Paula Maria Concepcion Zych Fullerton

Paula Maria Concepcion Zych Fullerton
VP candidate for Non-Partisan (2004)

Running mate with nominee: Thomas F. Zych (b. 1958)
Popular vote: 11 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Thomas F. Zych was an attorney based in Cleveland Heights, Ohio at the time he ran for President as a write-in. His running mate, Paula Maria Concepcion Zych Fullerton, appeared to be somehow related.

All I really know about his campaign comes from his webpage:

Reclaim America!

Vote Tom Zych in '04

We've Done Worse

You have a choice - make it.  You have a voice - use it.  You have a chance - take it.

Until then - think Zych for President.

It's not like he has anything better to do.

SWITCH TO ZYCH!

HE'S SOMEONE ELSE!
In Ohio, the only state where the Zych/Fullerton ticket were certified as write-ins, they received 11 votes.

Election history: ?

Other occupations: ?

Notes:
Another mystery VP

Robert C. Culbertson

Robert C. Culbertson

VP candidate for Non-Partisan (2004)

Running mate with nominee: Richard Austin Duncan (b. 1953)
Popular vote: 17 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In 2004 Richard Duncan of Aurora, Ohio was just starting out his career in electioneering when he ran for US President as a write-in in his home state. His campaign was sort of under the radar and the platform mysterious, as was his running-mate Robert C. Culbertson. Later, Duncan would become known as a perennial candidate.

On Election Day 2004 the Duncan/Culbertson ticket earned 17 votes in the Buckeye State.

Culbertson appeared to be the initial choice for Duncan's VP in 2008 according to the early nomination petitions, but on the ballot (Duncan made the ballot in Ohio that year) the running-mate was Ricky Johnson. Duncan was on multiple state ballots in 2012 and 2016, with Johnson as his VP. Duncan has also run for other public offices in Ohio.

Election history: none

Other occupations: ?

Notes:
Another mystery VP

Andrew Joseph Vanyo

 1987

 Martin S. Wishnatsky, 2004

Andrew Joseph Vanyo, June 26, 1933 (Tabor, MN) - August 15, 2013 (Fargo, ND)

VP candidate for Nonpartisan (aka Independent) (2004)

Running mate with nominee: Martin Saul Wishnatsky (1944-2020)
Popular vote: 11 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Martin Wishnatsky of Fargo, ND was a self-described Christian activist who opposed abortion and Gay rights. Prior to arriving in North Dakota he converted to Christianity in 1977 and performed acts of civil disobedience that landed him in jail and cost him his computer programming job on Wall Street.

Arriving as an out-of-state agitator to Fargo with a group, he was sentenced to nearly a year in jail for continuing to protest in an illegal form. By the time he was released his original crew had already gone home, so he decided to remain in Fargo.

When Wishnatsky ran for President as a write-in in 2004 his running mate was Andrew "Andy" Vanyo, a fellow activist from right across the border in Moorhead, Minn.

Vanyo who had also experienced arrest and incarceration for protest actions in the 1990s, had deep roots in the Catholic Church. Initially he underwent seminary training but decided to become active with his faith in other ways. He obtained a masters in social work at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Campus and went into the adoption and foster care occupation.

Registered as write-ins in two states, their popular vote was 2 votes in Minnesota, 9 in North Dakota.

Election history: none

Other occupations: Catholic Social Services, adoption and foster care

Buried: Saint Joseph's Cemetery (Moorhead, Minn.)

Notes:
Vanyo's mother was born in the Czech Republic. His paternal grandparents were born in Austria.
After the election Wishnatsky obtained a law degree at Liberty University. He later worked for Judge
 Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican. Wishnatsky became briefly famous when, in an effort not to
 appear anti-Semitic, Moore's wife Kayla announced at a rally in 2017 that "one of our attorneys is a
 Jew."

Barbara A. Marlinski

Barbara A. Marlinski, January 16, 1944 -

VP candidate for Independent (aka Non-Partisan) (2004)

Running mate with nominee: Joseph Charles Schriner (b. 1955)
Popular vote: 142 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

A former journalist, substance abuse counselor, and "lay Catholic speaker," Joe Schriner has run for President in every election since 2000. In his debut campaign the man who bills himself as "Average Joe" originally began as a Republican and then switched to Independent. His main method  of electioneering was criss-crossing the country in an old recreational vehicle, usually with his family.

In the 2004 campaign season he was back, except this time he started from Day One as an Independent and later acquired a running-mate (I could not identify one for his 2000 run).

Although he had position papers for each of the following planks, his platform in brief was--

Healing the Family
"We believe if you heal the family, you'd heal the country." --Joe, NBC News, Monterey, CA. ~ Stepped up community programs on relationship building, healthy parenting...

Agriculture
~ Return of the small family farm, all over.
~ Stop harmful chemical applications.
~ Farming classes from grade school, up.

Crime
~ Less.
~ More Community Oriented Policing and more Citizen Patrols.
~ Peace-time military to aid local police.
~ More creative prisoner rehabilitation; instead of 'dead-end' warehousing.

