Showing posts with label Mark Lane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Lane. Show all posts

Monday, January 4, 2021

David Parker

 






David Parker

VP candidate for Free Energy Party (2012)

Running mate with nominee: Mary Katharine Okorn-Jimenez (b. 1971)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Mary Okorn-Jimenez, a journalist and freelance writer in Ohio, filed with the FEC rather late in the Presidential campaign season, Sept. 20, 2012. Although registered as an Independent, she was actually the nominee of the Free Energy Party.

Okorn-Jimenez indicated on Twitter Apr. 2011 she supported the organized effort to draft the ticket of Ron Paul and Jesse Ventura for the 2012 election. Her social media in that era made references to the "Global Elite," Bilderberg, and 911 Truther conspiracies.

Fate stepped in the form of Dave Parker, the founder of the FEP. In an extraordinary nominating procedure, Okorn-Jimenez was recruited on Facebook, May 15, 2012--

Dave Parker
THE FREE ENERGY PARTY SEEKS WOMEN AND MEN TO LEARN TO GIVE SPEECHES AND DEMONSTRATE FREE ENERGY AND RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE FREE ENERGY PLATFORM. ENTER NOW A NEW AGE WITH CURES FOR ALL DISEASE AND EVERY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CLOSED DOWN, A NATION NEVER TO STUDY WAR OVER OIL AGAIN.

Comments

Mary Okorn
I'm down if you want to nominate me.

Dave Parker
I hereby nominate Mary Okorn-Jimenez (wipes small tear aside) for President of the United States on the Free Energy Platform........Yeah, whistle blowing.....kazoos....boaters tilted on heads, jumping up and down, clapping!

Mary Okorn
I accept.

Dave Parker
crowd cheers!

Mary Okorn
*bows head humbly*

Dave Parker
We can do it! First thing is to make a sample oratory. I help teach you how to do it with just a few words. Just some ground rules. For instance, Cant say Aliens, or it will discredit free energy to the middle class even if there are aliens. Cant say chemtrails or you will lose the middle class which you intend to teach proof of Free Energy. Etc. Your oratory will be coupled with Proof of Free Energy and Cures for Disease. We will start something Great! We will use ninja tactics of the mind to save the world with Power, grace and ease! It is on!


The FEP running-mate was Parker himself, based in Texas. Earlier he had been known as David Parker Wise, a member of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple cult--

I was the original pastor of the Los Angeles Peoples Temple under Jim Jones for about five years. I was the only associate whom Jones allowed to appoint other pastors, as I did when I picked Hue Fortson. Jones placed a lot of trust for me. He and I even went down together to get our shots to go to Guyana.

However, as it turned out, I chose not go. I saw that Jones was losing his mind due to his abuse of amphetamines. After publicly announcing to a number of members of Peoples Temple that Jones had gotten into power trips and humiliation tactics, I was hunted down and told that he had taken out a contract on my life.

Over the years I paid a steep price for having gone up against Jim Jones, but Peoples Temple was only one experience in a very colorful life for me. It is all an education. I recommend that everyone realize that no one is all bad and no one is all good. We must go through life picking and choosing, keeping the good in life and pushing away the bad …. and learning from it all.


Some other Jim Jones connections in the world of third parties:

Jerry Leon Carroll, a modern perennial Presidential candidate, apparently lays claim to being the "mole" that exposed Jim Jones' People Temple cult.
Donald Leslie Cordell, another modern perennial Presidential candidate, had several close relatives die in the Jonestown tragedy.
James Gordon "Bo" Gritz (Populist Party nominee, 1992), a military figure at the time of the massacre  figures in some of the many conspiracy theories regarding the incident which seems fitting since he himself has been known to embrace his own brand of conjectures.
Mark Lane (VP for Freedom and Peace Party, etc.), an attorney who was present in Jonestown and said he hid in the woods during the incident. Like Gritz, Lane was a conspiracy theorist who also became a subject of conspiracy theories.

The main focus of the FEP is "Free Energy, Cures for Diseases, Organic Permaculture."

