Showing posts with label Democratic Party. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 11, 2021

Edward Charles Stowe

 


Edward Charles Stowe, August 31, 1976 -

VP candidate for Independent (aka Independent Republican) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Deshon Porter (b. ca1973)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Deshon Porter, based in Missouri, is a perennial candidate for a variety of offices. In 2016 he had a rather tentative run for the Presidency as evidenced by the headline on his campaign website, "Deshon Porter 2016?"--

Thinking about running for president 2016 ?
I am a online radio show host of the big d zone and the big d zone news But I love to run for office in 2012 I ran as a write in candidate for Boston city council as a write in candidate. Even though it did not work out in 2012 or when I first ran for president in 08 I will try again and keep trying untill I am elected! Americans need another choice to vote and I will do my very best to serve this great country! I  want run for president of the united states of america. It is time for a third party candidate that will be in touch with the voters.
As President one of my goals is to work on a help our veterans now bill this bill will ensure that veterans get the help they need when they come home from serving our great country.

Our Disabled Americans should not be forgotten as well better ADA laws bullying will be outlawed in every state.


Porter announced his Presidential run on Facebook, Nov. 14, 2013--

new campaign manager David Feickert press director Andrew Ray Bong running mate VP candidate  Edward Stowe  a great team for 2016! deshon porter 2016!

His electioneering on Facebook lasted from Nov. 2013 to Sept. 2015, when he dropped out of the race. Although he identified as a third party candidate on his campaign website, he thought of himself as running for the Republican nomination as well--

Jan. 4, 2014
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE BIG D COUNTRY! I have decied to do the big d zone news crossfire and interviews during the big d zone mix of talk and music only and will just help manage the news station. I can still let the news station air the crossfire and interviews that I put on my show but I will not be on the air with excat fm radio news wroldwide . The big d zone is a different show and is not to be a copy cat! but there are places that want me to be ! I will not talk about the same subject for 3 months people will stop tuneing in to the show! entertianment is one of my dreams and I will be DARN if anyone take my dream away from me! I AM NOT HERE ON THIS EARTH JUST TO EXIST TILL THE GOOD LORD CALL ME HOME NO I HAVE A JOB TO DO HERE! ONE TO BE A SHOW HOST TWO TO BE A GREAT HUSBAND SOMEDAY THREE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE AS PRESIDENT OR OTHER OFFICE! IT IS NOT OVER TILL I WIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Jan. 24, 2014
I am planing to start back up my campain for president in 2016 we must first meet as a team only then we will have another meeting on the air to get goals out there as we start things from getting more interviews  to team players and to who will do special campain shows we will be haveing more meetings

Oct. 2., 2014
Ok in 2016 I am running for president what are the main issues you want me to take up? my main platform is helping our veterans so they would never have to wait for the service they fought for. college students not giving up on their dream helping the disabled to have better jobs. letting people on social security have a better savings account did you know that we are not allowed to have more the $2,000 in the bank if single married is $3,000 we can not live off of that?

Dec. 5, 2014
Ok so they will not cover the little guy running for president right ? well I guess now that I am on I heart radio and tune in stitcher and can dorants on KCAA. I  guess I will be forced to make the announcement yet again about 2016! wow! do I have to let them know about 2020 run as well early?

Dec. 30, 2014
Do anyone mind a president who can not finish college due to lack of money force to jump hoops I thought I will tell you if I am never going to finish college do not get mad at least I tried.

Mar. 30, 2015
My name is Deshon Porter I am 41 from Springfield MO I am married to a wonderful woman Donnell Porter. I am running for president  in 2016.  I am GOP  and Springfield tea party member. I stand for Israel  we should help them. and the right of the poor  middle class disabled persons college students veterans.  I am for a balance budget   but not on the backs of the poor or the disabled. The way to do it is with less aid meaning money to other countries, just give them military  aid and supplies but no money we need the money here. stop bailing out banks and help out the people. A veterans now bill to help new members and veterans not after they come from training or war but when they say yes to serve our great country, when they serve so do their families serve as well. Colleges need to stop raising the price to go to school making it harder to get a degree. I want to say yes this country is a christian nation!  I am pro life pro a real marriage between a man and a woman. I have more to say in the next coming weeks

Apr. 1, 2015
On April 24 or the 26 I will make my announcement plubic about my  Presidential run in 2016.No one is talking about my run for president in the main stream news . This must be made known that I am very serious  about this! Why do they not see that I will make a difference by throwing my name into the hat as they say? As a careing American Christian I will stand for Isreail , college students will be able to get a degree people who serve our great country will not wait to get the help they need to help their families. Standing for real marriage between a man and a woman! People who are disabled will not be forced to get a low or almost no paying job we deserve the same chance to work at a better paying job. No employment testing people need jobs now! We can have a balanced budget but not on the backs of the poor middle class ! Only give help to other countries by military aid and goods not in money we need the money right here! We must take a stand to get our country back!

Apr. 10, 2015
This is a reminder that on 4/26/20155 at 7 pm I will put in my bid to run for  president of our great country!  It is time to let the world know about my intentions on running for the GOP nomination for president of the USA . We need a leader who is a christian I will share my vision for our great country. This election is more important just to only be for the big name candidate.It is time for the people's voice to at last be heard.

May 4, 2015
There been a big mistake a few weeks aga I announced that I am running for president of the United States the it comes to my surprise that when another candidate announced that he is running it say he is the only African American running in the race!not true.

May 27, 2015
Who cares anymore about the media keep saying that there is now 6 GOP candidates running for President let the record show that on the big d zone I announced  but that is OK. You know I have the best citizens of big d country. Me and the princess have to get to two bad  days in June before we can get to the best day in June next week we Will be engaged for one happy year. At least my princess did not overlooked me. Thnk ypu my sweet Donnell Porter for never giving up on me. One day the media will not overlook me or my princess. With the lord  on our side we are winners    Meida will know that we are news as well. So I do not carei if I get overlook I have the Lord my pincess and the best citizens on the inernet radio so there !

