Kenneth L. Gibbs

 

Kenneth L. Gibbs

VP candidate for Independent American Party (aka Constitution Party of Oregon aka Independent) (2012)

Running mate with nominee: Will Christensen (b. 1937)
Popular vote: 4,456 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Will Christensen, an Arizona/Utah-based Amway salesman and perennial candidate was the Presidential nominee of the Independent American Party. In Aug. 2012 he was selected by the Constitution Party in Oregon, which was not affiliated with the national party in that year. His running-mate was Ken Gibbs of Fresno, Calif.

Along with several other states, the Oregon Chapter of the Constitution Party disaffiliated with the national party in 2006 when the latter decided that abortion could be permitted in cases of incest, rape, or if the mother's life was at stake. That was apparently way too liberal for Oregon members, so off they split.

Gibbs' path to the IAP was outlined in the campaign webpage--

Once becoming aware at the level of bureaucratic red tape affecting his own industry, Ken did what any sensible American would do; He got involved. Too much government was choking the life from the very industry that provided the life’s work. That must be stopped. Ken reviewed the Republican Party that he had belonged to for decades and found they were not even on the same page he was. Ken left the Republican Party and went Independent. He also joined the Tea Party Patriots and made his voice heard.

Watching the many in-justices and gross mismanagements of our present government, he found this simply rubbed against all he grew up believing. “God and Country, and the American Way must still mean something to folks?” So Ken decided that he would have to roll up the sleeves and help fix it. Along with his fellow Patriots of the Independent American Party, it was time to change things for the better.

The IAP platform included--

The Secretary of Defense will have the assignment to bring our troops safely, but rapidly, home from foreign wars. This will save trillions of dollars per year.

The Secretary of Education will have the assignment to transfer all educational control to the states or respective school districts while phasing out the Department of Education. This will save billions per year.

The Secretary of State will have the assignment to shepherd bills through Congress to: Halt all foreign aid, which is little more than international welfare. Withdraw from the UN, NATO, SEATO, NAFTA, WTO, IMF, World Court, etc.

The Attorney General will have the assignment to determine which legislation passed in the last hundred years runs counter to the Second Amendment. These laws will not be enforced by the Executive Branch pending remedial action by Congress. The Director of the BATF&E will be directed to transfer to the states such functions which are not counter to the Second Amendment prior to the Department being abolished.

Drugs, alcohol, & tobacco are state issues. The federal war on drugs will be terminated.

The Patriot Act and the National Defense Act of 2012 (NDAA) are clearly outside of the Constitutional authority of Congress, therefore they will not be enforced pending removal by Congress.

Marriage is a state or local issue. We will not enforce law that is outside of the Constitutional authority of Congress to pass.

The IAP had a "Coat of Arms" badge system, where actual badges sort of like merit badges awarded in Boy Scouts, were used as an incentive/reward device depending how well the recipient was able to internalize the Party principles and then become an activist. They had names like the Proud Patriot Badge, Praying Patriot Badge, Impassioned Patriot Badge, and badges named after colonial revolutionaries. In 2012 the Christensen/Gibbs ticket introduced something called a "Prayer Mission," emphasizing the pursuit of the Praying Patriot Badge which had the following requirements--
    
    Read the IAP Mission and Platform (http://www.independentamericanparty.org/)
    Sincerely pray every day for 2 weeks about specifically the 1) principles AND 2) destiny of the Independent American Party.  As you pray, you are encouraged to ponder and search the scriptures for evidences of patriotism, and related principles.
    Advice on prayer (optional)
        Pray out-loud (Mark 11:23, Matthew 7:12)
        Pray with Faith (James 1:7)
        Pray specifically (Matthew 6:9-13)
        Pray “Thy will be done” (Luke 22:42)
        Pray in the spirit (Romans 8:26)
    Look up each of these scriptures on prayer

The Christensen/Gibbs "Dream Cabinet" as listed on their campaign webpage included--

Attorney General – Judge Andrew Napolitano
Secretary of Defense – Representative Allen West of FL.
Secretary of Education – Ezola Foster – President of Black Americans for Family Values, author of “What’s Right for All Americans”.
Secretary of Homeland Security – Stewart Rhodes (Founder of Oath Keepers)
Secretary of the Treasury – Ron Paul
Ambassador to the United Nations – John McManus (President of the John Birch Society.)

Other "dream" appointees for unspecified positions included Chuck Baldwin, Robert Bork, Jerome Corsi, Roy Moore, and "Members of the Austrian School of Economics."

