Angela Nicole Walker

 

Angela Nicole Walker, January 19, 1974 (Milwaukee, Wis.) -

VP candidate for Socialist Party of the United States of America (aka Socialist Party USA aka Natural Law Party) (2016)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of the United States of America (aka Socialist Party USA aka Green Party of the United States aka Legal Marijuana Now Party aka DC Statehood/Green Party aka Green Rainbow Party aka Pacific Green Party aka Independent aka Mountain Party) (2020)

Running mate with nominee (2016): Emidio Soltysik (1974-2020)
Running mate with nominee (2020): Howard Gresham Hawkins (b. 1952)
Popular vote (2016): 2,689 (0.00%)
Popular vote (2020): 405,622 (0.26%)
Electoral vote (2016, 2020): 0/538

The campaign (2016):

The Socialist Party USA nominated Emidio "Mimi" Soltysik of Los Angeles and Angela Nicole Walker of Milwaukee in Oct. 2015 as their Presidential ticket for the 2016 election.

The SPUSA found itself, at least early in the election season, campaigning against Bernie Sanders more than the status quo candidates. Soltysik told the press, "He has had a long history of support for war and he has also had a healthy support for Israel, which we tend to see as an apartheid state. Some things he has done and advocated for are completely incompatible with a responsible socialist program."

The quite lengthy SPUSA 2016 platform had this preamble--

The Socialist Party USA stands for the abolition of every form of domination and exploitation, whether based on social class, gender, race/ethnicity, age, education, sexual orientation, or other characteristics.

We are committed to the transformation of capitalism through the creation of a democratic socialist society based on compassion, empathy, and respect as well as the development of new social structures.  Socialism will establish a new social and economic order in which workers and community members will take responsibility for and control of their interpersonal relationships, their neighborhoods, their local government, and the production and distribution of all goods and services.

For these reasons we call for social ownership and democratic control of productive resources, for a guarantee to all of the right to participate in societal production, and to a fair share of society’s product, in accordance with individual needs.

As we pursue a socialist transformation of society, we join with others in making radical demands on the existing system: demands that challenge the basic assumptions of a capitalist market economy while pointing the way to a new society. Although reforms will not in themselves bring about socialism, the fight for them will advance the cause by demonstrating the inherent limitations and injustice of the capitalist system. As we build the socialist movement, we organize around a platform committed to our common and interdependent struggles and aspirations.

When the Los Angeles Times asked Soltysik what he would do if elected he responded, "We would have to fire ourselves on the first day. You can't do that job without becoming a war criminal."

Soltysik/Walker were on the ballot in Colorado (0.01%) and Michigan (0.05%), the latter under the Natural Law Party banner. The were registered as write-ins in 8 additional states. In the event of their victory Walker would have assumed the Presidency upon the death of Soltysik June 28, 2020.

The campaign (2020):

If you followed the activities of national third political parties during the 2020 election, you could not avoid Howie Hawkins. Although his history was with the Green Party, he launched an aggressive effort to unite several progressive organizations and was partially successful. His running-mate in all cases was Angela Walker.

Hawkins, of Syracuse, N.Y., filed with the FEC as a Green Party candidate on May 14, 2019.

Hawkins/Walker won the nomination of the Socialist Party USA in Oct. 2019. On July 11, 2020, Hawkins/Walker received the Green Party nomination in their Age of COVID online convention. In Aug. 2020 Hawkins/Walker were nominated (some sources say "endorsed") by the Legal Marijuana Now Party. In the case of the Legal Marijuana Now Party, Rudy Reyes became the Presidential nominee of the Legal Marijuana Now Party ca. Mar. 2020 when Presidential nominee Mark Elworth Jr stepped down to run for US Congress as a Democrat in Nebraska. After winning the primary Elworth switched back to the LMNP and resumed his top spot on the ticket while Reyes once again became the VP. In August 2020 the LMNP dropped their ticket entirely and backed Hawkins. Socialist Alternative endorsed the Hawkins/Walker campaign later in the season.

Solidarity initially supported Hawkins/Walker, but then rescinded their backing after a poll of their members.

The Green Party nomination process was not without controversy. Dario Hunter, who was a rival for the nomination, decided to continue campaigning to the general election. The Alaska Green Party broke ranks with the national party and nominated a ticket of Jesse Ventura/Cynthia McKinney who were also registered write-ins in California.

The Rhode Island Green Party refused to name a candidate for fear of throwing the election to Trump. Democrats were successful in preventing ballot access for Hawkins/Walker in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Hawkins also attempted, and failed, to gain the nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party creating some political bad blood between himself and winner Gloria La Riva in the process.

