger reported and observed,"On February 12, the Socialist Workers Party announced that its 2016 national ticket will be Alyson Kennedy for president, and Osborne Hart for vice-president. This is only the second time that the SWP has nominated a woman for President; the first time was in 1972, when Linda Jenness ran. The Socialist Workers Party has now nominated a presidential candidate for 18 elections in a row. Besides the Democratic and Republican Parties, the only other U.S. political parties that ever did that were the Prohibition and Socialist Labor Parties."

In the course of those 18 elections the SWP had shifted their emphasis from Trotskyism to Castroism and in the process had experienced a number of splits and splinters. By the 2016 election the Party appeared to have stabilized, although others in the Left thought of it as an almost cult-like political entity with rigorous demands on their followers.

The SWP provided a campaign biography of Hart--

Osborne Hart, whose father was a career soldier, spent his youth traveling around the world with his family.

Since getting involved with the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Hart has been a lifelong fighter for Black rights. He’s joined struggles against police brutality and school segregation and the movement to bring down apartheid in South Africa and free Nelson Mandela.

He was politically active in the 1970s in the fight to end Washington’s war against the peoples of Vietnam and Indochina.

Hart joined the Socialist Workers Party in the mid-1970s and for decades has been part of helping to build and strengthen the labor movement. He’s lived in Atlanta, San Francisco, New York, Detroit and now Philadelphia and has worked in industry, including as a meat packer, steelworker, loading trucks in a TJX warehouse and on the railroads. He currently works at Walmart.

He joined actions in defense of United Steelworkers-organized oil refinery workers forced on strike in 2015, demanding workers control over safety to counter bosses’ speed-up drives, job cuts and attacks on unions.

Hart, 63, ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 2015, gaining a wide hearing among working people. He participated in protests against cuts in Medicare, demanding free, government-funded medical care for all; against police brutality and in solidarity with workers fighting concession demands by steel giant ArcelorMittal. He explained the need for independent working-class political action, urging workers to fight for a labor party based on the unions, to challenge the Democrats, Republicans or other capitalist parties.

Over the past five years, Hart has joined in building protests in Philadelphia against the relentless drive by state and city governments to slash funds for public education, with massive layoffs and spiraling class sizes. These moves have been accompanied by assaults on teachers’ and other school workers’ wages, pensions, health care and their unions.

Hart is active in the fight against government attacks and discriminatory laws against undocumented workers, protests against deportations and efforts to organize the unorganized.

He’s spoken out and built meetings in defense of the Cuban Revolution, demanding Washington end its 55-year-long economic embargo of the island and return the territory containing the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo to Cuba. He was part of the international movement that won freedom for the Cuban Five, revolutionaries imprisoned in the U.S. for working to defend their country’s socialist revolution.

He calls for the immediate release of Oscar López, a fighter for Puerto Rican independence framed up and jailed in the U.S. — much of it in solitary confinement — for more than 34 years.

Hart was one of the few third party VP candidates to take his campaign near my neck of the literal woods when he visited Olympia, Wash. Apparently the electioneering efforts up here paid off as The Evergreen State gave the SWP their highest popular vote percentage.

The Kennedy/Hart ticket made the ballot in 7 states: Washington (0.13%), Tennessee (0.11%), Minnesota and New Jersey (0.06% each), Utah (0.05%), Colorado and Louisiana (0.02% each). It was their strongest popular vote result since 1992. One wonders how much of that was due to the temporary migration of Sanders followers who felt disenfranchised.

Election history:
1976 - US House of Representatives (Ga.) (Independent) - defeated
2001 - Mayor of Detroit (Nonpartisan) - primary - defeated
2004 - US House of Representatives (Mich.) (Independent) - defeated
2006 - Governor of Pennsylvania (Socialist Workers Party) - defeated
2007 - Philadelphia City Council (Socialist Workers Party) - defeated
2008 - US House of Representatives (Penn.) (Socialist Workers Party) - defeated
2012 - US Senate (Penn.) (Socialist Workers Party) - defeated
2015 - Mayor of Philadelphia (Socialist Workers Party) - defeated
2017 - Mayor of New York City (Socialist Workers Party) - defeated
2018 - US Senate (Penn.) (Socialist Workers Party) - defeated

Other occupations: meat packer, truck loader, Walmart worker, railroad employee

Notes:
Was a write-in in the 1976 election. Andrew Young was the winner.
Was a write-in in the 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2017 and 2018 elections.

Niles William Niemuth

 

Niles William Niemuth, 1988 -

VP candidate for Socialist Equality Party (aka Socialism Equality Anti-War) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Jerome White (b. 1959)
Popular vote: 471 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

2016 would be Jerry White's fourth run as the Presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party, having previously campaigned in 1996, 2008, and 2012.

The Apr. 22, 2016 SEP press release described running-mate Niles Niemuth--

Niles Niemuth, 28, was raised in a working-class family in Wisconsin and became a member of the SEP during the 2011 mass protests against budget cuts imposed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Niles joined the staff of the WSWS after completing his master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where he specialized in African-American history. Niemuth has written extensively on US social conditions, working-class struggles and the government’s assault on democratic rights.

The same announcement offered critical views of Clinton and Trump, but more energy was spent assailing Sen. Sanders, with an additional swipe at the Green Party--

The widespread popular support for the campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is largely based on his identification as a “democratic socialist.” His unexpected string of victories in state primaries shows that there is an enormous desire among workers and young people for an alternative to capitalism. The scale of his support has exploded the official narrative of American politics, according to which no one claiming to be “socialist” can get a hearing.

However, Sanders has demonstrated by his long political career that he is neither a socialist nor an opponent of the political establishment. Even when a nominal “independent,” he collaborated with the Democrats and staunchly supported the Obama administration. He defends capitalism and American imperialism, and he promotes economic nationalism, seeking to scapegoat workers in Mexico, China and other countries for the loss of jobs in the US.

Sanders’ central role is to utilize his bogus credentials as a “socialist” to waylay popular hostility among workers and young people to the two-party system and divert it back into the safe channels of the Democratic Party. The experience of the Obama administration, which came to power promising “hope” and “change,” has exposed the role of the Democratic Party as an instrument of the corporate and financial elite. With the assistance of the unions and an array of upper middle-class pseudo-left groups, the Democrats have perfected the practice of combining empty demagogy and various forms of racial, gender and identity politics with a thoroughly right-wing and pro-war policy.

If Sanders were to run an “independent” campaign—as urged by some of his political backers—this would not change the character of his campaign. His program is based on defense of the capitalist system and opposition to a political movement of the working class.

The same applies to the nominally “independent” campaign of the Green Party. The Green Party is a capitalist party that functions as an external pressure group on the Democrats. When Green parties have participated in governments—most notably in Germany—they have invariably backed the policy of the ruling class, including attacks on workers at home and support for imperialist war abroad.

While presenting a survey of unusual Presidential candidates, writer Lisa Pham made this comment regarding the 2016 SEP ticket--

Jerry White is running as a member of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), and actually has a pretty comprehensive website. I’m not just saying this as a liberal-minded, communist college student. White actually offers comprehensive explanations of his positions backed by figures and charts and other official-looking things. While this may be good for anyone who really seeks to understand who he is as a candidate, it doesn’t help with the “everyone is crazy” theme of my article. So we’re going to move on.

