Green Party Nominates Howie Hawkins for President on First Ballot

On July 11, the Green Party held a virtual national convention. Howie Hawkins won the presidential nomination on the first ballot. The results for the five candidates who were allowed to speak are: Hawkins 210; Dario Hunter 102; Sedinam K. C. M. Curry 11.5; Dennis Lambert 8.5; David Rolde 4.5. There were 8 votes to either have no nominee, or to abstain. There were also a sprinkling of votes for persons who had not been formally nominated: Jesse Ventura 7; Kent Mesplay 2; Lochoki 1; Bernie Sanders one-half vote. UPDATE: here is a news story.

Seven states sent no delegates. By comparison, for the 2016 presidential convention, eleven states had no delegates. For the 2012 presidential convention, seventeen states sent no delegates. In 2008, thirteen states sent no delegates. In 2004, seven states sent no delegates. So the 2020 convention had the most states represented since 2004.

The seven states that sent no delegates in 2020 are Alaska, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont.


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Green Party Nominates Howie Hawkins for President on First Ballot — 36 Comments

  1. How many GREEN trees in those 7 NO delegate States ???

    0 to 100 pct DEAD scales for the various minor parties —

    and even Donkey/Elephant parties of gangster monarchs/oligarchs ???

  2. I am calling for a general boycott
    of ALL political parties and elections.
    For one thing, do not contribute or volunteer.
    BOYCOTT!
    Nobody vote for ANYBODY,
    until the elections are fair and representative’
    The Electoral College has got to go!
    Actually this is in the works with the Interstate Compact on the Popular Vote.
    The GP and LP conventions are rigged.
    By the powers that be.
    You know, I am getting old.
    I have not accomplished much in my life, what with the cycle of depression and poverty.
    But I did manage to formulate PLAS.
    Then Top Ten/Six.
    I would have liked to have seen it tried this cycle.
    I have no guarantees of any more election cycles.
    But no. The GP and LP conventions are rigged.
    My campaign has been suppressed over the years.
    Character assassination, credibility assassination.
    Unjust conviction. Illegal eviction.
    I’m sick of the corruption.
    BOYCOTT!

  3. Notice how well attended virtual conventions are. Virus or not, this could be a future trend.

  4. All things considered, such as this being the Green Party’s first fully online convention and all the adaptation required for that, our convention went fairly well. Not even the Never Howie/pro-Ventura folks could derail it.

  5. The convention went exactly how the powers that be wanted it to go.
    Because they knew years ago that Bob Milnes and PLAS could win.
    So they had years to get the fix in, real strong.
    I knew something was up when I could not even get one supporter to file with FEC as Treasurer.
    Anybody I communicated with they must have got to in one way or another.

  6. What supporters do you think you have? What makes you think you have any>

  7. About 10 years ago I used to get calls and email with a bunch of people about all kinds of stuff.
    Even robocalls.
    But in the past few years it is getting fewer and farther between.
    Even robocalls.

  8. They slowly closed up my family, friends, supporters.
    In one way or another.
    So now there is nearly none.
    Like a boa constrictor gradually choking me to death.
    But….
    This Pittsburgh shooter thing…
    I really do not know what they are going to do.
    Because the Justice Department is already reeling from Trump’s corruption.
    Will they be able to manipulate this case?
    With all the publicity I put into it?
    And, pleasant surprise, some US Attorneys actually try to administer justice.
    Despite the corruption.

  9. OK.
    I have had some time to think.
    BOYCOTT AND GENERAL STRIKE!
    For election reform.
    For the 2020 election.
    IMMEDIATELY!
    Well, a general strike would kind of fit in with an anti covid kind of thing.
    But I hesitate. The economy is already in trouble.
    But on the other hand, the covid is getting out fo control also.
    So I need to think this through further.
    But, election reform would actually not be all that difficult or complicated.
    If we had Top Six, that would solve fair and representative elections.
    Also the debates. The six parties should get 15% polling with the only one the Libertarian being short at 13%.
    And PLAS would become obvious to the GP and LP.
    And like I said, the Electoral College could be defeated by the Interstate Compact on the Popular Vote.
    That would 1eave the right to vote.
    That came up recently here at BAN.
    A Constitutional Amendment on the Right to Vote.
    That would pretty well cover election reform.
    So yes, Boycott the political system. General Strike!
    Until Congress promptly does election reform.

  10. Please start the boycott with election related message boards.
    Go to Cali and pan for gold already. You will be happier and so will everyone else.
    We’ll go to Sinai.

  11. Bad guess, but I guessed that was your guess, and you’ll believe it regardless of what I say. I am a different member of the International Jewish Conspiracy. The Elders of Zion have hired me to squash PLAS online.
    Going to Sinai is contingent on you boycotting message boards and going gold panning first. If you do, we will make sure all the Jews go to Sinai, but you won’t see it because you won’t be there.
    Note: If you come back to message boards, all the Jews will come back from the Sinai.

  12. We are all Paulie according to nut job Milnes. He is worse than Ogle and Demo Rep.

  13. OK.
    I have viewed Dario’s video on IPR and noticed Richard’s comment.
    Also Socratic Gadfly’s vitriolic comments critical of Dario.
    Evidently Dario noticed the unfairness of Howie’s nomination process.
    And now represents the discontent with an alternative independent ticket.

  14. I believe both the Lp and then GP tickets were decided on long ago by the powers that be.
    Jo was nominated because, well, once she entered the race, it was difficult to NOT nominate her.
    Vermin did not get enough support and did get enough opposition so he had to be abandoned.
    Spike was tacked on as a spy and place holder.
    Howie, like Jo, would be difficult to NOT nominate and to reverse if he was resisted.
    Howie and Walker were teamed up to give them the double whammy of the stigma of socialism
    should there be a need to blame their loss.
    And Walker had the additional black woman traits so as to lessen anti black and anti woman accusations.

  15. The ideal fusion ticket would be man Green/Jo. The man COULD be Howie if he endorsed PLAS.
    If the Greens somehow endorsed PLAS and nominated Jo, that might compel the LP to renominate.
    Then the GP and LP would have the ideal of BOTH parties having the SAME ticket.
    I do not know how the GP could be compelled to endorse PLAS now that the convention is over.

  16. I sense some dissention about Howie in IPR comments.
    Commenter Monte LeTourneau generally pro Howie.
    Commenter Rico Stone very anti-Howie, using the words “DNC like insiders” rigging the convention.
    Commenter Gary Swing-pro Dario.
    Commenter Gadfly as previously mentioned-anti Dario, with a peculiar fixation on fucking him in the ass.
    Commenter Richard Winger-pro Howie. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

  17. Like I said previously, I have access to about 40k, possibly more.
    I would like to contribute it to a PLAS ticket.
    Dario, drop Elias for Jo.
    Howie, drop Walker for Jo.
    Darcy/Jo, Kevin Zeese/Jo. Run as independents. PLAS Independents.
    Jo, drop Spike, replace with a progressive.

  18. Gislaine Maxwell.
    Monster Jeffrey Epstein enabler.
    Prison for you.
    paulie, are you packing your bags?
    Sinai is better than prison.
    Even 20 million and 3 passports
    did her no good.

  19. He’s a progressive Jewish nationalist-socialist green libertarian. That’s peak PLAS!

  20. Woohoo! Spike is Progressive! Jo is Libertarian! PLAS TICKET!
    They will WIN!

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