Leonard Peltier

 

Leonard Peltier, September 12, 1944 (Belcourt, N.D.) -

VP candidate for Party for Socialism and Liberation (aka Peace and Freedom Party) (2020)

Running mate with nominee: Gloria Estela La Riva (b. 1954)
Popular vote: 9,506 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

2020 was the 4th national election for the young party, and in three of those the standard bearer was Gloria La Riva. Her running-mate was Leonard Peltier.

Peltier, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa who was previously active in the American Indian Movement (AIM) had been in prison since 1977. He was convicted of aiding and abetting the 1975 shooting at point blank range of a couple of FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Reservation, SD. Peltier became a fugitive but was arrested a couple months later in Alberta. His case quickly drew controversy while gaining supporters contending he is a political prisoner and the "Free Leonard Peltier" movement was born.

In 2004 Peltier was the Presidential nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party.

La Riva ran on a platform of 10 points, as she did in 2016--

The PSL’s 2020 Ten Point
Socialist Campaign Program

★ 1 |  Make the essentials of life into constitutional rights
The U.S. has more than enough so that all the essentials of life — food, housing, water, education, health care and a job or basic income can be guaranteed rights — rather than distributed only for profit. Create a completely free and public healthcare system. Make education free—cancel all student debt. Fully fund rebuilding of the infrastructure in transport, water and utility systems. Stop all foreclosures and evictions. End all discrimination based on ability/disability.

★ 2 |  For the Earth to live, capitalism must be replaced by a socialist system
Global warming, pollution, acidified and depleted oceans, fracking, critical drought, plastics choking the seas, nuclear weapons and waste — it is clear that capitalism and production for profit are destroying the planet and threatening all life. The crisis is already here, with the most vulnerable and oppressed areas of the U.S. and Global South bearing the brunt. Using truly sustainable energy and seizing the oil and coal companies to stop fossil fuel pollution, are urgent steps needed to reverse climate change. Ultimately, only the socialist reorganization of society can assure the future of the people and the planet.

★ 3 |  End racism, police brutality and mass incarceration-Pay reparations to the African American community
Mass incarceration and racist policing are symptomatic of the 400 years of brutal repression meted out to African-descended peoples in the U.S. and the genocide committed against the Native nations. Reparations must be paid to the African American and Native communities! More than 2.2 million people are behind bars in the largest prison complex in the world. End mass incarceration of oppressed and all working class people. Fully prosecute all acts of police brutality and violence. Free Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners!

★ 4 |  Full rights for all immigrants
Abolish all anti-immigrant laws. Stop the raids and deportations and demonization of immigrants. Shut down ICE and the concentration camps and reunite families. The government’s war on immigrants must end. The border wall must be dismantled. Amnesty and citizenship for those without documents. Full rights for all!

★ 5 |  Shut down all U.S. military bases around the world—bring all the troops, planes & ships home
U.S. foreign policy uses the pretext of national security to enforce the imperialist interests of the biggest banks and corporations. That is what is behind the endless wars and occupations. Use the $1 trillion military budget instead to provide for people’s needs here and worldwide. Abolish nuclear weapons. Stop U.S. aid to Israel. Self-determination for the Palestinian people, including the right of return. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba and sanctions against Venezuela, Iran and all countries. Independence for Puerto Rico and cancel its debt!

★ 6 |  Honor Native treaties. Free Leonard Peltier now
Both major parties have continued to allow the destruction of Native lands by mining and corporate agricultural interests in blatant disregard of indigenous sovereign rights. 33% of Native children live in poverty and many of America's poorest counties are reservations. The crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and the over-incarceration of Native peoples shows the bankruptcy of capitalism from its earliest inception in the Americas until today.
 
★ 7 |  Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people
Fight back against anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence. Defend marriage equality. Full equality in all matters governed by civil law, including employment, housing, healthcare and education. No to “religious exemption” laws that allow discrimination against LGBTQ people!
 
