Blue Enigma Party

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Blue Enigma Party
Founded2006;12 years ago (2006)
Headquarters Wilmington, Delaware
Membership (August 1, 2017)130 [1]
Website
http://theblueenigmaparty.com

The Blue Enigma Party was a ballot qualified third party in the U.S. state of Delaware. Founded in 2006, they became ballot qualified for the 2008 election placing candidates on the ballot for governor and other state offices. [2]

Third party (United States)

Third party is a term used in the United States for American political parties other than the Republican and Democratic parties.

Delaware State of the United States of America

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the South-Atlantic or Southern region. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, north by Pennsylvania, and east by New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean. The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor.

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Party platform

The Blue Enigma Party supported education reform that would include more teachers, consolidation of the state's public school districts into a unified system, and improved curriculum in schools. The party also called for state government to tackle crime by adding more police in high-crime areas and improving job opportunities in low-income areas. The Blue Enigma Party supported green energy using solar, wind, and tidal power, along with expansion of curbside recycling to be a permanent fixture throughout the state. The party also supported legalized sports betting and the addition of poker rooms at casinos in order to generate revenue for the state. [3]

Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education. Historically, reforms have taken different forms because the motivations of reformers have differed. However, since the 1980s, education reform has been focused on changing the existing system from one focused on inputs to one focused on outputs. In the United States, education reform acknowledges and encourages public education as the primary source of K-12 education for American youth. Education reformers desire to make public education into a market, where accountability creates high-stakes from curriculum standards tied to standardized tests. As a result of this input-output system, equality has been conceptualized as an end point, which is often evidenced by an achievement gap among diverse populations. This conceptualization of education reform is based on the market-logic of competition. As a consequence, competition creates inequality which has continued to drive the market-logic of equality at an end point by reproduce the achievement gap among diverse youth. The one constant for all forms of education reform includes the idea that small changes in education will have large social returns in citizen health, wealth and well-being. For example, a stated motivation has been to reduce cost to students and society. From ancient times until the 1800s, one goal was to reduce the expense of a classical education. Ideally, classical education is undertaken with a highly educated full-time personal tutor. Historically, this was available only to the most wealthy. Encyclopedias, public libraries and grammar schools are examples of innovations intended to lower the cost of a classical education.

Crime unlawful act forbidden and punishable by criminal law

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term "crime" does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society or the state. Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law.

Solar power conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity

Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar power, or a combination. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect.

2008 candidates

In 2008, the party fielded candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and in 3 races for State Representative. [4] Party founder Jeffrey Brown was listed as the party's candidate for Governor and for State Representative in district 13. Peter Cullen was the party's candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Stephen Michael Annand was the party's candidate for State Representative in district 19. Daniel D. Rappa, Jr. was the party's candidate for State Representative in district 20.

At some point prior to September 30, 2008, Peter Cullen and Daniel D. Rappa, Jr. withdrew from their respective races.

2010 candidates

Jeffrey Brown ran for U.S. Congress and State Representative in District 13. In the congressional race he earned 961 votes, or 0.31%. In the legislative race he received 440 votes for 9.2%.

After 2010

The party's website is no longer active and their Facebook page went quiet in January 2011 for an extended period. In 2013, the party's Facebook page indicated Jeffrey Brown would come out of retirement and in 2015, the page posted that the party would be reborn in 2016, but nothing happened. The last post on the party's Facebook page dates back to October 2016, indicating lack of funding. [5] As of August 1, 2017, there are 130 voters registered to the party in Delaware. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "State of Delaware Registered Voters" (PDF).
  2. "Blue Enigma Party is a Qualified Party in Delaware". Ballot Access News . Retrieved 2008-09-23.
  3. "The Blue Enigma Party Political Agenda". The Blue Enigma Party. Archived from the original on 2008-09-25. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  4. "Ballot Qualified Candidates". State of Delaware, Commissioner of Elections. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
  5. "The Blue Enigma Party". Facebook. Retrieved June 5, 2018.