Natural Law Party picks its candidate

The state of Michigan, which has an active “Natural Law Party”,

… the national party folded in 2004, to tend to setting up shadow governments of transcendental meditating square root of one percent affecting society at large… but in doing so, declared that the state parties could do what they wanted…

And the Natural Law Party of Michigan… won some smattering of votes in some down-ticket elections the last several times out

And now in 2016, they have a presidential candidate.  Or, are glomming onto some other party’s candidate.  They’re from the Socialist Party, and they have no history of transcendetally meditating, so far as I know.  (As to the state of their Socialist Party, and how it’s faring on the ballot… they’re getting on Colorado under their name, couldn’t do Illinois.)

In June, the campaign filed for ballot access in the state of Illinois. Under Illinois law, 25,000 valid signatures are required to secure ballot access for independent and non-qualified alternative parties. However, this requirement is only enforced if a petition’s validity is challenged by an Illinois voter. The Soltysik-Walker campaign, which submitted one signature, was challenged by “dissident” Green Party member Rob Sherman, who had also challenged the Socialist Party, Constitution Party and Justice Party petitions in 2012. Because the Soltysik campaign was found to have an insufficient number of signatures, it was removed from the Illinois ballot.

And Let the debate from frustrated NLP sympathizers commence.

I am disappointed in this selection. I consider it a waste of the ballot line. They should have at least waited to see who the “Better for America” candidate is (if there is one) and the Reform Party candidate. The NLP-Michigan gives ballot lines to candidates with no regard to the ideology of the candidate. They openly court people who would run as independents by basically giving them a ballot line with no need to petition.
I would have actually preferred if they had put Jim Hedges on the ticket. Normally I would think of the Prohibition Party candidate as being fringe, but Hedges progressive positions on health care and the environment actually makes him something of a centrist. It would have been a better fit.

I’m disappointed because I personally had been promoting a Vermin Supreme/Jimmy McMillian ticket for the NLP-MI.

I doubt they’ll finish in the top 10…

 

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