Introduction To Alternative Candidates
By Bob Small
Years ago, when we were involved with Democracy Unplugged, we would seek out alternative candidates for some of our debates. We contacted people from the Delco Democrats and the Delco GOP, designated speakers supporting Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, our two “legitimate” presidential candidates. We would seek “alternative” candidates by looking at the webpages of Politics1.com
We defined legitimate “alternative” candidates as those with either a Facebook presence or a website. Obviously, these “alternative” candidates did not have any chance of winning, but they had ideas worth hearing, and we wanted to give them a voice at a forum, whether they represented the Constitution Party or a socialist party or were Independents.
On the Politics 1 2024 presidential candidates’ pages, the names of the major candidates are followed by an alphabetical listing of the alternative candidates for each party.
Under the subheading “other Republicans”, Hugo Aguilar’s name is listed second from the top. He is the first candidate I am looking into, because I am ignoring candidates who have no website or Facebook presence.
Here’s the link for Aguilar’s campaign, sponsored by the CBC (Christian based company) Adam Advancement.
Here’s where it becomes interesting.
On this website, one sees references to the following “campaign trails”:
Benjamin Franklin campaign trail (the south)
Alexander Hamilton campaign trail (the midwest)
Andrew Jackson campaign trail (the texMex)
Thomas Jefferson campaign trail (the west)
Gun Rights 2024
Jan 15th and 16th at the Dallas convention center
This website includes the quote “the Trump Train was amazing, but the Aguilar Aerospace will be phenomenal!” and some amazing photographs.
At any rate, I signed up with my Proton e-mail account.
My Proton e-mail account has end-to-end encryption, which we use for anything sketchy.
And as they say on Sesame street, next will be the letter “B”.