The FEP webpages (which seem to be numerous) make several claims and promises--

--We do not believe in a President as an emperor or a personality cult leader, controlled by the monopolies. Instead, a vote for the FEP is a vote to end monopoly. It is a vote for a business opportunity for every American to have a free energy power generator in their home, providing free power and allowing the excess to be sold back up the grid. Vote to reverse and decentralize the grid. Power TO the People will become a reality by way of Power FROM the People. The FEP will begin to Reverse the Grid ! We are introducing Underground or "Proprietary" Manufacturing and Distribution!

--Donate to the Free Energy Party campaign to help our lawsuit, using the Rico Act, to stop collusion and racketeering between Monopoly and Government!  Help elect the party that is not for sale!

--We will use the machine against the machine. We have a legal structure that forces all investigators and harmful people to go back to their bosses and drop a manilla folder on the desk and say...the inventor is legally out of the loop...he assigned his IP over to a corporation and the stockholders are legally a secret in this particular state's corporations. They will answer back and say...dont worry about it...we won't let them sell them. Then they will later call the investigator again and say, "it appears they are selling them!" Come back to work and find out who they are. Raid their manufacturing with an injunction, sue them falsely for fraud, send in the Fire department and the Sheriff on false safety claims. Do like the FDA raiding raw milk and confiscate all their merchandise, charge them with false IRS and false SEC charges! Then the investigator will go back and say...you wont believe this...they are being sold like people sell Marijuana...underground...we don't know who is doing it. Does the FEP, a legal political party recommend Underground-Proprietary-Confidential Manufacturing? ...Absolutely! ...and we are prepared to defend it legally as an All American way to present quality of life-World Improvement technology to the public, and we are, in fact, going to sue the monopolies for collusion and racketeering and RESTRAINT OF TRADE! Sherman and Clayton Act lawsuits "ain't nothin". The Rico Act will break their cahones!

--The FDA has been purchased by the chemical companies and is headed by a Poison company, Monsanto. The FDA is the enforcer in a disease industry. The chemical companies have a"Patent It or Kill It" philosophy.  Their enemy; Nature. The FDA tricks the public by allowing most anything that is bad for you.....but if it is good....declaring it an "Unapproved Drug" which will never be allowed approval.

--We need to be aware that just as with the 'contrived' scarcity over oil which helps enable the oil companies to get away with such behaviors as fracking and price gouging, the possibility exists that the scarcity in water discussed below may also be at least partially contrived. The huge corporations that are buying up the water rights all over the world and putting the fresh water in tiny single use bottles with very high prices certainly have a vested interest in helping people believe there is scarcity. The moisture in the air and the volume of rain is all fresh water. The Earth is 78% water, as is the human body. Limiting fresh water, used as a tool of scarcity for profit, results in more deaths than all wars put together from water borne pathogens that could be filtered dirt cheap. You can literally drink sewer water safely, through the right filter, and activated charcoal is virtually free to make but the nations of the earth are left in darkness.

--The American Constitution allots a right to bear arms. Although all of the murder and mayhem on American television seems mentally ill and violence seems overly rampant, Americans can not surrender their right to bear arms. I do believe, however, that the Free Energy Party should investigate reported Department of Defense funding of violent video games and television programs and I believe that this constitutes illegal Rico Act collusion and racketeering between the entertainment industry and a war over oil killing industry and further that it constitutes a corruption of the very soul and character of our nation.

--The system of free enterprise is not being practiced. It is being overrun by illegal monopoly. The constitution is being butchered. No one will vote for a communistic or major overthrow of the entire system. The changes made to a very well designed original system are illegal. People need to be found guilty and jailed in some instances. It is the wish of the George Soros Monopoly Communism sock puppet to overthrow everything so that Monopoly can start in on reaming you afresh. Instead we have to keep the constitution but follow it and jail the monopolists. The president gets his entire authority on swearing to uphold the constitution. Any law that is written that is in conflict of our original founding laws is illegal and needs to be struck down. That includes torture, the elimination of the habeous corpus, the NDAA , the Patriot act, etc.