White/Niemuth were on the ballot in Louisiana and registered write-ins in half a dozen more states. In Louisiana they finished 13 out of 13 with 0.02% of the vote. The Party's popular vote result peaked in 1988 and had been steadily dwindling ever since and now they landed in the 3-digit range.

Although listed on the Louisiana ballot as a resident of Wisconsin, by Sept. 2016 Niemuth was registered to vote in Michigan, where White also lived. But the residency potential problem of two candidates from the same state was overshadowed by the fact Niemuth was under the age of 35, which was mandated by the Constitution.

Election history:
2018 - US House of Representatives (Mich.) (Socialist Equality Party) - defeated

Other occupations: door factory worker, writer, activist, webmaster

Notes:
Looks like Niemuth lives in Hamtramck, Mich., the same home as Matt Feazell's Cynicalman.

Heidi M. Pope

 

Heidi M. Pope

VP candidate for Non Affiliated (aka Unaffiliated) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Michael Brandon Puskar (b. 1977)
Popular vote: 7 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Michael B. Puskar "America's Best Friend" and a property manager in Gaithersburg, Md. filed with the FEC for President on the patriotic date of July 4, 2016.

He told the press, "As for a veep, I would have liked Bernie Sanders simply for a political edge ... All the write-ins he would have had, plus my filing in other states, and the simple fact of his popularity, might have given (us) a shear victory and history in the making." But instead of Sanders, Puskar's Vice-President was Heidi M. Pope.

Although registered write-ins in at least four states, only Maryland reported any popular votes. The candidate's Dec. 12, 2016 Facebook post offered a post-mortem--

This year, I stood for the working class. I stood against the moguls representing us. I am the correct non-Establishment. This year, Trump conned the working class. He has filled his Cabinet with moguls. He WAS Establishment.

Puskar had started an effort for the 2020 election but ended his campaign in Dec. 2019.

Election history: none

Other occupations: ?

Notes:
Another mystery VP

Dennis James Banks

 

Dennis James Banks, April 12, 1937 (Leech Lake Indian Reservation. Minn.) – October 29, 2017 (Rochester, Minn.)

VP candidate for Party for Socialism and Liberation (aka Peace and Freedom Party) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Gloria Estela La Riva (b. 1954)
Popular vote: 68,139 (0.05%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

The Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear ticket for the Party for Socialism and Liberation was nominated again for the 2016 election, and Puryear was still too young to serve if elected. La Riva's substitute running-mates were Dennis Banks (California [Peace and Freedom Party], Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico) and Sarah Sloan (Maryland).

The strength of Bernie Sanders' campaign in the Democratic Party was a mixed issue for the PSL. On their webpage they did not consider him a real socialist--

He does not call for nationalizing the corporations and banks, without which the reorganization of the economy to meet people’s needs rather than maximizing the profits of capitalist investors could not take place … He is clearly seeking to reform the existing capitalist system.

La Riva's capture of the Presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party in California was a major victory. American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks was a longtime household name for activists of all stripes and by selecting him as the PFP running-mate the VP actually had more name recognition than the standard bearer.

Banks campaigned in California with a focus on the oil pipeline protest taking place at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Describing the 2016 choice as "the worst presidential election in U.S. history," Banks elaborated, "We're a sick county, and we're voting in 34 days from now for somebody that is hated ... So if you elect Hillary Clinton, it's because you hated Trump, and if you elect Trump, it's because you hated Hillary. That's not a very good platform to win: 'I won because I was the least hated.' What do you say to your children and grandchildren? ... Of course, I'm not running to accept the vice presidential office. I'm running because there's a forum that has to be made in this country, an ongoing forum and I've decided to use this to get on that forum."

The La Riva/Banks campaign issued a platform-in-brief--

OUR 10 POINT PROGRAM
1.    For the earth to live, capitalism must end
2.    Make a job, free health care, free education & affordable housing Constitutional rights
3.    Shut down all U.S. military bases around the world-bring all the troops, planes and ships home
4.    Stop racist police brutality and mass incarceration
5.    Defend our unions
6.    Equality for women and free, safe, legal abortion on demand
7.    Full rights for all immigrants
8.    Full federal equality for LGBTQ people
9.    Honor Native Treaties-Free Leonard Peltier
10.   Seize the banks–Jail Wall Street criminals
 
Of the impressive 74,405 popular votes (0.05%) gained nationally by La Riva in 2016, the ticket with Banks accounted for 68,139 of them, mostly from California. The La Riva/Banks results: California 0.47%, New Mexico 0.15%, Colorado and Iowa 0.02% each. If elected, Banks would have died in office less than 10 months into his term, aged 80.

Election history: none

Other occupations: US Air Force, co-founder of American Indian Movement, teacher, drug and alcohol counselor, member of the Board of Trustees for Leech Lake Tribal College, actor, composer, musician, author

Buried: Battle Point Cemetery (Federal Dam, Minn.)

Notes:
Banks endorsed Jesse Jackson in the 1988 Presidential primaries and Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 cycle.

Sarah E. Sloan

 

Sarah E. Sloan, ca1980 -

VP candidate for Party for Socialism and Liberation (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Gloria Estela La Riva (b. 1954)
Popular vote: 48 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

The Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear ticket for the Party for Socialism and Liberation was nominated again for the 2016 election, and Puryear was still too young to serve if elected. La Riva's substitute running-mates were Dennis Banks (California [Peace and Freedom Party], Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico) and Sarah Sloan (Maryland).

The strength of Bernie Sanders' campaign in the Democratic Party was a mixed issue for the PSL. On their webpage they did not consider him a real socialist--

He does not call for nationalizing the corporations and banks, without which the reorganization of the economy to meet people’s needs rather than maximizing the profits of capitalist investors could not take place … He is clearly seeking to reform the existing capitalist system.

Sloan had been a co-author, along with La Riva, Puryear, and Brian Becker of the book China: Revolution and Counterrevolution (2013). Like La Riva, Sloan had been an activist with the Workers World Party but joined the split and helped form the PSL in 2004.

During a PSL meeting in 2014, Sloan presented her view of life in the USSR during Stalin's regime--

    "Socialist revolutions have not happened in rich societies but in the poorest parts of the world. At the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Russian economy was one-twelfth the size of the U.S. economy. By eliminating the profits for a tiny handful of capitalists, even a poor country like the Soviet Union, managed by the 1930s, to provide every worker with the right to a job and the right to free health care. By 1960, the Soviet Union had emerged as the second-biggest economy in the world. There was no unemployment and there was a right to housing — to pay no more than 6 percent of your income for rent. Evictions were illegal because there were no landlords. It was your housing.

    Women had a right to free childcare and one year’s paid maternity leave, and they had the right to put their child in child care facilities at no cost. Women in the Soviet Union had the right to retire at 55 years of age at half pay. And remember, they had free health care, so retirement didn’t mean being plunged into poverty. They had a month’s paid vacation.

