VP candidate for Independent (2012)
Running mate with nominee: Joseph A. Glean
Popular vote: 4 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Joe Glean, a warehouse worker in Alexandria, Va., filed as a 2012 write-in for President in his home state on Oct. 26, 2012. He had run the previous year as an Independent for the Virginia House of Delegates on a conservative Christian platform. His running-mate was Darlene Herleikson of Manassas, Va.
The Glean/Herleikson ticket received three votes after a very brief campaign. There was an additional vote for Glean with Jamie Johnson written in as the VP, and if I am reading this correctly Glean requested the Johnson vote be counted for Herleikson. If for some reason the ticket had emerged victorious on Election Day the duo would have faced the Constitutional problem of being residents of the same state.
It was after the election that Glean's campaign became interesting. He had cooked up some kind of scenario that involved himself and Herleikson resigning from their ticket on Dec. 4, 2012 and officially replacing them with Alan Keyes and E.W. Jackson. And somehow the Democratic Party Electors, who were pledged to give Obama Virginia's 13 electoral votes, would magically vote instead for Keyes and Jackson. I do not fully understand the logic here, but Glean seemed to have had it all worked out. On his website Glean had engaged in an early form of campaign doxxing when he published the names, photos, emails, Facebook URLs, church membership, and phone numbers what he called the "Frye/White Electors," named after two of the members. The unspoken message here seemed to be to encourage conservative activists to personally lobby (some would say harass) the Electors. Glean explained--
As of today, I am withdrawing my candidacy so that the candidacy of Alan Keyes may properly advance to the head of our ticket — and so that the Frye/White electors will be enabled to cast their vote accordingly. Effective today, Ambassador Alan Keyes is our campaign’s official “substitute candidate for President.”
For those who’ve been following along, it will be instructive to note that this outcome did not require a clamorous, million-man convention, where participants are compelled [by abandonment of conscience] to signal their loyalty and moral submission to party leaders and other political luminaries.
All it required was a bit of independent thinking and the God-given determination of ordinary citizens, endeavoring to make good use of an avenue established by our forebears for the fulfillment of this very purpose: So that members of the general public are enabled, with relative ease, to successfuly advance candidates of their own choosing — and enabled to do so in a way that rightfully and lawfully qualifies those candidates for equal consideration at the electoral college, without anyone having to pay obeisance to the political parties, the media, the money people, the special interest groups, or any other modern manifestation of ivory-tower elitism.
It is on account of such “outside” influence that the candidacy of our political opponent (the Democrat incumbent, Barack Obama) has become symbolic of the peerage and imperialistic workings of the political elite, the moral subjugation of their subjects, and the trespass [en masse] of all those loyal to the partisan establishment.
And perhaps no one has recognized this point or articulated it with better clarity than Bishop E. W. Jackson, our “substitute candidate for Vice President” vice Darlene Herleikson, withdrawn.
In closing, let me clearly reiterate that our campaign does not intend to follow Romney/Ryan or the Republican party in conceding Virginia to the Democrat party. We refuse to do so.
We maintain that our campaign has rightfully and lawfully qualified for equal consideration at the electoral college. And for the sake of uniformity and fairness, we insist that our electors be equipped with a sufficient way to “choose” between Obama/Biden (the choice engineered by the political parties) and Keyes/Jackson (the choice constructed by ordinary citizens) when they convene later this month.
The most sensible way for the Virginia State Board of Elections to accomplish/maintain the semblance of uniformity is to allow the names of both our candidates, Alan Keyes (President) and E. W. Jackson (Vice President), to be printed on the ‘electoral college’ ballot, so that the Frye/White electors shall be enabled to adequately and plainly choose between the two considerations submitted to them by the Virginia electorate.
And prefacing the gallery of Electors with all that contact information, Glean wrote--
Rightly fulfilling the duty of an elector, and doing so with absolute integrity, is no easy burden — especially given our current age of moral depravity.
And so regardless of your political beliefs or your party affiliation, I am asking all those who acknowledge God to keep this matter in prayer.
May each of these thirteen electors arrive safely to Richmond on Monday, December 17, 2012, and may each be met with the wisdom and peace of our Lord.
It should be pointed out that Keyes was not on the Presidential ballot in any state in 2012 including the Commonwealth of Virginia. Obama had defeated Romney 51%-47%, so if the Electors selected Keyes/Jackson they would have effectively subverted the popular vote, which indeed some faithless Electors have been known to do.
Election history: none
Other occupations: ?
Notes:
Another mystery VP.
I wonder if they used the slogan, "Glean and Darlene"?
One of the "Frye/White Electors," Melissa Salyer of Big Stone Gap, is probably one of my distant cousins or married to one.