June 15, 2015
To the media who do not know about my announcement on the show  and still not recognize me as a republican candidate for President THERE IS 12 NOT 11 !!! IDIOTS !!! I WILL BE DRAFTING MY VETERANS. NOW TO PROVE THAT I A M VERY SERIOUS ABOUT THIS I WILL BE DOING SPEECHES ON THE SHOW!!! AGAIN THERE IS 12 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES NOT 11 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RANT OVER!!

Sept. 16, 2015
I still have time to run for congress instead of running for president. Iwill not get notice.

Sept. 20, 2015
First Radio show host then bakers  Deshon Porter forced to drop out of the president race due to same sex marriage anger. Kim Davis  who didn't give marrage to same sex couple due to her christian belief's and now DR. Ben Carlson! Just because he said that Muslims shouldn't be president now they want to silence him to? What is wrong? They the Muslims tried to  stop people from saying pork or pig because it offending them Carlson have just as the same rights as Donald Trump have. I thought we lived in a country that it is OK to agree to disagree, now people are killing dreams just because of a belief? The bakers have had the right not to bake a cake for a same sex wedding but now they lost their bakery You mean to tell me that you can not even say a certain group shouldn't be president and they will tell you not to run? I can say that Donald Trump is too rich to be president he is a billionaire and already successful he don't need to be president. Well Carlson have The same freedom of speech as all Americans that lives in this country! To DR. Carlson please keep running for president don't let the status quo and the Muslims silence your voice our country need you. Stand up for your rights to free speech.

Sept. 22, 2015
I thought that I was going to run for president in 2016 instead I dropped out angry with the Supreme Court in June deciding to side with same sex marriage . that same day as the ruling I got so angry that I quit and announced on my radio show. But I Still wanted to run for office and make a difference in the state of  Missouri. So I found out that I am of age and can run for Congress. The 7 district where me and my princess wife  live in is held by congressmen Billy Long. I hope to win his seat it is time for a outsider to represent our district our rights and freedoms. Yes I have no experience in office but I am a citizen of this country and I care I watch the news pray and I want to do something about what our district is going through.  Slogan serving God first then country.Here is the new campaign website.

In Nov. 2015 Porter endorsed Dr. Carson for President. In Feb. 2016 he backed Sen. Cruz.

On May 29, 2016, Porter offered this reflection--

I wish I could have stayed in the 2016  race ! Would have gave voters another choice on the ballot. We are forced to choose between Trump for the Republican side and maybe Hillary Clinton?  Come on Bernie Sanders!  I wanted Ted Cruz to stay in for he is a Christian! We don't have the lesser of two evils at all. What would it be like if I was elected President? For starters there will be no plan parenthood ever, no more killing of innocent babies. No doctors would be allowed to do that at all. Second I would do is choose a new head of the VA to help our veterans get better treatment here in our own country to let veterans go to any hospital for care. To help them to stay in there homes and not be put on the streets. We must end homelessness and poverty. People who have disability shouldn't have less money forced to fend for themselves they must have a cost of living increase. Just like our seniors have to choose between food and medicine they should have more money as well. We need a better trained military not weakening. How by cutting the raises of Congress and the Senate. The IRS is gone there will be a simple tax return  all college loans will be forgiven  for the department. Education will be closed there will be another opportunity for aid for college one way is to make college free if not a four year college at least a two year college and make scholarship easy to get for deserving students don't make them jump hoops. Schools will be given back to state and local government only ,  Homeschool with be a right! Health care  Obama care is a thing. of the past   there will be Porter care my wife Teri Donnell Porter who will be a wonderful first lady  will be in charge of  the Porter care team that will  bring our healthcare system back into shape. Pre existing condition will still qualify for Porter care. NASA will be back in full capacity but not sending people to Mars there is no way to come back or  people will die along the way. Let's send them to planets other than the moon that is close to earth. We will stand by Israel and help our Jewish friends for if we do we will be blessed if not we will be cursed. No more inaugural events in cold weather it should be done  in the spring time. When the weather is nicer. War should only come to another country under Congress vote not till then we send troops into harms way for our freedoms.

In a Youtube presentation June 18, 2016, Porter sort of re-entered the race when he said he was open to having delegates in the Republican, Democratic, and Green parties cast their votes for him at their conventions. He also stated he was running for President in 2020.

In the general election of 2016 he voted for Jill Stein of the Green Party. Porter also announced shortly before the election he would be running for the City Council of Springfield, Mo.

Running-mate Stowe's Facebook indicated support for the Electoral College, a celebration of gun culture and fishing, and defending what he described as the "Confederate battle flag." Stowe lived in Maysville, Ark. and backed Trump in 2016.

Election history: none

Other occupations: truck driver

Notes:
In a bittersweet postscript, Porter had married in 2014 but became a widower Aug. 28, 2016.

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Debra Kay Kern

 




Debra Kay Kern, October 30, 1951 -

VP candidate for Non Affiliated (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Jacob Seth Kern (b. 1980)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Prior to the 2016 Presidential election, Jacob Seth Kern had run for the office of Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska three times, and in the US Senate primary as a Democrat in 2010.

If I am guessing with any accuracy, Kern's running-mate was his mother, Debra. Other son-mother tickets have included Daniel Steven Burkhardt/Georgia Loyce Burkhardt (Independent, 1996), Rick L. Rogers/Marilyn Jean Downs (Independent, 2012), and Johnson Immanuel Yuquimpo Li, Jr./Aida Nery Yuquimpo Li (Star Spangled Independent Party, 2016).

Much of Kern's online presence in the 2016 campaign has been deleted, but a Q&A during his 2015 mayoral campaign conducted by The Northern Light is still available, giving us some insight on his platform--

Jacob Seth Kern

What is your party affiliation?

“Democrat.”

How many years of political experience do you have?

“I’ve ran for city mayor since, I’ve got six, six, six, six, seven, seven, eight, nine, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 15 about nine years of political experience campaigning. About 10 years of campaigning experience.”

What goals would you have if you became mayor?

“I would make my machines to give money back to the city.”

How do you plan on helping UAA?

“Giving you money, giving you money for my machines and doing anything you say by the popular vote.”

What machine are you talking about?

“Electricity machines, spaceships and cars. Just different electronic devices that I would come up with.”

Why are you running for mayor?

