The 47-year-old Constitution Party candidate for New York Governor may be successful today, but her biography reveals that wasn’t always the case. Donna Mulvihill was the child of two 19-year-old parents who, while their fellow teenagers were enjoying adolescence, were instead learning the hard way about hard work and hard knocks. Her family’s story of diligence, devotion and rising up the ladder in pursuit of the American dream obviously still shines bright in her life, and it’s also a part of her campaign for Governor.
Mulvihill brings another unique position, one that wouldn’t even be newsworthy except one doesn’t often see it in a political conservative – she’s a naturalist and a nature-lover. The Gubernatorial candidate calls herself, “a balanced environmentalist who realizes the earth is resilient, however, humans are susceptible to health issues when exposed to excessive toxins; especially the young, the elderly and the weak in health who are vulnerable.”
One of the Constitution Party candidate’s most passionate issues is homeschooling. Unlike most of us who merely have an opinion, Donna Mulvihill and her family have lived it. And if her governing skills are half as good has her teaching skills, New York would be lucky to have her as Governor. One of her children, after years of homeschooling by Mulvihill, was accepted to West Point. And another is credited with skipping grades and consistently scoring in the top 5% among all New York students of the same age.
“I support total parental rights for a child’s education curriculum,” Donna Mulvihill passionately explains, “I oppose the extensive monitoring laws of homeschool parents and students created by the State of New York which subsequently made New York the least friendly state for homeschool families in the country. I support homeschool children having the right to participate in public school sports. Instead of isolating good homeschool families they should be welcomed into the schools that their tax-dollars support.”
Suggesting her campaign may gain traction among fellow parents across New York, Donna Mulvihill shows her love for parenting isn’t limited to homeschoolers. She defiantly supports fellow parents battling with their own bureaucratic school systems. “I support music and art in public school but oppose staff social workers who come in schools to investigate faulty parenting,” she says, “The purpose of schools is to educate not to information-gather.”
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The article was wrong; they did nominate Cuomo, as most people expected them to.
Although perhaps WFP won’t be another line for Cuomo, as more recent article on possible Ravitz nomination states.
Jill–I know you’re a child at heart.
John–Yep, he’s the only recent independent candidate they ran who made a difference. He lost 49-46% in upstate Congressional race five years ago; the mainstream Republican dropped out and endorsed Democrat (statist endorsed statist) three days before the election! This was one of the first races that got national coverage as battle between TEA Party and mainstream R’s.
But most of the time, Conservative Party is just another line for the Republicans, like Working Families is for the Democrats.
I agree NY Conservative Party is married to the hip to Rs. Only recent candidate recently that came close to break the D and R dominance was Doug Hoffman (?) I believe a couple of years ago.
LOL, Mark! Thanks for including me with the younguns.
Conservative Party in New York is a parasite. Usually cross-endorses Republicans just as Independence Party just cross-endorsed all the Democrats.
Occasionally Conservative Party runs its own candidate, especially if the Republican is pro-choice, but that’s the exception to the rule. Their one huge victory was US Senate in 1970 (James Buckley elected when Democrat and Republican candidates were both fairly liberal (i.e., opposed to Vietnam War)), but that’s before Jill, Paulie and Jed were born so it doesn’t count.
They have a difference on foreign policy, but are pretty similar on domestic issues.
But, as the past has indicated, the CP isn’t the least bit interested in working with other third parties. No matter how like minded they are. (or even if they have the same exact freaking platform.)
New York would be tough for CP. New York has the NY Conservative Party. I think both will chase the Pro-Life voters and split upstate voters.
While I wish Donna well, the CP does not have the established support system nor the 40-year history of successfully balloting on to the ballot that the LP does.
The Constitiution Party was not on the ballot in New York four years ago in the last Governor’s race, and like other independent bodies, needs 15000 valid signatures this summer to qualify.
Whether they are able to achieve that is uncertain.