★ 8 |  Equality for women and free, safe, legal abortion on demand
Stop the attack on women’s reproductive rights and defend Roe v. Wade. Women must have the fundamental right to choose & control their own bodies. Women still earn 22 percent less than men, and the gap is even more severe for Black and Latina women. Close the wage gap and end the gender division of labor.

★ 9 |  Defend and expand our unions
Support the right of all workers to have a union. Fight back against the attacks on collective bargaining. Require employers to recognize card check union votes. Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Focusing on low-wage worker organizing, rebuild a fighting labor movement.

★ 10 |  Takeover the stolen wealth of the giant banks and corporations – Jail Wall St. criminals
The vast wealth of the giant banks and corporations is created by workers labor and the exploitation of the world’s diminishing natural resources. The billionaires looted and destroyed the economy. It is time to seize their assets and use those resources in the interests of the vast majority. Power must be taken out of the hands of the super rich, and Wall Street criminals must be jailed.
    
In May 2020 the ticket was also nominated by the Liberty Union Party in Vermont. LU had also selected La Riva in 2016. On the negative side one can find chatter from other Leftist groups who consider PSL to be "tankies" (i.e. Stalinists) in love with despotic regimes as well as being an undemocratic, nontransparent political party to the point of being a cult. There have been allegations for years that PSL has harbored and protected sexual predators and abusers within their ranks.

Peltier withdrew from the ticket on July 20, 2020. The Party's website ran this statement--

Leonard Peltier regretfully withdraws as vice-presidential candidate

The Gloria La Riva for President 2020 Campaign announced today that Leonard Peltier has been compelled to withdraw as our vice–presidential candidate. Leonard’s health has seriously deteriorated in recent weeks and the maximum security prison where he is confined in Florida does not have the medical facilities he requires. He urgently needs compassionate release or commutation of his sentence that has now stretched for 44 years, as well as immediate transfer to a medical facility for proper medical treatment. His legal team -- and we -- believes that all focus must be directed toward his health situation and legal matters before him.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is deeply honored that Leonard accepted our vice-presidential nomination to run on a ticket with presidential candidate Gloria La Riva. From the start last September, Leonard, a true people’s hero, was enthusiastic about the campaign and remained so until his health and legal circumstances has forced him to withdraw.

The La Riva for President 2020 Campaign and the Party for Socialism and Liberation hold Leonard Peltier in the highest esteem and pledge to continue the struggle for his freedom and the medical attention he urgently needs.

In a message regarding his withdrawal to Gloria La Riva on July 29, 2020, Leonard wrote: 

I know this is a huge disappointment to you as it is mine, that I have to drop out of the campaign with Gloria La Riva. My medical problems are not getting any better. I need to try to get home or at least closer. If so, it would be easier to get out. So please, forgive me if I have disappointed any of you. I did not intend to. Nor was I dropping out because I did not believe in it. I'm seriously hurting. Just know I love you young people who support me. You're awesome. Thank you for your support and love.

"Doksha, Leonard Peltier”

The PSL 2020 vice-presidential candidate will be Washington DC-based long-time activist and fighter for justice Sunil Freeman.

For the second time in a row the Peace and Freedom Party in California nominated La Riva for President, soundly defeating Howie Hawkins' bid.

Ever since the 2008 election the Party's popular vote result has been steadily rising. Their combined 2020 vote was 86,239, finishing in 6th place after the Libertarian, Green, and Alliance parties. 9,506 of those votes were for the La Riva/Peltier ticket in Illinois (0.13%), Minnesota (0.04%) where his name remained in the ballot, and in Texas (0.00%) as the official write-in VP.

The La Riva/Freeman ticket saw their strongest percentages in California (0.29%), District of Columbia (0.25%), New Mexico (0.18%), Rhode Island (0.16%), Washington (0.12%), and Arkansas (0.11%).

Election history:
2004 - US President (Peace and Freedom Party) - defeated

Other occupations: welder, construction worker, auto body shop, activist, author

Notes:
Washington State trivia alert!!!-- Peltier was co-owner of an auto body shop in Seattle ca1965-1972.
 In July 2000 the Washington State Democratic Party passed a resolution in support of executive
 clemency for Peltier.