    It doesn’t mean that there were no problems in the Soviet Union, or that we agree with all the policies of different leaderships. But the Soviet Union proved, just as Cuba proves today, that when you take the wealth out of the hands of the capitalists, it can be used to meet people’s needs."

During the 2016 campaign, the Washington, DC-based Sloan took part in demonstration protesting the opening of a hotel by Trump on Pennsylvania Ave. "The people of D.C. and the people of the country say no to Trump's rhetoric and policies of racism, of fear mongering and scapegoating against immigrants, the Muslim community, refugees," Sloan told the press.

Of the impressive 74,405 popular votes (0.05%) gained nationally by La Riva in 2016, the ticket with Sloan accounted for 48 of them. Sloan's public presence began to evaporate starting in 2019 for reasons that are not clear.

Election history: none

Other occupations: author, National Staff Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and Racism)

Notes:
Apparently came to DC from New York.

David L. Knight

 

David L. Knight

VP candidate for Independent (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Santa Roy Allen Clark (1950-2020?)
Popular vote: 2 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Retired electrician Santa Roy Allen Clark of Ashland, Ky. registered as a Democrat with the FEC in Oct. 2015 as a candidate for President. In Jan. 2016 he amended his filing to reflect he was running as an Independent.

Clark (born on Christmas Day) said he added the name to "Santa" to his moniker in Sept. 2015 because he "wanted to have the Christmas spirit all the time." He contended his lack of public office experience and the fact he was "not a professional liar" was a plus, "I couldn't screw up the country any more than those people do."

Among his platform issues--

--Selling Air Force One on eBay. "It's a status symbol. It's not needed."
--Shorten the work week to 32 hours.
--Expand the VA health system to include anyone with a Social Security number, creating a new national health care. This includes treatment for addicts suffering from "Cocaine, Crack, Gambling, Heroin/Opiates, Alcohol, Overeating/ Sugar."
--"Stock Market is simply legalized Ponzi Scheme."
--"Changes in Law Enforcement. 1. Two Officers in police cars at all times and never the same two daily. 2. First two bullets in their guns be non-lethal."
--Listed as "Heros": "Sam Walton, Taylor Swift, Dr. Oz, Jimmy Carter, William Hershel Woodrow, ​Jack LaLanne, CVS Pharmacy, John Kasich, Bernie Barnard Sanders, Dr. Phil, Charlie Daniels, Rand Paul."
--Listed as "Zeros": "Barack Hussein Obama II, Affordable Health Care Act, Burger King, Home Depot, Self checkout lines, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Blythe III), ​Mitch McConnell, Donald John Trump Sr., Ted Cruz."  
--"Pass a law in simple English with no pork."

Clark's running-mate, David L. Knight of London, Ky., appeared to have been a fellow electrician and former co-worker.

The Clark/Knight ticket received a grand total of two votes in Kentucky, where they were registered as write-ins. Clark was able to demonstrate that even though he was registered, some of the write-in votes for him were thrown out because he was being confused with Santa Claus. The fact that both candidates were residents of the same state would have posed a potential problem if they had won, according to the Constitution.

There are suggestions on Facebook that Clark died in 2020, meaning that if elected Knight would have stepped in and finished the term.

Election history: none

Other occupations: electrician

Notes:
Clark should not be confused with Thomas Patrick O'Connor, who legally changed his name to Santa Claus in 2005 and ran for President in 2008 and 2012.
Knight should not be confused with David Drew Knight of Carson City, Nev., who filed with the FEC for the 2016 election as an Independent for President.

Peyton Drozd Williams

 

Peyton Drozd Williams, January 3, 2000 (Germany) -

VP candidate for Independent (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Elijah D. Manley (b. ca1999)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Teenager Elijah D. Manley of Sunrise, Fla. filed for the office of US President with the FEC with No Party Affiliation in June 2015. In Oct. 2015 he modified his party status to Independent and then again in Apr. 2016 to the Green Party.

Manley expressed political policies closely in line with Sen. Sanders' Democratic Socialist views. He also planned to make his age, which rendered him ineligible to attain the Presidency, a springboard to discuss changing the Constitutional requirements. He told one reporter, "I have always stressed the importance of youth rights in all portions of society.  We the youth, and I myself, have repeatedly been told that we are not old enough to do things, ineligible, or incompetent; that we’re not competent to lead the world. That’s the basis of my decision to run. Along with all these other oppressions, I’ve decided that I am running for President of the United States, with regard to the age restrictions. Let me tell you why once more. Age restrictions have become extremely unjust and have limited our very involvement in this system. I’m going to restore that and through my Presidential bid, we’re going to become better than these restrictions."

His platform was fairly short but to the point--

Social Justice
We need to reform our law enforcement system, so that there is accountability to the people of the community, rather than internal investigations by cops. We also need government reform.

Universal/Single Payer Healthcare
The human right to health guarantees a system of health protection for all. Everyone has the right to the health care they need, and to living conditions that enable us to be healthy, such as adequate food, housing, and a healthy environment. Elijah's plan would be to cut unnecessary government spending, from programs like defense and increase funding to operate healthcare systems. To pay for universal healthcare, Elijah would substantially increase taxes on the wealthy.

Energy, Environmental & Ecological Justice
Elijah supports a 100% renewable energy system by 2020, and a ban on fracking. People and Planet before profit. Climate change is a serious threat to our national security, existence, living conditions, and the future generation.

Youth Rights
The backbone and core of Elijah's Presidential campaign is Youth Rights and Youth Liberation. It all started here:

Universal Tuition Free Education and the Abolition of Student Debt
Elijah Manley not only supports tuition free universal education, and abolishing student loan debt. If we can bail out the banks, we can bail out our people.

A noteworthy personal event for Manley took place during the campaign, possibly a first for a Presidential candidate, as explained in the following Facebook post--

Elijah Manley
is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
June 12, 2016  ·   ·
Came Out
I came out on June 12th, 2016. Later that night, the Pulse shooting happened. What a hard time to have came out.

On his campaign webpage, Manley solicited running-mates through an application process. Out of twelve applicants (including Deez Nuts) the list was narrowed down to four who were seriously vetted. In June 2016 it was announced that Peyton Drozd Williams, a high school senior in Georgetown, Tex., was the selection. Williams, an American citizen, was born in Germany but moved to the United States in 2012. Here is a selection of Williams' answers to Manley's survey-- 

