Brian Moore (political activist)

Last updated
Brian Moore
Brian Moore Untouched.jpg
Brian Moore in an official campaign photo after being selected as the Socialist Party USA Presidential nominee on October 20, 2007.
Personal details
Born
Brian Patrick Moore

(1943-06-08) June 8, 1943 (age 81)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Political party Green
Other political
affiliations		 Democratic
Alliance [1]
Independent
Liberty Union
Socialist
Alma mater San Luis Rey College, Arizona State University

Brian Patrick Moore (born June 8, 1943) is an American politician and founder of antiwar organization Nature Coast Coalition for Peace & Justice. A perennial candidate, he was the presidential nominee of the Socialist Party USA for the 2008 United States presidential election; he waged several campaigns for mayor and city council in Washington, D.C., and twice ran for the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 5th congressional district, winning none; he ran for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor of Florida in 2010, but lost in the primary election.

Contents

During his presidential campaign, Moore supported strengthening the working class and pledged to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and reduce the budget for the Department of Defense by 50%.

Background

Moore earned a bachelor's degree at San Luis Rey College in California, a master's degree in Public Administration from Arizona State University, and studied in a Franciscan Catholic seminary before joining the Peace Corps in 1969. As a Peace Corps volunteer and later working for a non-profit agency, Moore was involved in community development and infrastructure projects in impoverished neighborhoods of Bolivia, Panama and Peru. He has worked almost 20 years in the HMO/Managed Care industry as an Executive Director, Project Administrator, and Consultant.

Internationally, Moore has been involved in community development, reconstruction and infrastructure rehabilitation projects (housing, water, electricity and sewage) in the developing and poverty-stricken countries of Panama, Peru, and Ecuador. For more than five years, Moore designed and implemented programs for public health projects (vaccination and health education) in Latin America (Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Mexico) and Tanzania, Africa, in coordination with and on behalf of private corporations, religious institutions and non-governmental organizations. Moore raised $3 million for a de-worming project that successfully protected more than one million children from parasitic infections in the poverty-stricken areas of Brazil, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.[ citation needed ]

Politics

Moore was a member of the Democratic Party and worked as the 1976 New Mexico coordinator for Terry Sanford, who lost the nomination to Jimmy Carter. [2] The experience turned Moore off the Democrats to becoming independent because "the Democrats threw over this liberal, progressive guy." [2] He volunteered for independents John B. Anderson in 1980 presidential election and Ralph Nader in 2004 and supported Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan in the 2000 presidential election because Buchanan "was for fair trade over free trade. He had some progressive positions that I thought would be helpful to the common man." [2] In the 1980s, Moore was elected to three terms on the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission in Washington, D.C. Moore waged several unsuccessful bids for mayor (1986, 1990, 1994, 1998) and city council (1984, 1992) in Washington, D.C. [3] He also twice ran for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 5th congressional district in 2002 and 2004. [3]

In 2006, running as a Green Party-endorsed [4] [5] independent anti-war candidate against Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican challenger Katherine Harris, Moore polled 19,695 votes. During that campaign, he called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Ralph Nader endorsed Moore in the race. [2] Moore's campaign manager was Darcy Richardson. [1]

2008 presidential campaign

In 2007, he became a socialist and joined the Socialist Party USA as a presidential candidate for the 2008 election. [2] Moore says being called a socialist by opponents opened him up to the movement. Moore, of Florida, and vice-presidential nominee Stewart Alexander of California, were nominated on October 20, 2007, at the Socialist Party USA's National Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, where their ticket won by four votes. [2] [6] Moore also was the only candidate to collect the 1,000 signatures required to participate in the Liberty Union Party's presidential primary. He was on the ballot under the Socialist Party USA in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin, and on the ballot under the Liberty Union Party in Vermont. He was also available as a write-in candidate in several other states. [7] On election day Moore received 6,528 votes nationally. [8] His two best state-level presidential vote showings were in Ohio and Tennessee, in which he received 2,731 votes and 1,326 votes, respectively. [9]

On October 28, 2008, Moore appeared on the Colbert Report and dismissed accusations from John McCain that Barack Obama is a Socialist. [10]

Political positions

Moore has been a persistent critic of U.S. military involvement in Iraq. He is an advocate for democratic public control of the economy and society, participatory democracy, universal health care, greater employment, and housing for all.

