The Justice Party, which is less than a year old, has two state legislative candidate on the ballot this year. One is Ty Markham, running for the Utah State House, 73rd district. That district encompasses southeastern and south central Utah, and is physically the largest state house district in the state. Here is her web page. Here is a newspaper story that explains how she happened to file to run. Here is a story about the debate she participated in. She is the only opponent of the incumbent Republican in that district, Michael Noel.
The other Justice Party legislative candidate is Benjamin Eastwood, running for the Vermont House in Washington County. His district elects two representatives. Besides Eastwood, there are two Democrats running, and one Progressive.
I know they have a couple of Federal candidates in Utah as well, but does the Justice Party have even one down-ballot candidate that’s outside of Utah?
there’s Ben Eastwood running for the State House in Montpelier, Vermont in a race with two Dems (endorsed by the Vermont WFP) v. a Progressive and a Justice Party member (Eastwood).
I would like to see Rocky Anderson run for governor of Utah under the Justice Party banner. I would think with his name recognition in Salt Lake City that he could do pretty well.
Last night in the Third Party debate Rocky Anderson made a pitch for social change coming from the grass roots up.
If that is the case, why did he start his new party by running for President, rather than organizing a party in Utah to run for state office or Congress?
#2, thank you very much.