Christensen/Gibbs were on the ballot in Oregon where they finished 5th out of 6, with 0.25% of the vote. They were also write-ins in 11 other states.

Election history: none

Other occupations: US Army, aerospace machinist, HVAC/R industry, computer consultant

Notes:
Gibbs spent his earlier years in Florida.

William James Higgins Sr.

William James Higgins Sr., July 6, 1932 (Boston, Mass.) - January 29, 2017 (Bow, N.H.?)

VP candidate for Reform Party of the United States of America (2000)

Running mate with nominee: Patrick Joseph Buchanan (b. 1938)
Popular vote: 11,149 (0.01%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

"Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it."
--a military captain in Hamlet, attempting to explain the cause of a battle

The Reform Party had become low-hanging fruit for carpetbaggers in 2000. Thanks to Ross Perot's appeal and the hard work of his activists, the Party was at the turn of the century an organized network with (and here the starting gun for the political equivalent of the Oklahoma Land Rush  is fired) over $12 million in matching funds.

There were two potential candidates who had an honest claim to the nomination. Ross Perot himself declined to run. Jesse Ventura, who had made history when he was elected Governor of Minnesota as a member of the Reform Party in 1998, would also have been a legitimate contender if he had  wanted.

John Anderson, the former Republican who had run as an Independent for President in 1980 and Ron Paul the Republican who was also briefly a Libertarian when he ran for President under that banner in 1988, were also names that were bandied about as potential Reform Party nominees. Another name that had come up was Lowell Weicker, an ex-Republican who had served as Governor of Connecticut as a member of the independent Connecticut Party.

But when announcements were made there only three big names that were put forward: Donald Trump, John Hagelin, and Pat Buchanan.

Trump had been encouraged to run by Ventura. A Democrat until 1987, he had toyed with the idea of running for President as a Republican in 1988.  In 1999 Trump campaigned for the Reform Party nomination on a conservative platform but did endorse universal public health care and was more liberal on some social issues than he would be later in his political career. He said he wanted Oprah Winfrey as his running-mate. Roger Stone was his campaign director. By Feb. 2000 Ventura left the Reform Party and Trump withdrew from the race. Trump re-registered as a Democrat in 2001 and then as a Republican in 2009.

John Hagelin was running for President as the Natural Law Party nominee for the third election in a row. He was attempting to merge with the Reform Party and came close enough that his delegates from the latter party held their own convention. Unfortunately for Hagelin, the courts sided with Buchanan but that didn't stop the NLP candidate from sometimes showing up on ballots under the Reform Party label. In some states both Buchanan and Hagelin were on the ballot under the Reform Party name.

In 1992 and 1996 Ross Perot tended to avoid taking strong stands on cultural or social issues that created deep divisions among Americans. His main focus was economic. Pat Buchanan, on the other hand, had established himself as a Right wing "cultural warrior" when he ran for the Republican nomination for President in 1992 and 1996. When he began his campaign for President as a member of the Reform Party, he changed the entire premise for the existence of the organization, making it more of an affluent version of the Constitution Party in 2000. Rather than attempting to unite people with issues they had in common, Buchanan hammered away on divisive hot button social problems such as opposing abortion, Gay rights, Affirmative Action. He held views some called racist on non-white immigration. Using the slogan "America First" (which had previously been employed by fascist sympathizer, anti-Semite, white supremacist, and Holocaust denier Gerald L.K. Smith in his Presidential campaign), Buchanan offered no original ideas that were not already in the platforms of other Right wing political parties concerning foreign relations or the economy.

In spite of this he was able to elicit the support of former New Alliance Party Presidential candidate Lenora Fulani (later withdrawn) as well as future Socialist nominee Brian Moore. Klansman David Duke also hopped on board the Buchanan campaign, as well as members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, bringing a contingent of White Nationalist support.

In New York he ran under the banner of the Right to Life Party and in Colorado under the American Party.

After considering James P. Hoffa and others, Buchanan selected Ezola Foster, one of his co-chairs from the 1996 campaign. The California-based Foster had made a name for herself as an extremely conservative African American activist. Foster was known for her views against immigration, abortion, and Gay rights. She defended the display of the Confederate flag. She said God brought slaves from Africa to America so "their descendants would know freedom." Her placement on the ticket confused several of Buchanan's more racist followers.

