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US DISTRICT COURT ORDERS SOCIALIST PARTY ON OHIO BALLOT Brian Moore and Stewart Alexander, Socialist Presidential ticket, gain ballot access in swing state of Ohio with second federal court victory of 2008 Socialists also gain ballot access in Iowa; expect Tennessee and Florida to Follow Columbus, Ohio: Not since Norman Thomas ran for president on the Socialist Party ticket in 1932 has there ever been another Socialist Party candidate on the state of Ohio's presidential ballots in the ensuing 76 years, covering 18 presidential elections. That consecutive string was broken today by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division. Magistrate Judge Edmund A. Sargus, Jr. ordered the state of Ohio "to place the Socialist Party and its candidates on the 2008 general election ballot for the state of Ohio"... read more. SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO VISIT MILWAUKEE FOR BALLOT ACCESS KICKOFF AT PARTY'S ANNUAL PICNIC Antiwar candidate also plans to visit bread lines, experience bus system and has requested tour and overnight stay in county jail. Brian Moore will also attend Franciscan mass and is attempting baseball workout with city's adult league. On Friday, July 25, 2008, Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore will arrive by airplane in the state of Wisconsin to initiate the Socialist Party's ballot access petition drive at its annual picnic at Kern Park #1 on Saturday, July 26th, from 12 noon to 4 PM, in Milwaukee. The presidential candidate also will visit the bread lines at St. Benedict the Moor church either Friday or Saturday evening around 5 PM, (9th Street) and he will travel the Milwaukee bus system in light of its recent cutbacks and the high gas prices and souring economy. Moore has also faxed county sheriff David A. Clarke requesting a tour of the penal facilities with an extraordinary request to stay overnight in the facility as well. The candidate slept overnight in Lorton prison in 1986 when he ran against then DC Mayor Marian Barry, whose jurisdiction used the federal penal facilities in Lorton, VA. Moore, a former Franciscan seminarian, in an order dedicated to serving the poor, plans to attend early Saturday or Sunday morning Mass as an integral part of his common good philosophy. And finally, Moore has e-mailed the Milwaukee Adult Baseball League, requesting an opportunity to practice with a team Saturday morning or evening, depending on a team's schedule. Moore, a former college baseball player, is a left-handed first baseman and bats left-handed as well. Socialist/Green Matt Erard is First GPMI Candidate to Qualify for November State Election Ballot Dually-Nominated Candidate Qualified for a Second Time to Challenge Rebekah Warren on the November Ballot for Michigan's 53rd District (Ann Arbor) State House Seat. ANN ARBOR -- Having already won the nomination of the Socialist Party USA by unanimous vote of its local affiliate, the "Washtenaw County Reds," Matt Erard, a University of Michigan alumnus and graduate student at the University of Michigan's School of Social Work, unanimously won the joint nomination of the Green Party of Michigan for the same seat at its Washtenaw County Nominating Caucus on Monday July 14th. After filing the necessary paperwork work with the Washtenaw County Clerk's office following the Nominating Caucus last week, Erard's name was added to the General Election Candidate Listing on Michigan Secretary of State's website yesterday as the first Green Party candidate to qualify for the November General Election ballot... read more. Ballot Access Appeal for Funds Please help the Moore/Alexander '08 presidential ticket gain ballot access in 20 states this election year, in November, and also "write-in" status in another 20 states as well, with an urgent donation. Any amount will be appreciated! We have already qualified in the states of Vermont and Colorado, and we have targeted 20 other states for ballot access status by no later than September 9th, less than two months away! Because of the time constraints, and limited resources, we need to compensate some of our volunteers to work extra hours, as well as hire professional petitioners, by paying them per signature, and in some cases, cover our volunteers' gas and motel expenses. Deadline dates for signatures, or convention elections, in each state vary, but they are due in the following targeted states... read more. Orlando Paper Calls Brian a "Red" with Stalinistic Graphics; College Professor Fights Back! Socialist Party Presidential Candidate Brian Moore's Upcoming Speech at Central Florida University Ridiculed by Local Newspaper Sanford, Florida: Jay Jurie, a Professor at Central Florida University, organized a meeting for Socialist Presidential candidate Brian Moore to speak before the public on campus at a forum co-sponsored by a Students for a Democratic Society organization and a CodePink antiwar group on July 9th, and Mr. Jurie notified the local press. The Orlando Weekly wrote the following story, and Professor Jurie responded with full frontal attack on them. Jay's note