“To make my machines and give money back to the city and the residents.”

What are the top three issues you’d like to address while mayor?

“Just giving you money, that’s it, main priority, millions and billions and trillions of dollars to do by ballot and just popular vote and petitions, just mass signatures.”

The Kerns were registered as write-ins in the State of Alaska. Since both were residents of the same state there would have been a potential Constitutional issue of them assuming office in the event of their victory.

Election history: none

Other occupations: ?

Notes:
Jacob Seth Kern ran for Mayor of Anchorage again in 2018 and 2021.
Debra Kern was registered with the Alaskan Independence Party, supported Biden in 2020.

Monday, May 3, 2021

Jill Ellen Stein

 


Jill Ellen Stein, May 14, 1950 (Chicago, Ill.) -

VP candidate for BlueGreen Revolution Party (2016)

Running mate with nominee: James Wesley Beebe
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In a handwritten letter to the FEC Dr. James Wesley Beebe of Ventura, Calif. declared he was running for President as a Democrat on Oct. 26, 2015. He included a document entitled Twelve Visions for America.

Beebe's effort did not appear to be related to the pre-existing Twelve Visions Party. In the fall of 2015 he visited Iowa and waged a low budget campaign in preparation for the Democratic caucuses. He also sent the following missive to the DNC Chair on Nov. 8, 2015--

Dear Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
As of October 26, 2015 I became an official candidate for President of the United States of America. My e mail is ikimosabebb@yahoo.com and my Web Site is www.DrBeebeforPresident.com. I believe judging by the hundreds of interactions with voters that my candidacy adds a significant dimension to the Democratic debate. Please read my 12 Visions for America on my web site. I am a third generation retired United Methodist Pastor on my mother's side I have a Jewish Rabbi named Jacobs. I would take my confirmation classes to Jewish Synagoges and would be asked why are you doing what you do and I would say I am following after a Jewish Rabbi named Jesus. I believe we are at a crucial crossroads in America and need to look to the Pacific look to the ways of peace and we can realize the vision of Jesus to overcome evil with good. There is no greater good than water. No water, no food, no security and no life. My proposal is by 2020 to have in place at least 21desalination plants and permanently end the drought in America with a pipeline of water from the Pacific Ocean. My second vision can fundamentally change the debate on guns and change the fact that over 30,000 are killed every year by guns in America. Preserving the 2nd Amendment we will issue  a star trek like phaser that every citizen of age will have to enable people to knock people out but not mass murder people. The country that sent us to the moon and back safely can perfect this. Maybe available on our phones so that we can track any abuse. We want America to prosper and to be safe once again.

       In an interview you said you are impartial as to candidates for President and I would love to have an opportunity to join in the Democratic Debate. I could fly to the CBS debate this Saturday. I understand it is late but I have been profoundly concerned that on both the Republican and Democratic side there has been no challenge  to our foreign policy of unwittingly arming both sides in conflicts and then having to bomb our own weapons.We amazingly are occupying countries and then giving them our military technology falsely thinking we can tell who is for us and who is against us. We need to stop trying to dictate the forms of government in other countries while advocating in many non violent ways for human rights and education.                                                                                         

We need to have a strategy for peace and it begins at home but can spread around the world helping the displaced people of the world. The reality is global warming will raise the sea levels and it is a brilliant practical strategy to have new fresh water lakes here in America and all over the world. I am a UCLA graduate and have a Masters Degree and Doctorate from the School of Theology at Claremont. Ralph Nader said our number l job in our lifetime is being a citizen and now we are all global citizens. We need to do smart things in America and join the BlueGreen Revolution it  will create millions of meaningful new employment opportunities. Let me join the discussion. Aloha Dr.Beebe ps. I drove 2,000 miles to Des Moines but the campaign RV broke down and the rental did as well. I'll fly this time. My grandmother's maiden name was Schultz. We may be related at least by Adam and Eve.

On Jan. 18, 2016 Beebe changed his party affiliation to Independent. On the heels of that form came another handwritten letter indicating Beebe was running under the banner of the BlueGreen Revolution Party.

"Doc Beebe," as he liked to call himself, expressed his feeling that he was politically allied with Jill Stein and the Green Party. His Facebook post for Apr. 18, 2016--

Amazing how the population of the United States is reaching a consensus. We need better candidates! Both Trump and Hillary are underwater in disapproval. Candidates like Jill Stein of the Green Party and Dr. Beebe of tthe BlueGreen Revolution Party are going to surface when the American People wake up and realize we are going off a cliff lead by those who have sold out to the greedy unpatriotic corporations and the arms merchants. Why not give the BlueGreen Revolution a chance and give the wisdom of Jesus a chance and overcome evil with good. We occupy other countries give them our weapons and then are surprised when they turn on us. Conrad once had a cartoon with a picture of Frankenstein that read Made in America. From Bin Laden we supported against Russia occupying Afganistan to BagDaddy we encouraged at Guantanamo Bay. We create these monsters and are so surprised when they turn on us and then we congratulate ourselves when we have to take them out. We create the problem because we surrender the public good to private greed. The great lie is that people in the middle east are different they are like us. People all around the world want self determination fruits and vegetables and clear clean cool medicinal water.

Our founding fathers cheered Patrick Henry who declared Give me Liberty or Give me death. We need to learn the lesson of England and have engagement in diplomacy but a policy of reliquinishment of our occupations. We are going on 21 trillion over a cliff and almost everyone except Stein and Beebe want to keep going like mindless lemmings in lock step over the cliff to 40 and 50 trillion. Stop the insanity and look to the wisdom of the Prince of Peace and overcome evil with good. Peace, Prosperity and Plentiful Pastures here and around the world. These corrupt politicians need to get out of the way of the people of the world who want peace! wwwDrBeebeforPresident.com

On Aug. 18, 2016 he added--

Jill Stein and the Green party cannot succeed without the Blue of the Ocean making America Green! The BlueGreen Revolution!

On a Facebook post for Aug. 25, 2016, Beebe stated: "Jill Stein will make a great Vice President!" But Stein was already-- for the second consecutive national election-- the Presidential nominee of the Green Party.

Beebe appears not have registered as a write-in in any state. Whether Stein was ever aware she a VP contender is not known.

