Stewart Alexander has declared that he will seek the Peace & Freedom Party gubernatorial nomination in California in 2010. He was the Socialist Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 2008.
No member of the Socialist Party has ever before captured a Peace & Freedom Party nomination for a top office (president, vice-president, governor, or U.S. Senator). But Alexander has deep ties with the Peace & Freedom Party. If he gets the nomination, he will be the first male Peace & Freedom Party gubernatorial nominee since 1970. The party has always run a woman for Governor in all the years in which it was on the ballot, for the period 1974 through 2006.
Well, Yes ——- and no! Snarkie, devious, manipulative ctweber [Sacramento, nee San Diego] long time ‘Socialism is more important than people’ operative ran in the special 2003 gubernatorial election during the Governor Gray Davis recall………
Donald Raymond Lake, the only Californian to be the kick off speaker at all three state wide Dump Davis rallies….
Good luck to Mr. Alexander. Even his nomination would be an accomplishment.
No gubernatorial candidates in the special election of 2003 were nominees of any particular party. Although they were permitted to use a party labels, they were not formally nominated, except by the 40 or more voters who signed petitions for each candidate.
Don Lake: ‘mea culpa’!
——– but just barely!