and the exchange follows... read more. SOCIALISTS GAIN BALLOT ACCESS IN COLORADO FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION New Hampshire Denies Socialist Ballot Due to "Trap" Law to Ambush 3rd Parties Spring Hill, Florida: Colorado's Deputy Director of Elections, Wayne Munster, confirmed today by e-mail to Socialist Party Presidential candidate Brian Moore, that Moore and his Vice-Presidential running mate, Stewart Alexander, "will be on the Colorado General Election ballot." This was a far cry from Moore's experience in New Hampshire this week when he was denied ballot access on Wednesday by the Secretary of State's office despite a presidential candidate petition deadline of August 6th. New Hampshire is one of few states in the union that require one deadline for signatures and another small requirement to register to apply for candidacy two months ahead of time (by Monday, June 13, 2008). Moore accused the state of using a "trap" law by deceiving candidates with two deadlines... read more. Brian Moore To Be Interviewed On Blog Talk Radio, 10 PM Sunday, 15 June Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, Brian Moore, will be interviewed on nationwide Blog Talk Radio tonight, Sunday, at 10:10 PM, on a program called "The Weekly Filibuster"... read more. BALLOT ACCESS CHALLENGES AWAIT THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES While Democrats and Republicans Waltz Around Nation Campaigning, Socialist Candidate Forced to Compete With Other Alternate Party and Independent Candidates In Multiple States Just to Be On Ballot Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, Brian Moore, was interviewed by Free Speech Radio News nationwide on Tuesday, June 10th... read more. Socialist To Be Interviewed on 100+ FSRN Radio Stations, Tuesday, June 10 Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, Brian Moore, will be briefly interviewed in a 3-4 minute segment by Free Speech Radio News nationwide and internationally on over 100 stations, on Tuesday, June 10th, regarding the 2008 campaign, ballot access obstacles and socialism. Most of the programs air in the late afternoon or early evening, with several in the morning. They will also be repeated in 6, 12 and 18 hour intervals on most of the stations. For a list of some of the station locations, letters and dial numbers, click here. A recording and partial transcript is available here. SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROTESTS AT MCCAIN FUNDRAISER IN ST. PETERSBURG, FL Spring Hill, Florida: Brian Moore, Socialist Party candidate for President, 2008, was part of a two-hour demonstration in front of Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's $1,000-a-plate fundraiser demonstration at the Vinot Resort, Golf & Country Club in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Wednesday, June 4, 2008, from 5 to 7 PM... read more. SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CHALLENGES REPUBLICAN'S RETREAT ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM Individual Protest at 5 PM in St. Petersburg to Follow Socialist's Campaign Kick-Off At 12 Noon in John F. Germany Library, Downtown Tampa (Ashley Dr., near U. of Tampa) Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, Brian Moore, will publicly question Republican presidential candidate John McCain's Commitment to public financing by protesting early Wednesday evening (June 4th) in front of the Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg prior to McCain's $50,000-a-Chair fundraiser Wednesday evening. Moore invites the public to join him in front of the club entrance at 501 5th Avenue NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 around 5 PM... read more. SOCIALIST WINS INJUNCTION IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN OHIO TO OPEN BALLOT ACCESS PETITION PROCESS Crucial Swing State Now Opened Up to More Third Party and Independent Presidential Candidates Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, Brian Moore, announced this evening that a motion for an injunction against the state of Ohio was granted today by the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, by Judge Gregory L. Frost, thereby enabling out-of-state petitioners, plus in-state unregistered residents, to be petition circulators for presidential candidates... read more. FLORIDA CATHOLIC BISHOP CHALLENGED ABOUT CHURCH'S NATIONALISM AND SILENCE ON IRAQ WAR Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, Brian Moore, e-mailed a strongly-worded letter Memorial Day to St. Petersburg, Florida Diocese's Catholic prelate, Bishop Robert Lynch, protesting the local diocese's "tendency toward nationalism" and its' "silence on the Iraq war." Moore attended 11 AM Memorial Weekend mass on Sunday, May 25th, at St. Theresa's Catholic Church in his hometown of Spring Hill, Florida, only to hear the parish deacon read off Memorial Day prayers of the faithful "for [just] American soldiers serving the cause of peace in Iraq." Moore wrote to the Bishop on Monday, Memorial Day, that "no mention was made of the innocent Iraqi civilian deaths," estimated by various groups of between 250,000 to over one million dead. The presidential candidate further criticized the Florida diocese because its various parish Sunday masses conclude with patriotic and nationalist secular songs... read more.