Friday, October 2, 2020

Presidential candidates on the VT ballot 2020, part 1

There are twenty-one entrants on the ballot.  This might be a three-parter.

Joe Biden & Kamala Harris; Democratic.  Website pushes heavily for donations.  Be prepared to scroll to look for positions on issues.  Be prepared, once you do find Joe's vision, for a page of competing slogan templates: "Build Back Better" jostling with "The Biden Plan for ___" and "Joe Biden's Agenda for ____".  This page needs some serious organization.

Don Blankenship & Bill Mohr; Constitution.  Website has three principles: Equality, Ethics, and Exactness, which sound okay (well, the first two sound okay and Exactness elicits a "hunh?  guess I gotta read further to figure out what they mean by that) until you read the accompanying paragraphs.  

  • The description of the Equality principle includes the line "Calling people who speak publicly about the diversity issues racists will not fix the problem."
  • Ethics begins "We must return to a nation of laws."
  • Exactness begins "Americans must be made aware that they cannot rely on the media for truthful information."

Brian Carroll & Amar Patel; American Solidarity.  Website has a clear list of general positions on issues.  Sounds like a pro-life Green Party. 

Phil Collins & Billy Joe Parker; Prohibition.  <insert joke about feeling it coming in the air tonight>  I couldn't find a website for the campaign, just a page on the party's website announcing the candidates.  The party platform contains no citation for the statistics they cite.  The NIH says there are 14 million alcoholics in the U.S., compared to the 40 million claimed by the Prohibition party.  

Roque "Rocky" de la Fuente & Darcy Richardson; Alliance.  The top google result for the candidate is http://www.rocky101.com/, but it doesn't exist.  The Alliance party site mentions them as the party's presidential candidates and outlines the party's general positions... which, skimming through, I'm generally in favor of.

Richard Duncan & Mitch Bupp; Independent.  Sweet jesus this website, which I found from his Facebook page.  When I clicked on the link on his Facebook page, I got the following:

Hoo boy.

Howie Hawkins & Angela Walker; Green.  Their website is "under construction" about a month out from election day???

Continued in part 2.

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