The Peace & Freedom Party of California is entitled to its own presidential primary in 2012. That ballot will include four candidates: (1) Stewart Alexander; (2) Rocky Anderson; (3) Peta Lindsay; (4) Stephen Durham.
Alexander is already the Socialist Party nominee; Rocky Anderson will probably be the Justice Party nominee; Peta Lindsay is the nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation; and Stephen Durham is the nominee of the Freedom Socialist Party. None of those four parties is on the California ballot, so each hopes for the Peace and Freedom nomination so as to be on the November 2012 ballot in California.
Did they used to nominate by caucus?
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Save some time and money and avoid the deadly branding of any Presidential candidate with the fire of “Socialist”. Rocky Anderson is far and away the most qualified to be the candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party Primary. He is a true champion of the middle class and a tireless worker for the tenets of Democracy. He is a superb debater and has taken on the likes of Hannibal Hannity and survived his character assassinations and lies of mishandling of funds and government ties. Research Mr. Anderson and you will find he is the best candidate of ALL the candidates for President of the United States of America in 2012. Voting for a Republican or a Democrat is the very definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again yet expecting a different result. Take it to the net and make it go viral. Grassroots for Rocky for Pres.
Is this primary binding, or does the party still nominate by convention?
The Peace and Freedom Party has never had a binding presidential primary. In 1988 and 1992, Lenora Fulani won the PFP presidential primary, but the party refused to nominate her. The PFP presidential nominating convention is always in August of the election year.
Hey Tim, do you realize that PFP is a socialist coalition? Think you’re barking up the wrong tree…
There are potentially two parts of the Peace and Freedom Party presidential primary: the preference vote, and the election of convention delegates. As the PFP is not slated to have a national presidential nominating convention in 2012, the only line on the ballot for president in the primary will be for voters to express a preference. It is not binding, but is often very influential on the State Central Committee members who make the final choice at their Convention meeting in early August. (Fulani was a special case, as her group – actually run by the late Fred Newman – was considered by most PFP people to be an enemy organization, probably tied to a secretive government agency. Immediately before founding his party, Fred Newman was paid to complete a study on mind control for the Air Force.) So while all the candidates need to do the usual electioneering and push for votes in the preference primary, the most important campaign work they can do is to qualify supporters as candidates for the Peace and Freedom Party State Central Committee. Those elected will do the voting on the presidential nomination at the Convention.
yeah – Capitalism kills. It’s not a victimless crime. We have communism to thank for the U.S.’ and others’getting a middle class. Our Owners got so scared of us they gave us a little. Since then they’ve been working furiously logorythmically progressively to take those concessions back.
Our work pays for our social well being but we can’t get that; our Owners steal it all from us.This Rocky person serves that system.
Happy to see the Freedom Socialist Party’s Stephen Durham running!
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