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December 8, 2023 11:36 AM Subscribe
It only costs $1,000 to get your name on the presidential primary ballot in New Hampshire, a far lower barrier to entry in other states. So, there's no shortage of lesser-known candidates.
Is vermin supreme a lesser known candidate at this point? He's been running for like 30 years.
posted by jonbro at 11:48 AM on December 8, 2023 [10 favorites]
posted by jonbro at 11:48 AM on December 8, 2023 [10 favorites]
I was disappointed that Paperboy Love Prince didn't get more attention in the article, so I looked him up to learn more about him. His agenda is lengthy but seems pretty good so far. I'd vote for him if I could!
We need to get 25 people to change their names and run on the Republican ballot as Donald A. Trump, Donald B. Trump, etc.
Have Donald H. Trump's middle name be "Hussein" for maximum LOLs.
posted by May Kasahara at 11:57 AM on December 8, 2023 [14 favorites]
We need to get 25 people to change their names and run on the Republican ballot as Donald A. Trump, Donald B. Trump, etc.
Have Donald H. Trump's middle name be "Hussein" for maximum LOLs.
posted by May Kasahara at 11:57 AM on December 8, 2023 [14 favorites]
Is vermin supreme a lesser known candidate at this point?
Wish the article had mentioned that he was banned from this event for a few years because he glitter-bombed an anti-gay candidate (see lead image on the wikipedia entry for Glitter Bombing). As he told me when I photographed him outside the 2016 debate (which he wasn't allowed to participate in) the school that holds the event said that it cost too much money to clean up his glitter mess and didn't want to risk it again. He'd offered to pay the cleaning bill but they still wouldn't let him participate. Seems like they relented this year.
The debate itself is strange...it's a mix of performance artist candidates and then some people who are oddball cranks and/or possibly mentally-ill. Covering politics in New Hampshire I would often get cornered by one of these candidates at a big candidate's event and they'd have a mess of papers in a manila envelope that they said proved something about wifi signals or the JFK assassination or some other conspiracy theory. They'd hand me stacks of papers sometimes and they were often filled with time-cube level nonsense. So when I covered the Lesser Known Candidates Forum, I ended up feeling a bit sad. And if there's ever any coverage of it, it's sort of a gawk-at-the-weirdos piece.
It only costs $1,000
My favorite Vermin Supreme story is when he was in the NH Secretary of State's ballot filing office crammed full of people waiting to see, if I remember, Ben Carson. There was a huge crowd waiting for Carson (who was at the height of his personality). Vermin Supreme had wanted to bring a Red Flyer wagon full of empty rifles and two antique revolvers duct-taped to his boot (it's legal to carry weapons in the NH State House and Vermin Supreme had begun to adopt some libertarian platform positions beyond his normal wackiness); the Secret Service, who had just started guarding Carson that week, politely asked him not to bring weapons nearby and so he didn't go through with that.
Anyway, Vermin Supreme showed up with an entourage and had a little toy brain that he made zombie noises at in front of the cameras. It got time to pay the $1000 and he had brought cash in small bills. The Secretary of State counted out the bills and only counted $999. The Secretary of State said, "You're a dollar short," to which Vermin Supreme immediately and gleefully pulled out another dollar and mugged for the cameras, "But not a day late!"
posted by msbrauer at 12:36 PM on December 8, 2023 [14 favorites]
Wish the article had mentioned that he was banned from this event for a few years because he glitter-bombed an anti-gay candidate (see lead image on the wikipedia entry for Glitter Bombing). As he told me when I photographed him outside the 2016 debate (which he wasn't allowed to participate in) the school that holds the event said that it cost too much money to clean up his glitter mess and didn't want to risk it again. He'd offered to pay the cleaning bill but they still wouldn't let him participate. Seems like they relented this year.
The debate itself is strange...it's a mix of performance artist candidates and then some people who are oddball cranks and/or possibly mentally-ill. Covering politics in New Hampshire I would often get cornered by one of these candidates at a big candidate's event and they'd have a mess of papers in a manila envelope that they said proved something about wifi signals or the JFK assassination or some other conspiracy theory. They'd hand me stacks of papers sometimes and they were often filled with time-cube level nonsense. So when I covered the Lesser Known Candidates Forum, I ended up feeling a bit sad. And if there's ever any coverage of it, it's sort of a gawk-at-the-weirdos piece.
It only costs $1,000
My favorite Vermin Supreme story is when he was in the NH Secretary of State's ballot filing office crammed full of people waiting to see, if I remember, Ben Carson. There was a huge crowd waiting for Carson (who was at the height of his personality). Vermin Supreme had wanted to bring a Red Flyer wagon full of empty rifles and two antique revolvers duct-taped to his boot (it's legal to carry weapons in the NH State House and Vermin Supreme had begun to adopt some libertarian platform positions beyond his normal wackiness); the Secret Service, who had just started guarding Carson that week, politely asked him not to bring weapons nearby and so he didn't go through with that.
Anyway, Vermin Supreme showed up with an entourage and had a little toy brain that he made zombie noises at in front of the cameras. It got time to pay the $1000 and he had brought cash in small bills. The Secretary of State counted out the bills and only counted $999. The Secretary of State said, "You're a dollar short," to which Vermin Supreme immediately and gleefully pulled out another dollar and mugged for the cameras, "But not a day late!"
posted by msbrauer at 12:36 PM on December 8, 2023 [14 favorites]
And that anti-gay candidate appears to have been Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue. A face full of glitter is the very least of what he deserves. So Vermin Supreme has my vote, or would if I lived in New Hampshire.
posted by McCoy Pauley at 12:43 PM on December 8, 2023 [11 favorites]
posted by McCoy Pauley at 12:43 PM on December 8, 2023 [11 favorites]
We need to get 25 people to change their names and run on the Republican ballot as Donald A. Trump, Donald B. Trump, etc.
Donald Jay Trump.
posted by Mitheral at 1:20 PM on December 8, 2023 [7 favorites]
Donald Jay Trump.
posted by Mitheral at 1:20 PM on December 8, 2023 [7 favorites]
Thanks for the link, May Kasahara - Paperboy Love Prince at least has a rather well-organized and lengthy list of goals, regardless of the outlandishness of much of the points. And checking out his About -- dude has some serious charisma, which is more than many wannabe-be-legit candidates (and actual candidates).
posted by davidmsc at 1:35 PM on December 8, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by davidmsc at 1:35 PM on December 8, 2023 [3 favorites]
Given all the increased political anxiety since 2015, I think it’s time this nation had its own version of the Raving Monster Loony Party. Could somebody with a spare $1000 and a sufficiently screwy platform get something started there? Oh, they also would need a PAC or some billionaire or both to front loads of bucks for TV ads. And maybe a TV network to promote them. And some orange makeup and a science fiction combover. Maybe some former reality show host with a catchy catch phrase. There must be enough people here who would fall for this and vote for them.
posted by njohnson23 at 4:43 PM on December 8, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by njohnson23 at 4:43 PM on December 8, 2023 [4 favorites]
Not just the Raving Monster Loony Party, somebody needs to register a "silly party" and change their name to Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel.
posted by DreamerFi at 11:57 PM on December 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by DreamerFi at 11:57 PM on December 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
Isn't Sam Sloan standing this year?
posted by Cardinal Fang at 2:53 PM on December 9, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Cardinal Fang at 2:53 PM on December 9, 2023 [1 favorite]
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