Sunil K. Freeman

 

Sunil K. Freeman, January 28, 1955 (Raleigh, N.C.) -

VP candidate for Party for Socialism and Liberation (aka Peace and Freedom Party aka Independent aka Unaffiliated aka Liberty Union Party) (2020)

Running mate with nominee: Gloria Estela La Riva (b. 1954)
Popular vote: 76,733 (0.05%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

2020 was the 4th national election for the young party, and in three of those the standard bearer was Gloria La Riva. Her running-mate was Leonard Peltier.

La Riva ran on a platform of 10 points, as she did in 2016--

The PSL’s 2020 Ten Point
Socialist Campaign Program

★ 1 |  Make the essentials of life into constitutional rights
The U.S. has more than enough so that all the essentials of life — food, housing, water, education, health care and a job or basic income can be guaranteed rights — rather than distributed only for profit. Create a completely free and public healthcare system. Make education free—cancel all student debt. Fully fund rebuilding of the infrastructure in transport, water and utility systems. Stop all foreclosures and evictions. End all discrimination based on ability/disability.

★ 2 |  For the Earth to live, capitalism must be replaced by a socialist system
Global warming, pollution, acidified and depleted oceans, fracking, critical drought, plastics choking the seas, nuclear weapons and waste — it is clear that capitalism and production for profit are destroying the planet and threatening all life. The crisis is already here, with the most vulnerable and oppressed areas of the U.S. and Global South bearing the brunt. Using truly sustainable energy and seizing the oil and coal companies to stop fossil fuel pollution, are urgent steps needed to reverse climate change. Ultimately, only the socialist reorganization of society can assure the future of the people and the planet.

★ 3 |  End racism, police brutality and mass incarceration-Pay reparations to the African American community
Mass incarceration and racist policing are symptomatic of the 400 years of brutal repression meted out to African-descended peoples in the U.S. and the genocide committed against the Native nations. Reparations must be paid to the African American and Native communities! More than 2.2 million people are behind bars in the largest prison complex in the world. End mass incarceration of oppressed and all working class people. Fully prosecute all acts of police brutality and violence. Free Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners!

★ 4 |  Full rights for all immigrants
Abolish all anti-immigrant laws. Stop the raids and deportations and demonization of immigrants. Shut down ICE and the concentration camps and reunite families. The government’s war on immigrants must end. The border wall must be dismantled. Amnesty and citizenship for those without documents. Full rights for all!

★ 5 |  Shut down all U.S. military bases around the world—bring all the troops, planes & ships home
U.S. foreign policy uses the pretext of national security to enforce the imperialist interests of the biggest banks and corporations. That is what is behind the endless wars and occupations. Use the $1 trillion military budget instead to provide for people’s needs here and worldwide. Abolish nuclear weapons. Stop U.S. aid to Israel. Self-determination for the Palestinian people, including the right of return. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba and sanctions against Venezuela, Iran and all countries. Independence for Puerto Rico and cancel its debt!

★ 6 |  Honor Native treaties. Free Leonard Peltier now
Both major parties have continued to allow the destruction of Native lands by mining and corporate agricultural interests in blatant disregard of indigenous sovereign rights. 33% of Native children live in poverty and many of America's poorest counties are reservations. The crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and the over-incarceration of Native peoples shows the bankruptcy of capitalism from its earliest inception in the Americas until today.
 
★ 7 |  Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people
Fight back against anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence. Defend marriage equality. Full equality in all matters governed by civil law, including employment, housing, healthcare and education. No to “religious exemption” laws that allow discrimination against LGBTQ people!
 
★ 8 |  Equality for women and free, safe, legal abortion on demand
Stop the attack on women’s reproductive rights and defend Roe v. Wade. Women must have the fundamental right to choose & control their own bodies. Women still earn 22 percent less than men, and the gap is even more severe for Black and Latina women. Close the wage gap and end the gender division of labor.