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO SPEAK ON "CHANGING AMERICA'S ECONOMY TO SOCIALISM" Brian Moore to address how Socialism is Ready to Move Country Out of Faltering Economy In Order to Improve Lives of All Citizens Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, Brian Moore, will speak on "How America Can Change from Capitalism to Socialism" on Wednesday, June 4, 2008, from 12 noon to 2 PM, at the John F. Germany Library in downtown Tampa, 900 North Ashley Drive, Tampa, 33906 (near the University of Tampa Campus). Moore will discuss the issue of socialism and how the country can move from a capitalistic economic system to a socialist economy. Brian will also spell out his campaign platform and how it radically differs from the two major party candidates, as well as from most alternative party candidates as well, who are running for President of the United States... read more. BRIAN MOORE, SOCIALIST, INVITES PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO DEBATE Several weeks ago the Moore / Alexander '08 campaign extended written invitations to other presidential candidates (Ralph Nader (Independent), Cynthia McKinney (Green Party), and Dr. Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party Nominee) to participate in several planned community television debates in Florida, as well as to organize a tour of debates together in select regions of the country. We have heard from the McKinney and Baldwin campaigns, but so far nothing from the Nader campaign. Ironically, Mr. Nader reported on his website yesterday (May 13) of his own expected debate with Barack Obama based on the Democrat's response to Tim Russert's question in a May 4th interview, stating that he was willing to debate with "any of my opponents about what this country means, what makes it great... in order to further the country's interest." Thus, we are assuming that Mr. Nader will feel the same way about our earlier invitation for alternative presidential candidates to debate each other; or, better yet, to participate with Mr. Nader in his expected invite to debate Mr. Obama. SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OFFERS TO ACT AS INTERMEDIARY FOR BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT IN AUTONOMY CRISIS Socialist, who lived and worked for 2 years in Rebel Province of Santa Cruz, Sends Communications to Bolivian President Saying He Knows Businessmen There Well. Moore Blames Some Leftist Groups for Undermining Bolivian President Evo Morales... read more. TAMPA COMMUNITY RADIO WMNF TO INTERVIEW SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WEDNESDAY, MAY 7TH, ROB LOREI PROGRAM STARTING AT 1:05 PM Brian Moore to address how Socialism is Ready to Transition Faltering US Economy; Socialist to speak of Bolivian autonomy crisis where he lived and worked for 2 years... read more. Socialist Dwain Reynolds for Michigan State Board of Education Middleville, MI -- Socialist Dwain Reynolds III announced his candidacy today to run for Michigan's State Board of Education. Reynolds has spent the last few months traveling throughout Michigan in preparation for his campaign. "I have talked to countless residents of our "forgotten state" and have learned many things. Most of all I have learned that the residents of Michigan (students, parents, employers, employees, etc...) are ready for a progressive change. Ready for new ideas; geared up for their children to finally have what they deserve from their government. Continuously I see students and young adults who have lost hope and are now prepared to believe that things can progress for the better. They know that they are not represented in current mainstream politics (as well as the rest of the working class, middle class, working poor) and are ready to have someone who cares about their welfare standing up for them as well as their parents, teachers, and friends. People are no longer saying "I hope things will get better" instead they have replaced it with "things will be better and we're going to make sure of it before it's too late". These people are the reason I am running; the reason I have hope for a better tomorrow"... read more. SOCIALIST MATT ERARD TO RE-CHALLENGE WARREN FOR MICHIGAN'S 53rd DISTRICT STATE HOUSE SEAT ANN ARBOR, MI -- Socialist Matt Erard announced his candidacy today to run for a second time against Democratic incumbent Rebekah Warren for the 53rd District seat in the Michigan House of Representatives. Erard ran as a Socialist for the same office for the first time in the previous election in 2006. Due to the Socialist Party's lack of ballot access in Michigan, Erard was forced to appear on the 2006 ballot as a candidate with "No Party Affiliation" and was the first candidate for that office to qualify for the general election ballot by petition since 1984. Although not victorious in the last election, Erard received eight-hundred and forty-seven votes from Ann Arbor voters... read