Vanessa Surratt, July 5, 1959 -
VP candidate for Independent (2008)
Running mate with nominee: Glen John Mansfield (b. 1947)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
The ticket of Glen John Mansfield and Vanessa Surratt were registered as write-ins in the State of Minnesota. Mansfield had been a taxicab driver who had run unsuccessfully for public office before in an effort to be elected Mayor of Saint Paul. He was also revealed to have a mind that concocted, at least on paper, some creative technological inventions.
Although his 2008 campaign was under the radar, Mansfield also ran in 2012, it seems without a running-mate. In that later campaign he had a webpage and expressed his desire to fight the plight of poverty as his top priority--
To begin the end of all economic and monetary suffering, I, as president, will call on all world leaders to recognize the plight of the needy and recognize the fact that tax and spend can’t end their plight and also recognize the present structure of the world wide monetary system as also being incapable of ending their plight. Upon this recognition I will invite all leaders to expediently work with me in a quick fix modification to the monetary system, which, in the New World Monetary System, a country’s money or wealth is no longer just backed by their precious metals, resources or productivity, but also backed on the well being of mankind. This backing of the New Word Monetary System will open the doors to a New World Bank which can be implemented immediately using current currencies or its own currency.
Mansfield goes into considerable detail on how he would go about implementing this change. Beyond that, there were a few other points in his platform I found somewhat interesting and original--
I will also work to keep oil prices and inflation down so not to disturb our very fragile economy which is growing but could easily fall due to inflation or war in which we need to spend on our domestic needs, which will boost our nation’s economy, providing jobs and added tax dollars which to knock down our nation’s debt. Also, I will work feverishly in creating more energy produced by wind, solar, hydro, thermal, and magnetic power. Though magnetic power is possible, there may be a danger that it may off set earth’s axis and or orbit and should not be developed. Whatever the case, I will work to break our nation’s dependence on foreign oil and rid the world of nuclear and coal fired power plants. To begin, I will pick out a federal office building and fit it with solar panels, windmill generators and my own idea of a possible energy saving lighting system. In the event my energy bill is successful in saving our nation money plus cuts our dependency on the conventional fuels used today in producing energy, I will fit all of our nation’s federal buildings with the same green energy producing devices and will also work to light our buildings and federal road ways with my special lighting system. And as it works for Government, the public will follow, in which the green industry will provide many new jobs thus adding speed to our nation’s recovery, and the money saved by minus government spending, will be applied to reduce our nation’s debt
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Inspiration; In the space of time, life is but a fleeting moment. Don’t waste your time adding to world atrocities, or voting for those who will change nothing, but vote G Man for Pres, write in candidate
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In the early 1980’s I invented Parachutes for many different types of Air Craft and phoned Bowing, a major Air bus manufacturer, and asked that they build my design of a Sectional Aircraft and said, in the event of an inevitable crash, the pilot can eject the passenger compartment which will separate the fuselage from the main body of the plane then short wings attached to the compartment will help lift the compartment to swiftly clear the tail. Once clear, a drag parachute will open from the rear of the compartment to slow it down. Once slowed, parachutes aligned on top of the compartment will open and float the compartment containing passengers and crew within safely to the ground or water on which the compartment is designed to float. Once the pilot has ejected the compartment, he or she will try to guide the plane to a non populated area then the pilot and co-pilot can eject the cockpit on which parachutes will float them to the ground or water.
Though I was asking nothing for my idea or design, and though the CEO I spoke with agreed that my proposed Sectional Air Craft is feasible, he rejected my proposal on the grounds of cost saying, “the Sectional Air Bus would be so costly to build that Air Carriers could not afford to buy them.
With this rejection, I invented a modification to the monetary system which will not only provide the money needed to build Sectional Air Craft’s with no additional cost to air carriers but the New World Monetary System I propose will also achieve an abrupt end to world hunger, homelessness, unemployment and economic strife thus a great reduction in today’s many crimes, terrorist acts, revolutions and wars.
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While world leaders are working on the details of the New World Monetary System, I will enact my conventional platform
which in part consists of government doing more to help known and unknown inventors with designing, manufacturing and marketing their product or device thus many new products spurring consumer spending fueling a strong economy thus jobs. Under the guide lines of the Inventors program I will design and manufacture Wheel Sanders,for vehicles. The Wheel Sander is a device designed to better enable motorist to more safely start or stop on icy roadways, such as, in the event you are skidding on ice and you are about to collide, you can push a button which will activate the sander to spread salt and sand in from of your wheels which will give you traction to better start or stop on ice. Because the Wheel Sander is a potentially life saving device, I will work to write it into law, that all vehicles sold in ice bound areas be equipped with Wheel Sanders.
