Almost six months ago, California’s Peace & Freedom Party launched a National Organizing Committee, with the mission of exploring a united “left” presidential campaign in 2012. The Committee is holding a two-day forum in San Francisco, December 10-11. The group meets on Saturday at the Unitarian Church at 1187 Franklin Street, and on Sunday at 518 Valencia Street. Meetings on both days start at 9 a.m. It is likely that representatives of the Socialist Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Freedom Socialist Party, and Peace & Freedom itself will participate. It is also possible that representatives of Rocky Anderson’s new Justice Party will attend.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Meeting at a church? Sounds like they are planning to set up a Theocracy to me. I always suspected that of my friends in the P&F.
By the way, the P&F’s Lou McCammon was the greatest. I suppose he is dead now, but the cause of electoral freedom has had few better friends. He was great to work with in 1980 in dealing with the League of Women Voters on the US Senate debates.
How many $$$ billions would a super-leftwing (super-rightwing) Prez/VP pair get respectively from Elephant (Donkey) top folks — to DIVIDE and CONQUER ???
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Who is blind, deaf and dumb about what is coming in the 2012 gerrymander elections ???
WORSE than 1775-1776, WORSE than 1760, WORSE than 1932.
typo 1760 >>> 1860
Members of the Unitarian Church are hardly fundamentalist theocrats. Most Unitarians reject the miracles of the bible and the divinity of Christ. Unitarians look to Jesus as a great HUMAN philosopher. Most Unitarians are also on the left side of the political spectrum so it is the most logical place for Progressive/Socialist minded political groups to meet.
Gary–socialists often meet in Unitarian churches for some reason (I suspect because of the socialist leanings of unitarians themselves). I know you were making a joke, but it really is an odd pairing.
Eugene Debs was a devout Christian. Despite what many conservatives claim they are not contradicting philosophies, far from it.
Trent,
If you have ever been in a Unitarian church or attended one of their services, you would quickly understand the connection.
And yes, for the benefit of the gentleman in #4, I was most definitely making a joke. Sigh…
So far two of the participants have already nominated presidential and VP candaites. I can’t see the FSP, or Socialist Alternative, or P&F, for that matter accepting PS&L’s candaites which are below the traditional technical age for presidents. Can
In CA can P&FP even place to people under age on the ballot for P & VP?
And I can’t imagine the FSP putting energy into such candaites?
And I’m not sure other parties are willing to accept Stewart either?
It Rocky Anderson ends up being the P&F choice as a counterweight to other parties?
I do not think Rocky Anderson is a socialist, more like a Ralph Nader, so I could see P&FP nominating him, ut the other socialist parties probably wouldn’t support him?
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Richard–if Rocky Anderson were to win the nomination of the P&F Party and then seek the nomination of the Green Party, would he appear twice on the ballot? Or would the ballot just list two party affiliations?
Candidates participate in a multi-tier tournament. Drawing is held at random, defining bracket. This would be like Condorcet, but throughout a period of days.
No.6–How could Eugene Debs be a “devout Christian” with his comment that religion, especially Catholic, was “the chain holding down the masses”. That was from the C-Span special two months ago.
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California does permit fusion for president, even though it hasn’t been used since 1940, when Wendell Willkie was on the November ballot as “Republican, Townsend.” Also in 1928 Herbert Hoover was on the California ballot as “Republican, Prohibition.”