Election history:
2002 - Governor of Massachusetts (Green-Rainbow Party) - defeated
2004 - Massachusetts State House of Representatives (Green-Rainbow Party) - defeated
2005-2010 - Member of the Lexington (Mass.) Town Meeting (Nonpartisan)
2006 - Massachusetts Secretary of State (Green-Rainbow Party) - defeated
2010 - Governor of Massachusetts (Green-Rainbow Party) - defeated
2012 - US President (Green Party of the United States/DC Statehood-Green Party/Mountain Party/Green-Rainbow Party/Independent/Pacific Green Party/Green Independent Party) - defeated
2016 - Peace and Freedom Party Presidential nomination - defeated
2016 - US President (Green Party of the United States/Independent/DC Statehood-Green Party/Green Independent Party/Green Rainbow Party/Pacific Green Party/Progressive Party/Unaffiliated/Mountain Party) - defeated

Other occupations: physician, educator

Notes:
Winner of the 2002 election was Mitt Romney.
Stein was formerly a Democrat.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Jack Burton Robinson Jr.

 








Jack Burton Robinson Jr., April 15, 1957 (Winston-Salem, N.C.) -

VP candidate for Non Affiliated (aka Libertarian Party) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Shawna Joy Sterling (b. ca1973)
Popular vote: 1 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Shawna Sterling of Brooksville, Ky. filed with the FEC as a Republican on June 6, 2015. On June 16 the name of the campaign committee was changed from "Shawna Sterling 2016" to "Shawna Sterling 2016 Pro Life Pro America It's Time to Take Care of America." On June 23 the candidate had a name change, "Pastor Shawna Sterling," and a political designation alteration from Republican to Independent, and a committee name change to "Pastor Shawna Sterling 2016 Pro Life Pro America It's Time to Take Care of America." Things settled down for a few months then on Jan. 1, 2016 the political allegiance changed to Libertarian and the committee was simply "Pro Life Pro America." The FEC didn't like the committee name so it was changed to "Pro America Sterling 4 President" on Feb. 9. Finally, on July 6, 2016 Sterling switched back to Independent and listed Jack Robinson of Spartanburg, S.C. as a running-mate. Whew!

Meanwhile, Jack B. Robinson had filed with the FEC for President as an Independent on Aug. 28, 2015. On Nov. 12, 2015 he switched his party identification to Libertarian.

Sterling was no stranger to running for office. In 2014 she was defeated by Mitch McConnell in the Republican primary for the US Senate. Her campaign website at that time promoted the concept of secret numerological messages she had decoded from a few movie trailers that predicted dire events such as 9/11 or Sandy Hook. She also included a video by discredited conspiracy-for-profit merchant Alex Jones. Interestingly, in 2012 she had briefly switched to the Democratic Party and worked for Obama's re-election.

When Sterling was running for the Libertarian nomination her platform had a few deviations from the standard Party line--

I am pro-life. All Persons at any stage in their life, have the right to life.
I support the legalization of same sex marriage. Persons cannot be forced to perform a marriage.
Federal government should not fund Planned Parenthood, only programs required by the U.S. Constitution.
A business should not be forced to provide services. The federal government should not be able to deny services.
A health provider should not be forced to offer free birth control.
The federal government should not force a separation of church and state upon the States or the People.
I do not support the death penalty.
The Federal government should not force businesses or religious groups to associate with any Person.
The Federal government should not discriminate against any Person as it represents all Persons.
Terminally ill patients should be allowed to refuse artificial life support.
Businesses should not be forced to have women or men on their board of directors.
The U.S. military should allow women to serve in combat roles as the U.S. military represents all People.
The Federal government should not force the States or People loyal to the U.S. Constitution to remove flags.

The federal government should not increase environmental regulations to prevent global warming.
States and People living in the State should determine who cares for national parks located in their respective State.
Producers should not be required to label genetically engineered foods.
I do not support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas, as it contaminates our drinking water.
The U.S. should not expand offshore oil drilling.
The Federal government should not give tax credits and subsidies to the wind power industry.

The Federal government should not force employers to pay men and women the same for the same job.
If people individually choose to support welfare, Persons receiving welfare should not be forced to work.
If People individually choose to support welfare, Persons applying for welfare should not be forced to take drug tests.
The Federal government should not force non-government employers to pay employees a specific minimum wage.
The Federal government should not force businesses to provide paid leave.
The Federal government should make cuts to public spending and eliminate programs not required by the Constitution.
Only taxes required by the U.S. Constitution should be collected from both Corporations and U.S. Citizens.
Wall Street executives should be criminally charged for their roles in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.
I believe that labor unions help the economy.
Only taxes required by the U.S. Constitution should be collected from capital gains of U.S. Citizens.
The Federal Reserve Bank should be abolished and the U.S. should return to the gold standard.
The Federal government should not subsidize farmers, as it is not required by the U.S. Constitution.
The Federal government should not infringe upon the rights of the People to grow and sell in the free market.
I do not favor an increased sales tax in order to reduce property taxes.
Government workers should have the choice to privately manage their pension plan accounts.
I do not support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The government should not classify Bitcoin as a legal currency as it provides too high of risk for criminal activity.
U.S. Citizens should be allowed to save or invest their money in offshore bank accounts, as long as income is reported.

The Federal government should not infringe on the rights of U.S. Citizens to acquire and bear arms.
U.S Citizens who end up on a “no-fly list” should not have their gun rights infringed upon without due process of law.
Term limits should not be set for members of Congress, those who violate laws should be removed from office.
The FBI should not require Apple to give them software keys that could violate the privacy rights of U.S. Citizens.
Local police should not engage in unconstitutional surveillance and patrol of U.S. Citizens who are Muslim.
Victims of gun violence should be allowed to sue firearm dealers, even if the Court ultimately dismisses their case.
The Senate should not vote on Obama’s Supreme Court nominee as Obama should be impeached for treason.
I favor decriminalization of drug use and providing amnesty with substance abuse counseling for non-violent offenders.
Corporation and unions (Super PACs) should be allowed to donate to political candidates.
NSA should not collect U.S. Citizens private information without a warrant showing probable cause of criminal activity.
Non-government Internet Service Providers should be allowed to speed up access to popular websites if they want to.
I do not support affirmative action programs as this could limit the hiring of the most qualified candidate for the job.
The Federal government should not raise the retirement age for Social Security.
I do not support the Patriot Act as it is unpatriotic to engage in unconstitutional surveillance of U.S. Citizens.
The Federal or State government should not be allowed to seize private property.
The redrawing of Congressional districts should be controlled by an independent, non-partisan commission.