Moore wants to "get rid of the for-profit system" and calls for Wall Street to be made into a "socially owned democratic authority of economists, experts and consumers who are not part of consumer America, to oversee these banks, to form credit unions, state banks." [2] He proposes that under his system, the best-paid would make no more than 10 times what the lowest-paid worker receives. [2]

2010 Florida gubernatorial candidate

Moore unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party nomination for the 2010 Florida gubernatorial election. [11] Moore lost to Florida's Chief Financial Officer, Democrat Alex Sink in the primary.

He received 23.09% (199,247) of the vote while his opponent Alex Sink won with 76.91% (663,510) out of 862,757 total votes cast. [12]

Brian Moore was endorsed by the "American Socialist Party" (not affiliated with the Socialist Party USA) for which he is a local organizer. [13] [ citation needed ].

2020 presidential campaign

On November 7, 2019, Moore filed to get on the ballot in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. He withdrew from the race on November 13. [14]

Alliance Party

Moore was a speaker at the 2020 Alliance Party national convention, where he introduced the candidacy of Darcy Richardson for vice-president. [1]

2022 Election

Moore initially announced that he would be running for Governor as a Green. [15] After disagreements with leaders of the Green Party of Florida, [16] Moore qualified to run for Florida State Senate in District 11 against Blaise Ingoglia. [17]

Related Research Articles

The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States. The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy; grassroots democracy; anti-war; anti-racism. As of 2023, it is the fourth-largest political party in the United States by voter registration, behind the Libertarian Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Natural Law Party (United States)</span> Political party associated with Transcendental Meditation

The Natural Law Party (NLP) is a political party in Michigan. It was a national political party in the United States, founded in 1992, affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. Beginning in 2004, many of its state chapters dissolved. The party's Michigan chapter is still active as of 2024.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Socialist Party USA</span> Socialist political party in the United States

The Socialist Party of the United States of America is a socialist political party in the United States. SPUSA formed in 1973, one year after the Socialist Party of America splintered into three: Social Democrats, USA, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (split), and SPUSA.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peace and Freedom Party</span> Socialist political party in the United States

The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is a socialist political party in the United States which operates mostly in California. It was formed in 1966 from anti–Vietnam War and pro–civil rights movements.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reform Party of the United States of America</span> American political party

The Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA), generally known as the Reform Party USA or the Reform Party, is a centrist political party in the United States, founded in 1995 by Ross Perot.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Camejo</span> Venezuelan American politician

Peter Miguel Camejo Guanche was a Venezuelan American author, activist, politician and Sailing Olympian. In the 2004 United States presidential election, he was selected by independent candidate Ralph Nader as his vice-presidential running mate on a ticket which had the endorsement of the Reform Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party</span> Socialist political party in Vermont, United States

The Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party (GMPJP), previously named the Liberty Union Party (LUP) until 2021, is a socialist political party in Vermont, United States. LUP was formed in 1970 by progressives to contest the 1970 Senate election.

The Independent Greens of Virginia was the state affiliate of the Independence Party of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It became a state party around 2003 when a faction of the Arlington local chapter of the Green Party of Virginia (GPVA) split from the main party. As of 2011, it bills itself as a "fiscally conservative, socially responsible green party", with an emphasis on rail transportation and "more candidates". In support of wider ballot participation, it endorses many independent candidates who are not affiliated with the party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Howie Hawkins</span> American activist and trade unionist (born 1952)

Howard Gresham Hawkins III is an American trade unionist, environmental activist, and perennial candidate from New York. A co-founder of the Green Party of the United States, Hawkins was the party's presidential nominee in the 2020 presidential election. His ideological platform includes enacting an eco-socialist version of the Green New Deal—which he first proposed in 2010—and building a viable, independent working-class political and social movement in opposition to the country's two major political parties, and capitalism in general.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stewart Alexander</span> American politician (born 1951)

Stewart Alexis Alexander is an American democratic socialist politician, presidential nominee for the Socialist Party USA in the 2012 election, and former SPUSA nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election.