★ 9 |  Defend and expand our unions
Support the right of all workers to have a union. Fight back against the attacks on collective bargaining. Require employers to recognize card check union votes. Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Focusing on low-wage worker organizing, rebuild a fighting labor movement.

★ 10 |  Takeover the stolen wealth of the giant banks and corporations – Jail Wall St. criminals
The vast wealth of the giant banks and corporations is created by workers labor and the exploitation of the world’s diminishing natural resources. The billionaires looted and destroyed the economy. It is time to seize their assets and use those resources in the interests of the vast majority. Power must be taken out of the hands of the super rich, and Wall Street criminals must be jailed.
    
In May 2020 the ticket was also nominated by the Liberty Union Party in Vermont. LU had also selected La Riva in 2016. On the negative side one can find chatter from other Leftist groups who consider PSL to be "tankies" (i.e. Stalinists) in love with despotic regimes as well as being an undemocratic, nontransparent political party to the point of being a cult. There have been allegations for years that PSL has harbored and protected sexual predators and abusers within their ranks.

Peltier withdrew from the ticket on July 20, 2020 citing ill health. He was replaced by Sunil Freeman. Freeman's biography was provided on the campaign website--

Sunil Freeman is a lifelong activist and cultural worker. He is the child of parents who met as workers at the refugee camp in Kurukshetra during the time of India's independence and partition. Growing up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C., Sunil, along with his family, were active participants in the mass anti-Vietnam War movement, formative experiences that brought Sunil into solidarity with all the movements of the oppressed sweeping the world during that time.

Sunil, a poet and essayist, has contributed to and edited major literary journals. He joined the PSL in 2005 after becoming an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition in the anti-Iraq War movement. Sunil has participated in and organized dozens of events in opposition to US wars abroad, against the US blockade of Cuba, and against criminal sanctions levied by the US against a range of countries.

Sunil is also a disability rights activist working to make all aspects of society accessible to all. Sunil currently resides in Maryland and continues to be active in social justice issues of all kinds.

For the second time in a row the Peace and Freedom Party in California nominated La Riva for President, soundly defeating Howie Hawkins' bid.

Ever since the 2008 election the Party's popular vote result has been steadily rising. Their combined 2020 vote was 86,239, finishing in 6th place after the Libertarian, Green, and Alliance parties. 9,506 of those votes were for the La Riva/Peltier ticket in Illinois (0.13%) and Minnesota (0.04%) where his name remained in the ballot, and in Texas (0.00%) as the official write-in VP.

The La Riva/Freeman ticket saw their strongest percentages in California (0.29%), District of Columbia (0.25%), New Mexico (0.18%), Rhode Island (0.16%), Washington (0.12%), and Arkansas (0.11%).

Election history: none

Other occupations: poet, author, Assistant Director of the Writer's Center

Notes:
Freeman's father was an American Quaker, his mother born a citizen of India.

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.

Eugene Puryear

 

Eugene Puryear, February 28, 1986 (Charlottesville, Va.) -

VP candidate for Party for Socialism and Liberation (aka Independent aka Unaffiliated) (2008)
VP candidate for Party for Socialism and Liberation (aka Liberty Union Party) (2016)

Running mate with nominee (2008, 2016): Gloria Estela La Riva (b. 1954)
Popular vote (2008): 5,921 (0.00%)
Popular vote (2016): 6,204 (0.00%)
Electoral vote (2008, 2016): 0/538

The campaign (2008):

In the middle of campaign 2004, the San Francisco branch of the Workers World Party split and helped form the Party for Socialism and Liberation. To outsiders even within the Left, the difference between the WWP and PSL seemed minuscule as both entities support repressive regimes (e.g. North Korea) and seem to mirror each other in a philosophy frequently described by observers as neo-Stalinist.