I do not support the ACA as it proved to not be affordable and as it is not required by the U.S. Constitution.
I support an open market where health care insurers can compete across state lines.
The Federal government should not force vaccinations on U.S. Citizens.         
The Federal government has no right to regulate Marijuana as this right belongs to the State and its People.
The Federal government should not fund health care as it is not required by the U.S. Constitution.
States should decide their own level of health care coverage.

A photo ID should be required to vote to help prevent voter fraud and to ensure that votes cast are by U.S. Citizens only.

Prisons should ban the use of solitary confinement for juveniles.

The U.S. should accept refugees from Syria who have no ties to terrorists and who will take our Oath of Nationality.
Foreign terrorism suspects should be tried in military tribunals but not subject to torture.
The Federal government should decrease military spending that is not required by the U.S. Constitution.
The military should not use enhanced interrogation techniques. I am against torture.
U.S. Citizens who are 18 years old should not be required to provide military service. I am against the draft in all forms.
The U.S. should not declare war on ISIS as our special forces already have AUMF authority to pursue and strike ISIS.
The U.S. should not give foreign nations including Israel foreign aid, as it is not required by the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. should not send troops into Syria to fight ISIS, unless they are special forces operating under our current AUMF.
The U.S. should not remain in the United Nations and we should remove the U.N. headquarters from the U.S.

U.S. Special Forces have authority pursuant to our current AUMF to pursue and strike U.S. enemies.
The U.S. should not give foreign aid to any country, as it is not required by our U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. should close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as it is a waste of money and resources.
The U.S. trade and travel embargo on Cuba should be lifted to increase democratic relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
U.S. should not conduct military strikes against North Korea unless intelligence confirms a need for defensive strikes.
The U.S. should not prevent Russia from conducting airstrikes in Syria.
The U.S. should not overthrow President Assad of Syria, as he was lawfully elected by the Syrian Citizens.
The U.S. should not continue NSA surveillance of its allies.


I do not support increasing taxes for the rich in order to reduce interest rates for student loans.
I do not support Common Core as education should be handled at the state and local level instead of the national level.

Federal government should not provide health care to illegal immigrants as it is not required by the U.S. Constitution.
State government and the People have the right to determine if they will provide health care to illegal immigrants.
Immigrants should be allowed to enter the U.S. if they want to be U.S. Citizens and if they take our Oath of Nationality.
The U.S. should not increase restrictions on its current border security, but should enforce the current border policy.
States and the People determine whether illegal immigrants should be offered in-state tuition rates at public colleges.
Immigrants should be required to learn English.
Children of illegal immigrants should be granted legal citizenship if they were born in the U.S.
Law enforcement should be allowed to detain illegal immigrants and transfer them to federal immigration authorities.
Working illegal immigrants with no criminal record, should be given temporary amnesty, as well as a path to citizenship.
The U.S. should increase the amount of temporary work visas given to high-skilled immigrant workers.


The Federal government should fund space travel that increases our national security as is required by the Constitution.

Before running as a Libertarian, Jack Robinson Jr. had thrown his hat into the ring as an Independent for President--

Spartanburg, South Carolina Businessman, Jack Robinson, Jr. Announces His Candidacy for PRESIDENT as a Third Party Independent Candidate

Spartanburg, SC -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/06/2015 -- On September 29, 2015, Spartanburg, South Carolina Businessman, Jack Robinson, Jr. announced that he will be running for 2016 Presidential candidate, will be entering the field on the third party as an independent candidate. With the declaration of his presidential bid, he also unveiled his program that will seek to end the troubles of the country through a "Unification of America" plan. Robinson made the announcement at the CHAPMAN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, in front of a live audience on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015. In his speech he elaborated how a Robinson Presidency will be characterized by ending poverty, providing universal healthcare, equalizing income and opportunity disparity and ending world hunger.

Robinson began his speech by highlight some of the most pressing problems America is facing today, he said: "We have become a divided country and we must change the course of our nation. Our debt is a 100% of our gross domestic product congressional budget office says that we have 10 years to turn our economy around before our debt is irreversible. Our two basic political philosophies have us either taking from one group and giving to another or pulling our own boot straps, the moderate simply says a little of both. None of these represent the American way."

Robinson's Unification of America plan will counter these problems which he believes is the best ideas of all of our political parties are proposing, the plan will be largely economic and will successfully harness all of America's ideals, resources, institutions, political parties, wealth classes, races, businesses and individuals to ensure a unified nation working harmoniously towards the collective interest of the country and its people.

The 2016 US Presidential Elections will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election when the country makes a historic decision that will serve a pivotal point in the history and the future of United States of America and the entire world. Most people are seeing the upcoming elections as an opportunity for the nation's population to elect a much needed strong and capable leadership that can guide US through the challenges it currently faces and steer the nation towards a more promising future.

The proposed "Trickle Up" economics solution, a part of Robinson's plan will cost shift many aspects of government dependence and societal improvements away from government and over to the private sector and the forces of free enterprise. He believes that being a third party candidate will provide him various strategic benefits such as providing a better position to act as moderator and to break the current impasse between political parties.

About Jack B. Robinson
Robinson is a business owner, a family man, served on his college's student government, and has patents and trademarks on different products. He is innovative, caring, strong, and will lead America well with grace and direction.

Robinson is also the creator of an economic model called "Birth Loop Economics" which is summarized--

Birth Loop Economics

How It Works

For each generation of new births (roughly 4 million people/year), a newborn fund is set up with corresponding social accounts for each child in that generation. Banks will capitalize themselves from this fund on the conditions that:
1. Banks must pay the annual interest into each child's various social accounts;
2. At maturity, the banks will repay the principal back to the government

The end result being two-fold:
1. Government is paid back in full and can recycle the original seed money;
2. Each child in that generation is left with a lump sum to be used for its designated purpose, such as providing them education, healthcare, retirement savings, etc.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1) What is Birthloop Economics
A1) Capitalism’s small government low tax model for funding America’s entitlement programs.