This article contains lists of official third-party and independent candidates associated with the 2012 United States presidential election.

The 2008 presidential campaign of Brian Patrick Moore, a local activist from Florida, began when he announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 19, 2007. The same month he was declared the nominee of the Socialist Party USA for the 2008 presidential election. The SPUSA national convention elected Stewart Alexis Alexander of California as Moore's vice presidential nominee.

This article contains lists of official and potential third-party and independent candidates associated with the 2016 United States presidential election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mimi Soltysik</span> American political activist (1974–2020)

Emidio "Mimi" Soltysik was an American socialist political activist for the Socialist Party USA. He was the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election alongside Angela Nicole Walker, who was the party's vice-presidential nominee.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Third-party and independent candidates for the 2020 United States presidential election</span>

This article lists third-party and independent candidates, also jointly known as minor candidates, associated with the 2020 United States presidential election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Howie Hawkins 2020 presidential campaign</span> American political campaign

The 2020 presidential campaign of Howie Hawkins, both the co-founder of the Green Party of the United States and thrice its gubernatorial candidate in New York, was informally launched on April 3, 2019, when Hawkins announced the formation of an exploratory committee and formally announced his campaign on May 28, 2019, to seek the Green Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2020 presidential election and later the Socialist Party USA. On May 5, 2020, Hawkins announced that former Socialist Party USA vice presidential candidate Angela Nicole Walker would be his running mate. Hawkins and Walker were nominated by the Green Party on July 11, 2020.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Saturn, William (April 26, 2020). "Alliance Party Nominates 2020 Presidential Ticket of De La Fuente/Richardson". Independent Political Report. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Q&A with Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore". Independent Weekly . 2008-10-08. Archived from the original on 2016-01-04. Retrieved 2008-11-25.
  3. 1 2 "Our Campaigns - Candidate - Brian P. Moore".
  4. ↑ "Green Party endorses Brian Moore for U.S. Senate [ permanent dead link ]", floridagreens.org, 9 September 2006 (accessed 10 February 2008).
  5. ↑ "GREEN PARTY ENDORSES BRIAN MOORE FOR U.S. SENATE Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine ", votebrianmoore.com, 24 August 2006 (accessed 10 February 2008).
  6. ↑ "Socialist Party Ticket is Moore-Alexander", Ballot Access News, 20 October 2007 (accessed 10 February 2008).
  7. ↑ The Green Papers:2008 Presidential Election by State
  8. ↑ "2008 OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" (PDF). FEC. 2008-11-04. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  9. ↑ The Green Papers: Tennessee Election Results
  10. ↑ “The Colbert Report - 28 Oct 2008 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/the.-colbert.-report.-2008.10.28.-sherman.-alexie.-sdtv.-sonarr. Internet Archive
  11. ↑ Logan, Lee and Frank, John. "Tea partyers grab attention as 19 file to run for state office in Florida: A bunch of candidates qualified for state races right before the deadline, and some sparked controversy." Miami Herald June 19, 2010
  12. ↑ "enight Florida Election Watch". Archived from the original on 2010-08-28. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
  13. ↑ "American Socialist Party in Florida "Find Your Local"". Archived from the original on 2010-12-11. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
  14. ↑ "Candidates for President of the United States". New Hampshire Secretary of State's office.
  15. ↑ Winger, Richard. "Brian Moore Files for Governor of Florida as a Green | Ballot Access News". Ballot Access News.
  16. ↑ SAFUTO, VINCENT. "Green Party, Spring Hill candidate part ways in dispute over direction". Sun Coast News. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  17. ↑ MIKE, WRIGHT. "Blaise Ingoglia picks up last-minute Green Party challenger". Florida Politics. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
Party political offices
Preceded by Socialist Party Presidential candidate
2008 (lost)		Succeeded by
Preceded by
John Parker
 Liberty Union Party Presidential candidate
2008 (lost)		Succeeded by
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.