Showing posts with label Free Soil Party. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 17, 2021

Tulsi Gabbard

 






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

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

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

The campaign (2016):

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

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

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

BernieVote.com had a focus on Vermont--

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Motivation

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


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

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

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

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

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

The campaign (2020):

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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


Marion Barry died in 2014.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

George Washington Julian





George Washington Julian, May 5, 1817 (Centerville, Ind.) – July 7, 1899 (Irvington, Ind.)

VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
Running mate with nominee: John P. Hale (1806-1873)
Popular vote: 155,210 (4.91%)    
Electoral vote: 0/296

The campaign: This was something of a replay of the previous two presidential elections except in this case the abolitionist third party did not impact the outcome since Franklin Pierce won in an electoral landslide. This election took place in sort of a weird lull between the Compromise of 1850 and the rise of "Bleeding Kansas." The giants of the Senate Clay, Calhoun and Webster were dying off and the political winds were starting to shift.

There were some other third parties that were on the ballot-- Union Party, Native American Party, and Southern Rights Party-- and they collectively failed to gain even .05% so for now I'll pass them by and perhaps return in the course of this survey.

The Free Soil Party was on the ballot in 19 states, all in the North plus California. They placed third in every contest with their best showing in Maine (9.77%), Ohio (8.98%), Michigan (8.73%), and Illinois (6.36%). After this election the Free Soil Party merged with other political groups, such as the Whigs, to form the Republican Party. George Washington Julian was part of this transition.


Election history:
1845 Indiana House of Representatives (Whig)
1849-1851 US House of Representatives (Indiana) (Free Soil)
1851 US House of Representatives (Indiana) (Free Soil) - defeated
1854 US House of Representatives (Indiana) (Free Soil) - defeated
1860-1871 US House of Representatives (Indiana) (Republican)
1870 Primary, US House of Representatives (Indiana) (Republican) - defeated
1872 Nominee for Vice-President (Liberal Republican Party) - defeated

Other occupations: teacher, attorney, author, Surveyor General of New Mexico 1885-1889

Buried: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana

Notes:
Raised in a Quaker household but converted to Unitarianism.
Son-in-law of Ohio Congressman Joshua Reed Giddings of whom he wrote a biography in 1892
Allied himself with the Democratic Party after 1872.
Was considered an extremist and radical regarding abolition and women's suffrage.
Is buried in the same cemetery as fellow unsuccessful Vice-Presidential candidates William Hayden English and John W. Kern, Democrats who ran in 1880 and 1908. Among the many other notables buried there is John Dillinger.
After the Civil War he supported the idea of executing of Jefferson Davis and also the impeachment of President Johnson.
Quotes about George Washington Julian:
"It is not a pleasant countenance to look upon, but rather grim and belligerent, touched perhaps with a little sense of weary sadness, which grows as you observe. Mr. Julian's head, face, and figure, is of the Round-head, Cromwellian type."--June 14, 1866, Observer
"Nature was in one of her most generous moods when she formed him, for he towers above the people like a mountain surrounded by hills. He dwells in a higher atmosphere and snuffs a purer air than most Congressmen, and this may account for his always being found in the right place, never doubtful. People know just what George Washington Julian will do in any national crisis."--Philadelphia Press, Mar. 3, 1868
"He uses vinegar when he might scatter sugar."--Gazette (Cincinnati) Feb. 14, 1870



Charles Francis Adams Sr.








Charles Francis Adams Sr., August 18, 1807 (Boston, Mass.) – November 21, 1886 (Boston, Mass.)

VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
Running mate with nominee: Martin Van Buren (1782-1862)
Popular vote: 291,501 (10.12%)    
Electoral vote: 0/290

The campaign: Comprised of refugees from the Liberty Party as well as disaffected Whigs and Democrats, the Free Soil Party's campaign of preventing the spread of slavery as America moved westward attracted former President Van Buren as the standard bearer and an Adams as the running mate, a formidable ticket for a third party. This would be the first of three attempts by a former President to regain the office via a third party run. Van Buren knew he wouldn't win but due to apparent personal animosity he wanted to deny Lewis Cass a victory (who beat him out of the Democratic nomination), which it seems he accomplished.

The Free Soil Party was on the ballot in just over half the states, all in the North. They placed second in Vermont (28.87%), Massachusetts (28.45%), New York (26.43%), and were possible spoilers in Connecticut swinging all of those states to the winner Zachary Taylor.

Election history:
1840-1843 Massachusetts House of Representatives (Whig)
1843-1845 Massachusetts State Senate (Whig)
1858-1861 US House of Representatives (Mass.) (Republican)
1872 - Nominee, US President (Liberal Republican) - defeated
1872 - US President (Anti-Masonic) - defeated
1876 - Governor of Massachusetts (Democratic) - defeated

Other occupations: author, historian, newspaper editor, United States Envoy to the United Kingdom 1861-1868, Harvard University Overseer, U.S. arbiter on the 1871–72 international commission to settle the "Alabama" claims,

Buried: Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.

Notes:
First third party VP candidate born in the 19th century.
Strongest showing by a third party up to that point in US history.
Son and grandson of US Presidents.
Declined the presidency of Harvard University
Started first presidential library (for John Quincy Adams)
His sister-in-law, Charlotte, was married to Edward Everett who would later be another third party running mate in 1860 (Constitutional Union Party)
His son, John Quincy Adams II, was a third party running mate in 1872 when nominated on the "Straight-Out Democratic" ticket.
As Ambassador to the UK, Adams was in correspondence with Karl Marx and passed along the economist's writings to President Lincoln.
Adams considered Lincoln to be vulgar, uncouth, and ill-prepared for the presidency.
His political benefactor in the 1860s was William H. Seward.
The 1848 election was the first US election that took place on the same day in every state.