American Constitution Party chair Douglas Campbell
On June 26, 2014, Douglas Campbell, state chair of the Colorado Constitution Party, died. This is somewhat old news but it has just now come to the attention of B.A.N. Campbell won one of the most significant lawsuits in the nation’s history over Article One and the constitutional qualifications to run for Congress in 1999, Campbell v Davidson.
Campbell said he was conscientiously opposed to registering to vote. Nevertheless, he wanted to run for Congress in 1998 as the nominee of the Constitution Party (which was then called the U.S. Taxpapers Party). He petitioned successfully but was still kept off the ballot because the law required all ballot-listed candidates to be registered to vote. He persuaded a U.S. District Court, and then then Tenth Circuit, that a state law requiring candidates for Congress to be registered voters violates the principle set forth in U.S. Term Limits v Thornton, which is the U.S. Supreme Court 1995 decision that said states can’t add to the constitutional qualifications for Congress and therefore state term limits laws for Congress are void.
Colorado appealed its loss in the Campbell case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
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Campbell lived in Arvada, Colorado, and was age 68.
In Colorado, the Constitution Party is called the American Constitution Party. They won the most significant electoral results in Constitution Party history when they ran former five term Republican congressman and presidential nomination candidate Tom Tancredo for Governor in 2010. In that race Tancredo received support from numerous Republican officeholders and activists and came in second. Tancredo received 617,030 votes (36.7%), well ahead of the Republican Party nominee, who got about 11% of the vote, and established the American Constitution Party as a major party in Colorado. However, Tancredo almost immediately returned to the Republican Party after that election.
According to ballotpedia, Campbell was widowed with three children and ran for the CO 7th US House seat in 2012, receiving 10,296 votes (3%). Campbell, who was born in 1946, called himself Douglas “Dayhorse” Campbell, which was probably a reference to Colorado’s former US Senator Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell.
Campbell was also active as a proponent/manager of state and local ballot initiative(s) in Colorado.
They are pretty good on many of the economic issues and on gun rights, and most of them are generally anti-interventionist on foreign policy.
Doesn’t the Constitution Party oppose almost everything that makes sense?
Doesn’t the Constitution Party oppose the right to death with dignity?
As usual, though, Paulie, your reply was more eloquent.
And I was composing my 5:37 while multitasking, so did not see that Jill already addressed it in the meantime.
As am I.
NF: No, it had nothing to do with you. Various other people on the thread were inviting each other to commit suicide, challenging each other to implied physical violence, posting sexual innuendo referring to homosexuality and bestiality, and one NSFW link to gay porn. There was also some discussion of the right to die with dignity, comparing the relative merits of different gay porn film studios, and then discussion about just how much of that should be deleted. I deleted the NSFW link first, but there continued to be complaints, so I proposed taking down all of the discussions of a disrespectful and inappropriate nature that did not relate to the original post, along with the meta-discussion, made sure it was OK with Jed and Jill and then went ahead and deleted it.
Out of that whole mess, death with dignity was the only topic that was not totally disrespectful, inappropriate and irrelevant. I think it would be fine to discuss that subject here as long as we can keep it from devolving into invitations for various participants here to go ahead and commit suicide forthwith again. Also, I hope no one takes my general description of the topics that were deleted as an invitation to start them back up. Let’s at least keep in mind that this post is about someone who passed away, even if it’s been a few months, and show a little respect here.
I don’t think your question started it, NF, and you’re lucky you missed the posts that were pulled down.
I’m terribly sorry for the losses you’ve suffered.
I see a lot of this thread has been deleted. I want to apologize if my question in any way started this thread into the tailspin it became. I did not intend that to be the result. As a person who suffered the loss of a child at age 3 years 4 months and 25 days as well as recently watching my 90 year old mother die of a broken hip in agony I merely wanted to point out that there really ARE worse things than death. Sorry if my question was badly misunderstood.
I’m an optimist. I’d like to believe that technological progress will eliminate many of the downsides to aging, and hopefully one day even allow us a sort of indefinite immortality. That said, one of my greatest fears is the decline of advanced age. I’ve seen enough relatives die in agony (Even if in some cases they were not fully there for it) that if my only options are old age and a slow decline or dying in my prime, whenever that is, I’d chose the second option.
Though of course that is easy to say when death is not presumably looking one in the face. Perhaps I’ll vote for that Transcendence party and hope for the best.
I have an 89-year-old grandmother. Biggest lesson I’ve learned, I don’t ever want to live to be that old. It blows goats.
“Getting older isn’t ‘funny’, but it beats the alternative.”
Are you sure about that?
He was aged 68!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????
Holy crap!
Getting older isn’t ‘funny’, but it beats the alternative.
Seems like just a couple a years ago the overwhelming
majority of people in the obituaries we born way before
me, but lately it seems that the majority were born after!
Quite a case. It only takes one determined person with a shining principle to make a difference.