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Monday, October 13, 2008
Third party candidates - Socialist Workers Party
The Socialist Workers Party or SWP has selected Roger Calero as their Presidential candidate again in 2008. He also ran in 2004. While trying to find information on them, I found it interesting that there is little to no information on their actual positions. No website, no party website, not much at all in fact. However, I did find a lot of biographical information on their candidate. Mr. Calero was born in Nicaragua and immigrated to the U.S. in 1985. He was convicted of selling marijuana in 1988 and was threatened with deportation in 2002 after travelling to Havana, Cuba for a protest there. He became a permanent resident of the U.S. in 1990. How he was able to do that since he'd had a drug conviction I don't know, but he did nonetheless. He is running for the office of President of the United States without fulfilling the proper requirements. He is not a citizen of this country, not to mention he wasn't born here. So, basically, the SWP cares not for the Constitution since they blatantly run a candidate who couldn't even serve if elected (under the Constitution). In 2004, this guy actually managed more than 6000 votes under his own name and the SWP got over 7000 more votes under another name in states where Calero wasn't allowed on the ballot (rightfully so) because he didn't fit the qualifications for President. Now, which is worse, that a party who doesn't give us any information on their platform would run this guy, that many states would allow him on the ballot or that any people, especially as many that did, would vote for him?
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