Foster became a controversial pick. Her membership with the John Birch Society was more than simply carrying the card, she was also part of their lecture circuit talent pool. She described the civil rights movement as a "revenge and reparations movement" and didn't think segregation was really all that bad even though she grew up in Louisiana as part of the oppressed community. Rev. Jesse Jackson and his ilk were "Leninist race-baiters" according to Foster.

Foster said "government schools," i.e. public education, were "socialist training camps." She opposed AIDS education in schools because she felt it promoted homosexuality. Foster was outspoken and hardline about illegal immigrant children. As a high school teacher she said she was persecuted for her conservative beliefs and was forced to accept worker's compensation 1996-1998 until she retired because of stress. She later said the "mental disorder" claim was faked but reporters uncovered she had suffered from depression since the 1970s and had recently been prescribed antidepressants.

The Buchanan/Foster team alienated many of the veteran Reform Party members including Perot himself. The 2000 ticket generally placed 4th around the country, behind Ralph Nader and the Greens. In Oklahoma and South Dakota they placed third but in both cases Nader was not on the ballot. There were 45 states with Foster as the VP. In Massachusetts for some reason the running-mate was William J. Higgins Sr., in Oregon no VP was apparently listed, and in Michigan Buchanan was a write-in.

Higgins was a former Democrat who became an active Republican later in life.

The Buchanan/Higgins ticket finished 5th out of 6 on the Massachusetts ballot with 0.41% of the popular vote in that state.

Election history:
2010 - Massachusetts State Senate (Republican) - defeated

Other occupations: US Air Force (Korean War), credit manager, postal worker, postmaster, Northborough (Mass.) Town Treasurer, Northborough (Mass.) Town Clerk, Northborough (Mass.) School Committee Chairman

Buried: Howard Street Cemetery (Northborough, Mass.)

Notes:
Disabled veteran
Was sued by the winner of the 2010 State Senate race for making false accusations during the
 campaign. Higgins later apologized.

Ezola Broussard Foster

Below: Florida's "Butterfly Ballot"

Ezola Broussard Foster, August 9, 1938 (Maurice, La.) – May 22, 2018 (Boulder City, Nev.)

VP candidate for Reform Party of the United States of America (aka Independent aka American Party aka Citizens First aka Independence Party aka Right to Life Party aka Freedom Party) (2000)

Running mate with nominee: Patrick Joseph Buchanan (b. 1938)
Popular vote: 438,032 (0.42%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

"Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it."
--a military captain in Hamlet, attempting to explain the cause of a battle

The Reform Party had become low-hanging fruit for carpetbaggers in 2000. Thanks to Ross Perot's appeal and the hard work of his activists, the Party was at the turn of the century an organized network with (and here the starting gun for the political equivalent of the Oklahoma Land Rush  is fired) over $12 million in matching funds.

There were two potential candidates who had an honest claim to the nomination. Ross Perot himself declined to run. Jesse Ventura, who had made history when he was elected Governor of Minnesota as a member of the Reform Party in 1998, would also have been a legitimate contender if he had  wanted.

John Anderson, the former Republican who had run as an Independent for President in 1980 and Ron Paul the Republican who was also briefly a Libertarian when he ran for President under that banner in 1988, were also names that were bandied about as potential Reform Party nominees. Another name that had come up was Lowell Weicker, an ex-Republican who had served as Governor of Connecticut as a member of the independent Connecticut Party.

But when announcements were made there only three big names that were put forward: Donald Trump, John Hagelin, and Pat Buchanan.

Trump had been encouraged to run by Ventura. A Democrat until 1987, he had toyed with the idea of running for President as a Republican in 1988.  In 1999 Trump campaigned for the Reform Party nomination on a conservative platform but did endorse universal public health care and was more liberal on some social issues than he would be later in his political career. He said he wanted Oprah Winfrey as his running-mate. Roger Stone was his campaign director. By Feb. 2000 Ventura left the Reform Party and Trump withdrew from the race. Trump re-registered as a Democrat in 2001 and then as a Republican in 2009.

John Hagelin was running for President as the Natural Law Party nominee for the third election in a row. He was attempting to merge with the Reform Party and came close enough that his delegates from the latter party held their own convention. Unfortunately for Hagelin, the courts sided with Buchanan but that didn't stop the NLP candidate from sometimes showing up on ballots under the Reform Party label. In some states both Buchanan and Hagelin were on the ballot under the Reform Party name.