Q2) How does Birthloop work?
A2) Generational funding (at birth) of our children’s social accounts; funded by the interest earned from loans to America’s federally insured banks and credit unions.

Q3) Is Birthloop affordable?
A3) Birthloop is exceedingly affordable because it generates no debt. Double entry accounting explains it as…“for each debt (expenditure) there is a credit (loan)”.  Once these loans to our banks are repaid and the interest harvested for our children’s social accounts, the money will be reinvested and reused for our next generation of children.


Q4) Is Birthloop inflationary?
A4) Birthloop is not inflationary. The annual outlay has a 3 to 1 cost savings over our current entitlement and then repaid for no cost. Once repaid it is then reused for the next generation of births.

Q5) Where does the money come from?
A5) Generational dissolution of our current entitlement programs at a 3 to 1 savings ratio.
A5) Federal credit upgrades
A5) Standard budget increase
A5) Print or borrow – both are cheap

    
Robinson ran in the Libertarian primary in California and engaged in a brief interview with The Hollywood Reporter--

Describe yourself briefly.
I'm a businessman and the originator of "birth-loop economics" (using bank interest to fund accounts for all newborns).

What is the first thing you’d do as president?
Oh, lord. I’d ask every congressman and senator for the best idea they had or have heard since they were first elected.

What is your campaign song?
"Make America As Great As It Was Meant to Be." (That’s a made-up song I know.)

What would you tell Donald Trump in an elevator?
"You need an economic plan."

Who is your favorite president and why?
Ronald Reagan. He did his part to make America smaller.

Oddly, the California primary was held after the Libertarian Party convention, so Robinson's 8th out of 12 finish with 0.03% was merely a popularity contest.

Both Sterling and Robinson failed to gain much traction in their quest for the Libertarian nomination. At some point they joined forces and continued the campaign to the general election on their own ticket. Sterling had been one of the speakers with Robinson at a Birth Loop conference in May 2016.

Sterling/Robinson were registered as write-ins in 5 states (listing themselves as Libertarians in most of them) and received a single reported vote in Kansas.

Robinson ran for President again as an Independent in 2020.

Election history:
2016 - Libertarian Party nomination for US President - defeated
2020 - US President (Independent) - defeated

Other occupations: President of Precision Bearing and Machine Inc., President of Volunteer Box Limited Liability Company, President of  Foundation for Economic Unity, Board Member of University of South Carolina Upstate Advisory Board

Notes:
Fun trivia-- Robinson was born on Tax Day.

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Conan William Salada

 



Conan William Salada, January 19, 1979 -

VP candidate for New Hampshire Liberty Party (aka Libertarian Party aka Non Affiliated) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Darryl W. Perry (b. 1978)
Popular vote: 3 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Hailing from the hardcore Puritan wing of the Libertarian Party, Alabama-raised Darryl Perry relocated to Keene, N.H. possibly due to the lure of the Free State Project, a long-term plan to populate the small jurisdiction with enough libertarian-minded voters to create a significant impact in municipal and state government.

In addition to being active with the Libertarian Party, Perry had also been involved with the ill-fated Boston Tea Party and was a co-founder in 2012 of the New Hampshire Liberty Party, described by some sources as a secessionist group.

In 2016 Perry was one of the contenders for the Libertarian Party nomination for President. Expressing disappointment with the eventual winners, he announced on Sept. 16, 2016 that he was running on his own--

Darryl W. Perry Announces Limited Presidential Write-In Campaign

Keene, NH – Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate, Darryl W. Perry, announced today his intention to launch a limited write-in campaign for the 2016 US Presidential Race.

When radio personality, libertarian activist, and CEO of Liberty Lobby LLC, Darryl W. Perry, embarked on his Presidential Campaign, he did so with three goals in mind: 1) to run the most libertarian presidential campaign in history; 2) to proclaim the ideas of liberty as boldly and as often as possible; and 3) to give as many people as possible the opportunity to vote for an actual libertarian in November.

After the 2016 Libertarian Party National Convention in Orlando, Florida, Perry issued a statement saying he had “accomplished two-thirds of the goals I set for my campaign. I ran the most consistent libertarian campaign to date, and I took every opportunity, including my well-received Concession Speech, to promote the ideas of liberty.”

Perry, who was officially endorsed by the NH Liberty Party at their convention in February, added, “While my original intention was to either continue my campaign through the November election or support an LP ticket with actual philosophical libertarians, the Libertarian National Convention left me emotionally drained. I will not be continuing my campaign through November.”

Since then, numerous people have asked for a way to give people the ability to vote for a philosophical libertarian for President. Due to the numerous instances of the Libertarian Party Presidential ticket running in opposition to the LP Platform, including supporting limitations of the 2nd Amendment rights of people on secret lists, new forms of taxation, and statements against freedom of association, Perry decided to file declarations of intent to be a write-in candidate in a handful of states where a slate of electors is not required. The laws in another eight states claim all write-in votes are valid. Meaning that on November 8, 2016, voters in 17 states (AL, AK, DE, IA, ID, KS, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, PA, RI, VT, WA, WV, WY) plus DC, will have the ability to cast a vote – albeit a write-in – for an actual libertarian, Darryl W. Perry. This means Perry potentially has access to 114 Electoral College votes.

Between now and election day, Darryl’s focus will remain at the state and local level where more opportunities exist to affect positive change. In addition, the Darryl W. Perry Presidential Campaign does not intend to raise any funds or have any expenditures towards this limited write-in campaign. Perry says, “I do not make this decision lightly, however I have the ability to not let another election cycle go by without a philosophical libertarian candidate in the general election. Finally, I encourage everyone, including members of the Libertarian Party, to follow their conscience when they cast their ballot in the Presidential election.”

