Colorado is expected to have 18 presidential candidates on its November ballot, the most for any state in U.S. history. The prior record had been 14 presidential candidates, set in 1992 in Iowa, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Colorado has five qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Constitution, Green, and Libertarian. In addition to the presidential nominees of those five parties, thireteen other presidential candidates filed by the June 17 deadline. They needed no petition; they just needed $500 and a list of presidential elector candidates.
The 13 pairs include:
Unaffiliated: Alan Keyes for president and Brian Rohrbough for vice-president. Rohrbough lives in Morrison, Colorado, and is president of American Right to Life. One of his children was killed in the Columbine School shooting. Rohrbough is somewhat well-known for having a monument erected that blames the incident on legalized abortion and the policy of not allowing teachers to lead public school students in prayer, in the classroom.
Unaffiliated: Elvena Lloyd-Duffie for president, no one listed for vice-president. She can add a vice-presidential candidate later. She lives in Chicago. She chose the ballot label “Republican” but the state will require her to change that, and if she doesn’t, she will be “Unaffiliated” on the ballot.
Unaffiliated: William Koenig for president, no one for vice-president. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Unaffiliated: Frank McEnulty for president, David Mangan for vice-president. They are the nominees of the New American Independent Party but they chose not to use that ballot labe.
Unaffiliated: Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez.
Boston Tea: Charles Jay and Dan Sallis. Jay lives in Hollywood, Florida; Sallis lives in Littleton, Colorado.
Heartquake ’08: Jonathan Allen of Olathe, Colorado, and Jeffrey Stath, Ventura, California.
Objectivist: Thomas Stevens of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., and Alden Link of Paramus, N.J.
Pacifist: Bradford Lyttle and Abraham Bassford, both of Chicago.
Prohibition: Gene Amondson and Howard Lydick.
Socialism: Gloria La Riva and Robert Moses. The party’s actual vice-presidential candidate is under age 35, so Moses is a stand-in.
Socialist: Brian Moore and Stewart Alexander.
Socialist Workers: James Harris and Alyson Kennedy. The party’s actual presidential candidate was not born in the U.S., so Harris is a stand-in.
The New American Independent Party candidates Frank McEnulty & David Mangan chose not to use the NAIP ballot label because the state of Colorado failed to respond to our emails and phone messages regarding the use of our party label. We didn’t want to have a conflict with our name and instead of rolling the dice we chose unaffiliated. Better safe than sorry.
Over a five month time period 6 phone messages were not returned and several emails were also not responded too.
fyi, i am registered as a write-in candidate in colorado. couldn’t afford the $500, but “rx” should be pretty easy to remember!
The Boston Tea Party’s actual VP nominee is Thomas L. Knapp; but due to the timing of the BTP convention and the Colorado deadline, Thomas Knapp’s Declaration of Candidacy wasn’t able to be received in time, so a stand-in was chosen from the Colorado affiliate of the BTP.
The irony about the Boston Tea Party filing is that Colorado doesn’t require paperwork concerning the vice-president to be turned in by the deadline. Presidential candidates who meet the deadline can choose a V-P later.
Also John Wayne Smith of Florida says he will be the Boston Tea Party v-p in Florida, so Tom Knapp’s name won’t be on in Florida either, apparently.
The petitions being circulated in Alabama list Thomas L. Knapp as the VP; Knapp has agreed to use the “nickname” “Boston Tea Party” (which Alabama allows), so if the candidates are on the ballot, they will be listed as “independent”, but the Party name will be included as the nickname of Thomas L. Knapp.
well, at least CO serves a purpose; it was a way for the weirdos at the Alan Keyes site to proclaim they have ballot access. Now let’s see if he can get more votes than the Boston Tea Party.
“Carlsbad”: What do you mean by “weirdos”? Is that a term that you utilize for any group of people who differ from your point of view about the nature of politics and reality?
American RTL president Brian Rohrbough blames school violence partly on a “policy of not allowing teachers to lead public school students in prayer, in the classroom.”
This is not true. I’ve followed Brian’s work and listened to the many radio interviews he’s done in Colorado. He exposes the official godlessness of the public school system, advocates homeschooling and Christian schooling, but explictly rejects any attempt to have public school teachers promote religion (of course, that would be absurd, since a good number of course are agnostic, etc).
What do you mean, “George H”? How can courses in school be “agnostic, etc.”? School courses should be based entirely on science. Since religious belief and thinking requires a leap of faith, it is not appropriate to have curriculum influenced by spiritual practice and thought. I am a Christian, by the way (a Dialectical Christian Existentialist, to be precise).
Phil Sawyer
What do you mean: “How can courses in school be “agnostic, etc.â€? School courses should be based entirely on science. Since religious belief and thinking requires a leap of faith, it is not appropriate to have curriculum influenced by spiritual practice and thought.”…..
Except for the biological evolvement of species due to their surroundings; evolution theory takes a leap of faith in order to believe it. Economics takes a leap of faith to believe in creative finance theories that rest upon nothing but the taxpayers ability to pay the debts of the US Government. With as much revision as History Books suffer from the 1960s to the present; it takes a leap of faith to believe what is taught in history classes….
A foreign exchange student from East Germanystaying with us was scolded by her World History teacher for not answering the questions about East Germany according to the history book. She lived in East Germany for the first 17 years of her life and answered the questions based on fact she grew up in…..
Since the Federal Reserve Note is backed by only the tax payers ability to pay the debts of the US Government; it is a leap of faith everytime you go to the store to purchase goods that the you will be able to get real goods for the highly starched cotton Federal Reserve Notes you are wanting to use in the exchange.The track record for governments using that kind of economic system throughout history has not yielded the best results….
It seems to me like you are implying, “Larry,” that any person (no matter how unqualified) can teach any course that he or she wishes and in any manner that he or she wishes, and call it the truth. That is not the way that science works.
What is the point of having candidates who do not meet the constitutional requirements of age, etc.?
Phil Sawyer, I think it is fair to say “any person (no matter how unqualified) can teach any course that he or she wishes and in any manner that he or she wishes, and call it the truth” is how our education system works. Of course you have to have enough money, so it technically isn’t “any person”, and it helps if you have an agenda too.