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Mansfield ran again in 2016, and yet again no running-mate is mentioned on his webpage. This time his campaign webpage was even longer but still had the same focus on the world monetary system. Here are some of the more intriguing selections--
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Dr. Malcolm Moos who was President of Minnesota State University in the1960s and 70s said of my proposed United System, “is not only feasible but truly offers mankind utopia.”
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Though candidate Trump is undoubtedly a great business person, he is not presidential material in which he lacks compassion and understanding of the pain of hunger, economic strife and squalor, and the compassion to end the suffering, in which a good leader would not send illegal immigrants back to the nothingness, from which they come which was so terrible that they risk life and limb to leave their homeland, and go to a foreign country in hope of finding a better life, but the right person for such a serious job such as being president is one who in a conventional platform of tax and spend would do as I said, which is; provide all people in all countries with the information necessary for all people to have the opportunity to possibly invent something.
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ALSO, THE VERY UTMOST REASON TO END THE FIGHTING IN THE ARAB WORLD NOW WITHOUT ANOTHER SHOT FIRED IS, AS A RESULT OF ALL THE BOMBING SHAKING THE EARTH, COULD CAUSE A CRACK DEEP IN THE EARTH, IN WHICH THAT CRACK COULD LEAD FROM EARTH’S CORE TO AN UNDER GROUND OIL OR NATURAL GAS RESIVOIR CATISTROFIC EXPLOTION WHICH COULD RESULT IN THE TOTAL DISSTRUCTION OF EARTH.EVEN IF THERE IS NO CRACK LEADING FROM EARTHS' FIRERY MANTAL, THERE YET COULD BE A CATISTROFIC EXPLOSION DUE TO ALL THE MANMADE EXPLOSIONS, WHICH COULD CAUSE THE ROCKS DEEP IN THE EARTH TO RUB TOGETHER CAUSING A SPARK WHICH COULD ALSO IGNITE AN UNDERGROUND OIL OR NATURAL GAS RESIVOIR DELIVERING THE SAME CATISTROFIC CONCEQUENCE AS IN, THE END OF EARTH. EVEN IF MY FEAR OF A CRACK OR A SPARK ARE TOTALLY UNFOUNDED, I FEAR, AS A RESULT OF ALL THE EXPLOSIONS SHAKING THE EARTH MAY POSSIBLY BE LOSENING DEBRIS FROM THE SEALING OF EARTH'S CORE THUS ADDING MATERIAL TO THE LAVA PIT RESULTING IN MORE LAVA AND MORE GASSES CAUSING MORE PRESSURE THUS CAUSING MORE FREAQUENT AND VIOLENT VALCANIC ACTIVITY EATHER ABOVE THE SURFACE OF EARTH AS IN VALCANO ERUPTIONS AND OR UNDER AS IN OCEANIC VOLCANIC ACTIVITY WHICH I BELIEVE IS OCCURING AND BEING A MAJOR CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THE WARMING OF OUR OCEANS AS IN VOLCANIC ACTTIVITY ON OUR OCEANS FLOOR , THUS WARMING OUR OCEANS, THUS WARMING THE AIR IN OUR ATMOSPHERE THUS ADDING TO THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL WARMING. GLOBAL WARMING IS MORE THAN JUST A COUPLE OF WORDS BUT IT IS AN ACT WITH DEVASTATING CONCEQUENCES SUCH AS WHEN THE POLAR CAPS ARE GONE, MOST ALL OF MEXICO WILL BE UNDER WATER AS WILL ALL OF OUR U.S. COASTLINE, AS WILL ALL LOW LYING LAND MASS ALL AROUND THE WORLD WITH THIS HAPPENING THERE WILL BE HUMAN CROWDING WORLD WIDE, AND WORSE, EVERYONE WORLD WIDE WILL LOSE A LARGE PART OF WINTER'S WARM CLIMATE CROP LAND.WITH SO MUCH CROP LAND LOST DUE TO FLOODING I FEAR THAT WITH THE PROJECTED INCREASE IN POPULATION, MANKIND IS DESTENED FOR MASS HUNGER AND OR EVEN MASS STARVATION. AND WHEN IT COMES TO SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, THOSE WHO ARE NOT SO STRONG WILL RESORT TO A WEAPON TO GET WHAT THEY WANT THUS MANY GUN TOTING NEIBORHOOD CLAN LIKE GROUPS KILLING FOR THE LAST MORCEL OF THE DWINDELING FOOD. WITH THIS SAID, IT'S BEST TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY, BY FIRST, STOP THE FIGHTING SO THE EXPLOSIONS WILL STOP SHAKING THE EARTH FEEDING MATERIEL INTO THE LAVA PIT. ALSO ACT AS IF ITS AN EMERGENCY THAT MANKIND SEREIOUSLY ACT TO GREATLY REDUCE EARTH'S HUMAN POPULATION BY WAY OF COPULATE BUT DONT POULATE.. GET DOWN TO A LOW POPULATION, SO IN THE EVENT MY FEARED CHAIN OF EVENTS SHOULD OCCURE, THERE WILL BE MORE FOOD AND ROOM FOR THOSE IN EXISTANCE
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Power Net Fish Lift: For the Lone Angler in a Boat.