Perry's platform was classic Libertarian except perhaps that instead of limiting the federal government he called for it to be "abolished." His platform introductory summary as presented on his campaign website--

I believe…
…that all coercive forms of taxation should be eliminated, and government programs should be funded voluntarily.
…that people should be allowed to travel freely without government interference; this includes the right of individuals to choose where they decide to live.
…in the right of self-determination; that is the right of “determination by the people of a territorial unit of their own future political status.”
…that every person and/or group of people should be allowed to decide for themselves if and/or how they will be governed.
…that men do not need leaders, we are all capable of leading ourselves. Governments only get in the way of allowing this to happen.
…that the United States government, as it exists today, should be abolished!

On the last point the actual platform elaborated--

 Governments should be transparent and free of corruption. I believe the Downsize DC Agenda is one methods for bringing about this reform.
 Further, all individuals have the god-given right to life, liberty & pursuit of happiness, whenever governments become destructive of these rights, the people have the right to alter or abolish it. The federal government has been destroying rights since 1791, therefore I believe that the federal government should be abolished!

...  I fully support the right of self-determination; that is the right of “determination by the people of a territorial unit of their own future political status.” Though there are no established guidelines regarding how a group of people exercise their right of self-determination. During the 1860’s several States attempted to leave the United States of America, several counties in these States took secession one step further and seceded from their seceding State. It was this act of self-determination that allowed West Virginia to become a State, it also led to several “Free State’s” throughout the Confederacy.

 The United States of America was founded on the principles of self-determination. Not only has the U.S. government violated the self-determination rights of the Native Americans, but also the people of Hawai’i, Guam, Puerto Rico and many other people who have become dependent on the U.S. government. I believe that every person and/or group of people should be allowed to decide for themselves if and/or how they will be governed.

In the course of the campaign Perry was elected to the position of chair of the New Hampshire Libertarian Party, which put the New Hampshire Liberty Party on the back burner-- not exactly inactive and waiting to be fully revived depending on the political winds.

Perry's running-mate and fellow activist Conan Salada, also seems to have moved to Keene from the South as part of the Free State Project, which conjures an image of carpetbaggers in reverse. Salada wasted no time in running for public office, oddly under the banner of the Democratic Party for the Legislature. He addressed the party affiliation on July 29, 2016--

I’m pleased to announce that I am running for NH State Rep, Cheshire county district 7, Keene ward 4. Some of you may be wondering why I am running as a Democrat as opposed to a party more aligned with my ideology. This is because of the difficulty getting 3rd party candidates on the ballot. No, I’m not trying to hijack the Democratic Party. Perhaps one year I’ll find the extra time to collect 150 signatures and run on a liberty party ticket, or maybe, if elected, I’ll have the much needed opportunity to tweak NH’s ballot access laws which currently favors the monopoly held by the D’s and the R’s.

Perry/Salada were registered write-ins in at least 8 states but not all of these report their write-in vote tallies in detail. In the event of their victory there would have existed a potential problem regarding the Constitution since both candidates were residents of the same state.

On a Feb. 8, 2018 Facebook post, the New Hampshire Liberty Party stated--

We're still in hibernation - watching the LP of NH's potential board changes at this upcoming convention of theirs.  If things make a turn for the worse there, look for us to come back.  Meanwhile, the LP of NH has been doing great, so hopefully that will continue.

Election history:
2013 - Keene (N.H.) City Council (Nonpartisan) - defeated
2014 - New Hampshire House of Representatives (Democratic) - primary - defeated
2015 - Keene (N.H.) City Council (Nonpartisan) - primary - defeated
2016 - New Hampshire House of Representatives (Democratic) - primary - defeated
2017 - Keene (N.H.) City Council (Nonpartisan) - defeated
2019 - Keene (N.H.) City Council (Nonpartisan) - primary - defeated

Other occupations: US postal carrier, online reseller, inventory stocking, artist, secretary of Cheshire TV Board of Directors, co-host at Free Talk Live

Notes:
Surname is pronounced "Soll-a-day"

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Michelle Kaye HIcks

 


Michelle Kaye Hicks, June 7, 1974 -

VP candidate for Independent (aka Independent Democrat) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Denny Carroll Jackson (b. 1952)
Popular vote: 139 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Denny Carroll Jackson, the Mayor of Milton, Ky., filed with the FEC in Dec. 2015 for US President running as a Democrat. Eventually he also had an Independent designation and gained a running-mate, Michelle Kaye Hicks just across the state line in Vevay, Ind.

Jackson, who described himself as a moderate Reagan Democrat, was a high school teacher and thought his entry into the Presidential race would provide a civics lesson for his students. He told a reporter, "My students asked, 'Why don't you run for President?' I thought I'd do it for kicks and giggles." Hicks was a teacher at the same school.

The Jackson/Hicks ticket were registered write-ins in three states: Indiana 121 votes, Kentucky 18 votes, and Washington (does not report write-in totals). Jackson's campaign Facebook page was updated to indicate he was also running in 2020, but no VP was mentioned.

Election history: none

Other occupations: attorney, teacher

Notes:
Hicks is registered as a Democrat.
Some sources list her as Michelle Faye Hicks.

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Michael Alan Steinberg

 


Michael Alan Steinberg, February 6, 1959 -

VP candidate for American Delta Party (aka Reform Party of the United States of America aka Non Affiliated aka Independent Democratic aka Independent aka Unaffiliated) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Roque De La Fuente Guerra (b. 1954)
Popular vote: 33,136 (0.02%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Michael Steinberg, an attorney in Florida, filed for President with the FEC on Nov. 13, 2013 as a Democrat. His webpage revealed a centrist approach to the issues. The FAQ section was the most interesting part--

Q. According to recent polls, Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming favorite to win the Democratic nomination. Why are you wasting your time?

A. Hillary Clinton has not even announced whether she is going to run yet. She will be 69 years old in 2016. She may decide that she does not want to run. If she does not run, who are the other choices? Joe Biden might run, but he will be 74 years old and he does not appear to have a huge base of support. There are other potential candidates, but none who are nationally recognized, except by people who avidly follow politics. If Hillary does not run, the race is wide open.