Full Name -- Peyton Drozd Williams
Political Party Affiliation -- Green
Registered/Pre-registered voter? -- No
Race and Ethinicity -- Georgetown
Gender -- Male
Sex -- Male
Sexual Orientation -- Bisexual
Relationship Status -- Single
Height, Weight, and Eye color -- 5'7
Are you a US Citizen? -- Yes
Have you ever been arrested or convicted of a crime? -- No
Education Completion Level -- Currently in High School (Senor Year)
Economic System Identification -- Capitalism
Have you ever run for public office before? -- Yes
If yes, list -- Currently running for president in 2036, but I would gladly be associated with this campaign.
Personality Typre -- Extravert
Do you support lowering the voting age to sixteen? -- Yes
Do you support the use of corporal punishment on children? -- No
Do you support lowering the driving age? -- Yes
Your stance on the drinking age    -- Lowered to 18.
Do you support curfew laws? -- No, they're ageist
Do you support lowering the age of candidacys -- Yes
Do you support youth rights/youth liberation? -- Yes
Why? if answered 'yes' to the above question. -- The youth is the future.
Citizens United was a supreme court case where corporations were granted the right to pour millions of dollars in campaign contributions to political candidates. Do you support it, or no? Please explain stance. -- Absolutely not. Our public servants should represent the people, not be bought and lobbied for.
Do you support overturning citizens united? -- Yes
Your stance on the Israel/Palestine issue, please explain -- Two-state solution, treat both fairly, revoke foreign aid to Israel.
Your stance on gender equality -- Full, total gender equality.
Do you support equal pay for equal work? -- Yes
Do you believe that women should have the right to control their own body? -- Absolutely.
Do you support a $15 minimum wage? -- No
Your stance/beliefs on gentrifrication -- Oppose.
Do you support common core? -- No
Your education reform stance/beliefs -- No more standardized testing, more project-based and application learning, tuition-free public college.
Do you think police officers should be indicted/charged for shooting unarmed people? -- Yes
Your stance on police brutality, police reform, body cameras, and citizen review boards    -- Try the European model.
Do 'black lives matter'? -- Yes
Should healthcare be a human right? -- Yes
Do you believe that climate change is real and is a threat to human survival/the next generation? -- Yes
Do you support fracking? -- No
Your stance on the environment/energy system -- Empower the EPA, protect the environment at all costs, pass a Green New Deal.
Do you support same sex marriage? -- Yes
If you answered 'yes' to the above question, please expand on why you support it. -- It's a human right. End of conversation.
Elaborate your beliefs on the NC bathroom issue    It was never a problem until government got involved. Let them do as they please so long no one is harmed.
Do you support the use of ground troops stationed across the world? -- No
Should we cut the US Defense budget? -- Yes
Do you support the Obama Administration's use of drones in the middle east? -- No
Do you support labeling GMO Products? -- Yes
Do you support the NSA's mass surveillance programs on the American people? -- Absolutely not. Oppose the PATRIOT Act.
Do you support the use of the death penalty for violent offenders? -- No
Should we keep or abolish the death penalty? Please elaborate why. -- Abolish. Eighth amendment. Human dignity.
Please write a brief summary of why you support or don't support 'ban the box' -- Mixed. Misdemeanors should be moved on from and not even asked about. Felonies are different.
Do you support the federal reserve bank? -- No
Elaborate on your views of the federal reserve bank. --    Return to Clearinghouse Associations.
Do you support DC Statehood? --    No
Do you support Puerto Rican independence? -- Yes
Do you support decriminalization of marijuana? Please elaborate your views thoroughly. -- Absolutely. End the whole War on Drugs, as it has harmed more than helped.
Your views on our infrastructure/Transportation system? Does it need reform? --    Invest in it thoroughly.
Do you support reparations for A-Americans due to slavery and segregation? --Yes
Your views on affordable and universal education -- Support fully. Make tuition-free.
List and explain the top three things you would do in passion if you were to win the Vice Presidency --    Preserve and protect the environment, empower the youth, champion social justice.
Your views on the Syrian refugee crisis -- We should accept millions. Europe is being overcrowded, and we have a responsibility to help.
Your views on ISIS and how to stop it -- Ally ourselves with the Muslim world, have the Mideast nations do most of the work
Do you support Obama's use of airstrikes in Syria? -- No
Your immigration views -- Open the border.
Your cybersecurity views -- Abolish the NSA, end the PATRIOT Act
Should the US maintain the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center for suspected terrorists? -- No
Please list your experience working on campaigns and list organizations that you're apart of --    Jill 2016
Have you ever supported declarations of war? --    Yes.
Throughout our country, confederate symbols have purged us. What do you believe we should do now? Do you support taking down confederate flags?    -- Public display, definitely not. Private, alright.
Animal Rights, explain your view -- Dignity. Compassion. Common sense. Ensure they can roam free, end deforestation.
Imagine yourself as the newly elected/sworn in Vice President. How will you help poor people, oppressed minorities, and marginalized groups economically? -- Invest in our cities, pass a Green New Deal, end mass incarceration.
What religion are you? -- Deist
List languages you speak -- German, English, Dutch, Spanish, a bit of French, Italian, Afrikaans, Latin.
List any other information that you think is necessary for us to know -- I intend to run for president in 2036.
In the case that Elijah Manley isn't the GP nominee (likely), and decides to run in the general as an independent-- are you willing to stay on the ticket? -- Yes
Are you seriously committed to the candidacy? Running for VP is boring, and our campaign doesn't have much money to do like other tickets. Are you ready to be bored for the next 6 months? --    Yes
Your FINAL pitch of why you should be vetted and become the VP candidate on this ticket. -- Presidents may often disagree with their vice presidents. But the direction of the country they fight for should be the same. I support the Green Party and would like to see youth liberation and empowerment. I think I have what it takes to arouse the grassroots and excite the base and the youth.

After failing to obtain the Green Party nomination, Manley continued to run as an Independent, kinda, sort of, according to his Facebook post.

Facebook Aug. 17, 2016. So here's the deal: After speaking to over a hundred young voters this week: I simply won't be suspending my campaign. I will be focusing on my next chapter, but I'm not submitting termination papers to the FEC. Feel free to vote for me if you want.

Election history:
2036 - US President (party yet to be determined) - pending

Other occupations: novelist, sandwich shop worker, composer, journalist, movie theater worker

Notes:
In 2019 Manley filed for President with the FEC as a Socialist.
Williams supported Biden in 2020, the first Presidential election where he was old enough to vote.

Bernard Sanders

 

                                                             Elliott displays a Sanders brochure

Bernard Sanders, September 8, 1941 (New York, N.Y.) -

VP candidate for Independent (2016, 2020)
VP candidate for American Peoples Party (aka American Party) (2016)
 
Running-mate with nominee (2016, 2020): Claire Elisabeth Elliott (b. 1965)
Running mate with nominee (2016): Roger Alan Hoover (b. 1951)
Popular vote (2016 : Elliott): 15 (0.00%)
Popular vote (2016 : Hoover): 0
Popular vote (2020): 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote (2016, 2020): 0/538

The campaign (2016 : Elliott):

Claire Elisabeth Elliott of Augusta, Ga. filed with the FEC as an Independent for President on Mar. 24, 2015. It was her second run for the White House as an Independent. She ran in the 2008 election as a resident of Hollywood, Calif. under the name Claire Elisabeth Fields Cruise. She also used the names Claire Boyd, Claire Nelson, Queen Claire Elisabeth (Daughter of King George III & VI, Mother of Prince William & Prince Harry), High Priestess Claire Daishonin (Her Holiness the Dalai Lama).