In an Aug. 1, 2004 statement from the PSL, the split from WWP reads like it was more about form rather than content--

While we are in the first stage of creating a new revolutionary party, we have a long tradition as leaders and organizers inside the Marxist movement in the United States, as well as in the anti-war and anti-racist movements, in the labor movement, and in the other mass movements inside the United States. As former leaders and members of Workers World Party, we defend that group's historical tradition and mission, particularly that of its founder Sam Marcy. Although we believe that the Workers World Party leadership is no longer capable of fulfilling that mission, we still consider it to be a progressive organization with many honest activists.

The PSL fielded their first Presidential ticket in 2008 with perennial candidate Gloria La Riva as the standard bearer and Eugene Puryear as her running-mate. In order to make a point, political parties on the Left frequently nominate candidates who would legally be unable to assume office in the event of a victory and Puryear, who was under the Constitution-mandated age of 35 to serve as Vice-President, falls into that category. In some states a stand-in was required. Robert Moses fit that bill.

The La Riva campaign posted an abstract of the platform on their webpage--

U.S. OUT OF IRAQ NOW
End the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. Bring all the troops home now.
Stop U.S. blockades & sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Korea, Sudan and everywhere.
End U.S. aid to Israel—Support the Palestinian people’s right of self-determination.
Free Puerto Rico.
International friendship and solidarity, not imperialist domination.

FIGHT THE CORPORATE BOSSES
Full employment—decent jobs for all. Job training for youth & the unemployed.
Raise the minimum wage to $15/hour now.
Free, quality healthcare for all.
Expand and guarantee social security for all retired workers, disabled and unemployed people.
Stop union-busting, expand the right to organize, including card-check recognition.
Free, high quality education from pre-school through college.
Housing is a right—End foreclosures and evictions.
Stop environmental destruction—Make the polluters pay.
Rebuild New Orleans—Right of return for all survivors.

EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL
Fight racism and the racist criminal “justice” system.
Defend women’s reproductive rights, including the right to choose.
Full rights for all immigrants.
Reparations now for the African American community.
Eliminate anti-LGBT laws—Equal marriage rights for all.
Equality for disabled people.
Stop police brutality and mass incarceration.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, the Cuban 5, Angola 3, S.F. 8 and all political prisoners.

SOCIALISM
End the rule of the billionaires, bankers and militarists—fight for workers’ democracy.
We need a sustainable economy based on meeting people’s needs, not making the rich richer.
We need socialism!

La Riva/Puryear were on the ballot in Arkansas (0.10%), Vermont (0.05%), Florida, Louisiana, New York, and Washington (0.02% each), and New Jersey (0.01%).

The campaign (2016):

The La Riva/Puryear ticket was nominated again for the 2016 election, and again Puryear was still too young to serve if elected. La Riva's substitute running-mates were Dennis Banks (California [Peace and Freedom Party], Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico) and Sarah Sloan (Maryland).

The strength of Bernie Sanders' campaign in the Democratic Party was a mixed issue for the PSL. On their webpage they did not consider him a real socialist--

He does not call for nationalizing the corporations and banks, without which the reorganization of the economy to meet people’s needs rather than maximizing the profits of capitalist investors could not take place … He is clearly seeking to reform the existing capitalist system.

However, in an article by Molly Ball in The Atlantic covering Puryear and the PSL, the VP nominee said there was a positive side to the Sanders movement--

“He has revealed that there are millions of people who not only are progressive on the issues, but in a more holistic way are willing to refer to themselves as socialist,” he said. “It’s exciting to know that young people haven’t lost all hope.” And yet, when it comes to substance, Puryear considers Sanders’s policy ideas inadequate. “Our economy as it’s currently constructed cannot possibly provide enough decent employment for the number of people being born every single day,” Puryear said. The solution, in his view, is to take the aggregate product of society’s labor and, rather than let the market allocate it mostly to the upper classes, divide it to meet everybody’s needs.