--George Soros has created an Agenda 21 CO2 Democrat takeover climate change argument and David Koch has created a CO2 Republican Oil Company take over anti climate change argument. They are both Petro Chemical billionaires, go figure. However, since there are many pollutants from car exhaust and coal other than CO2, such as CO and carbon black, and actual HC or unburned fuel all while the trees are being wiped off the Earth.....let us look at Permaculture answers to environmental cleanup and lets switch to Free Energy and leave their "Heads they Win- Tails you loose" argument behind.

The FEP has not generated a lot of outside mainstream media attention but instead from conspiracy culture websites. At least one critic has pointed out the group is promoting vaporware and their medical claims of curing cancer and other diseases are pseudoscience.

The Okorn-Jimenez/Parker ticket did not seem to be on the ballot or registered in any state as a write-in, hence no votes were reported.

Parker filed with the FEC for President on Aug. 25, 2015 for the 2016 election. A Facebook entry in Sept. 2017 suggests Okorn was his running-mate in 2016 and/or 2020.

Election history:
2016 - US President (Free Energy Party) - defeated
2020 - US President (Free Energy Party) - defeated

Other occupations: author, pastor, director of the World Improvement Network

Notes:
It is difficult to ascertain if Parker's Free Energy Party is in any way connected to an earlier entity of the same name founded by Daniel Cunningham in Hawaii.

Friday, October 11, 2019

Mark Lane
















Mark Lane, February 24, 1927 (New York, NY) – May 10, 2016 (Charlottesville, Va.)

VP candidate for Committee for the Write-in Vote for Dick Gregory and Mark Lane (1968)
VP candidate for New Party (1968)
VP candidate for New Politics Party (1968)
VP candidate for Citizens for Independent Political Action (1968)
VP candidate for Freedom and Peace Party (1968)
VP candidate for Peace and Freedom Party (1968)

Running mate with nominee: Dick Gregory (1932-2017)
Popular vote: 37,369 (0.05%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

After his unsuccessful run for Mayor of Chicago in 1967 as an independent, comedian and activist Dick Gregory wanted another shot at elected office and decided to run for President as an outsider. As he said in an interview during the 1968 campaign, "I feel the two-party system is obsolete. The two-party system is so corrupt and immoral that it cannot solve the problems confronting the masses of people in this country. I did agree to accept the nomination in various states from independent organizations who had already had a position on the ballot and this why I have accepted."

Gregory ran in several states as a write-in or sometimes showed up on the ballot itself, under the banner of multiple political parties, with various running mates. No matter what the platform of the party he was using as a vehicle, Dick Gregory was still Dick Gregory. Mark Lane was Gregory's main Vice-Presidential team partner in this election.

In 1968 Lane was best known as a Leftist activist and attorney who had been arrested at a segregation protest in the South while still holding an elected office of New York Assemblyman. He also was famous for being one of the earliest of the JFK assassination conspiracy proponents and his book Rush to Judgment was a best-seller. A controversial figure throughout his entire career before and after 1968, he was a VP choice guaranteed to attract attention which, according to his critics, was something he craved.

When the newly created Peace and Freedom Party held their first chaotic convention, Dick Gregory was outvoted in the nomination process by Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver. In New York, as a power struggle emerged between the Old and New Left, a much more organized and apparently better funded rival Freedom and Peace Party was founded in June 1968. Like the Progressive Party of 1948-1952, there was a lot of chatter from both the FBI and from some on the Left that the FPP was a child of the Communist Party USA. There was no doubt CPUSA was one of the forces involved, but to what degree remains a matter of debate. 20 of the 324 delegates were members of the CPUSA.

The Freedom and Peace Party platform included: withdraw from the Vietnam War, end US support for Right-wing dictators, independence for Puerto Rico, recognize the People's Republic of China, nationalize the drug industry, end the draft, mandate a $2.00 state minimum wage, amnesty for all political prisoners including draft resisters, universal health insurance, affirmative action-type policies, and free higher education.