Elliot's political stance takes some sorting out. Part of her philosophy involves something called "alternate personas." She also contends that she was a CIA sex slave in her past. Her stand on the issues were generally in the progressive arena but those were way overshadowed by her comments on other aspects of her experience--

--Elliott said she was original model for the Gerber baby logo, the Coppertone girl, and the Starbucks woman.
--"Aliens are amongst us... and they're human, too! Full, public disclosure is set to take place in the very near-future."--Apr. 11, 2015
--"Queen Elizabeth is my sister, 'descendant' and grandma: my sister because one of our biological fathers is King George VI; my 'descendant' because one of my biological fathers is King George III (England's dictator who caused the Revolutionary War); my grandma because she is the biological mother of one of my biological fathers: Norman Dale Elliott. I grew up with Norm's older brother (Dennis Wayne Elliott) as my father. Queen Elizabeth secretly gave birth to Denny when she was a very young girl, but Denny's biological mother is Queen Elizabeth's older biological sister, Ruth Holt Elliott-Willis (deceased) - the mother he and Norm grew up with (as well as my grandma). Like my Grandma Elliott, I have authority over Queen Elizabeth. All of this is possible thanks to advanced DNA and embryonic technologies that have been in existence for a very long time."--Apr. 11, 2015
--"Do you know that I'm a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings?"--Apr. 16, 2015
--"One of my biological fathers, President John F, Kennedy, signed the Equal Pay Bill on July 10, 1963."--Apr. 17, 2015
--"Dick Cheney is evil.  I know he is one of my many rapists, even if I cannot remember him right now.  It's all on tape..."--Apr. 18, 2015
--"Donald Trump may be an idiot, but I happen to agree with him on certain aspects of immigration, China and foreign manipulation of currency.  Although I have never had any interest in owning a gun, myself, when we rewrite the constitution, I say we keep the 2nd Amendment.  Oh, how I hope that Donald runs... it will only add to my media circus if he does.  I'll have you know that he will be using MY money if he funds his own campaign.  Yes, Donald Trump made his fortune off MY money!"--Apr. 18, 2015
--"Unlike Michele Bachmann, I don't think President Obama is putting a nuclear weapon into the hands of the Iranians... but, like Michele Bachmann, I do think Jesus Christ is coming back very soon.  In fact, (s)he's already here... yes, I AM Jesus Christ."--Apr. 21, 2015
--"I was born a CIA sex slave, a role that officially came to a close when I married my husband, Dean Wayne Boyd, for the second time on March 17, 2015 - this time using my correct, legal name: Claire Elisabeth Elliott.  It IS true."--May 3, 2015
--"I am the Dancing Queen! Yes, I co-wrote this song together with a crowd of NSA Young Men's Division (YMD) in Queens, New York in 1975 (a time long before SGI and Nichiren Shoshu ever broke up). SGI-USA's Wayne Green was at the piano and SGI-USA/Department of Empowerment's Reverend Ross Dreiblatt was on bass. 'You are the Dancing Queen... young and sweet... only SEEEEVVVEEEN' (7 not 17!). This group of 'young men' called me the Shakabuku Queen because of all the boys I introduced to Nichiren Buddhism. By the way, the blonde lead singer of Abba is another one of my alternate personas. Yes, I am Agnetha Faltskog!--> High Priestess Claire Daishonin: Her Holiness the Dalai Lama a.k.a. Claire Elisabeth Elliott"--May 20, 2015
--"Sure, I speak of outrageous things... things that have no basis in most people's realities.  But that does not necessarily mean that I am crazy-insane.  What it actually means is that I am privy to Top Secret Information that the general public still is not.  And soon this will become clear to all.  And all my most ridiculous doctors everywhere are going to look very stupid, indeed.  We fooled them all!  In it's current state, psychiatry is hardly any kind of exact science.  We shall be proving that undeniably.
This is just another aspect of our most elaborate plan.  We will be publicly humiliating so very many people in professions everywhere - for the sake of kosen-rufu (world peace)."--June 22, 2015
--"Speaking of My NEW Life, I have adjusted the deadline of my goal of chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo one million times from August 23, 2015 to January 1, 2016. That way, I don't have to even chant quite 2 hours a day to hit my target."--June 26, 2015
--"Don't think I'm crazy, but I'm running for president - even if I like Bernie Sanders so very much!  I declared in March and it's not the first time that I'm running... I ran back in 2007, but called off my candidacy at the end of the year due to my then-new enrollment in a yearlong battered women's program at a homeless shelter in Atlanta (also then to be my home which I couldn't leave for a whole year - but I ended up leaving, anyway).  This time, I have my legal name back and I won't be calling it off, so I will win! ... (I AM NOT INSANE!)."--July 13, 2015
--"WHEN I WAS AN 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL, I WAS BARACK OBAMA, but there are two Barack Obamas: I am the Barack Obama who was born IN KENYA in 1961, grew up in the United States, studied to become a lawyer and became the current president of the United States: The Real Barack Obama. The other Barack Obama was portrayed by my ex-husband / triplet brother, 'Mickey' Osvaldo Serafin Boitel (known professionally as Serafin Boitel) who portrayed him when he was a mature adult, many years after I divorced him, TWICE: The Fake Barack Obama. All crimes and rapes done by Barack Obama were committed by Mickey, NOT me. The Barack Obama who is me is always eating hamburgers and other junk food. The Barack Obama who is Mickey insisted on a healthy vegan diet and would always get mad at me for messing up his diet. His poop was even green!"--Apr. 9, 2016
--"Well, one thing both the presidential candidates who won New York state have in common is... they are family. Yeah, New York was the home state of my biological mother / my Grandma Margaret Illig Flanagan (1899-1982). And Grandma has so many biological children. Of course, I am the one who got all the authority... authority over even Grandma Flanagan, if she still lived. But don't try telling that to my biological siblings, Hillary and Donald Trump! They really think they're gonna win this thing because of who they're related to. I wonder if they know I'm dawning on the horizon. To go to all the trouble that they have, they can't know about Claire. And there's something all my family has in common... rape. Yeah, BOTH Hillary AND The Donald are on tape raping me when I was just a little girl. Yup, they're on tape!"--Apr. 19, 2016
--"Lately, I've been growing a bit concerned... I seem to remember something bad about Obama paying a visit to all these world powers. I don't know if Obama's intentions are the good ones that he's made public. Remember, Adolf Hitler is one of my many biological fathers, my sister / 'descendant' / grandma / alternate persona, Queen Elizabeth II, is very intimately involved with this breeding program and I am a direct descendant of Muhammad and possibly his biological daughter... World War III?"--Apr. 25, 2016
--"These days, I go by my full, legal name: Claire Elisabeth Elliott... not the name I used in my youth when I was such a pathetic victim. I guess it was Ross who put this cup on Amazon, and I thank you! But I want to take this moment to clarify that if anyone out there would ever want to vote for me, I ask for them to vote for Hillary. I am the real Hillary and it will only take MY vote to get me into office (long story short: my vote has authority over every other vote due to my royal bloodlines as Queen Claire Elisabeth). So, please send a message by voting for Hillary. My vote will take care of the rest... and it will be Bernie Sanders who will be acting on my presidential behalf, I promise."--Oct. 8, 2016
--"I am the true, bona fide Hillary Clinton... so if you are trying to decide between Hillary or Trump, please vote for Hillary! Legally, all I need is exactly one vote: my own. Unless you are one of my blood relatives who insists on showing your direct support for me by voting for me as a write-in candidate, I encourage you to vote for Hillary. A vote for Hillary is a vote for me: Claire Elisabeth Elliott.
I am the very first woman president of the United States of America ... A vote for Hillary (or me) is also a vote for Bernie... remember, Bernie Sanders is my Vice President and I will be depending on him to act on my presidential behalf much of the time, especially at the beginning of my presidency ... And my alternate persona, President Barack Obama, whom I portrayed when I was just 8-years-old, is the very first female president of the United States of America..."--Nov. 7, 2016

There is much, much more, including a legal case where she claimed she was secretly married in 2002 to Prince, the recording artist, and was an heir to his fortune. This news brought her name into the headlines more than her Presidential campaign.

