How many state does the Socialist Workers Party have chapters in?
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Alyson Kennedy
I note that when I ran for the county board of education that I got more than
twice the votes that this article says that Alyson got in the Dallas mayoral
election. Anyway, I think her biography published recently in the Militant was
a much better biography than this Wikipedia article even if it was a lot
shorter. For one thing, by reading this Wikipedia article I would never have
realized something that I realized when reading the Militant biography. That is
that I used to know her. In the Militant biography she was described as working
with the United Mine Workers in West Virginia at just the right time that I
would have known her and that made me try to think who she would have been. As
I read the Militant I occasionally read mention of someone I used to know, but
Alyson Kennedy has gotten more mention than most of them and it still took me a
long time to place her. She ran for president in 2016 and earlier for vice
president and she was prominent in the Price, Utah coal strike and yet I still
did not remember her. But when her West Virginia connection was mentioned I
started thinking. If she was in West Virginia at that time she had to have been
in either the Morgantown or Charleston branch and there was only one Alyson
that I can remember who was in either branch. I think that one reason that it
took me so long to place her was because I had just assumed that her name was
spelled Allison and so when I encountered it in print the spelling of Alyson
just did not ring a bell. Furthermore, I don't think I ever knew her last name
back then or if I did it had slipped my mind. Another reason I didn't remember
her was that she was just not that memorable. I recall her as being a somewhat
nondescript comrade and a bit quieter than the others.
Also, I was simply not as close to her as I was to other comrades. I expect
that if I had only been able to see the pictures in the Militant I would have
recognized her immediately though.
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yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyson_Kennedy
Alyson Kennedy
Personal details
Born June 11, 1950 (age 69)
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Political party Socialist Workers Party Alyson Kennedy (born June
11, 1950) is an American activist, a member of the Socialist Workers
Party (SWP) she is a former candidate for the
2019 Dallas mayoral election. She was the SWP's nominee for Vice
President in the 2008 United States presidential election, President
in the 2016 United States presidential election as well as their
nominee for President in 2020.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life and candidacies
1.2 2008 Presidential election
1.3 2016 Presidential election
1.4 2019 Dallas mayoral election
1.5 2020 Presidential election
2 References
3 External links
Biography
Early life and candidacies
Originally from Indianapolis, Kennedy joined the socialist movement in
1973 in Louisville, Kentucky. She has worked in coal mines in Alabama,
Colorado, Utah, and West Virginia.
In 1977 she ran as the SWP candidate for mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
against incumbent Republican Ralph Perk, garnering 1,225 votes and
losing by a wide margin to Dennis Kucinich.[1] She first joined the
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in 1981, and was one of the
leaders of a strike in Utah 2004,[2] also being involved in
litigation.[3] In 2000, she ran for United States Senate as a
certified write-in candidate in a race prompted by the death of
candidate and former Governor of Missouri Mel Carnahan.[4]
2008 Presidential election
The ticket campaigned for young voters especially.[5] At the head of
the ticket were two different candidates, Roger Calero and James
Harris; Harris was an alternate in some states because Calero was
Constitutionally ineligible because he is a lawful permanent resident
of the United States (holding a green card), and not a US Citizen.
They were the first pair to qualify for the ballot in Louisiana[6]
Calero/Kennedy won 5,127 votes and Harris/Kennedy 2,424.[7]
2016 Presidential election
On February 12, 2016, Kennedy was announced as the nominee for
president on the Socialist Workers Party ticket alongside Osborne
Hart.[8] Kennedy is the second woman to be the presidential nominee of
the SWP and the first since Linda Jenness.[9] She was on the ballot in
seven states: Utah, Louisiana, Colorado, Minnesota, Tennessee,
Washington and New Jersey.[10]
2019 Dallas mayoral election
In January 2019, Kennedy declared her candidacy in the 2019 Dallas
mayoral election,[11] advocating for the improvement of the public
transit system, a public jobs program to provide "union-scale wages",
and for the Dallas Police Department to address claims of police
brutality, pointing to the killing of Botham Jean as an example of
such claims.[11] She received 469 votes and finished in last place.
2020 Presidential election
In February 2020, Kennedy was announced as her party's nominee for
President. Her Vice-Presidential nominee is Malcolm Jarrett, an
African-American activist and cook of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[12]
The two kicked off their campaign with speeches at campaign
headquarters in Dallas on February 8.[13]
References
"Cleveland Election Upsets Perk". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. 53
(238). October 5, 1977. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
Erickson, Tiffany (July 3, 2004). "Miners plan to return to their
jobs". Deseret News. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
"INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WORKERS UNION v. United Mine
Workers of America, Dist. Court, D. Utah, Central Div. 2005".
Retrieved January 18, 2010.
Sloca, Paul (November 4, 2000). "State election officials seek to
clarify Carnahan". Southeast Missourian. 4A. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
Russell, Julia (October 24, 2008). "Airing 'Excluded' Third Party
Views". The Diamondback. Archived from the original on February 27,
2012. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
Chacko, Sarah (August 12, 2008). "Socialist Workers Party runs
presidential candidate in La". The Advocate. 8A. Retrieved January 18,
2010.
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/2008presgeresults.pdf
"Join the Socialist Workers Party 2016 US presidential campaign!".
The Militant. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
Winger, Richard (February 13, 2016). "Socialist Workers Party
Announces National Ticket". Retrieved February 13, 2016.
Powell, Chris (August 3, 2016). "Who is on the presidential ballot
where?". Retrieved September 9, 2016.
"A 2016 presidential candidate is running for Dallas mayor". Dallas
News. January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
"Meet the SWP candidates: Alyson Kennedy & Malcolm Jarrett" (Vol. 85.
No. 5). The Militant. February 1, 2020. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
"Behold the Dallas-Based Underdog Candidate of the 2020 Presidential
Election". D Magazine. February 5, 2020. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
External links
"Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice
president", The Militant, January 14, 2008 (accessed February 15, 2008).
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