The Constitution Party’s vice-presidential candidate is Darrell Castle, an attorney from Memphis, Tennessee. He won the nomination on the first ballot. The key factor in his victory was that presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin asked the convention to choose Castle. Also, Mary Starrett told the convention that she didn’t want the vice-presidential nomination.
What was the vote total on the ballot?
I meant to ask is there a state by state ballot total?
I am hoping to get the state-by-state breakdown for vice-president and pubish it in the paper Ballot Access News, dated May 1, 2008. I am especially curious myself to see how California voted.
CALIFORNIA VOTED FOR KEYES SOMETHING LIKE 51 TO 12
Castle profile from his site:
“Darrell Castle grew up in East Tennessee in a small town outside of Kingsport. He graduated from Ketron High School in 1966 and attended East Tennessee State University (ETSU) where he received a Bachelor of Science in History and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 1970. Darrell was commissioned as an officer in The United States Marine Corp in 1970 where he served four years. After leaving the Marines, he went to graduate school in history at ETSU and then entered Memphis State University Law School (currently known as the University of Memphis) where he graduated with a Juris Doctorate in 1979. In 1984, Darrell opened a private firm that later grew into Darrell Castle and Associates. He has started law firms in Milwaukee, WI; Detroit, MI; St. Louis, MO; and Kansas City, MO. He is currently affiliated with firms in Kansas City and St. Louis as well as Memphis. Darrell has 25 years legal experience and currently concentrates in the areas of consumer bankruptcy and personal injury.”
I meant I am curious to see how the California delegates voted for vice-president.
California voted 42.7 for Don Grudman (CA) and 5.3 Max Riekse (MI).
Richard,
Baldwin does reserve the right to pick Regional or seperate State VPs.
California also cast 16 votes for Castle. Sorry that I missed that.
The Constitution Party’s nominees for president and vice president seem very appropriate. In addition, given the California (A.I.P.) delegation’s strong support for the extreme right winger, Don Grundmann, I can tell that the American Independent Party is going to stay put this year (not that I ever expected otherwise).
Nevertheless, this would be a great time (there is never any time like the present – and there is a growing belief in the scientific and spiritual communities that the present is the only thing that there really is) for the Reform Party of California (and its allies) to begin a mass migration into the American Independent Party. By the year 2010, the Reform Caucus could actually be in control. That would help to make up for the fact that the Reform Party blew it really big time by not taking over the empty shell of the (ballot qualified) Natural Law Party of California in period 2004 through 2006 – as Don Lake, Richard Winger, and I all suggested. Then, the American Independent Party could change its national affiliation to the newly emerging national Independence Party of the United States. That would even solve the non-existent problem (for people that have way too much free “time” and are prone to worry about such phantom problems) of the A.I.P.’s name “confusion.” I wonder what the San Francisco mayor would think about his lovely lady, “Winsom Newsom,” being in that Party?
Phil – I’m not so sure that the new Independence Party is really going to amount to much nationwide. The main problem that they had in New York State was that they really didn’t stand for anything. They were nominating the liberal left candidates just as much as they nominated the conservative right. Since they were all across the board, people really didn’t know where they stood. (They sure didn’t stand for a change in the way that the New York State legislature did business as it is still the most dysfunctional in the nation, yet they kept nominating the incumbents that continued the status quo.) The only reason that they are ballot qualified in New York State is because there are a lot of people who don’t want to be registered as a Democrat or a Republican, and don’t want to be part of the right leaning Conservative Party or the left leaning Working Family’s Party. That leaves the Independence Party by default. It’ll be interesting to see what they do on the national level.
I believe Chuck Baldwin is a man who could rebuild this nation. I don’t know much about Castle but he seems to be a man who can bring some clout to the campaign.
I’m excited!!
I’m going to start working on my Ron Paul friends to get them to come on over to the Constitutional party-The fastest growing party in America!
Who really cares about these two clowns.No one ever heard of them and they never will.This is an exercise in total futility.
Hello Trent, As a non-affiliated political party but serving as a delegate to the Constitution Party convention and offering ballot access to the Constitution Party Presidential candidate, you are aware of the election law problem I have with “reserve the right to pick Regional or seperate State VP’s”. At the close of that day, I met with candidate Baldwin and I was assured by Mr Baldwin this would not occur. We shook hands in agreement and I pressed him with…”swear to God”. If “State VP’s” occurs, I will have no choice but to pull AIP’s ballot line right out from under him, with no regret. Lynette Clark
Lynette,
The only place he would place “state VPs” would be in a few states where it benefitted him. As long as hedidnt do it in YOUR state, it wouldn’t effect you at all.
Please explain to me the rationale for voting for Pastor Dr. Baldwin instead of the one-world-government, open borders lobby, American citizen worker eliminating, illegal alien amnesty candidate.
He appears to be our best hope to appoint to the Supreme Court, if not pro-Christian justices, then at least pro-America and pro-life justices. These nine “men in black” control America with unchecked power, so long as Congress remains deadlocked against impeaching Supreme Court Justices and thereby exercising its checks and balances power upon the Judiciary (Art. 1 ¶ 3 § 6).
Please use something besides his “100 years war” comment. I believe we will be at war against terrorist Is’am as long as the United States of America stands firm for the freedom God gave us as a Christian nation.
Steve Z: You could be correct; I haven’t heard very much about the Independence Party lately. What has become of the Ross Perot 20% club? Back down to the hard core McCarthy ’76 One Percenters (yours truly included)?
That’s shocking, Steve Z! I had no idea that NY State had a “Conservative Party”…I wonder if that’s one of the “patriot parties” left over from 2004 that more closely aligned to David Duke than to Pat Buchanan.
The Reform Party has been a joke, even as long ago as 1996. Perot was a nutcase, a Napoleonic billionaire who was anything BUT a conservative! I certainly am one who wouldn’t welcome those folks into The CP if I were a member (I’m considering it). The Reform Party is made up of liberals and Libertarians and a sprinkling of former Republicans. Look what they did to Pat Buchanan. At least HALF of the Reform Party is hostile to conservatives.
This country needs Darrell Castle in office!! You could not ask for a better man for the job!! To all of you who say “who is Darrell Castle” he is a very compasionate and HONEST man. We would be very lucky to have him as our next Vice President.
Michelle
Darrell Castle will make an excellent VP.