Elliott first indicated she had selected Sen. Bernie Sanders as her Vice-President in Sept. 2015 after seeing him and shaking his hand at a rally during his own campaign for the Presidency.

Sanders was busy making his bid for the Democratic nomination. After that failed, some supporters registered him as a write-in candidate in a few states, including California where they gave him Tulsi Gabbard as a running-mate.
       
Apparently registered as a write-in in Georgia, the Elliott/Sanders ticket received 15 votes.

I could not locate any record of Sanders addressing his VP status with Elliott. 

The campaign (2016 : Hoover):

Roger Alan Hoover of New Port Richey, Fla. filed with the FEC for US President under the banner of the American Peoples Party on Oct. 31, 2016. Since he did not indicate on his form if he was running for the 2016 or 2020 election, the FEC defaulted to 2016.

Hoover introduced himself to potential voters on Facebook, apparently in the fall of 2016--

About Roger
I am a newly married candidate for President of the American States. If you write me in, HOOVER, I will work every day for you. Not collecting money, not selling Pooh hats, shirts, ties and whatever I think you will buy. I have invited the former NBA Basketball star, Bill Bradley to be my Integrity Ombudsman, if you know him or know somebody who knows him, please encourage him. This Hoover administration promises total visibility and I mean total, if I screw up, Rochelle will tell you how I screwed up, and then I will take the podium and answer questions every day and ask for your forgiveness. My mistakes will be mistakes of the head not the heart. Dick Cheney's were of the heart and he had to get a brand new one. That electric one was going to shock him into the next life. On Wednesday I have a meeting with a representative of the Communist Government of Vietnam. I am organizing a Forgive Me tour of Vietnam next August and September.  Command Sergeant Major Ted Daw will lead this delegation. This isn't like O'Bama. I killed more than 1,000 North Vietnamese civilians because my government told me to, not because I wanted to. If you knew me, you would know unequivocally this is true. I dropped Napalm on them in tunnels designed to protect them. Napalm is liquid plastic like Urethane mixed with gasoline. You may recall the young girl on the cover of Time magazine. I killed over a 1,000 of such girls, boys and men and women, all civilians. All burned to death with the burning gasoline clinging to their skin. So please America, let me apologize and let me begin to heal. All of Vietnam's, 80,000 soldier deaths and 200,000 suicide deaths were so Vietnamese children could make your Oneida silverware for a nickel less than when the factory was in New York on the Erie Canal. Maybe all of us should apologize, except Lady Bird Johnson RMK-BMJ sold to Haliburton in time for the Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan killing. General Eisenhower, we need your spirit now. I know John McCain is a lowly Ensign like 41 but I am promoting him to a 7 star General like myself and I guarantee upon my life, the mistakes of the past will not be repeated.

Hoover also claimed the late President Herbert Hoover was his uncle or great-uncle. One problem here is that the former President had one brother who was the father of daughters, not sons, meaning no one with the Hoover surname could be a nephew or great nephew of Herbert Hoover.

It would seem Hoover began his quest for the Presidency around June, 2016, if his Facebook entries are an indicator. It is difficult to ascertain how many of his statements were made as a form of jest. Hoover expressed a desire to have the following people as his running-mate: Bernie Sanders, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Mark Cuban, and Mark Zuckerberg. He also offered to be the running-mate for Sanders, Cuban and Hillary Clinton.

Some of the less obscene Facebook samples during his campaign--

June 2, 2016
Donald, you are too stupid to get any of this but I'll try, others will get it. When I read about your father, I fell in love with him. He is not happy with you, in fact every time you come on TV, he turns his head in shame. That's between you and him. When he made that $1,000,000 loan to you so you could start your business, I so wished my dad could have too. That's ok, my dad gave me the gifts of civility, compassion, empathy, etc. Donald, with all of your deft, all you have is debt, debt outpaces your equity, with all your debt you couldn't buy any of those even though your father was rich in all of them. Now our dads lunch daily in my room in heaven. Your dad has asked me to verbally body punch you until you can't take any more and I have agreed. GET OUT OF THE RACE YOU DUMB ASS! Even I don't want to see what I am going to do to you. Weak independent candidate my ass, my nickname is THE TASMANIAN DEVIL. You should jet down to Tasmania before you continue this folly. If you do drop out I will totally show you how to save your ass and return to relevance! You've been warned BLOW HARD!

June 4, 2016
Hi everyone, I forgot, the Secret Service monitors my posts, appears Donald is afraid I will get to him and hurt him. Disney shared my practice incident report with Donald which was accurate in all details, Donald my details are always spot on. I'll start off with a general statement and then move to specifics. I want no harm to come to Donald. If it does, it won't be at my hands. I like Donald and want to show him the way back to his Zen. Donald, I'll give you a hint, it involves making billions for you but DOES NOT INVOLVE HOTELS. You've been there done that. When I say, I'm coming for you, that's what all candidates say to each other, I did not say, I'm gunning for you. When I say I'm going to unleash a flurry of verbal body blows on you, I mean, sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you. I only have words for you Donald, but I have eyes for Milani. I only have eyes for her!

June 6, 2016
TRUMP'S BULL ALBUQUERQUE!!
I will predict that Donald will not show his birth certificate. Who will give 5 million dollars to Creation Kids if Donald does not show his birth certificate . I wondered why Donald went so far off the tracks about President Barry Soetoro's Birth Certificate . It's because Donald knows the best defense is a strong offense. Donald knew that his Birth Certificate would come under scrutiny . He knew he could not withstand that. So thus the attack on President Soetoro. Donald pull up your Trump big boy panties and show us your original birth certificate. What was your given name Donald?

June 17, 2016
People who apparently live in LAX are asking me am I running as a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent. Due to the lack of communicative skills in Washington this is all I know. As of TODAY, I am running, Bernie is running, Mark Cuban is running, Hilclimber 3 Hotel is running and Donald is running. Who's on top, who's on bottom, who's power and whose passive, I have no idea. I can go with most match ups but there are some I can't, I won't. Oh, I left out The President. Can't serve any more terms, true but he can sacrifice 2 more. You see, Donald, the dumb ass he is was more concerned with where Barry was born rather than who was born. Barry Soetoto was on the b/s. But Barack Obama (a non person) has been allowed to serv. President Barry Soetoto hasn't served a day and is elegible for 8 years Presidential Candidate
Roger Alan Hoover also 8.
Now Dumb ass Donald has his own problems, born a twin Donald's heart failed, dad made the painful decision to save the boy with the girl's heart. Problem, the girl's birth certificate is the surviving one. The small hands, no blood while heart transplanted. He dumb ass, I gave you many chances to get out with dignity and a super income , now I never want to see your lying dumb ass. Why don't you make money for your supporters like  Warren Buffet.