... he believes 2016 could be a watershed year for socialists, thanks in part to Sanders. If, as seems likely as of this writing, Sanders falls short of the nomination, Puryear expects to see a large bloc of newly engaged leftist voters seeking a far-left electoral alternative to Hillary Clinton. He hopes they will discover the PSL. “We will make explicit appeals to [Sanders’s] supporters to back our socialist ticket over Secretary Clinton, who we feel is much further from their views than ours,” he said. Which is to say that Bernie Sanders could, in losing, score a win for American socialism.

The La Riva/Puryear ticket could be found on the ballot in Washington (0.12%), Vermont (0.10%), New Jersey (0.04%), and Louisiana (0.02%). They were also write-in candidates in Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas, Minnesota, New York, and West Virginia. Of the impressive 74,405 popular votes (0.05%) gained nationally by La Riva in 2016, the ticket with Puryear accounted for 6,204 of them.

Election history:
2014 - District of Columbia Council At-Large (DC Statehood-Green Party) - defeated

Other occupations: author, journalist, editor, member of National Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, talk show host on Sputnik radio network

Notes:
The Workers World Party endorsed Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney in 2008, and did not run Presidential tickets in 2012 or 2020.

Stewart Alexis Alexander

 

Stewart Alexis Alexander, October 1, 1951 (Newport News, Va.) -

VP candidate for Socialist Party of the United States of America (aka Liberty Union Party aka Independent aka Socialist Party USA) (2008)

Running mate with nominee: Brian Patrick Moore (b. 1943)
Popular vote: 6,582 (0.01%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

The top three contenders for the Presidential nomination of the Socialist Party at the 2007 convention were Brian P. Moore, Eric Chester (1996 VP nominee), and Stewart Alexander. The Florida-based Moore won the prize on the third ballot, with Alexander of California granted the running-mate position. Moore and Alexander were also competitors on the California ballot for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination (along with Gloria La Riva and Cynthia McKinney among others) but Ralph Nader emerged as the victor in that one.

Darcy Richardson served as Moore's campaign advisor.

The Moore/Alexander ticket won the coveted ballot line for the Liberty Union Party in Vermont.

The platform was long and cumbersome as per usual. There was special emphasis on ending the military adventures started by the George W. Bush administration as well as the resulting social, civic, and economic negative ripple effect throughout the country.   

In the course of his early campaign for the Presidential nomination, Alexander provided an almost too-much-information mini-biography that included among his struggles the fact he had been briefly jailed in a domestic dispute 2003-2004 in a case where the charges were eventually dropped.

The Party was largely ignored by Big Media until the McCain/Palin ticket bestowed them with a gift. Using tried and true Red-baiting tactics, the Republicans attempted to paint Obama as a "socialist." Suddenly the press wanted to know what a real Socialist thought about this and Moore had a last minute surge of unusually broad coverage for a Left wing third party. This provided him with an opportunity to clearly delineate the differences between the Socialists and the Democrats to a wider audience than usual.

In spite of the media coverage, the popular vote for the SPUSA had declined by more than 4,000 since the previous election. On the ballot in 8 states and registered write-ins in several more, the Moore/Alexander ticket had their best percentages in Ohio and Tennessee (0.05% each), Vermont (0.04%), New Jersey and Wisconsin (0.02% each), Colorado and Iowa (0.01% each).

Election history:
1989 - Mayor of Los Angeles, Calif. (Nonpartisan) - defeated
2006 - Lt. Governor of California (Peace and Freedom Party) - defeated
2007 - Socialist Party of the United States of America nomination for US President - defeated
2008 - Peace and Freedom Party nomination for US President - defeated
2010 - Governor of California (Peace and Freedom Party) - primary - defeated
2012 - Peace and Freedom Party nomination for US President - defeated
2012 - Green Party of the United States nomination for US President - withdrew
2012 - US President (Socialist Party of the United States of America) - defeated

Other occupations: US Air Force Reserve, grocery clerk, contractor, radio talk show host, auto sales, activist with the Florida Consumer Action Network,

Notes:
1989 opponents included Tom Bradley (winner), Maria Elizabeth Munoz.

