Marjorie J. Kern-Marshall

 

Marjorie J. Kern-Marshall, January 24, 1930 -

VP candidate for Bully Party (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Satchel (d. 2015)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

A bull terrier Presidential candidate in Tennessee named Satchel selected a hen in California named Mae Poulet to be his running-mate about a month before Election Day in 2012. Satchel prepared his second run for the White House at a much earlier point in the campaign season.

Satchel released a platform for the 2016 election--

2014 is closing, and 2015 is ready to start. As your next President, I'll be closely watching what may just be the top 5 areas of concern for the U.S. in the coming year. My team and I have assembled this list of 'watch items'. (though many, many more are on the 'big' list).
#5) Domestic race relations and immigration. In a nation that will be majority minority by 2020 racial tensions and divisions that also include economic refugees will continue as our nation grapples with what we are as a nation, and what we are naturally evolving towards. Into this mix we also add advances that women will make in our board-rooms and in political representation/power.
#4) The Euro-Zone will face its greatest challenge to stability. Greece and Britain may be out/leave, and economic retaliations from Russia towards Europe over sanctions may further hurt the European economy. This could lead to disruptions in U.S. exports to the continent and have a troubling impact on US job growth for exporters. This could also lead to increased/renewed difficulties in our nations own financial markets.
What will challenges #3, #2, and #1 be? I'll be addressing these soon. "A New Day for America" means being ready for our future and laying a roadmap for years of success.
Thank you for your support

As your next President, my team has and I have identified 5 big issues for our nation for 2015. I've already identified two. Two others are:
#3. The challenge to maintain a global coalition against ISIL, and more importantly, to avoid 'mission-creep', dragging the US deeper into a more intense military engagement once again in the Middle-East.
#2. Global warming, our nations march towards green energy and the challenge of increased domestic fossil fuel production/use and creating opportunities for green energy options to increase current rates of growth and increases in development.
The four areas identified so far will dominate much of our nation for 2015, as well as scores of other issues. DC will continue to stagnate, and these issues will continue to require solutions. In 2016, we will find ourselves at a cross-roads. Our nation can choose to continue with the status-quo, or move towards "A New Day for America". Only one candidate is prepared to lay a path across this road that will set up America ready for the next several decades, and lay the proper foundation for a successful America for the century ahead----Satchel. Thank you for your support.

Looking out towards 2015, the #1 threat/issue for our nation is cyber security. DC is not taking this serious enough, my admin. will. Our nation and domestic business face 400,000 cyber attacks every day. Four new attacks every second. Retailers and your information is being attacked daily. Target, Home Depot, Staples, Dairy Queen, as well as grocers Albertsons and Shaws and Supervalue have been hit by hackers. 100's of others retail locations America shops daily have been hit, daily. The Pentagon, the White House have been hit by hackers. Our nations hospitals, our electric companies, our ports, our air traffic control systems, our national rail systems are face cyber attacks daily. Cyber attacks against our nation are poised to deliver the most damage to our nation far exceeding the events of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. And yet, DC falters in acting to protect our nation. Cyber threats to our nation are the new 'duck-and-cover' and 'THE Button' of our generation. As your next President, my admin. will take on cyber security issues as the greatest threat against our nation, a threat that can take down an entire global economy and threatens how billions of global citizens conduct their daily lives. "A New Day for America" takes on and addresses devastating cyber-attacks and security before Congress decides it might do 'something'. Thank you for your support.

Satchel's Facebook page included an entry on Mar. 28, 2014--

If I could choose a leading candidate so early for my Vice-President running mate it would be this wonderful woman.  She knows and understands what "A New Day for America" is all about.

The link went to a video covering Margie Kern-Marshall of Santa Cruz, Calif. As a random act of kindness, Kern-Marshall set out on the street with her walker on her 83rd birthday and gave 83 dollars each to strangers she met. And when she ran out of money, she gave away free hugs.

Satchel died in Mar. 2015, but his campaign lived on.

Election history: none

Other occupations: teacher

Notes:
It is unknown if Kern-Marshall was aware she was a VP contender.

Mae Poulet

 

Mae Poulet, ca2009 (California) -

VP candidate for Bully Party (2012)

Running mate with nominee: Satchel (d. 2015)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

A bull terrier Presidential candidate in Tennessee named Satchel selected a hen in California named Mae Poulet to be his running-mate about a month before Election Day. Animals running for the White House was becoming sort of a tradition-- dogs, cats, hamsters, pigs-- but Mae Poulet is the first chicken as far as I know but not the first fowl. I believe that honor belongs to the parrots in the Beak and Freedom Party who have been running in every election since 2000. Of course we could predate that with fictional animals such as Opus the Penguin being a bird VP starting in 1984 with the National Radical Meadow Party, but that would be silly.

Poulet was under the care of Charlotte Laws, a Los Angeles community activist, television personality, and animal rights advocate. Laws, a vegetarian, acquired the hen via a "free chicken" advertisement in 2010 and added Poulet to her group of rescue animals. Apparently Satchel the standard bearer was also a rescue animal.

On her webpage, Laws acted as Poulet's spokesperson--

There are two primary components to Mae’s political platform.

The first is protecting animals, an area in which Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have a poor record. Romney strapped his dog to the top of his car and chose Paul Ryan, a hunter, for his ticket. Obama was graded a dismal C- by the Humane Society of the United States and broke a campaign promise to adopt a shelter dog if elected. Instead, he got a pure-bred pup from Ted Kennedy.     

Four million dogs and cats are killed in U.S. shelters each year at a staggering cost of $600 million. This is not only heart-breaking for the animals, but a fiscally irresponsible situation. Mae wants people to spay and neuter their animals and to stop buying from breeders and pet shops. She and Satchel support policies that protect both animals and people’s pocketbooks.

Secondly, Mae wants third party voices and third party candidates to be heard. Some studies show that 40% of the people in this nation identify as independents, yet Democrats and Republicans talk about “bi-partisan” rather than “non-partisan” solutions. The concerns of independents are rarely, if ever, addressed.  

“Not everyone is a donkey or elephant,” Mae says. “Some of us are chickens or even people. The two parties have fowled things up miserably. It’s time for real change.”  

The animal ticket had a social media campaign with a serious side. Poulet's Facebook page outlined her platform point by point--

My platform includes the following.
a) Promoting logical national food safety/food importation safety.
b) Promoting a compromise between industrial food production needs and expansion of family farming and preservation of family farms and slowing the erosion of family farming.
c) Supporting logical and simple adjustments to availability of nutritional foods in markets that traditionally lack this access.
d) Promoting and advancing animal welfare concerns while maintaining the ability to produce mass consumption food products (and byproducts).
e) Promoting and maintaining a shift to healthier eating habits and exercise within our nation’s schools.
f) Promoting the expansion of availability and access to healthy foods in our nations urban and low income communities.
g) Looking for ways to increase food export markets, and to grow/build sustainable food production in troubled areas around the globe.
h) Promoting sustainability of our national and global ecosystem while addressing the needs of social/economic growth concerns of nations.

Satchel also ran for President in 2016 but it seems Poulet was not on the ticket on that campaign season.

Satchel died in Mar. 2015, meaning that in the event of their victory, Mae Poulet would have assumed the Presidency if indeed she was still living at that time.

Election history: none

Other occupations: chicken

Notes:
Poulet's VP run was a springboard into her continuing activism as an animal rights symbol.