The FPP nominated Dr. Benjamin Spock for President and Coretta Scott King for VP. Both of them quickly withdrew their names from consideration. In a short time the names of Dick Gregory and Mark Lane were substituted.

New York was the only state where Gregory/Lane ran as Freedom and Peace Party candidates. In Colorado they were on the ballot as part of the New Party and in Pennsylvania they were registered for the ballot under the Peace and Freedom Party-- before Cleaver was nominated-- apparently due to filing deadlines.

There were also official Gregory/Lane write-in efforts in a few states. In California they were promoted by the Committee for the Write-in Vote for Dick Gregory and Mark Lane. The New Politics Party in Indiana found themselves with a blank slate when their proposed Eugene McCarthy/John Lindsay ticket turned them down, so they replaced them with Gregory/Lane. In Ohio they were supported by the Citizens for Independent Political Action.

It was Gregory as the comedian that landed him in the most trouble. The government was seriously disturbed when he issued campaign literature resembling $1 bills with his face adorning the currency and Lane's signature looking quite official. It looked real enough that he very nearly landed in jail. But Gregory knew no one could take it too seriously, "Everyone knows a black man will never be on a US bill." 

A member of the Socialist Workers Party observed that Gregory was living in the moment and more interested in providing a venue for a protest vote in this pivotal period of political realignment than he was in creating a lasting third party movement. Indeed, the Freedom and Peace Party evaporated within a short time after the election.

The Gregory campaign placed 5th nationally (outpolling Cleaver) with 47,149 popular votes (0.06%), 37,369 of those votes were with Lane on the ticket and most of that support came from New York. The Gregory/Lane result: New York 0.36%, Colorado 0.17%, Pennsylvania 0.16%, California 0.04%, Ohio 0.01%, Indiana 0.00%. Although the ticket ran under various party names it would be the Freedom and Peace Party that future list-makers would tie to them.

Election history:
1961-1963 - New York State Assembly (Democratic)
1962 - US House of Representatives (NY) (Democratic) - primary - defeated

Other occupations: soldier (US Army), attorney, author

Buried: ?

Notes:
"Richard Nixon is living in the White House today because of what happened that night in Chicago. Hubert Humphrey lost that election by a handful of votes -- mine among them -- and if I had to do it again I would still vote for Dick Gregory."--Hunter S. Thompson
Lane later co-authored, with Gregory, the book Code Name Zorro about the MLK assassination.
Was present and hiding in the jungle during the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide.

Monday, October 7, 2019

Richard Claxton Gregory


Dick Gregory and Eugene McCarthy, Chicago, August 1968

Richard Claxton Gregory, October 12, 1932 (St. Louis, Mo.) – August 19, 2017 (Washington, DC)

VP candidate for New Party (1968)

Running mate with nominee: Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In 1968 an obscure political figure, US Sen. Eugene McCarthy (Minn.), challenged incumbent President Johnson in the Democratic primaries. McCarthy's anti-war stance energized a whole new generation of young activists who were really in the first wave of voters to have grown up entirely in the shadow of the atomic/nuclear mushroom cloud and thus felt a visceral sense of urgency the older generations for the most part failed to grasp.

McCarthy became a David to Johnson's Goliath, and within a short time LBJ decided to drop out of the race, opening it up for Sen. Robert Kennedy and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. McCarthy soon found himself outspent and outflanked by the better known candidates and was marginalized to the far Left by the Democratic Party establishment. After the Party convention  McCarthy waited until the very last week of the campaign to finally give a lukewarm endorsement to Humphrey.

In the meantime, McCarthy's followers were not so easily defeated. The 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago was a bloody affair and Humphrey was seen as being too closely tied to the unpopular LBJ. McCarthy's followers were prepared to go all the way to November, attempting to get his name on the ballot in several states as a "fourth party" since George Wallace already had the primo "third party" position.