In 1992 and 1996 Ross Perot tended to avoid taking strong stands on cultural or social issues that created deep divisions among Americans. His main focus was economic. Pat Buchanan, on the other hand, had established himself as a Right wing "cultural warrior" when he ran for the Republican nomination for President in 1992 and 1996. When he began his campaign for President as a member of the Reform Party, he changed the entire premise for the existence of the organization, making it more of an affluent version of the Constitution Party in 2000. Rather than attempting to unite people with issues they had in common, Buchanan hammered away on divisive hot button social problems such as opposing abortion, Gay rights, Affirmative Action. He held views some called racist on non-white immigration. Using the slogan "America First" (which had previously been employed by fascist sympathizer, anti-Semite, white supremacist, and Holocaust denier Gerald L.K. Smith in his Presidential campaign), Buchanan offered no original ideas that were not already in the platforms of other Right wing political parties concerning foreign relations or the economy.

In spite of this he was able to elicit the support of former New Alliance Party Presidential candidate Lenora Fulani (later withdrawn) as well as future Socialist nominee Brian Moore. Klansman David Duke also hopped on board the Buchanan campaign, as well as members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, bringing a contingent of White Nationalist support.

In New York he ran under the banner of the Right to Life Party and in Colorado under the American Party.

After considering James P. Hoffa and others, Buchanan selected Ezola Foster, one of his co-chairs from the 1996 campaign. The California-based Foster had made a name for herself as an extremely conservative African American activist. Foster was known for her views against immigration, abortion, and Gay rights. She defended the display of the Confederate flag. She said God brought slaves from Africa to America so "their descendants would know freedom." Her placement on the ticket confused several of Buchanan's more racist followers.

Foster became a controversial pick. Her membership with the John Birch Society was more than simply carrying the card, she was also part of their lecture circuit talent pool. She described the civil rights movement as a "revenge and reparations movement" and didn't think segregation was really all that bad even though she grew up in Louisiana as part of the oppressed community. Rev. Jesse Jackson and his ilk were "Leninist race-baiters" according to Foster.

Foster said "government schools," i.e. public education, were "socialist training camps." She opposed AIDS education in schools because she felt it promoted homosexuality. Foster was outspoken and hardline about illegal immigrant children. As a high school teacher she said she was persecuted for her conservative beliefs and was forced to accept worker's compensation 1996-1998 until she retired because of stress. She later said the "mental disorder" claim was faked but reporters uncovered she had suffered from depression since the 1970s and had recently been prescribed antidepressants.

The Buchanan/Foster team alienated many of the veteran Reform Party members including Perot himself. The 2000 ticket generally placed 4th around the country, behind Ralph Nader and the Greens. In Oklahoma and South Dakota they placed third but in both cases Nader was not on the ballot. There were 45 states with Foster as the VP. In Massachusetts for some reason the running-mate was William J. Higgins Sr., in Oregon no VP was apparently listed, and in Michigan Buchanan was a write-in.

Top results for Buchanan/Foster ticket: North Dakota 2.53%, Alaska 1.82%, Idaho 1.52%, Montana 1.39%, Wyoming 1.25%, Utah 1.21%, South Dakota 1.05%, Minnesota 0.91%, Louisiana-Arizona 0.81% each, Arkansas 0.80%, Nevada 0.78%, Indiana 0.77%.

On Election Day the notorious Florida "butterfly ballot" was thought to be partly responsible for taking votes away from Al Gore and giving them to Pat Buchanan.

By the 2004 election Pat Buchanan was back in the Republican camp, leaving the Reform Party in a state of wreckage. Foster ran for US Congress in 2001 as a member of the Reform Party but in 2002 joined the American Independent Party, explaining, "I'm a Constitutionalist, and it's the only party that recognizes the kingship of Jesus Christ. I'm 100% for that."

Election history:
197- - California State Assembly (Democratic) - defeated
1984 - California State Assembly (Republican) - primary - defeated
1986 - California State Assembly (Republican) - defeated
2001 - US House of Representatives (Calif.) (Reform Party of the United States of America) - defeated

Other occupations: high school teacher, author, President of Black Americans for Family Values, lecturer

Buried: Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery (Boulder City, Nev.)

Notes:
Catholic
Winner of the 1984 and 1986 races was Maxine Waters.

