Comments on: Peace & Freedom Party Submits Tentative List of Presidential Primary Candidates

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:40:59 +0000

Well. I think that polotics are stupid and they ruin our earth. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer try being poor you bad bad people.

By: Don Lake

Don Lake — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:01:24 +0000

Respectfully, Sacramento Phil:
You are currently ‘talking to other socialist groups’?
You know [personally!] that much of what I gripe about [targeted on Dems, GOP, Greens, PFP, ctweber, janice jordan, jan tucker] IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH!
You, I, Tish Firmiss, John Coffey [JD], Richard Winger and other Californians are locked into a system where every four years we have but two choices: pad the million vote lead of the Democratic candidate, even a schill like John F. Kerry [questionable SEA service, Yale Skull and Bones, born into comfort, evolving into mega wealth] OR send a non Democratic Party message with a non Democratic Party vote —-any non Democratic Party vote!
You are proud of your 2004 efforts. Many folks whom speak well of you in other years and other efforts declare that your 2004 slant was, well, umm……
John Coffey and I have been following your lead to GREENER pastures, via the do-nothing American Reform Party [we were still listed as Reform Party USA ---but not on purpose].
John is spinning to all points of the compass, much of it due to personal matters. I registered “Unity08″ [listed as "MIS" by the San Diego County Registrar] in early summer and have participated in numerious face to face, telephonic, and electronic endeavors since.
One thing about Perot, Ventura, Nader, and Unity08, they cause the two headed establishment monster to reach for the Pepto Bismol.

By: Phil Sawyer

Phil Sawyer — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:06:37 +0000

Here is one little quibble to begin with: PFP-CA did not hold a presidential primary election in 2000 because it had previously lost its ballot status. However, by 2004 (mainly due to the fantastic leadership provided by my good friend and comrade, C.T. Weber, the Party had regained its place back on the ballot).

Mr. Don Lake, my good friend and comrade, did you miss the two major decisions fairly recently by the Green Party of the United States to run candidates all out for president and vice president in 2008?

Furthermore, Don, it is time to leave animosities of the past in the past. Would you and your people please rejoin the Peace and Freedom Party of California? You can still keep your card-carrying memberships with the national Green Party, like I am doing. It is time to “find your way back home” as a registered voters with PFP-CA! “United we stand, divided we fall”!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:22:52 +0000

The original post is correct. There was no PFP presidential primary in 1968. The original post has now been amended to say that explicitly.

Just because a party doesn’t hold a presidential primary, doesn’t mean it can’t run for president in the general election, and PFP did run in the November 1968 general election in California, albeit with only a vice-presidential candidate printed on the November ballot.

By: Don Lake

Don Lake — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:53:20 +0000

The truth, the truth, the truth!

By: Tom Yager

Tom Yager — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:50:28 +0000

“The chance to give the corrupt national green establishment and their Democratic Party corporate style masters the one finger salute by the Green Party of California with the state nominating Nader – Camejo has come and gone.”

Our “masters” fought very hard to keep us off the ballot in Illinois last year. They lost.

If you dismiss an entire political party based on one candidate’s campaign strategy in one year, you’ll never find a party that suits you.

By: Red Rover

Red Rover — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:43:55 +0000

California’s Peace and Freedom Party has been holding primaries ever since 1968, the year it first gained ballot status – not 1972 as mentioned in the article above.
In 1968, P&F’s presidential candidate, Eldridge Cleaver, was kept off the ballot by the California Secretary of State because Cleaver was not old enough to run. Cleaver’s Vice Presidential running mate, Peggy Terry, did have her name appear on the ballot.

By: Mike Gillis

Mike Gillis — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:35:05 +0000

Why would you not accept the PFP nomination if you won the Socialist Party nod? Wouldn’t you want both?

The California ballot isn’t an easy one to get on and the Socialists don’t have a ballot line there.

By: Don Lake

Don Lake — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:58:55 +0000

My point exactly: the oft reused ‘federal felon’ as PFP candidate is nothing more than flimsy shadows of the 1920 bench mark. Debs did it first and did it better. The chance to give the corrupt national green establishment and their Democratic Party corporate style masters the one finger salute by the Green Party of California with the state nominating Nader – Camejo has come and gone.

A hundred folks on a typical side walk: how many could name the 2004 forgettable drones of the GP and or the PFP?

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:32:53 +0000

Under the U.S. Constitution, felons may run for president if they are age 35 and natural-born citizens and U.S. residents. However, none of the candidates on the list are felons. Eugene Debs polled 900,000 votes in 1920 while he was a felon.