Unlike 2016, when the Trump administration was simply a dystopian concept, by 2020 it was a reality that had polarized the country. Many progressive voters felt that Trump's incompetence and impotence in the face of a national emergency, coupled with his authoritarian white nationalist style, made even the most centrist Democrat seem acceptable by comparison. With Sen. Sanders himself putting some energy into the Biden electioneering, Hawkins would find it a difficult task to recruit new voters.

Even so, Hawkins/Walker finished an impressive 4th place nationally. On the ballot in 29 states + DC and registered as write-ins in a dozen more they were within the potential of receiving enough votes from the Electoral College to win. On the printed ballots they were chiefly identified as Green Party candidates. Their strongest results: Maine (1%), Hawaii (0.67%), Maryland (0.52%), Massachusetts and Illinois (0.51% each), Oregon and District of Columbia (0.50% each). The three close states where they could have been potential spoilers-- Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin-- were all carried by Biden. In all three Hawkins/Walker were not on the ballot but were registered as write-ins.  

On Nov. 9, 2020, Hawkins filed with the FEC for the 2024 Presidential election under the category of "Other."

Election history:
2014 - Milwaukee County Sheriff (Wis.) (Independent) - defeated

Other occupations: bus driver, dump truck driver, union organizer

Notes:
During the 2020 election cycle I had been in contact with Walker and the campaign's PR man, Kevin Zeese. We reached the point where Walker agreed to an interview and she was sent a list of questions. But then Zeese suddenly died and that apparently stopped everything.

Alejandro Mendoza

 

Alejandro Mendoza, April 25, 1977 (Riverside, Calif.) -

VP candidate for Socialist Party of the United States of America (aka Socialist Party USA) (2012)

Running mate with nominee: Stewart Alexis Alexander (b. 1951)
Popular vote: 4,434 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Stewart Alexander, the Socialist Party USA's VP in 2008, was nominated for President in 2012 overcoming a late challenge by Jerry Levy of Vermont's Liberty Union Party on the first ballot. The Party considered selecting antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan as the running-mate but instead turned to Alex Mendoza of Texas on a fresh procedural rule that Sheehan was not actually a Party member. Mendoza was also running for the State House of Representatives in 2012 under the Green Party banner.

2012 was the first election where the SPUSA had a Presidential nominee who was a person of color.

Alexander had made an attempt for the Green Party nomination but withdrew. He also campaigned for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination in California but lost to Roseanne Barr.

The campaign website provided an abridged version of the platform--

CAMPAIGN PLATFORM

The Alexander/Mendoza Campaign
stands for:

Genuine democracy for the 99%
Free speech, press, assembly, association

An end to wars and military occupations
Bring the troops and the money home
Initiate global disarmament
Deploy our troops for disaster relief

Create a democratically-controlled national bank
End Bush-Obama tax cuts to the wealthy

Productive jobs and/or a living wage for all

Single payer universal health care
Free dental, mental, optical and long term care

Decent affordable housing for all
Free or inexpensive reliable public transit

Hire more teachers – Reduce classroom size
Free education through college level

Legalize and tax marijuana – End the drug war
Restore our air, water, land – Protect the environment

Rebuild America’s infrastructure

The Alexander/Mendoza ticket could be found in the ballot in three states Ohio (0.05%), Colorado (0.01%), Florida (0.01%) and were registered write-ins in five others (California, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, Texas). The popular vote was a continuation of the SPUSA election decline since 2004.

Election history:
2012 - Texas House of Representatives (Green Party of the United States) - defeated
2014 - Texas House of Representatives (Democratic) - defeated
2016 - Texas House of Representatives (Democratic) - defeated

Other occupations: US Marine Corps, mobile home and RV manufacturer worker, Information Technology, lawn care business

Notes:
Parents came to US from Mexico.

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.

Abraham Bassford IV

 

Abraham Bassford IV, October 16, 1936 (New York, NY) -

VP candidate for United States Pacifist Party (aka US Pacifist Party) (2008)

Running mate with nominee: Bradford Lyttle (b. 1927)
Popular vote: 110 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Bradford Lyttle is a Chicago-based peace activist who has been involved with nonviolent resistance protest of America's militarism since the 1950s, when he served nine months in jail as a conscientious objector. He had been a perennial write-in candidate for President since 1984, but 2008 was the first election season where he achieved ballot status and also the earliest one where I can identify a running-mate-- Abraham Bassford.