more. CONSERVATIVE RADIO MAKE UP MAJORITY OF INTERVIEW INVITATIONS FOR SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Progressive Talk Shows Fear Hurting Democrats, Shy Away From Minor Party Leftists Spring Hill, Florida: Brian Moore, Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, was interviewed Thursday morning on conservative nationwide internet radio's WTPN.com, "We The People Radio Network-- Restoring Our Constitutional Republic"... read more. SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE REPORTS RECORD FUNDRAISING Spring Hill, Florida: Brian Moore, Socialist Party USA presidential nominee, today filed, via surface mail, the campaign's first financial report, postmarked on time, with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), for the period ending March 31, 2008... read more. SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CHALLENGED HIS CHURCH AND PASTORS EARLY AND OFTEN ON ISSUES Contrasts His Judgment and Antiwar Credentials, To Democratic Candidate Barack Obama Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore compared his track record on speaking up to his church pastors "in stark contrast" to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's explanation for not confronting his minister, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, of Trinity United Church of Christ, for the minister's controversial comments... read more. 170 FLORIDA SOLDIERS' DEATH REMEMBERED BY ANTIWAR GROUP LED BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AT NATIONAL CEMETERY AS WAR APPROACHES 4,000 AMERICAN DEAD Bushnell, Florida: The NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, led by Socialist president candidate Brian Moore, remembered the 5th year anniversary of the Iraq War by holding a quiet commemoration Saturday of the 170 Florida war dead at The Florida National Veterans Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida... read more. SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BLASTS ESTABLISHMENT'S HYPOCRISY IN GOVERNOR SPITZER SCANDAL Candidate Calls War Crimes in America More Egregious Than Prostitution Says Prostitution, Poverty and Crime are Result of Economic Slavery Under Capitalism Spring Hill, Florida: Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore lambasted the nation's political leaders and the press and media for its frenzied hypocrisy over the Governor Eliot Spitzer scandal in New York while they remain scandalously silent on the federal government's illegal war in Iraq and Afghanistan and growing violations of U.S. citizens' constitutional rights and freedoms at home... read more. SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HELPS PEACE GROUP RAISE MONEY FOR ABUSED WOMAN'S SHELTER AND PROTEST OF $500 BILLION WAR 5th Anniversary of War Commemorations Planned for March 19th Congressional Visits and March 22nd Bushnell Veteran's National Cemetery Vigil Weeki Wachee, Florida: Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore helped organize 13 members of The NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice Saturday, in west central Florida, to demonstrate against the $500 Billion Iraq War. Simultaneously, In honor of International Woman's Day, the peace group then followed up its protest by sponsoring a breakfast that raised $250 for The Dawn Center, an abused women's program in Hernando County, Florida... read more. Socialist Presidential Candidate Files Lawsuit Against State of Ohio Today to Be On Presidential Ballot in November Attempts to Declare State Law Unconstitutional For Prohibiting Out-of-state and Unregistered Voters From Petitioning for Candidate to Be in November Election Submits Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Force State to Refrain from Blocking Any Petitioners for Brian Moore, or for any other candidate for President Spring Hill, Florida/Columbus, Ohio -- Attorney Mark Brown, a Professor of Law at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and a practicing private attorney, filed a lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio's Eastern Division on behalf of Socialist Party USA Presidential Nominee Brian Moore, who seeks to run for President as an Independent candidate in Ohio in 2008... read more. A True Peace Candidate for Congress Socialist Party congressional candidate Todd Vachon (CT Second District) has been gaining some recognition from online peace activists. He was recently selected by PeaceCandidates.com as a "true peace candidate for congress", and has also been highlighted on Emcees4Peace.org as a hip-hop activist and candidate for peace. Since the Democrats have done little to nothing to bring an end to the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the minor party candidates are really gaining traction on this issue. Could this be the year of a critical mass? If enough people vote for what they really want and not just the "less of two evils" we might see some actual progress. Freedom Socialist Party Endorses SP-USA Candidates in PFP Primary In an open letter to their supporters on 26 January, the Los Angeles branch of the Freedom Socialist Party endorsed both Brian