Pat Noble

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Pat Noble
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Co-Chair of the Socialist Party USA
Assumed office
October 18, 2015
ServingwithHolly Carpenter
Preceded by Mimi Soltysik
Member of the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education for Red Bank
Assumed office
January 2, 2013
Preceded byNilsa Samol
State Secretary of the
Socialist Party of New Jersey
Assumed office
March 5, 2017
Preceded by Greg Pason
In office
July 10, 2011 December 1, 2015
Succeeded byGreg Pason
Personal details
Born
Patrick Noble

(1993-04-28) April 28, 1993 (age 25)
Red Bank, New Jersey
Political party Socialist Party USA
Residence Red Bank, New Jersey
Alma mater Academy of Allied Health & Science
OccupationPolitical activist
Website twitter.com/socialistpat

Patrick Noble (born April 28, 1993) is an American democratic socialist politician who has been the National Co-Chair of the Socialist Party USA since 2015.

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Socialist Party USA political party in the United States

The Socialist Party USA, officially the Socialist Party of the United States of America (SPUSA), is a multi-tendency democratic socialist party in the United States. The SPUSA was founded in 1973 as a successor to the Socialist Party of America, which had been renamed Social Democrats, USA a year before.

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Noble serves concurrently as the party's National Treasurer and State Secretary of the Socialist Party of New Jersey. As a second-term member of the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education, he is also the only member of the Socialist Party currently holding elected office. [1]

The Socialist Party of New Jersey (SPNJ) is the state chapter of the Socialist Party USA in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Red Bank Regional High School regional high school (often called RBR) in Little Silver, New Jersey

Red Bank Regional High School is a comprehensive regional four-year public high school and school district that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the boroughs of Little Silver, Red Bank and Shrewsbury, three municipalities in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.

Career

Noble co-founded the Socialist Party's Central New Jersey local in March 2011 and served as its Chair for several years. He also served as Party Secretary for New Jersey from 2011 to 2015 before returning to the position in 2017.

Noble was the plaintiff in a 2013 lawsuit against New Jersey Secretary of State Kim Guadagno over the latter's refusal to allow voters in New Jersey to register their affiliation with the Socialist Party of New Jersey. [2] The lawsuit was ultimately successful, with the State agreeing in March 2014 to grant voter registration abilities to the SPNJ. [3]

Kim Guadagno first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey

Kimberly Ann Guadagno is an American attorney, politician, and former prosecutor who served as the first Lieutenant Governor and 33rd Secretary of State of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.

Noble was elected unopposed as National Co-Chair of the Socialist Party by the party's 2015 National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was subsequently re-elected by the 2017 National Convention in New York City with 56% of the votes cast on the first ballot. The nearest challenger in the four-way race received 20% of the votes cast.

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Electoral history

Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders election,
November 8, 2011 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Gary Rich55,16826.61%
Republican Lillian Burry (inc.)55,14026.60%
Democratic Amy Mallet (inc.)46,56322.46%
Democratic William Shea43,60921.03%
Independent Thomas Murkowski5,4542.63%
Socialist Patrick Noble1,3960.67%
Total votes207,330100%
Republican hold
Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education election,
November 6, 2012 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Non-partisan Patrick Noble1,18754.78
Non-partisan Nilsa Samol (inc.)98045.22%
Total votes2,167100%
Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education election,
November 5, 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%
Non-partisan Patrick Noble (inc.)1,10397.78
Non-partisan Write-in252.22%
Total votes1,128100%

References

  1. "Socialist WebZine: Green Shoots of Red Electoralism". socialistwebzine.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  2. "Ballot Access News - New Jersey Socialist Party Sues to Enable Voters to Register as Socialist Party Members". Ballot-access.org. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  3. "Ballot Access News - New Jersey Election Officials Will Allow Voters to Register into Socialist Party and Will Keep a Tally". ballot-access.org. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  4. "OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK - M. CLAIRE FRENCH : MONMOUTH COUNTY : OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS" (PDF). Assets01.aws.connect.clarityelections.com. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  5. "M. CLAIRE FRENCH : OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF MONMOUTH : OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS" (PDF). Assets01.aws.connect.clarityelections.com. Retrieved 2015-10-30.