Lyttle is also known as the author of the "Apocalypse Equation," a theory that if believed must surely add a sense of urgency to his efforts--

The Apocalypse Equation, (technically called a "stochastic equation," because it describes the relationship of probability to time) shows what nuclear weapons ultimately mean for "civilization." If each of a large number (n) of nuclear missiles existing today has even a small probability (p) of being launched, over time (T) the probability of a launch (APocalypse) approaches certainty. The more missiles, the shorter the time before a launch (T1 is less than T2). Unless nuclear weapons are deactivated, and nonviolent means developed to take the place of military violence for achieving justice and peace, civilization is doomed.

The USPP spelled out their platform on the 2008 webpage--


THE UNITED STATES PACIFIST PARTY
2008 platform (Ver. 021808)

The United States Pacifist Party (USPP) rejects military force as a means of resolving international disputes. USPP members believe that military force violates the moral principles of the world’s great humanitarian religions and philosophies, and is a “Faustian bargain,” that may achieve short range political objectives, but only at the cost of long-term catastrophe for the human species. They believe that nonviolent resistance, as developed by Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, and massive economic aid programs to eliminate poverty worldwide, are appropriate and effective ways to resist aggression and tyranny. Major planks of the USPP’s 2008 plafform include:

International Relations
-Withdrawal of all military forces from Iraq.
-Preparation for nonviolent resistance against possible invasion and occupation attempts; This would include establishment of a national Department of Peace, and an unarmed service corps trained in strategic nonviolent defense and equipped for mobilization anywhere in the world;
-Deactivation of all nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons;
-Elimination of the Strategic Defense initiative;
-Abolition of all aspects of the Selective Service System;
-Complete disarmament, through negotiations and unilateral actions;
-An end to all overt and covert military aid and “intelligence” operations;
-Repeal of the Patriot Act;
-Reduction of the military budget toward zero;
-Immediate termination of all foreign military aid. Humanitarian foreign aid would be directed toward helping the poor meet their basic human needs and become self-sufficient. Aid to foreign governments generally would be contingent upon exemplary human rights records. When serious human rights violations are suspected, any aid given would be distributed by trustworthy agencies;
-Establishment of a massive economic aid program to abolish poverty, hunger, disease, homelessnesss and ignorance at home and worldwide. The aid would be administered by the United Nations;
-Normalization of relations with Cuba. Repeal of the Helms-burton Act, that permits lawsuits against individuals and firms who make use of land and facilities in Cuba that were nationalized by the Cuban government;
-Support for legitimate, nonviolent, social change movements that are struggling to advance human rights and political freedom;
-Support for one-person-one-vote democratic world government;

The Environment
-Inauguration of a crash program to stop and reverse global warming. This would emphasize creating a global solar power system that could provide sufficient electrical energy for everyone on earth. It would be based on passive and active solar power generating systems, associated with pumped water, compressed air, and battery storage systems, and, where possible, connected by high voltage, direct current, grids. It would make only limited and tightly controlled use of fossil fueled plants. Nuclear power plants would be shut down, and all nuclear and fusion energy research would be placed under international control. The humanitarian principle of such a system is that all people are entitled to free electrical power sufficient for their needs.
-Ending of private logging, grazing, and oil drilling on public lands;
-Special taxes on polluting industries to provide incentives for reducing pollution, and revenue for funding other environmental protection programs;

Health Care
Creation of a Canadian-style, single-payer national health care system with universal access, comprehensive coverage, and freedom of choice in the selection of doctors, medical facilities, and methods of treatment;

Immigration
Unrestricted immigration. Health and educations needs of immigrants would be paid for from the hundreds of millions of dollars saved by shutting down the military “defense” system;

Domestic Economy
-Full employment through private enterprises, cooperatives, worker-controlled and managed industries, and federally administered public projects;
-A guaranteed minimum income for U.S. citizens through the establishment of a negative income tax (A negative income tax gives checks to people whose income lies below the poverty level);

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
-Opposition to all forms of racial, sexual, and religious discrimination, and all unjust socio-economic barriers;
-Abolition of the death penalty;
-Ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns and assault weapons;
-Support for national and international family planning programs;
-Support for a Constitutional amendment banning discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation;
-Opposition to any restrictions on the right to freedom of travel and migration across U.S. borders;

Election Reform
-Limitation of campaign spending. Establishment of fair and open ballot access laws. Establishment of public campaign financing and provision of equal access to public television and radio for all ballot-certified candidates;
-Support for the principle of proportional representation in national elections.

