Earlier this month, the American Solidarity Party chose Brian T. Carroll for president, in an on-line convention. He lives in Visalia, California. In 2018 he ran for U.S. House in the 22nd district, and polled 1,591 votes in the six-person primary, or 1.3%. His ballot label was “party preference: none” but if he had been permitted to have his actual party name on the ballot, it would have been “American Solidarity.”
The American Solidarity Party web page is here. It ran its first presidential campaign in 2016. Its presidential nominee in 2016 was Michael Maturen, who was only on the ballot in Colorado, but Maturen filed for write-in status in many states, and even though he only received 862 votes in Colorado, when his write-ins from other states are included, he received 6,765 votes in the nation, placing 14th. Thanks to Charles Sherrouse for this news.
It sounds like a party for moderate to conservative Democrats, who really don’t have a home in that party anymore. They really need to have a place of their own.
California’s affidavits of voter registration are confusing, misleading, and deceptive. It in effective is an unlawful literacy test.
Brian Carroll filled out his form stating a party preference as American Solidarity. He signed it to certify that the information was truthful and correct. Had he said that he had No Party Preference, he might have been prosecuted for perjury. Yet when he filed for Congress, he was forced to state that he had No Party Preference.
If he filed as preferring American Solidarity, Alex Padilla would likely have written with regard to his party preference. But that is precisely that which is banned by the California Constitution – taking into account the party preference of voters or candidates.
WALTER ZIOBRO- sort of like the States’ Rights Democratic Party minus the racial/segregation overtones.
Richard, thanks for covering the American Solidarity Party and Brian’s nomination. His running mate will likely be announced soon.
If anyone would like to connect us with ballot access petitioners, please email chair@solidarity-party.org
We are particularly interested in starting a drive in Arkansas because we know signatures can be collected there this early. The Roman Catholic bishop of Little Rock, Anthony Taylor, actually recorded an opening prayer for our convention.
It’s not entirely accurate to describe our party as conservative Democratic, though that definitely describes where some of our members are coming from. It’s primarily conservative on abortion, family values and religious liberty issues, but a lot of conservative Democrats would disagree with us on economics, the environment, and especially foreign policy. There are actually lots of members who left the Republicans, too, and some of the reasons for leaving the major parties are wildly different.
I like to describe the party as a coalition between advocates of a Consistent Life ethic, European-style Christian democracy, and Chestertonian distributism.
If someone would describe the Libertarian Party as socially-liberal and economically-conservative, they would describe the American Solidarity Party as socially-conservative and economically-liberal
Hmmm-
ASP — some NON-RED communists still around in an ex-part of the olde Donkey party since 1932
— iE white Dems in ex-slave States who did NOT switch to Elephants after the 1964 election ???!!!
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PR in legis body elections for ALL factions/fractions —
esp in STONE/DARK Age regimes like AR — stuck in around 1840.
IMO, the fact that the Catholic bishop gave an invocation at one of the party’s conventions gives support to my characterization of the American Solidarity party as appealing to moderate to conservative Democrats. Grand children of FDR and JFK voters.
I think it’s a home for the dems who are discouraged by where their party has gone. It’s prolife for the whole life, economically distributist (this is NOT socialist- look it up). The solutions proposed economically are pretty fresh and don’t fit neatly with either right or left.
IMO, running fusion candidates would be a good tactic for the ASP
It’s definitely unfortunate that more states don’t have fusion.
Donald Trump has profoundly altered the mix of issues represented by the two major parties. If possible, he has moved the Republican Party further Right in its social conservatism. On all other issues, however, he has taken a major tact away from ideological orthodoxies of either the Left or Right. My advice to conservative Democrats still trapped within that once honorable party is to register and vote Republican. In domestic and foreign policy, Trump Republicanism has positively taken on many (not all) of the issues which has initially attracted voters to the American Solidarity Party – and, of course, it’s a major party which can win and yield power.