Green Party Candidate Cynthia McKinney
It is almost ironic that when journalists and columnists, and I must admit I too am guilty of this, mention the lack of coverage that third party candidates like Independent Ralph Nader and Libertarian Bob Barr receive while in the same breath forgetting to mention the other third party candidates that are out there. Here are the other candidates that are likely to appear on your state's ballot on November 4 and what they bring to the table. Because are are just too many to discuss, this list will feature candidates who appear on the ballot in ten or more states in order of how many states they appear, including write-in options.
Cynthia McKinney (Green Party, 48 states and Washington D.C.): McKinney is a former Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia. McKinney served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 untill 2007. McKinney is perhaps best known for her ties to conspiracy theorists who question aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the murder of Martin Luther King Jr and introducing articles of impeachment for many in the administration. McKinney supports voting reform, abolition of the Patriot Act and similar programs, campaign finance reform, creating millions of new jobs, raising the minimum wage, repealing NAFTA and similar programs, pro-immigrant illegal immigration reform, reparations for African-Americans, increasing education spending drastically, cutting the military budget drastically and tax reform.
Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party, 45 states and Washington D.C.): Baldwin is a pastor, radio-host and former Republican from Florida. Baldwin was a major critic of George Bush in the 2000 campaign and dropped out of the Republican party when Bush was nominated. Baldwin is a Ron Paul endorsed conservative libertarian. His plaform is entirely against the income tax, the war in Iraq, illegal immigration, the United Nations, NATO, NAFTA and the Patriot Act while supporting the ten commandments first and the Constitution second as the law of the land.
Brian Moore (Socialist Party, 22 states): Moore is a former Democratic politician from Florida. Moore supports promoting renewable energy to replace fossil fuels, creating more effective agricultural and health care plans, replace private ownership with community ownership and "worker control of industry and financial institutions," redistributing wealth and attempting to curb poverty throughout the world, withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan, abolishing the Patriot Act and similar programs and promotion of art programs.
Gloria La Riva (Socialism and Liberation Party, 12 states): Riva is a politician from New Mexico that is running for President or Vice-President for the sixth time. La Riva supports withdrawing from Afghanistan and Iraq, ending all United States' sanctions, promote the cause of the Palestinian people, releasing Puerto Rico from American rule, 100% employment, raising minimum wage to $15 per hour, free healthcare, free college tuition for everyone, full rights for illegal immigrants and gay marriage.
Roger Calero (Socialist Workers Party, 10 states): Calero is a journalist and politician from New Jersey by way of Nicaragua. Calero shares a similar platform as the two socialist candidates above. Because he was not born in the United States, he will be replaced by Socialist James Harris in some states that he has qualified in.
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Chuck Baldwin does not support the 10 Commandments above the Constitution as the LAW OF THE LAND. He is a Constitutionalist. He is more evangelical than some but believes in separation of church and state. I was trying to get myself to vote for him as the best option instead of writing in Ron Paul, until I learned Ron Paul is now a registered write in candidate for California. Now I am definitely writing in Ron Paul. But you are ascribing things to Baldwin that aren't his views.
Ralph Nader is for single payer health care-unlike Obama and MCain. He warned us that both major parties were owned by Wall Street. Now we know that is true. He has a solution for the crisis- a tax on derivativestock sales and a nationalk public works program. See votenader.org and tell Obama and Mcain your vote is not for sale. I live in Point Roberts.
Spinniker, perhaps not above the Constitution but certainly hand in hand with it. Baldwin is a pastor and former head of Jerry Fallwell's Moral Majority in Florida who runs on "God, Family and the Republic." The guy is even against women in the military, forget homosexuals. His biggest thing used to be the Sanctity of Life before he hopped on the Ron Paul bandwagon and put the Iraq War at the very top of the platform. Listen to his radio show and then tell me that he values the Constitution more than the Bible.
Steve, thanks for the very relevant comment, glad I can give you an outlet to shamelessly promote.
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