OK, I will be going slightly out on a limb, although I believe this a low-risk guess. Lyttle's campaign was fairly low-key and his running-mate was invisible during the electioneering. It is reasonable to assume Abraham Bassford the VP choice is the same as Abraham "Brahm" Bassford IV. Originally from New York City, he was a Freedom Rider in the JFK era, and served 40 days first in the Hinds County Jail and then in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman for "disturbing the peace" while peacefully demonstrating against racial segregation. Bassford considered himself a Christian Socialist.

In 1972-1973 when the Socialist Party of the United States of America was reborn/formed, it was Bassford who served as their first National Secretary. How Lyttle and Bassford formed an alliance is not known, but they were both residents of Chicago in 2008.

An interesting bit of USPP self-reflection can be found on their webpage regarding elections--

Although Lyttle founded the USPP, and the party has vindicated itself as an exceptionally effective vehicle for reaching the general public with the pacifist message, Lyttle has always been ambivalent about it. He does not fully understand this ambivalence. He is not principally opposed to voting in national elections. However, pacifism has anarchist implications, and nation states are mainly justified on the grounds that they can provide military “protection” for populations. Additional considerations are that any “third party” can be considered a “spoiler” in a close election (the Green Party and Ralph Nader have been strongly condemned in some circles for causing George Bush to be elected), promoting any political party requires sustained work, and the hate mail suggests that there is considerable personal risk involved in promoting pacifism through a political party in a country as highly militarized as the U.S. * * *

The Lyttle/Bassford ticket was on the ballot in Colorado, where they placed 15 out of 16. Bassford also was listed as being a Chicago resident. Since they apparently were both residents of Illinois, the fact they were from the same state would have posed a Constitutional problem in the event of their victory.

For the 2016 campaign the USPP had modified their name to Nonviolent Resistance/Pacifist Party.

Election history: none

Other occupations: National Secretary of the Socialist Party of the United States of America, journalist

Notes:
Bassford was one of the subjects of Laurens Grant's 2011 documentary Freedom Riders.

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.

Mary Cal Hollis

Mary Cal Hollis, January 13, 1952 (Pine Bluff, Ark.) -

VP candidate for Socialist Party of the United States of America (aka Socialist Party USA aka Socialist Party aka Liberty Union Party aka Independent) (2000)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of the United States of America (2004)

Running mate with nominee (2000): David McReynolds (1929-2018)
Running mate with nominee (2004): Walter Frederick Brown (b. 1926)
Popular vote (2000): 5,602 (0.01%)
Popular vote (2004): 216 (0.00%)
Electoral vote (2000, 2004): 0/538

The campaign (2000):

Mary Cal Hollis of Colorado had been the Socialist Presidential candidate in 1996, but in 2000 she joined a small subset of former standard bearers who took the second place on the ballot in a subsequent election. David McReynolds had been the Socialist nominee in 1980 and two decades later was making another run for the White House. 

A former Democrat, Hollis put ideology over party loyalty and belonged to not only the Socialist Party USA but also the Green Party and Labor Party. "We need to educate the people that ninety percent of us have a lot in common, we shouldn't be splintered as the ruling class makes us, she said. "We need to give up the idea that a coalition means 'Quit your group and join mine.'"

In Vermont the Socialists managed to secure the nomination of the Liberty Union Party.

The McReynolds/Hollis ticket made the ballot in 7 states and had recorded write-in votes in an additional 7. Best showings: New Jersey 0.06%, Vermont 0.05%, Colorado and North Carolina 0.04% each, Washington 0.03%, Rhode Island 0.01%. What is impressive is that their North Carolina result was entirely a write-in effort with 1,226 votes.

The campaign (2004):

In 2004 the Party nominated attorney Walter F. Brown, a former Democratic State Senator in Oregon (PNW trivia alert!!!) for President and Mary Alice Herbert for VP. Hollis was the runner-up in the Vice-Presidential contest, but she was on the ballot with Brown only in the State of Colorado, where they finished with 0.01% of the vote in that jurisdiction.

Election history:
1996 - Peace and Freedom Party nomination for US President - defeated
1996 - Green Party nomination for US President - defeated
1996 - US President (Socialist Party of the United States of America) - defeated
2003 - Socialist Party of the United States of America nomination for President - withdrew
2003 - Socialist Party of the United States of America nomination for Vice-President - defeated

Other occupations: special education

Notes:
The first Arkansas-born third party VP to achieve ballot status in a national election.
"Debs felt that US citizens had fought two revolutions, one against royalty and one against slavery.
 He felt that the Third American Revolution would be against the wealthy ruling class. So, here's to
 the Revolution-it is surely inevitable. I just hope it can be done peacefully this time."--Mary Cal
 Hollis, 1997