Prohibition Party Holds Presidential Nominating Convention

Ever since 1943, the Prohibition Party has followed a policy of nominating its presidential nominee in the odd year before the presidential election. The party is meeting for that purpose June 20-22 in Cullman, Alabama. The presidential nominee will be chosen on June 22. Two individuals are interested in obtaining the nomination, Jim Hedges of Pennsylvania, and Jack Fellure of West Virginia.

The Prohibition Party started its habit of nominating in the year before the election after its 1940 experience in Pennsylvania. In 1937 the state had moved its petition deadline to April of presidential election years. The party submitted a timely petition listing candidates for presidential elector, but the petition didn’t name the party’s presidential nominee, Roger W. Babson, because he hadn’t yet been nominated and the party didn’t know who was going to be its nominee when it submitted the petition. But the state rejected the petition because it hadn’t named the presidential nominee. To avoid this problem in the future, the party began nominating its presidential candidate far earlier in the process.


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Prohibition Party Holds Presidential Nominating Convention — 14 Comments

  1. A three day convention to decide who will be lead and who will be VP from just two candidates that only get on the ballot in, what, two states? Sounds to me like it’s just an excuse for some extended weekend binge drinking. http://stopthemaddness.org/pols.html

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  3. I understand that Richard is a keynoter at this convention, in legally “dry” Cullman, AL.(Not very conducive to binge drinking, Doremus Jessup. Lol). At 142 years of age, Prohibition is the oldest living American third party– 15 years younger than the GOP and just 37 years younger than the Democrats, the world’s oldest living major party. I admire its fortitude and perseverance; although its not easy being Green, its even harder being Prohibition. I remember its members’ hospitality to me in Memphis in 2009 and I wish them a fine convention in Cullman.

  4. Alright then, a toast to the Prohibition Party. Prost! Salud! A votre sante! L’Chaim! and, oh yeah, Cheers! Not to be outdone by the Monty Python Philosophers’ Song: “Emanuel Kant was a real piss ant who was very rarely stable, Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozing begger who could think you under the table. David Hume could out consume Shoppenhauer and Shlegel, and Witgenstein was a beery swine who was just as shloshed as Hegel. There’s nothing Neitche couldn’t teach about the raising of the wrist, Socrates himself was permanently pissed. Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbs was fond of his dram and Rene DeCart was a drunken fart, I drink therefore I am. “

  5. I love good beer but I have voted for Prohibition nominees in the past when they were the only opponent to the Demorepublicrats. Good luck to them! They might do very well in a ranked choice voting system.

  6. I was a speaker but not the keynote speaker. Another speaker was Stephen Gordon, and his talk about using modern technology for campaigns was excellent.

    The delegates spend a great deal of time reshaping the platform. People who go to party conventions know that takes a lot of time, but it is very worthwhile.

  7. Did ‘Independent Alabama’ drop by/ make an appearance ?????

    #1 Libertarian Voter Says: June 21st, 2011 at 7:56 am
    “…….. are you going to post who the nominee is for the Prohibition Party?” ——— or the mailing address of the current national organization ???????

  8. After two days of listening and interacting with Stephen Gordon, Richard Winger, Eunie Smith, Joe Godfrey, Patricia McGriff, and a host of other wonderful people at the Prohibition National Convention, all I can say is,”It’s Hip To Be Square!”

  9. you live longer, have better sex, and kill less people (especially with alcohol after 10 PM or any time on the week end).

    It is totally ridicules: my college girl friend was STILL in shock decades after her elementary school brother and his class mate were run down in the middle of the after noon ON THE SIDE WALK!

  10. Donald, I hear you. Ryan Dunn and Zachary Hartwell should be the Prohibition Party’s poster boys. Both were recently killed in a fiery 100+ MPH sports car crash after a night of drinking together.

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