Friend down in Atlanta, Georgia
VP candidate for Independent (2016)
Running mate with nominee: Eric S. Nagel (b. 1979)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Eric Nagel, a tech company employee in Kenmore, N.Y. filed as an Independent candidate for US President with the FEC on Apr. 13, 2015.
The candidate answered "I really don't have any" when asked about his platform issues by WGRZ in Aug. 2015. He added, "You always hear that anyone can run, and I was sitting at my computer one morning answering email and just thought, let me see how hard this is. Twenty minutes later, I was a presidential candidate." And he foreshadowed, "It's gonna be neat, like my kids tell their teachers that 'my dad's running for President', and I kind of did it for that just so that I can say, as part of family history, that I ran for President."
His campaign Facebook page did indeed include some platform issues plus a few opinions, including--
June 9, 2016
Well crap, I was hoping Bernie Sanders was going to endorse me. Time for plan B.
Aug. 18, 2016
'Deez Nuts' puts Federal Election Commission on bozo patrol
Rash of bogus presidential candidates taxing government resources
Nov. 6, 2016
Vote #Nagel2016 and I'll eliminate #DaylightSaving before we spring forward next year. (Since my plan of springing forward 12 minutes every weekday at 4:48pm and falling back 1 hour every Saturday night is too complicated for many)
In terms of a running-mate, Nagel said, "Your running mate cannot be from the same state... (but) my friend down in Atlanta, Georgia, said he would run and bring the Southern vote together. Maybe it's a North/South ticket."
Nagel and his VP did not appear on any ballots nor were they registered as write-ins in any state.
Election history: ?
Other occupations: ?
Notes:
Another especially vague mystery VP along the lines of "Neighbor of Nicholas C. Kratsas," the running-mate for the Truth and Freedom Party (1988).