Moore and Stewart Alexander for the Peace and Freedom presidential primary on 5 Feburary, and called on people to register and vote Peace and Freedom in order to keep "a socialist alternative at the polls". The FSP argues for a vote for either Brian Moore or Stewart Alexander on the basis that they "support an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, full amnesty for undocumented immigrants, a $15 per hour minimum wage, healthcare for all, abortion rights, same-sex marriage, and steps toward a socialist economy". Specifically, the letter highlights voting for Alexander, though votes for either Brian or Stewart will help get the ticket on the ballot in California. The Freedom Socialist Party is a Trotskyist and socialist-feminist political party based out of Seattle. In the past they have run their own candidates, as well as endorsing candidates of other socialist parties that they feel are most in line with their principles and goals. In addition to Brian Moore and Stewart Alexander, the FSP have also recommended voting for Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the PFP primary. Socialist Presidential Ticket on Ballot in Vermont The Socialist Party presidential ticket of Brian Moore and Stewart Alexander gained ballot access in its first state on Monday, 21 January, when campaign volunteers in Vermont submitted more than 1,100 signatures to get Moore in the Liberty Union Party's presidential primary. Moore will be the only candidate competing for the Liberty Union Party's nomination. Since the primary election is binding, this guarantees that he and Alexander will appear as the Liberty Union ticket in the November general election. The Liberty Union Party is a nonviolent socialist party in Vermont, which shares a number of members with the Socialist Party, and nominated the SP presidential tickets in 1980, 1988, 1996 and 2000. Although Vermont is the first state where socialist ballot access has been officially confirmed, ballot access efforts are underway in several other states. The Moore/Alexander campaign hopes to gain ballot access in approximately twenty states where barriers are not too steep. Contact the campaign at or the Socialist Party's Campaign Clearinghouse at for more information about ballot access in your area. VERMONT POLICE TRY TO ARREST SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE -- STATE ATTORNEY BACKS HIM AND SAVES DAY Democratic Process Not So Easy For Minor Party Candidate Moore -- Several Miles from New Hampshire Border Where Major Party Candidates Campaign Effortlessly Spring Hill, Florida -- Socialist Party USA Presidential Nominee Brian Moore was threatened with arrest Sunday afternoon by Brattleboro (Vermont) Police officers for petitioning in a supermarket parking lot to qualify on the presidential primary ballot of the Liberty Union Party of Vermont. The primary is scheduled for March 5th. The manager of Hannaford Supermarkets in Brattleboro repeatedly ordered Moore, in a hostile voice, to leave the large mall parking lot because it was private property and owned by the store. Moore and his three colleagues stood their ground and refused to leave claiming they had a constitutional right to participate in a democratic process in a public area so that he could be a qualified presidential candidate in Vermont... read more. STATEMENT ON BENAZIR BHUTTO'S ASSASSINATION MADE BY SOCIALIST PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Nuclear Proliferation Threat Can Only Be Resolved by U.S. De-Nuclearization, Outlawing of WMD's and End to Weapon Sales -- Not Bombing of Country's Facilities Spring Hill, Florida -- Socialist Party USA Presidential Nominee Brian Moore released the first statement of his U.S. presidential campaign today, commenting on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan on Thursday, December 27, 2007. Moore is the only official political party presidential nominee in the nation, as of this date. The Socialist Party candidate said Ms. Bhutto's death called attention to the "issue of the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons" and whether the world can be reassured that such materials and technology will "remain in safe hands during any transition of power"... read more. SOCIALIST PARTY NOMINATES MOORE FOR PRESIDENT Antiwar Activist Nominated on Third Ballot at Party's National Convention in St. Louis ST. LOUIS -- Antiwar activist Brian P. Moore of Spring Hill, Florida, was nominated for President of the United States at the Socialist Party USA national convention in St. Louis late Saturday afternoon. The 64-year-old Moore, a former independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, defeated longtime party activist and author Eric Chester of Massachusetts, a retired economics professor, on the convention's third ballot to win the party's nomination. Stewart A. Alexander, a longtime civil rights activist from Murietta, California, was tapped as Moore's vice-presidential running mate. Alexander was the Peace and Freedom Party's candidate for lieutenant governor of California in 2006... read more. |
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