Jack Fellure

Jack Fellure (official portrait photo, 2012)

Lowell Jackson "Jack" Fellure (born October 3, 1931 in Midkiff , West Virginia ) is an American retired engineer and multiple candidate for political office. He was a Prohibition Party candidate for the 2012 presidential election in the United States .

Life

Jack Fellure was born on October 3, 1931 in Midkiff, a small town in Lincoln County . He lives in hurricane . He and his wife Jean have six children.

politics

Fellure occurred from 1988 to 2008 every presidential preselection of the Republicans on. He claimed on his campaign website that his political platform, based on the King James Bible , had never changed. He calls for the elimination of alcohol manufacturing companies, a ban on abortion and pornography, and is an advocate of school prayer . He also calls for the criminalization of homosexuality . He has blamed those who he characterizes as " atheists , Marxists , liberals , queers , liars , conscientious objectors , flag burners , drug addicts , perverts and anti-Christians " for the evils of society .

Fellure ran in the 1992 Republican primary in New Hampshire , West Virginia and Kansas . By November 1991 he had spent $ 40,000 of his own money on the election campaign and sent a King James Bible to the FEC as a copy of his program. Regarding the 1611 English version of the Bible, he said, "God wrote it as the supreme document and final authority in the affairs of all men, nations and civilizations, for time and eternity ... It shall never be necessary to change it." (God wrote it as the highest document and ultimate authority in the affairs of all men, nations and civilizations, for time and eternity ... it will never be necessary to change it.) He received 36 votes in New Hampshire and lamented that President George HW Bush and commentator Pat Buchanan got all the media attention.

During the Republican primaries for the 1996 presidential election , he criticized former President George HW Bush as a man "responsible for inestimable damage toward the destruction of this sovereign democratic constitutional republic [who] continued to water the seeds of international, Satanic Marxism to the exclusion of our national sovereignty "(who is responsible for the inestimable damage caused by the destruction of this sovereign democratic constitutional republic [by] the watering of the international seeds of satanic Marxism which is destroying our national sovereignty). He added that President Bill Clinton "merely shifted into overdrive the socialistic, Marxist New World Order agenda" (only in the overdrive of the socialist, Marxist New World Order has changed Paris Declaration) "In Puerto Rico he was then 34 votes (0, 01%) Fellure received a write-in vote in Idaho in the presidential election .

Fellure wanted to run for president again in 2000, but did not appear on the ballot for any area code. In 2004 he challenged incumbent President George W. Bush in the primaries . Fellure was the only candidate besides Bush in North Dakota after he was able to prove to the Federal Election Commission that he had met the requirement of a payment of $ 5,000. He received 14 of 2,020 votes (0.69%) and thus lost all 26 committed delegates to Bush.

Prohibition Party 2012

After failing in the 2008 presidential primaries , Fellure initially wanted to apply for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He then decided to seek nomination for the Prohibition Party at the party's national convention in Cullman, Alabama . Fellure was nominated on the second round of voting against tax advisor and longtime Prohibition Party activist James Hedges of Thompson Township , Pennsylvania . Party chairman Toby Davis was designated as his running mate . The team only appeared on the ballot in Louisiana, where Prohibition Party candidates received 518 votes.

Return to the Republicans

In November 2012 Fellure submitted the documents to the FEC to participate in the 2016 primaries for the Republican Party's presidential candidacy.

See also

• Christian fundamentalism

Web links

• Unofficial Campaign website (archived) ( Memento from October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• FEC filing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lowell Jackson 'Jack' Fellure - Biography . In: Project Vote Smart . 1992-2015. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Prohibition Party holds convention; nominates Jack Fellure for US President . In: Wikinews . June 23, 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
3. ↑ Jack Fellure 2012 - The Sword of 1611 . In: Sword of 1611 . Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
4. ↑ Sam Bollier: The 'other' political parties of the US . In: Al Jazeera English , January 9, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2015. 
5. ^ ^{A b c} Molly Ivins : Too Much Government made lives better . In: Star-News , January 6, 1996. Retrieved June 24, 2011. 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Neal Pollack: The Not-so-Front-Runners . In: The Baltimore Sun . November 6, 1991. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
7. ↑ West Virginia man garners 36 votes in NH primary . In: Williamson Daily News , February 21, 1992. Retrieved June 24, 2011. 
8. ^ Federal Elections 96: Presidential Primary Election Results . In: FEC . Retrieved January 31, 2016.
9. ^ Robert Bickford: 1996 - Presidential Votes by State . In: Ballot Access News . Robert Bickford. October 7, 1998. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Reports Image Index for Candidate ID: P20000089 . In: Federal Elections Commission . Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2011. 
11. ↑ Bush big winner in North Dakota . In: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead , February 5, 2004. Retrieved June 30, 2015. 
12. ^ Deena Winter: Democrats happy with ND turnout . In: The Bismarck Tribune . February 3, 2004. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
13. ^ Benjamin Bullard: Prohibition Party meets in Cullman . In: The Cullman Times . June 23, 2011. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2011. 
14. ^ Prohibition Party Nominates Jack Fellure for President . In: Ballot Access News . Richard Winger . June 22, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
15. ↑ Official 2012 Presidential General Election Results . In: FEC . January 17, 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
16. ↑ Jack Fellure 2016 FEC Statement of Candidacy . In: Federal Election Commission . November 7, 2012. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 28, 2013.