Sunday, January 22, 2017

Willie Carter, Jack Fellure, and Rocky De La Fuente declare 2020 candidacies.

It appears as though three perennial candidates have declared their intentions to once again run for President in 2020.  Willie Carter, who has ran in every US Presidential election since 1988, Jack Fellure, the 2012 Prohibition Party nominee and frequent Republican primary candidate, and Rocky De La Fuente, who was the Reform Party nominee of 2016, have all expressed intentions to run for President in the next cycle.  Carter is supportive of removing US troops from Afghanistan and cooperating with other countries.  He ran as a Democratic write-in candidate in several states last year, receiving a few recorded write-in votes which can be found on thegreenpapers.com.  Fellure is an ultra-conservative Christian fundamentalist whose foreign policy views are not entirely known, although he has criticized "flag burners and draft dodgers" before, which does not bode well for him holding any sort of anti-war type of views.  De La Fuente seems to hold non-interventionist views as far as the military is concerned, but his 2016 running mate was a rabid Zionist by the name of Michael Steinberg who took fierce pro-Israel positions which are inherently pro-war and  intervention.  I could potentially recommend voting for De La Fuente in 2020 if he chooses a better running mate the next cycle.  Despite Carter's shortcomings, he's still more anti-war than Republicans are and even perhaps most Democrats, including Sanders.  I would not recommend voting for Fellure under any circumstances unless I later acquire information to suggest he holds some kind of non-interventionist views.  None of the three appear to have started fundraising yet, although Carter's 2016 webstore is still active and possibly his 2016 donation venues as well, which he may possibly use for 2020 funding of his campaign.  I have not checked the donation link for De La Fuente to see if it's still active or not, but his website still reflects his 2016 run.  The only things on Carter's page that seem to have been updated to reflect 2020 are his volunteer page and a page that shows some campaigning he did in December.

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