Robert Milnes — who has thus far failed in his attempts to capture the nominations of the Libertarian and Boston Tea parties — has officially declared his candidacy for the Green Party’s presidential nomination. This, despite the fact that Cynthia McKinney already has enough pledged delegates to assure her nomination on the first ballot.
Milnes via Last Free Voice:
I know it is late in the election cycle and time is getting short. But I believe that there are only two possible alternatives to the Democratic and Republican parties’ duopoly. One is a populist or centrist independent or party or eccentric rich person like Perot, Reform party, or Bloomberg. Evidently this is not going to happen. The other is an inclusive progressive like Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Party. My campaign is trying to duplicate as much as possible that race of 1912. Roosevelt lost to the Democrat 42%, 27%, 23%.
I believe the maximum possible inclusive progressive vote is about 40%, which would make the three way race 40%, 30%, 30%. This is worth a try. I was hoping to win the Libertarian Party nomination as The Libertarian Vote/Cato Institute study is about 13%. See: www.Cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6715
I was hoping to get the Boston Tea Party nomination in order to build full ballot access upon that. Now I am hoping to go to Oklahoma to get on the very difficult ballot there. Perhaps I can get Indian help for that. Then I hope to go to Chicago to try to win the Green Party nomination & build upon that to full ballot access. In order to win a ticket must have full ballot access AND a sufficiently large possible voter pool. The inclusive progressive plurality vote is that. I urgently need campaign support to accomplish all this. It has been reported that the Green Party candidates have had difficulty raising campaign contributions sufficient to get federal matching funds. See link.
I submit that this is because it is difficult to support a candidate and party that is almost assured to lose in the general election. But now we have a strategy and reasonable possibility of winning a close election this time. LET’S TRY IT! Here is what you can do: Go to www.robertmilnes.net and click Make a Donation. From there go to link: www.robertmilnes4president2008.com and click Volunteer.
Here is what I need:
- A campaign manager and other campaign volunteers. If there is sufficient support, volunteers could become paid positions.
- A southern woman libertarian vice-presidential candidate to complement the ticket.
- Sufficient support to get to Oklahoma & then Chicago & then California.
- Help with ballot petition signatures.
LET’S TRY IT! WE ARE IN TO WIN! Please forward & spread the word.
Thus far, Milnes has received a total of five [convention] votes* — all of which came in the Boston Tea Party’s nomination process, which allowed individuals to vote for multiple candidates and was conducted online — for his presidential campaign, has raised $0, and is unable to identify one legitimate supporter.
UPDATE: IPR correspondent Fred Church Ortiz points out that Milnes received 721 votes in the California presidential primary — 4.3% of the vote.
Morgan Wick, I need a campaign manager. Would look good on your resume.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/1/141314/6151
Morgan Wick, old news. But again very astute for a whippersnapper! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007//6/1/131314/6151 You are correct about RP/RP. Nader doesn’t seem to get it either. Besides his choice of vp is not attractive to libertarians & neither is he. & he is not a TR. I tried to get the LP to adopt the strategy. Negative. Barr is obviously not interested; more aligned with RP. No TR there either. I tried to reach out to Gravel, but his spokesperson Skyler was patronizing to me. IOW snotty. So I lost interest in making him president. Now comes the Greens. Will they make the same mistake as the LP-go for the name recognition former Congressperson? Or will something more promising happen? I’ll try. I’ve always said I would defer to someone “more electable”. Just not happening. I seem to be the only one up to the plate here.
The progressive alliance idea isn’t completely insane, but Milnes is anything but the man to lead its presidential ticket. Nader or Paul, maybe, but Paul seems more interested in “reclaiming” the Republican Party.
There is still HOPE, Teddy!
He starts preparing for his 2012 run.
The guy’s “progressive alliance” strategy isn’t half bad. However, I have heard from some that Milnes needs professional help.
What happens when Milnes doesn’t get any nomination and not on the ballot as an independent in any states?
OK, GE, I was getting kind of worried! I just wanted a response to make sure you were alive!
I’m never one to stop anyone doing anything. Especially Robert. The one exception with you Jason is, by luck, your dream is easier to reach. Plus, you have alot of people who are going to help you reach that goal.
Yeah I agree Nexus. I can’t fault anyone for pursuing a dream. I’m doing the same thing.
Here we go again…..
Well, you have to give Milnes credit for trying….
Ross – Sorry. I’ve been very busy lately, as evident from my lack of posting here.
wow. Alot of unexpected candidates had a little support. EVEN ALDEN!
It was a beauty-contest primary, registered Libertarians could vote. I want to say indies couldn’t, but my memory going back 4 months is pretty selective.
Fred, who were those collected from? I don’t know of any LP vote primary?
GE, are you not checking your email or something? Can you just answer me about this? I sent you a few emails.
Not so, GE. Milnes received 721 votes in the California LP primary, beating Imperato by 14 votes.
He just did this?
I’m happy Robert has plans to go out mining to try and make some money after all this is through. Plus it apparently shakes the depression, along with camping. If that doesn’t do it, I can’t imagine what will.