Gun Control
"High school shootings; inner city gang shootings; armed robbery... this stuff isn't happening in a vacuum." -- Joe
~ Eliminate poverty and heal families.
~ Teach conflict resolution in the schools.
~ Stiffer penalties for offenders.

Military
~ adhere only to "just war" criteria.
~ Make military more field proficient and cost effective.
~ U.S. takes the lead in nuclear disarmament.
~ More help for those who have served.

Immigration
~ No quotas, just compassion.
~ More help assimilating.
~ More foreign help to those who'd rather stay in their homeland, but because of poverty, or war, might not be able to.

Past Wrongs
~ Tangible amends to Native Americans and African-Americans.

Energy Policy
~ Use a whole lot less energy.
~ Develop "walkable communities" nationwide.
~ Dramatic shift to wind and solar.

Taxes
~ Abolish the income tax.
~ Abolish the IRS.
~ Switch to a National Sales Tax (with monthly "prebate" help for people near the poverty level).
"The tax code book in D.C. now has over 15,000 pages (honest). Hasn't the whole thing gotten, oh, a little out of control?" --Joe

National Debt :
~ Tighten our belts and pay it off so our children don't inherit it.

Work Life :
~ Push for a shorter work week and/or more job sharing. (This will provide more time for God, family, community.)
~ In tandem, promote the Voluntary Simplicity Movement, with a focus on cutting back lifestyle wise.
~ Improve work place environments.
~ Fair wage for all.
"A migrant worker picks food. A Wall Street broker pushes paper. In the scheme of 'the stuff of life,' which, ultimatley, is more important?" --Joe

Revitilization :
~ Promote Downtown Revitilization nationwide.

Sister Cities :
~ Nationwide Sister City Project with Russia.
~ Nationwide Sister City Project with the Third World.

Foreign Debt :
~ Push to forgive Third World debt to give the poor, worldwide, a much better chance for adequate food, health care...

Peace Corps :
~ More incentives for involvement in Peace Corps.
~ More Peace Corps programs tailored to retirees.
"There are currently 12,000 people in the Peace Corps. We'd like to see millions." --Joe

U.S. Department of Peace :
~ Establish a U.S. Department of Peace
~ Become much more proactive, worldwide, in promoting peace.
~ Use models like Atlanta's Jimmy Carter Center to promote peace internationally.

Terrorism :
~ Impact it at it's roots.
*Piqua, Ohio's, Ellen Johns told us her response to Sept. 11 was to financially adopt an orphan child near the Pakistan / Afghan border through Child Reach International.

"Kids in dead-end life situations in inner city America join gangs. Kids in dead-end life situations in the Third World join terrorist cells." --Joe

Life
~ No abortion.
~ Many more local safety nets for moms & dads in crisis pregnancy.
~ No death penalty, no euthenasia.
~ No embryonic stem cell research and no cloning.
~ Respect for God's sovereignty and natural order.

Environment
~ Promote tremendously increased production of non-polluting wind, electric and solar alternatives. Rows of wind turbines on farms in Kansas, Oklahoma, anywhere it's windy.
~ American energy use: cut back.
~ Recycle, almost everything.
~ Heal and restore America's eco-system.

Education
~ More in hands of states & parents.
~ More curriculum flexibility to match student needs.
~ One-third of curriculum: community volunteer work.
~ More classes on "race and culture" to promote better community building. ~ More classes about family life and relationship building.

Health Care
Prevention
~Much more focus on prevention strategies...
~Promote more employee fitness programs.
~Heightened focus and emphasis on school physical education classes
.~More school and community nutrition education.

Social Security
~ Dynamic programs to reestablish the elderly as active, and highly valued, members of their community.
~ Maintain Social Security fund

It isn't clear when and how Barb Marlinski of Lakewood, NY became Schriner's running-mate. In his online campaign diary, he mentions her on July 5, 2004:

We headed north to Jamestown, New York where The Post-Journal reporter Dennis Phillips asked why I was running. I replied: "We’re concerned about violence in society – including to the unborn – drug abuse, the break down of the nuclear family and the extremely overt and addictive sexual acting out in the media and society in general." Phillips also interviewed Barb Marlinski, who we had met earlier, for the article. Barb said: "He is for everything that's important to me and I think he is important for everything that should be important to everybody in the United States."

Later in October he provided a bit of biography for Marlinski:

Barb Marlinski, an "average Jane," if you will, from Lakewood, New York. Barb, who is a Catholic, puts her faith first in her life. In addition, she is on the same page with us on all the issues. She is a wife, mother and a piano teacher. What's more, she told me several years ago she mounted a drive to keep out a proposed "News Store" that was going to sell pornography in her small town of Lakewood, New York. She won. Barb is the type of unsung, "extra-mile" American who is so representative of what makes up the real moral fabric of our country.

Schriner was a certified write-in in Idaho, Maryland, Ohio, and Utah. Most of the votes for the Schriner ticket came from his home state of Ohio.

Election history: none

Other occupations: piano teacher

Notes:
Much of Schriner's platform anticipated the American Solidarity Party, a party which in fact he unsuccessfully sought the Presidential nomination in the 2020 election.