Mary Alice Herbert

Mary Alice Herbert, February 28, 1935 (Dover, Del.) -

VP candidate for Socialist Party of the United States of America (aka Socialist Party USA aka Socialist Party aka Natural Law Party aka United Citizens Party aka Protecting Working Families) (2004)

Running mate with nominee: Walter Frederick Brown (b. 1926)
Popular vote: 10,606 (0.01%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In 2004 the Socialist Party of the United States of America nominated 78 year old attorney Walter F. Brown for President. He was a former Democratic State Senator in Oregon (PNW trivia alert!!!) with a long record of progressive activism including being a member of the Socialist Party in earlier days. Mary Alice Herbert, a perennial candidate with the Liberty Union Party in Vermont, was nominated for Vice-President.

Herbert had a political alliance with Eric Chester and ran as his provisional VP in 2004 and in 2008. In the former campaign she retained the position of official running-mate even after the Party selected Walter F. Brown as the nominee.

Even though the SPUSA campaign webpage included: "We support the rights of all women to birth control information and supplies, and to all reproductive health services (including abortion)," it turned out Presidential nominee Brown held anti-abortion views and as a result there was an effort by some factions of the Party to rescind his nomination. Party leaders were also not enamored with Brown's style, as politics1 reported, "Some SPUSA insiders gripe that Brown insists upon total day-to-day control of all aspects his own campaign, even writing his own press releases, newspaper ads, etc. They note it took over a week after Brown won the nomination for him to finalize the press release announcing his victory."

The Liberty Union Party in Vermont, which had endorsed the SPUSA in half of the previous eight Presidential elections including 1996 and 2000, endorsed the Workers World Party for the first and only time in their history. Although Herbert was a long-time member and was listed on their campaign webpage promoting her as the SPUSA VP, Brown's name was totally absent.

Even so, the Brown/Herbert team picked up endorsements from a couple local remaining remnants of the now defunct Natural Law Party in Delaware and Michigan, and the United Citizens Party in South Carolina. In Louisiana they were called Protecting Working Families. 

The Brown/Herbert ticket was on the ballot in 7 states and certified write-ins in 9 others. Their strongest vote results: South Carolina 0.13%, Louisiana 0.09%, Florida 0.05%, and Delaware 0.03%.

Mary Cal Hollis, the 2000 VP was on the ballot with Brown in Colorado only.

In spite the non-support from much of the Party after the abortion issue, the SPUSA enjoyed their highest national vote result since it was founded in 1976 and the number not been matched since then. It was thought the SPUSA picked up a significant amount of voters on the Left  disappointed with Nader's independent run as well being disenchanted with the Greens.

Election history:
1984 - Vermont State House of Representatives (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
1990 - Vermont Secretary of State (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
1992 - Vermont Secretary of State (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
1994 - Vermont Secretary of State (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
1996 - Governor of Vermont (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
2006 - Lt. Governor of Vermont (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
2008 - Socialist Party of the United States of America nomination for US Vice-President - defeated
2012 - Vermont Secretary of State (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
2014 - Vermont Secretary of State (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
2016 - Vermont Secretary of State (Progressive Party) - primary - defeated
2016 - Vermont Secretary of State (Liberty Union Party) - defeated
2018 - Vermont Secretary of State (Progressive Party) - primary - defeated
2018 - Vermont Secretary of State (Democratic Party) - primary - defeated
2018 - Vermont Secretary of State (Liberty Union Party) - defeated

Other occupations: teacher

Notes:
She was Republican earlier in life.
1996 opponents included Howard Dean (winner) and Denny Lane.
First third party VP I have located who was born in Delaware.

Teresa Gutiérrez

Teresa Gutiérrez, January 6, 1951 (Bexar County, Tex.) -

VP candidate for Workers World Party (aka Liberty Union Party) (2004)

Running mate with nominee: John Thompson Parker
Popular vote: 1,648 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In late May, 2008 the Workers World Party nominated John Parker of Los Angeles for President and Teresa Gutiérrez of New York as his running-mate. Their party newspaper had a lengthy nomination announcement which included the following biographical information about the ticket--

Parker went to Sudan and visited that country's main pharmaceutical plant after it was demolished in 1998 by a U.S. missile strike. He has been to Iraq and seen the terrible effects of sanctions on the people there, especially children. He also did solidarity work in Cuba in 1997 with the Venceremos Brigade.