June 19, 2016
Fathers Day Tribute to Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States. Though I never met you, thanks for passing the presidential genes to me.   
HOOVER 2016

To all of those doubters and haters who think I can't get elected and those that want to continue bullying me, Albuquerque YOU!
I love Muhammed Ali  and have since the Cashious days. I am dedicating the first year of my presidency to curing Parkinson's. It will be called whatever my hero wants it called to honor him and to make it easier for me to text.
HOOVER 2016.

Bernie, I'll run with you, top or bottom.  YES

Hilclimbrr 3 Hotel. Hillary, I don't know what I ever did to deserve this but if God says I must pay my debt, then I must pay it. Many love you, many love me, many loved Herbert Hoover 31, I'd rather win with a woman than lose with a man. Don't drag this out, give a quick answer, may I be your running mate, the man 2nd string banana Vice President?

June 29, 2016
I would be willing to leave Roe v. Wade in exchange for a national sterilization bill. All 12 year old girls would be sterilized unless they could prove they possess the Intelligence and compassion to become a mother. For the few that slip through the system, there's still the abortion option. That way a woman from age 12 and up can have unprotected sex to her heart's desire  knowing she's already "gotten rid of it".

July 9, 2016
All of you Facebook idiots. Pay attention, I'm only going to say this once. I am not sick, I do not have a mental illness. I have a brain injury that occurs when you napalm men, women and children. A BRAIN INJURY. Look it up in your "My little Pony" dictionary. Leave me alone if you don't know what an Albuquerque brain injury is!

July 13, 2016
I am a member of NRA. I support the 2nd. I am also an ordained minister running for nomination with Mark Cuban, I believe if we are elected, have all the guns you like. Modern bullets were not covered by the 2nd. The Product Safety Commission will rule them unsafe to humans and they will be banned and illegal. Mark and I are committed to stop murder, it's affecting recruiting at the Mavericks.

July 20, 2016
Mark Cuban and i are on the ballot in TN, i wonder about the other 49??

An open letter to ISIS. You have decided to fight the United States of America on a house to house guerrilla warfare basis plus cut the heads of little children off. Ok, game on, we accept your challenge. If Mark Cuban or Mark Zuckerberg and myself get on all 50 ballets as the American Party or if the fine citizens of this land write us in, this is what will happen my first day in office. We will begin to pay $100,000.00 in local currency to anyone who gives us the GPS coordinates of an ISIS members house. Once we have those coordinates we will send a $250,000 HELL FIRE MISSILE in your house. No one will survive, trust me, not your nana and not your precious bubala. We will gladly pay $350,000 to end your reign of terror and return our world to a peaceful coexistence. If we send a missile to the wrong house, ooops, our bad! You can not share this and live in fear the rest of your life or share it and help me get elected. Other postings at Roger Hoover, Paris, TN. Roger Alan Hoover and Mark Cuban.

So, America, you get to pick my Vice President. I love and respect each of these gentlemen equally. This may be the only race you truly get to decide. For President, write me in Roger Alan Hoover, great nephew of the 31st President, Herbert Clark Hoover, be sure and write in Roger Alan Hoover for President. Then for Vice President either Mark Cuban or Mark Zuckerberg, your choice.

July 26, 2016
NATO, yeah right!
How about USATO
HOOVER - Head of the American Party, write him in on November 8th.
Ivanka - Yes or No
As president in 8 years, you need to be decisive, right Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, I'm coming to you after Bernie, heads up, patients are coding!

Aug. 5, 2016
I have confirmed with the Federal Communications Commission that I am a qualified, bona fide, certified candidate for the office of the Presidency of the American States in accordance with:
Section 73.1940 of the United States Code [47 CFR Pp 73.1940]. I understand the atheists in the US Government do not believe in miracles but as my previous Post and Tweet state, God is still in the miracle business. Soon you will hear from a mostly deaf young man who will rock your world and light up Twitter.
On November 8th, as I celebrate my birthday in Italy with my Opus you will witness another miracle performed by the Supreme Court as they award me the Presidency as they did my predecessor President George W. Bush, {hi Laura} [hi President George Herbert Walker Bush] (I know Herbert was for my great uncle the 31st President but who is 'Walker for?, a Texas Ranger?) {hi Barbara - Bush Bush Clinton, yep time for another HOOVER} Barbara, is there any way you could talk JEB into being my VP, I really love him, he knows from the letters I sent him in Tallahassee, tell him the law suit over Jackson County wasn't personal, it was for the children, and I dropped it and you know why!
Ok, focus!! News networks, and I use the term loosely, I really mean lackies to the 6 companies that control US News and World
Reports, and I use the term loosely. If you continue to ignore my candidacy referenced above, you will be very foolish, because you will not have one employee approved for the White House Press Corps and I will hold a briefing every day at 5:30 Eastern that will run to 6:30 Eastern. YOU WILL NOT HAVE ONE PERSON ON THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS DETAIL.
Further, after consulting with my Summa Cum Laude from UT Law and that's not TEXAS, he states that I do not have to make myself available to any NEWS Network that does not offer me equal access, so guess what Albuquerque Hole, I will not talk to you after November 8th if you do not talk to me before November 8th. So go ahead PUNK, how many votes do you think you have out of the 8? I know I have 8 so go ahead PUNKS, MAKE MY DAY! Clint, Please no empty chair speeches, the girls thought it was creepy, put some of these NETWORK IDIOTS in that chair and go to town, I love your body of work!

Aug. 17, 2016
Is there any chance at all that one of the fine Generic Companies making meds for the VA. Let me just stop here and tell hill if she takes the job NO MORE GODDAMN GENERICS HILLARY, THAT IS YOUR LESSON ONE, LEARN IT WELL OR I WILL HIRE MONICA LEWINSKI AS YOU ATTACHE'. I think one of my medicines has been filled as Ambien instead of what it should be, how can we check that out and what does Hemoglobin have to do with any of this. IS SOMEONE ELSE TRYING TO KILL ME. Hey Secret Service I am a bona fide, qualified, certified candidate for President of the United States of America who polled much higher than trump or Xclinton last week on Twitter. What else do you want and engrave invitation.
Secret Service, if you are not too busy with the WHORES in Cartagena would you please come protect me?

I'm going to be making the oval office square, I'm not changing it just with me an old school guy who believes in honesty, integrity, honor other peoples property like Palestine and don't take a life, let God do it, eventually He will get around to every single one of us. Let Him decide the time. Allah really does know best. Love to all.