By early September 1968 it was too late for McCarthy's followers to place him on the ballot in many states, so energetic write-in campaigns were waged. In Georgia, Oregon, and Rhode Island groups sprang up to work for McCarthy. In Michigan there was the McCarthy Write-In Committee, Massachusetts had three groups pushing for the Senator-- Citizens for Participation Politics, Conference for New Political Action, and the Flag Party-- and in New York there was the Coalition for Independent Candidacy (aka Coalition Party). As far as I could ascertain, none of the above proposals included a running mate.

McCarthy had various running mates and different party banners in other states. The most coordinated effort, such as it was, concerned the New Party, formed chiefy by Marcus Raskin, co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies. "If we cannot force a realignment of political structures," said Raskin, "There will be mass violence."

Raskin's document Why the New Party? included:

Across the nation there is a general revulsion for the political parties which in reality have built their power on the interests of special groups that have no base among the people, which maintain power through war and cold war, privilege selling and the granting of favors to the few.

Young people, workers on the line in the factory and in the offices, women, farmers, black and brown people have come to believe that the two political parties are far too deeply implicated in causing the basic problems of American society to do anything toward resolving them.

The Democratic and Republican parties have allowed the cities to decay, encouraged and sustained a huge military establishment, supported a reckless and morally indefensible colonial war in Vietnam, and diverted the economy for wasteful and dangerous activity.


Although the Party was born in the Left, Raskin voiced a belief his anti-Establishment message could resonate with George Wallace voters as well.

The New Party thought about nominating McCarthy, as well as considering Sen. George McGovern, actor Paul Newman, NYC Mayor John Lindsay, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and Justice William O. Douglas. But in the end they decided to allow each state to nominate whatever ticket they wanted. It is difficult to say if the New Party operated under variant names across the country.

McCarthy himself disavowed this fourth party activity and took steps to keep his name off the November ballot. Raskin didn't care. He said McCarthy was going to be nominated whether he liked or not. They wanted his name and star power.

In Indiana the New Politics Party, which may or may not have been connected with Raskin, nominated McCarthy and Lindsay, who in turn had their names removed. So the Party quickly replaced the old pair with Dick Gregory and his running mate Mark Lane.

Dick Gregory was a ground-breaking African American comedian who became better known as a political activist than as an entertainer. I first became aware of Gregory in the 1960s when he protested in favor of the Nisqually Indians treaty fishing rights. For his trouble he was tossed into the Thurston County jail in Olympia, Washington where he engaged in a fast. In those days the jail was in the old courthouse across the street from the Capitol campus. The Nisqually people had set up a camp across the street on the Cap campus lawn in a show of support for Gregory. Talking with them was a political education for me and left a deep impression, so in that sense Gregory was successful in communicating his message to at least one individual. 

Gregory and Lane were already running as the Freedom and Peace Party ticket, a splinter group from the Peace and Freedom Party. In Colorado Gregory/Lane found a place on the ballot running in the New Party.

However in the State of Illinois Gregory would find himself as the Vice-Presidential nominee rather than having his name at the top of the ticket. In that state there were at least three groups agitating for McCarthy: the Palatine Politics for Peace Committee, the Illinois Citizens for McCarthy, and the New Party. The latter group selected Dick Gregory as McCarthy's running mate. It could be that members of the Illinois New Party still had the fresh memory of Gregory and McCarthy addressing protesters together at Grant Park during the Democratic convention in Chicago.

Gregory was possibly addressing the Illinois proposed ticket when he said in a filmed interview why he was running as a write-in: "I feel the two-party system is obsolete. The two-party system is so corrupt and immoral that it cannot solve the problems confronting the masses of people in this country. I did agree to accept the nomination in various states from independent organizations who had already had a position on the ballot and this why I have accepted. Senator McCarthy is a Democrat and I wouldn't expect him to accept a nomination but a Democratic nomination because he is still a Democrat. He is not an independent."

As usual, McCarthy refused to have anything to do with the New Party effort and and his name was removed from consideration, but die-hard supporters would forge on anyway. The McCarthy/Gregory popular vote result is lost somewhere in the 325 "scattered" write-ins listed for Illinois.