Gutierrez has met with progressive forces in Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Mexico. She recently was part of a delegation to the Dominican Republic investigating the use of that country as a training ground for the paramilitaries who attacked Haiti and helped the U.S. depose its elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

She has visited Cuba many times in solidarity with that besieged but politically strong socialist country, and was a major organizer of the powerful 1992 "Peace for Cuba" rally held at New York's Javits Convention Center that demonstrated the widespread support Cuba enjoyed in that difficult period after the collapse of the USSR.

John Parker was only 18 when he organized his first union election--at a small steel plant in New Jersey. An African American, he has worked at a variety of other jobs, including teaching at a public school in Newark. After moving to Los Angeles with his family several years ago, he became a leader in the anti-war movement there and helped organize and chair several large rallies against the U.S. war in Iraq, sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition. He then worked hard to mobilize anti-war forces to support the 80,000 grocery workers on a strike/lockout against three giant southern California food chains.

Teresa Gutierrez first became politically active in the Chican@ movement in Texas. She eventually moved to New York to be part of a multinational party that puts the struggle against racism and national oppression at the top of its agenda, as an indispensable part of uniting the working class as a whole in the struggle to end capitalism and build a socialist society. A proud lesbian, she brings consciousness on the need to combat sexist oppression to all her work.

These two working-class candidates will be running against the pro-war, pro-intervention, pro-big business politics of George W. Bush and John Kerry. They will use the election to bring another vision of the world to a public that is saturated day in and day out with the cynical view that the political arena belongs only to those who can play the millionaires' game and make the deals that buy elections.

Their webpage included a summary of the platform:

Abolish the Pentagon Money for housing human needs, not occupations in Iraq, Haiti, Palestine & Afghanistan

U.S. hands off Cuba, Venezuela, Africa, Colombia, Korea & the Philippines Globalize solidarity, not imperialist plunder. Independence for Puerto Rico

Union jobs or guaranteed income. Raise the minimum wage to $15. Jobs not jails for youth

Free, universal health care for all. Fund a worldwide campaign to conquer AIDS

End racism, police brutality & the death penalty Reparations & social justice for people of color & colonized nations.

Same-sex marriage rights now. End all discrimination against lesbians, gays, bi & trans people

Defend women's rights Equal pay for comparable work Full reproductive rights. Free childcare

Full rights for immigrants. Repeal the Patriot Act. Free victims of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim repression

Education is a right. Restore affirmative action. Lower the voting age to 16

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, the Cuban 5 and all political prisoners

Tax the rich End corporate welfare. Make corporate polluters pay to clean up our environment

Besides the World Workers Party, the Parker/Gutiérrez ticket was also endorsed by the Liberty Union Party of Vermont who had previously backed the Socialists in the previous two elections. This was the only time the LUP ever backed the WWP in a Presidential race. Although I have never seen this spelled out, I suspect the LUP was more taken aback by the anti-abortion stance of the Socialist nominee Walt Brown than they were attracted to the WWP.  Just a guess.

In the middle of campaign 2004, the San Francisco branch of the WWP split and helped form the Party for Socialism and Liberation. To outsiders even within the Left, the difference between the WWP and PSL seemed minuscule as both entities support repressive regimes (e.g. North Korea) and seem to mirror each other in a philosophy frequently described by observers as neo-Stalinist.

Parker/Gutierrez were certified write-ins in California and Ohio, and on the ballot in three states-- Washington 0.04%, Rhode Island 0.06%, and Vermont 0.08%.

Election history: none

Other occupations: co-coordinator of the International Action Center, deputy secretary general of the International Migrant Alliance, author

Notes:
One source claims Gutierrez was born in Mexico.