Because the conventional method of netting a fish on the end of your fishing line, holding a rod and reel in one hand and a bucket style net on the end of a pole in the other causing the angler to perform a balancing act which could result in the angler to fall overboard or at least has caused many of anglers to lose one's catch. To better assist the lone Angler to more successfully land their catch, I will design and ask a non-particular fish netting manufacture to produce my Power Fish Lift Landing Nets which is fastened to the side of the Angler’s boat and will enable the angler to remain seated and reel one’s catch close to one’s boat, then press the up button which will rise the submerged net and fish within, up out of the water.
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Car Table
I will also design, manufacture and market Car Tables. Because backing a vehicle out of a driveway onto a busy roadway could be hazardous or just simply backing down a snow covered driveway and veer off the drive could result in a number of problems especially for the elderly, I designed Car Tables which when the vehicle operator comes home, he or she can drive straight up the driveway and stop on the Table. Then when ready to go, the driver can simply press the remote control button which will turn the table around with so the driver can drive the vehicle straight off the Table and down the driveway. In the event of a power outage or for whatever reason the powered Table fails to move, there is a manual device in place which the operator can use to position the table so to drive straight off the table on down the driveway.
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Also once while watching a Television Weather Channel, the TV Station’s storm chasers were filming a tornado. As I watched, the tornado came off the Kansas flat lands and entered the beginning part of a small town’s main street. The first thing the 50 feet wide tornado hit was a 30 or 40 feet tall wooden high line pole, with two electrical transformers on it at the top. When the tornado hit the pole, it caused both transformers to explode. Upon that explosion, the tornado abruptly dissipated which if I am elected President I will call on our Nation’s defense department to develop missiles which to destroy tornadoes and to be deployed from a helicopter or any type of a fast response vehicle and the missile or bomb is to be manually detonated by remote control which will provide the best chance of destroying a tornado. The strike point and the detonation zone will be thirty or 40 feet up from the bottom of the tornado but not necessarily for all types and size tornadoes.Also as, for fighting forest fires, I will better equip our nation’s Wild Fire Fighters with many more Tanker Air Crafts which to bombard fires with water and or massive amounts of fire retardants which to more swiftly extinguish wild fires. On the subject of swiftly extinguishing wild fires I will add to my call on our nation’s defense department to produce an explosive which our nation can add to our country’s many methods of fighting wild fires. My thoughts are to deliver an explosive charge into hot spots of a forest fire, followed by a drop from the water tanker, aircraft dropping water and or a fire retardant. The intent of bombing a wild fire, is to knock it down a bit, so the Tankers won't have to work so hard to put it out. I also like my idea of installing water cannons throughout our nation's many forest and build huge water tanks in and around the many forest which to have water on stand by and powerful water pumps which to force the water to the cannons. I planned to draw much of the water from rising lakes due to the water run off of our melting gladiators though I have additional creative firefighting methods ...
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As for the mosquito born zika virus I thought to hang small bags of animal skin filled with tainted blood which to kill hordes of mosquitos and other same said bags filled with medicaly treated blood which to enable the blood sucking insect to survive but kill the virus with-in.
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Though so, instead of using any of my money to buy a $2 bed at the shelter, I used every cent I earned to buy fliers so to advertise my campaign and un knowingly to the Taxi Co. I slepted in an old recked cab that was parked in a corner of the Co. garoge for parts. Because I had a very unfavorable platform in calling for the abolishment of the world wide monetary system, the greedy who for the love of money and those in fear of change, no one ever gave a dollar or a dime which to help support a platform which offered peace and good for all mankind.Because I didn't have enough money with which to run a well advertised campaign, I was all most invisible
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I don't see a Donald Trump Presidency as doing good for any people, but only see more pain and suffering which is what fuels rampant crimes, civil unrest, terrorist acts revolutions and wars.
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All I could glean about Vanessa Surratt, Mansfield's 2008 running-mate, was her birthdate and the fact she was also a resident of Saint Paul. This would have proven to be problematic in the event of a Mansfield/Surratt victory on Election Day since they were both residents of the same state, but as it was they were reported to have received zero votes. Apparently they did not vote for themselves or Minnesota didn't bother to report their total.
Election history: ?
Other occupations: ?
Notes:
Another mystery VP