Election history:
1967 - Mayor of Chicago (Independent) - defeated
1968 - Peace and Freedom Party nomination for President - defeated
1968 - US President (Freedom and Peace Party/Peace and Freedom Party/New Party/New Politics Party) - defeated

Other occupations: comedian, soldier (US Army), activist

Buried: Fort Lincoln Cemetery (Brentwood, Md.)

Notes:
Winner of the 1967 mayoral race was Richard J. Daley. Another opponent was Lar Daly.
"I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they
 didn’t have what I wanted."
"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."
"A Klanner (KKK) is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with
 him."
"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood
 after dark."
"You know the definition of a Southern moderate? That’s a cat that’ll lynch you from a low tree."
"For a black man, there's no difference between the North and the South. In the South, they don't
 mind how close I get, as long as I don't get too big. In the North, they don't mind how big I get, as
 long as I don't get too close."
"Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and
 said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me
 a whole fried chicken.'"
"Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white
 man without starting a riot."
"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history
 books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a
 massacre."
When asked how activists could resist the Trump administration, Gregory responded, "You don’t
 have to do nothing ... this country is not going to make four years, it’s over."



Saturday, October 5, 2019

John Vliet Lindsay







John Vliet Lindsay, November 24, 1921 (New York, NY) – December 19, 2000 (Hilton Head Island, SC)

VP candidate for New Party (1968)
VP candidate for Californians for an Alternative (1968)
VP candidate for Independent (1968)
VP candidate for Liberal Principle Party (1968)
VP candidate for Americans for a New America (1968)

Running mate with nominee: Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005)
Popular vote: 25,057 (0.04%)    
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In 1968 an obscure political figure, US Sen. Eugene McCarthy (Minn.), challenged incumbent President Johnson in the Democratic primaries. McCarthy's anti-war stance energized a whole new generation of young activists who were really in the first wave of voters to have grown up entirely in the shadow of the atomic/nuclear mushroom cloud and thus felt a visceral sense of urgency the older generations for the most part failed to grasp.

McCarthy became a David to Johnson's Goliath, and within a short time LBJ decided to drop out of the race, opening it up for Sen. Robert Kennedy and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. McCarthy soon found himself outspent and outflanked by the better known candidates and was marginalized to the far Left by the Democratic Party establishment. After the Party convention  McCarthy waited until the very last week of the campaign to finally give a lukewarm endorsement to Humphrey.

In the meantime, McCarthy's followers were not so easily defeated. The 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago was a bloody affair and Humphrey was seen as being too closely tied to the unpopular LBJ. McCarthy's followers were prepared to go all the way to November, attempting to get his name on the ballot in several states as a "fourth party" since George Wallace already had the primo "third party" position.

By early September 1968 it was too late for McCarthy's followers to place him on the ballot in many states, so energetic write-in campaigns were waged. In Georgia, Oregon, and Rhode Island groups sprang up to work for McCarthy. In Michigan there was the McCarthy Write-In Committee, Massachusetts had three groups pushing for the Senator-- Citizens for Participation Politics, Conference for New Political Action, and the Flag Party-- and in New York there was the Coalition for Independent Candidacy (aka Coalition Party). As far as I could ascertain, none of the above proposals included a running mate.

McCarthy had various running mates and different party banners in other states. The most coordinated effort, such as it was, concerned the New Party, formed chiefly by Marcus Raskin, co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies. "If we cannot force a realignment of political structures," said Raskin, "There will be mass violence."

Raskin's document Why the New Party? included:

Across the nation there is a general revulsion for the political parties which in reality have built their power on the interests of special groups that have no base among the people, which maintain power through war and cold war, privilege selling and the granting of favors to the few.

Young people, workers on the line in the factory and in the offices, women, farmers, black and brown people have come to believe that the two political parties are far too deeply implicated in causing the basic problems of American society to do anything toward resolving them.