Albert B. Moore

Albert B. Moore, July, 1939 (Warrenton, Va.) -

VP candidate for American Party (2000)

Running mate with nominee (2000): Donald Augustine Rogers (1928-2018)
Running mate with nominee (2004): Diane Beall Templin (b. 1947)
Popular vote (2000): ? (0.00%)
Popular vote (2004): ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote (2000, 2004): 0/538

The campaign (2000):

Century 21 would not be kind to the American Party in terms of Electoral politics. Starting in election year 2000 they failed to gain ballot access in any state for all the subsequent Presidential elections to date. Yet they still nominated tickets 2000-2008, and 2016.

39 delegates assembled in Oklahoma City in late March 2000 and nominated controversial former Republican California legislator and oil man Don Rogers for President and Virginia Shaklee distributor Al Moore for VP.

Consistently in the hard Right and embracing numerous conspiracy theories, the group described itself in 2000: "The American Party is a political party of God-fearing people who are pro-life and revere the Constitution. The American Party recognizes that the right to keep and bear arms is the defense of the nation and that the New World Order is a world government to replace the Constitution ... The Campaign announces that its chief goal is to make each citizen safe and secure in their person and property and to reestablish the Constitution as the law of the land. The Campaign slogan is: NO MORE CLINTON-GORE! VOTE FOR ROGERS-MOORE! and REPLACE AL GORE WITH AL MOORE!"

The Party was quite transparent about who they considered to be the best and the brightest to occupy the highest levels of government--

ROGERS-MOORE CABINET NOMINATIONS!
State -- G. Edward Griffin
Treasury -- Byron Dale
Defense -- Robert Dornan or (USCG Ret) Capt. G. Russell Evans
Commerce -- Gov. Evan Mechum
Agriculture -- Tom Anderson
Justice -- John Ashcroft
HUD -- Bob Boyd
OMB -- Doris Feimer
HHS -- Kay Cole James
Interior -- Helen Chenoweth-Hage
Education -- Ezola Foster
Energy -- Walter Myers
Labor -- Linda Patterson
Transportation -- Douglas Joy
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff -- (USAF Ret) Gen. Benton K. Partin
VA Secretary -- Elmer Vaughan
UN -- Arly Pedersen
EPA -- Diane Templin
National Security Advisor -- Pat Buchanan
FBI -- Riley Donica
Fed Chairman -- G. Edward Griffin
Surgeon General -- Dr. Leonard Horowitz
Chief Justice -- Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court Nominees -- Diane Templin; Judge Roy Moore, Alabama; Robert Bork

Not only was the Rogers/Moore ticket not on any ballot, they apparently did not register as write-in candidates as well.

The campaign (2004):

At their convention on July 11-12, 2003 the American Party nominated Robert N. Boyd of Fortville, Ind. for President and Walter C. Thompson of Culpeper, Va. for VP. Before the month was over Boyd withdrew from the race, followed a bit later by Thompson.

The Executive Committee met at a Travelodge in Kenner, La., on Jan. 10, 2004 and selected Diane Beall Templin over Albert Moore by a vote of 7-6. Moore became the VP nominee once again. Templin had been the Presidential nominee for the Party in 1996.

Once again the American Party failed to gain ballot access or become certified write-ins in any state. Templin was running for the US Senate in California at the same time under the American Independent Party, and that appears to be where her energies were directed.

A meeting called by the Clarion Call for Convergence Committee in Aug. 2004 had attendees from America First Party, Independent American Party, and American Party. The topic was the idea of merging the parties on the far Right into one organized political entity. But the largest of them all, the Constitution Party, was not present and nothing came of it.

Here are some selections from the American Party's lengthy platform for 2004-2008:

Preamble

Members of the American Party believe that the original Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights were prepared and adopted by men acting under inspiration from Almighty God, that they are solemn compacts between the people of the states of this nation which all officers of government are under oath to obey, and that the eternal moral laws expressed therein must be adhered to or individual liberty will perish.

--From the Constitution of the American party

The purpose of the American Party is to field candidates who will restore the proper role of government as defined in the Constitution of the United States and interpreted in the tradition of our Founding Fathers. We therefore call for all citizens to inform themselves and enter the political arena with time, money, and dedicated service in order that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people may not perish from the earth.

The proper role of government is limited to those spheres of activity within which the individual citizen, in the absence of government, had the right to act. By deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property, nor to force citizens to perform acts of charity against their will.

The American Party offers this platform in the sincere belief that these positions on the most important issues of the day are both right and necessary for peace, prosperity, justice, and domestic tranquility.