Sept. 5, 2016
Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, let's save the country any further division. Both of you DROP OUT OF THE RACE TODAY, LABOR DAY. Mr. Trump, you will be my Business Plenipotentiary with no salary but 10% of contracts and treaties, 20% of Whistle Blower (I have a big Blue Tarp one for you), you should make $100 Billion per year if not more. You will be my Business Plenipotentiary, please have Eric Trump look it up and read it to you.
Mrs. Clinton, I will pardon you of all crimes and misdemeanors 1 minute into my inaugural speech, you will be my Veteran's Plenipotentiary. Seven Star General John McCain and myself will accompany you on 416 Monday field inspections. Generals will fear your footsteps. After 8 years under my wing man, you will be the first woman president of the United States of America, I will work night and day to insure it. Come on team, play nice, it is my destiny to be  the 45th or 46th President, let's make it happen. It's good for me and it's good for America. It's very good for those that make it happen. I've shown you how. So, cast your vote for America.

Sept. 16, 2016
Birther Issue: Mr. Donald Trump, Eric Trump are your dad's hands so small he can't get his birth certificate out of the safe deposit box and publish it here on FaceBook? Come on Donald, were you born in the United States?

Oct. 7, 2016
If you don't think the billionairs like Warren Buffet and the Koch Brothers control US elections, consider this. I have made 2,000 FaceBook Posts and 1,800 Tweets and 27 videos since the election began. And I didn't say one newsworthy thing that a reporter somewhere would like to ask me about. Come on America, you are not as stupid as these Billionairs think you are, are you? On November 8th, 2016 when you go into the privacy of your voting device, write in the name HOOVER and show the people who stole this country from us, that we want it back and President Roger Alan Hoover, who cannot be bought for any amount of money is going to help us wrestle it out of your filthy, money grubbing, thieving hands once and for all. Reform will be the order of the day in addition to returning the USA to the most financially viable country in the world. Can I count on your vote America, it is my birthday after all. Give me the best present I could hope for and I will work every day of the next 8 years making your future brighter, your  children's future brighter, your grandchildren's future brighter and your great grandchildren's future brighter. Can you ask any more than that from me?

Hoover did not appear on any ballots nor was he registered as a write-in in any state. In a Nov. 6, 2016 Youtube presentation he expressed a hope that Clinton and Trump would deadlock and as a result Congress would turn to Roger Hoover as the compromise choice.

The campaign (2020):

Elliott also ran for President as an Independent in the 2020 election as a resident of Honolulu and indicated again that Sanders would be her VP. She terminated her campaign in Feb. 2020.

Her Facebook entry for Feb. 23, 2020 and the resulting comments spell it all out--

Here it is... my FEC Termination Report for Claire Elisabeth Elliott Is America.
I humbly apologize to the citizens of the United States and to the world... I had no idea that getting re-married to Dean Wayne Boyd down in Florida (wedding #10!) and moving my Department of Empowerment LLC to Florida would get Trump acquitted. I have since dissolved Department of Empowerment LLC in Florida and, after Bernie's great victory in Nevada last night, I have finally terminated my presidential campaign for good.
It was this never-ending presidential campaign of mine that has empowered Trump to the presidency - or The Kingdom, as he clearly sees it.
I began donating $2.74 per month to Bernie's campaign beginning on August 14, 2019 when it didn't look like he was doing all that well anymore, and I am so thrilled to see that finally turn around, thanks to my teeny, weenie monthly contribution!
It will be an absolute honor to allow Bernie to become the president who finally declassifies me in all my glory!
GO, BERNIE... GO!!!!!
I'll be thoroughly content as your Queen Claire Elisabeth, declassified at long last.

Anna Antoniou
I don't understand, sorry. What does this mean?

Claire Elisabeth Elliott
Well, Anna
... I hope it means the end of Trump. Because I am STILL? considered top secret, Trump stands in for me, unfortunately. We don't live in the democracy we think we do. When we lost the War of 1812, Britain took us back and we've secretly been a monarchy ever since. I was bred to be Queen when I was born in 1965, but The Doctor of Delusion, Larry Shaw of NSA, illegally got me to sign paperwork in 1975 that labelled me a threat to national security when I was just 9-years-old. That's why no one knows who I am, but, believe me, congress does & so have all presidents of the United States who've always had the ability to declassify me with one stroke of a pen. Trump is my genetic brother, but he didn't grow up in my family and he is not Queen of all the many bloodlines that I am. But this doesn't stop him from acting like a idiotic king who pays off all his Republicans with MY money. My active & legal presidential campaign is the only reason Trump got elected in the first place. All elections in our country are rigged to make it look like we are a democracy, but we are not. Depending on who I personally vote for, that's the person or party that becomes president. And the outdated old world laws of the ridiculous CIA only consider there to be 2 parties, total... so whenever I vote for a Green Party candidate, it's the Republican or Democrat who is my closest blood relative who wins. That's how Clinton won in 1992 and Bush won in 2000 - the 2x I voted for Green Party candidates. If I don't vote, the incumbent in office wins another term. When I carried on in my "fake" non-legal presidential campaign as Claire Cruise back in 2008, I got Obama elected when I voted for myself using this "fake" non-legal name. After all, Obama is the 8-year-old me (inside an adult male body) - a "fake" and non-legal form of me in today's world!

Claire Elisabeth Elliott
Okay, I guess it's time for me to join the Democratic party so my vote (which has authority over all other votes) is actually counted. I'm an Independent who detests the 2 party system (and all parties, for that matter), but I've gotta do what I've gotta do. Before I voted for my Uncle Bush in 1988, I did briefly join the Republican party as a student at Columbia... and I can't believe I ever did such a thing. Clearly, at age 23, I was still under the influence of my Republican parents.

Meanwhile, Sanders once again made a failed bid to secure the Democratic nomination.

Election history:
1972 - US Senate (Vt.) (Liberty Union Party) - special election - defeated
1972 - Governor of Vermont (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
1974 - US Senate (Vt.) (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
1976 - Governor of Vermont (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
1981-1989 - Mayor of Burlington, Vt. (Independent)
1986 - Governor of Vermont (Independent) - defeated
1988 - US House of Representatives (Vt.) (Independent) - defeated
1990 - US House of Representatives (Vt.) (Democratic) - primary - defeated
1991-2007 - US House of Representatives (Vt.) (Independent/Democratic/Vermont Progressive Party)
1996 - US House of Representatives (Vt.) (Democratic) - primary - defeated
2000 - US House of Representatives (Vt.) (Democratic) - primary - defeated
2002 - US House of Representatives (Vt.) (Democratic) - primary - defeated
2007-present - US Senate (Vt.) (Independent/Democratic/Vermont Progressive Party)  
2016 - Democratic nomination for US President - defeated
2016 - US President (Independent Democratic) - defeated
2020 - Democratic nomination for US President - defeated
2020 - US President (Independent Democratic) - defeated

Other occupations: carpenter, educator, filmmaker, writer, 1980 Elector for the Socialist Workers Party

Notes:
Had been a member of the Socialist Party of America in the early 1960s.
Winner of the 1974 race was Patrick Leahy.
Supported Mondale in 1984 and Jesse Jackson in 1988.
Full disclosure, I supported Sanders in 2016 and 2020, although I was never an activist. Because I am not a Democrat, I did not participate in Washington State's 2016 caucus or 2020 Democratic primary, so my support was merely that of armchair observation. I voted for Clinton and Biden in the general elections of 2016 and 2020.
I lived in Burlington in 1979 and perhaps ran into Sanders in some of the small Lefty live music venues I enjoyed frequenting.