The Democratic and Republican parties have allowed the cities to decay, encouraged and sustained a huge military establishment, supported a reckless and morally indefensible colonial war in Vietnam, and diverted the economy for wasteful and dangerous activity.


Although the Party was born in the Left, Raskin voiced a belief his anti-Establishment message could resonate with George Wallace voters as well.

The New Party thought about nominating McCarthy, as well as considering Sen. George McGovern, actor Paul Newman, NYC Mayor John Lindsay, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and Justice William O. Douglas. But in the end they decided to allow each state to nominate whatever ticket they wanted. It is difficult to say if the New Party operated under variant names across the country.

McCarthy himself disavowed this fourth party activity and took steps to keep his name off the November ballot. Raskin didn't care. He said McCarthy was going to be nominated whether he liked or not. They wanted his name and star power.

The most popular McCarthy ticket was that where New York Mayor John Lindsay was his running mate. The New Party was actually successful in placing the McCarthy/Lindsay team on the Arizona ballot (although it seems the VP nominee names were not included?!), the only state where the Senator's name was printed as an option. In Vermont and New Hampshire, McCarthy and Lindsay managed to have their names removed, but the electors remained as a choice with a blank slate. The New Party in Texas had an active write-in campaign for McCarthy/Lindsay.

After McCarthy and Lindsay removed themselves as New Politics Party options in Indiana, they were replaced on the ballot by Dick Gregory and Mark Lane.

In California the McCarthy/Lindsay write-in effort was staged by a group called Californians for an Alternative, in Minnesota by the Liberal Principle Party, in Wisconsin by Americans for a New America. Connecticut also had some McCarthy/Lindsay activity.

Mayor Lindsay didn't really have a lot of time to deal with the involuntary VP draft. In hindsight Lindsay called the last few months of 1968 "the worst of my public life" as he dealt with multiple public employee strikes, the threat of race riots, and assassination threats. Even though he was liberal outsider in the Republican Party Lindsay was under consideration as a potential Vice-Presidential candidate with Nixon and gained a smattering of delegate votes for both positions at the 1968 convention. In 1971 Lindsay switched to the Democratic Party.

In terms of popular votes, California was the dominant treasure trove for the ticket. But in terms of state percentages they fared best in Arizona, the only state where McCarthy appeared on the ballot. Although Vermont and New Hampshire write-in electors were left without a candidate, I am including them in the final count as well since the original intention was McCarthy/Lindsay: Arizona 2751 (0.56%), Vermont 579 (0.36%), California 20721 (0.29%), New Hampshire 421 (0.14%), Minnesota 585 (00.4%). Figures for Connecticut, Texas and Wisconsin, probably in the hundreds, are not easily obtainable.

McCarthy's official popular vote total including all of his various running mates came to 25,634 (00.4%). I track 25,057 (0.03%) of those votes to the McCarthy/Lindsay ticket although it is a safe bet the number of uncertified write-ins nationwide probably places the result at a much higher number.

Years later McCarthy and Lindsay shared a program at the Denver Forum. I wonder if their 1968 ticket came up in discussion?

Election history:
1959-1965 - US House of Representatives (NY) (Republican)
1966-1973 - Mayor of New York, NY (Republican/Democratic/Liberal/Independent Citizens/Independent)
1968 - Republican nomination for US President - defeated
1968 - Republican nomination for US Vice-President - defeated
1972 - Democratic nomination for US President - defeated
1980 - US Senate (NY) (Democratic) - primary - defeated

Other occupations: sailor (US Navy WWII), bank clerk, attorney, actor, novelist, TV morning show guest host

Buried: Memorial Cemetery of Saint John's Church (Laurel Hollow, NY)

Notes:
Buried in the same cemetery as George Bruce Cortelyou, William S. Paley, and Henry Louis Stimson.
Some of his opponents in the 1965 Mayorial race included Abraham Beame, William F. Buckley,
 Clifton DeBerry and Eric Hass.
Winner of the 1980 primary was Elizabeth Holtzman.
In the Batman TV series of the era, Gotham City's chief municipal officer was Mayor Lindseed.