Education

The present crisis in education must be solved in stages and at several levels. First, so that no parents need defy the law by refusing to send their children to schools of which they disapprove, compulsory attendance laws should be repealed. Second, the control of schools should be returned to the local system by congressional limitation of the jurisdiction of federal courts and by an end to busing for racial balance. Third, the federal government should be eliminated entirely from interference in local schools by putting an end to federal aid. There should be no federal government control of textbooks. The selection of textbooks and approval of their content must be the responsibility of parents and local boards of education. We oppose the federal government's role in education including, but not limited to, the Federal Department of Education, "Goals 2000", "No Child Left Behind", and the total National Education Association agenda.

Fourth, the only permanently satisfactory solution to the many problems of general education - busing, curricula, discipline, drugs, the ban on prayer in schools - is decentralization of the educational system and the adoption of free enterprise methods. The education of children is the God-given responsibility of their parents, and private schools should be available without the additional burden of public (government) school taxes. Control over school policy and subject matter must be vested in the parents. To this end the American Party applauds those parents who are courageously offering their children academically superior education in private schools or at home, and extends the grateful thanks of the nation to them for refusing to relinquish the education of their children to the state.

Executive Orders

The Constitution specifies that only Congress may enact laws and that it may not delegate its legislative powers. Therefore, though the President may issue executive orders to administer the executive branch of government, neither the President nor any other officer may create laws decreed by executive agencies such as OSHA and the IRS. All such existing so-called laws should be declared void and further executive orders forbidden.

Homosexuality/Lesbianism

Homosexuality and lesbianism are a plague sweeping the nation and creating a wave of disease and immorality. Normal sex is an intimate relation between a man and a woman. All homosexual relations are acts of sodomy. People engaging in such acts should have no special rights or privileges and those living in such relationships have no familial rights or privileges such as adoption of children and legitimacy of marriage.

Labor

Labor rates must be established by the marketplace and not by government. Union membership and dues must be entirely voluntary. We favor the repeal of the National Labor Relations Act. We support Right-to-Work laws.

The use by unions of labor, donations, equipment, and money obtained from union dues and pension funds to control the candidates of political parties is both immoral and illegal. Those guilty of giving or receiving such funds should be prosecuted just as certainly as corporations which break the laws concerning campaign contributions.

Government workers hold their jobs as a privilege, not a right, and essential government services must not be interrupted by strikes by public employees. Collective bargaining by public employees must therefore be made illegal.

Public Morality

Neither Congress nor the federal courts should infringe the rights of state and local governments to enact constitutional laws restricting public obscenity, pornography, and illicit sex acts, especially prostitution and homosexuality.

Tax dollars must not be used to finance immoral art, literature, speech or actions.

Regional Government

Regional and metro government run by appointed bureaucrats is a device to impose direct federal control on metropolitan areas and to bypass State and local sovereignty performing an end run around the Constitution and backers of such schemes themselves admit it. As such, it is a blow against local control of representative government and should be abolished. No appointed official should have authority equal to that of elected officials within the same jurisdiction. The creation of regional government is in violation of the principles of the Constitution and is a brazen act of treason against our country.

New World Order and World Government

"New World Order" means world socialist government. This great evil is promoted as a way for the United Nations to function as envisioned by its founders.

Necessary companions of world government are world taxation, centralized world regulation of commerce, international control of the production and consumption of oil, a single world currency, and a world army to enforce the above.

A casualty of implementing the "New World Order" will be national sovereignty and the Constitution of the United States. The American Party is unalterably opposed to world government and to the "New World Order."

It is for this reason we oppose such treaties as NAFTA, GATT-WTO and other UN conventions as destructive of national sovereignty and as attempts to circumvent the Constitution of the United States.

War

Our military involvements in Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Persian Gulf were undeclared wars. We, therefore, would require that foreign military actions cannot be pursued more than 72 hours without a declaration of war by Congress. We denounce any no-win policy as treasonous. It is immoral to draft anyone to fight in an undeclared war. 

Election history:
1999 - Virginia House of Representatives (Independent) - defeated
2004 - American Party nomination for US President - defeated

Other occupations: Shaklee distributor, employee Virginia Dept. of Taxation, employee Philip Morris Tobacco, computer analyst, C.E.O. of Get Moore For Your Money Enterprises

Notes:
Virginia Tech 1963 B.S. in Mathematics and a minor in Physics.
Born in the same city as William C. Payne, VP for the National Negro Liberty Party 1904.