Not Quite Spoilers… the Whig Party revivified, the Reform Party still kicking, and the Last Remaining Natural Law candidate
Joe Bellis, Reform Party Candidate for the US Senate seat in Kansas, received 1.4 percent of the vote.
His campaign website is loud.
From the assistance on “pro-life” in the top banner, it appears he falls on the “keep pushing social issues” ledger in the great “Tea Party Fiscal Emphasis versus Pushin’ Everything” debate.
Didn’t know there was still a Reform Party, did you?
It’s a ghost ballot line, Bellis sought any number of parties as he…
I taken the conviction of Goldwater, the candor of Truman and the values of Reagan to develop a political philosophy that is unique in today’s politcal landscape.
And stuck up the “United We Stand” gif.
The Reform candidate for governor in Kansas received this write-up:
The scrappy third-party outsider is quietly making a mockery of Kansas politics with criminal charges, the resignation of his top aide, and the world’s worst campaign website.
Maybe he fixed the website, but it’s a whole lot better than Bellis’s. He outran his party cohort by .4 percent of the vote.
Can someone tell me what “GRP” stands for with regard to candidate Chris Wright of Minnesota? So far as I can make out, it may be “Grass Roots Party”, But alas:
Chris Wright registered with the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board in December to run for governor. He’s a computer technician and former activist with the (now defunct) Grassroots Party, which focused primarily on marijuana legalization.
Maybe he revived it (see too the Whig Party) to get back to its glory days:
Of course, Wright will undoubtedly find it extremely difficult to get these opinions heard without the backing of a political party — major or minor. His previous run for Governor, in 1998, doesn’t inspire confidence in his prospects: he garnered 1,727 votes, or .1 percent of all votes cast.
He did 400 times better this year.
The Florida Whig Party discusses its 2010 results and 2012 prospects here.Â
Here are the Louisiana Senate results:
Randall Hayes Lib. 13,952 1.1% Â
Michael Brown Ind. 9,970 0.8% Â
Mike Spears Ind. 9,188 0.7% Â
Ernest Wooton Ind. 8,164 0.6% Â
Skip Galan Ind. 7,471 0.6% Â
William McShan Ref. 5,879 0.5% Â
Bob Lang Ind. 5,732 0.5% Â
Milton Gordon Ind. 4,806 0.4% Â
Tommy LaFargue Ind. 4,042 0.3% Â
Sam Melton Ind. 3,779 0.3% Â
The Reform Party, stick up and kicking, came in Sixth in the Third Party Derby.
And to think, he never updated his campaign website.
After contacting and gaining the approval of the Reform Party of Louisiana, William McShan filed the required documentation to run for one of Louisiana’s United States Senate seats. Stay tuned as he ramps up his campaign as the HONEST and ACCOUNTABLE alternative to establishment politician David Vitter.
For what it is worth, Carlos Alvarez was this year’s Gubernatorial candidate on the “Peace and Freedom” Party in California — a party with a storied tradition.  Alvarez received .9 percent of the vote.
Just so you know:
CA: What makes the Peace and Freedom Party different from the Green Party?
Alvarez: The Peace and Freedom Party is a socialist party. I’m also a member of the party for Socialism and Liberation, one of the groups that functions within the umbrella of organizations that is the Peace and Freedom party. The Peace and Freedom Party is a socialist ballot access party. It differentiates itself from the Green Party because the Green Party has, for example, progressive stances on many issues and we, of course, support and unite with them on those issues, but we believe that we need to go further than to look for solutions within the current system. We believe that it is ultimately limited—what we can do within the current system. We cannot, for example, have a planned economy under capitalism.
A lot of third party candidates have this “we” habit.
Iowa Gubernatorial candidate David Rosenfeld of the Socialist Workers Party:
Rosenfeld’s candidacy offers liberals unhappy with Culver’s waffling on worker’s and gay rights a clear alternative. But the Des Moines tire-factory worker’s actions — he doesn’t have a website and hasn’t campaigned extensively — evince a questionable campaign commitment. In addition, his anachronistic, “dictatorship of capital†rhetoric is sure to turn off liberal voters otherwise amenable to a left-wing candidate.
— received .2 percent of the vote, and the Editorial Endorsement section on the Daily Iowan probably missed the point with regards to the “Dictatorship of Capital” rhetoric not matching liberal voters’ concerns — this is all about forming a Vanguard against the Rearguard Reactionaries, baby!
The Iowa candiate, Jonathan Narcisse, meantime, glories in his victory of Double Digit Results in Every County!
Ben Mitchell, Vermont’s Liberty Union candidate, quit the race late in the election campaign and supported the damned Democrat… he’s no David Rosenfeld in terms of CONVICTION with 10 capital letters. So he ended up with .2 percent of the vote. How does this stack up with other Liberty Union candidates?Â
Dennis Steele, of the Secessionist Movement, received .8 percent of the vote. The Movement is a ways off.
It appears that Alan Jacquemotte is the last Natural Law Party (which officially called it quites a a national party organization in 2004) candidate on the ballot. He received .2 percent of the vote in the Michigan Congressional District 12 race. He ran on the “Millenium Plan”, which does in a weird way involve the square root of 1 percent solution that the Natural Law Party has always had to establishing World Peace in solving issues of Economic Hardship, though escapes the rubric of “Natural Law Party” and moves over to the “Millenium Party” (which does not appear yet established). He’s also a 9/11 Truther.