Q. But no one has heard of you. You are not even on the radar as a candidate. How do you expect anyone to vote for you?

A. In today's social media world, anything can happen. A video can go viral. The news media may focus on Social Security or Veterans Affairs, in which matters I have substantial experience. Sure it's a long shot, but if given the exposure, I believe I will be able to demonstrate that I am qualified.

Q. How do you plan on raising money?

A. Good question. First, I have to ask myself, why do I contribute money to candidates. If you go to the FEC.gov website and search my name, you will see that I have contributed a lot of money to political candidates and committees. If a candidate supports an issue about which I feel strongly, I will support his or her campaign, even if he or she is an underdog. This is because the candidate is voicing an opinion about this issue and bringing it to the attention of the public and media. While I have a broad range of experience and have studied most of the issues which might be raised in the 2016 election, the issues in which I have the most passion are the sustainability of the Social Security programs, healthcare, and Veterans benefits. There are attorneys and healthcare providers who might contribute to the campaign to insure that these issues are discussed and debated. Of course, I would have to have some notoriety, to expect contributions, as I doubt they would throw their money away on a complete unknown.

Q. So how do you propose to gain "notoriety"?

A. I have a few ideas, which I will share. If someone is reading this, they probably searched a web browser using words such as "2016 primary candidates" or "2016 primary elections". Last year I decided to purchase the URL www.2016primary.com. I figured that when people were searching for information about the 2016 primary elections, these are the words they would put in the search engine. When they saw " vote for Michael Steinberg in the Democratic Presidential primaries", out of curiosity, some might check out my website. My hunch was correct. My website usually comes up on the first page of a search for information about 2016 presidential primary candidates. My website has already been visited by many people, and I suspect, that  as the primaries draw closer, more people will visit my website. Eventually, a reporter might do a story about lesser known candidates. If the opportunity arises, I am confident that I will be able to demonstrate that I am knowledgeable about the issues, and have the experience necessary to perform the job.

Q. Do you have any skeletons in your closet?

A. Not really. I never used drugs, I rarely drink, and never to excess, I have been married only once and am still married after 30 years. I have never been arrested, However, no one is perfect.

When I was young, I did stand-up comedy and have told inappropriate jokes. I also trained to be a professional wrestler. I missed a deadline on an appeal once and was admonished by the Florida Bar. About 20 years ago I, along with some friends, thought it would be funny to open a bagel store where the waitresses would wear lingerie outfits. That lasted about 6 months. Needless to say, that wasn't such a great idea. Many years ago I was late paying my income taxes and had a tax lien for a few days. That's about it.

Q. Your campaign sounds interesting. How can I help?

​A. You can contribute a few dollars using the contribution page, You can volunteer to help collect petition signatures, and you can post a  link to my website on your Facebook page.

I will soon have a youtube channel. You can subscribe to my channel and "like" my videos.

Meanwhile, San Diego businessman Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra filed with the FEC as also as a Democrat for President on Oct. 1, 2015.

Considering there were over 50 Democratic candidates both De La Fuente and Steinberg didn't do too badly in terms of the popular vote in the primaries. De La Fuente ranked #5 (after Clinton, Sanders, Uncommitted, and O'Malley) and Steinberg was 10th.

Even though his address on his FEC form in early 2016 was still in San Diego, De La Fuente filed to run the Democratic primaries for US Senate in Florida in June, 2016. He would repeat this out-of-state tactic for the Senate in at least 9 states in 2018. Also around June 2016, he founded the American Delta Party as a vehicle to continue his Presidential run as a third party candidate.

De La Fuente was also nominated by the Reform Party and at some point Steinberg landed the VP spot no matter the party label. The American Third Party Report posted an interview with Reform Party Secretary Nicholas Hensley in Aug. 2016 and this backstory was included--

Question: The Reform Party chose Roque de la Fuente as its presidential candidate. Can you tell us why that decision was made, and how it came to be?

Answer: Turn out for minor party conventions are motivated by two factors. The first factor is a competitive presidential nomination. Up until two or three weeks before the convention, we had two candidates. We were sure of the final outcome.

The second factor is internal contention over office elections, platform planks, and bylaws. We knew how those votes were going to fall, and no one wished to contest the likely outcomes. These factors created a foreseeable low turnout convention.

About two or three weeks before the election, in a three day time span, Roque de la Fuente and Darcy Richardson announced their intentions to run. I wish those announcements happened six months ago, so we had more time to vet the campaigns, and learn more about them.

Both of the candidates were formidable, and both had great things going for them. This means we had to weigh the pro’s and con’s of the four candidates. Look at numerous factors, and figure out which candidate was the best fit.

Darcy Richardson and Ken Cross were the two safe choices. Both of them were going to have little exposure, run on the pre-existing Reform Party lines, and circle the wagons. We knew them as people, and understood the risks surrounding them.  These were two “defensive investments”.

Both Lynn Kahn and Roque de la Fuente came with more risk. They were both new to the Reform Party, but were qualifying on more ballots. This created a risk versus reward scenario, and we had to weigh those measures. Due to these unknown risks and rewards, specifically on Roque de la Fuente’s side, we needed more time for research.

Of course Roque de la Fuente won out. Roque and the Reform Party were in agreement on ninety percent of the platform issues. Roque had deeper pockets and better fundraising abilities. He had more exposure, and he was able to assemble over twenty ballot lines. He also had a campaign staff, and better organizational structure. All of these were factors in the decision.

The ticket made the ballot in 20 states and were registered write-ins in a dozen more. In addition to the American Delta and Reform parties, they were sometimes listed as Democrats. They had a potential of 269 Electoral votes if they had carried every state, leaving them with a single vote left to take the White House.

Their best reported results: Alaska 0.39%, Vermont 0.33%, Montana 0.32%, Wyoming 0.27%, Nevada 0.23%, Idaho 0.20%, Tennessee 0.16%, Rhode Island 0.14%, North Dakota 0.11%, and Florida 0.10%. They finished in 8th place nationally.

Election history:
2002 - Florida State House of Representatives (Democratic) - defeated
2006 - US House of Representatives (Fla.) (Democratic) - primary - defeated
2010 - Florida State House of Representatives (Democratic) - defeated
2016 - Democratic nomination for US President - defeated

Other occupations: attorney

Notes:
Graduate of the University of Florida.

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

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.