The Indiana Socialist Party says it has collected enough signatures to place two legislative candidates on the November ballot. Both of them will be the only opponents to incumbents who are running for re-election. Ron Haldeman is running for State House, 94th district, against an incumbent Democrat. John Strinka is running for State House, 39th district, against an incumbent Republican. These are the first Socialist Party nominees to appear on the Indiana ballot since 1948.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Congratulations Indiana Socialists!
Which areas of the state are the two districts?
The 94th is in Indianapolis. The 39th is just north of Indianapolis, in Hamilton County.
Thanks. Indianapolis and central Indiana used to be friendly socialist territory. Here’s another question I have about the Socialist Party. In 1920, Eugene V. Debs ran for president from a prison cell in Atlanta because of breaking one of the Sedition Laws of Woodrow Wilson. He got on the ballot in 39 out of 48 states. Of the other nine, do you know how many of them kept him off the ballot only because he was a convicted felon doing time?
#4, no state has ever kept any presidential candidate off the ballot on the grounds that he or she was a felon or ex-felon. For almost 100 years state courts have routinely told states they can’t do that, when a state tries. Federal courts agreed, but such cases have only been in federal court in the past 40 years.
Presidential candidates, other than Eugene Debs, who ran while in prison include Vincent Hallinan, Lyndon LaRouche, and Leonard Peltier.
The Constitution Party has one candidate filled for state house.