Jimmy McMillan (one of the more obscure candidates for President-R)

Jimmy McMillan has an interesting Wikipedia article.

Mc Millan's political positions contain heavy influence from populist principles. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle described his 1994 platform as such: "While Mc Millan said he hopes to be a spokesman for the poor in his bid for Governor, his solutions make him sound more like a Republican."[7]

• Mc Millan has come out against federal bailouts, specifically the Wall Street Bailout of 2008 and the Obama Administration's bailout of General Motors. Referencing the bailout and his presidential run, he said of Obama: "If you don't do your job right, I am coming at you."[30]
• Mc Millan believes that global warming is a natural occurrence that occurs every 15,000 years. He disputes the idea that is caused by man and pollution, saying he "isn't buying [the] punk science" of Al Gore.
• A supporter of same-sex marriage, Mc Millan joked in the 2010 gubernatorial debate he would allow marriage between a person and a shoe.[31][32][33] After the Marriage Equality Act passed, Mc Millan stated of same-sex couples "now you don’t have to marry a shoe, you can marry somebody."[34]
• On transvestites and transgendered people, Mc Millan says "When you see a guy walk down the street and he’s got a little skirt on, and he’s so happy. Why shouldn’t you be happy? This is America, it’s beautiful to watch someone different."[34]
• Mc Millan, as founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, is against high rent and property taxes for homeowners. He believes that lowering rent and cutting taxes will ease financial stress and help eradicate hunger and poverty, as well as raise tax revenue. He surmises that reducing rent would "create 3 to 6 million jobs" by freeing up capital to give businesses a chance to hire people. He also favors tax credits for commuters.[35][36]
• Mc Millan and the party are in favor of writing off all taxes owed to the state, consolidating the rent boards in New York, seizure of unoccupied apartment buildings, reforming the state court system, and free college tuition.[35][36]
• Mc Millan is in favor of having fixed rate of low rent across America, which would be the same regardless of property value. He states that adjusting the rent for property value "is a bunch of crap" and "a scheme to run out the poor."[citation needed]
• Mc Millan supports allowing laws to be influenced by Christianity. His website states that "we need more reliance on the moral laws brought by religion and not limit out goodwill to our neighbors and co-workers to what the law demands alone." He also spoke of "restoring family values" and making sure that one parent remains at home to watch children.[37]
• Mc Millan and the party oppose any spending cuts to education or elderly care services.[35][36]
• Mc Millan has called for investigations of, and has sought to increase awareness of, fraud and Ponzi schemes in the real estate markets.[38]
• Of his potential Republican opponents for the Presidential nomination, he thinks of Newt Gingrich as a "good liar" in the vein of John Edwards and that "people look at him and laugh," Mitt Romney as a "good-looking guy [that] will keep the ladies from looking at me." He has also stated that he loves Sarah Palin[39] and holds an extremely negative view of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.[40] He views current governor Andrew Cuomo as a do-nothing and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as "just a big mouth (...) New Jersey is crumbling just like every state in the union."[34]

"Al Gore and his punk science!" So true and so funny. This is one interesting candidate! Notes:

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edited 22nd Aug '11 1:01:31 PM by secretist

Mc Millian has lost the Republic primaries before hes even started if those are his policies.

Sounds like an okay guy to me. I wish there were more conservative-ish candidates that supported LGBT rights.

Forgot to link Rent Is Too Damn High. site

edited 22nd Aug '11 2:21:27 PM by secretist

I read about this guy a while ago. I remember thinking that he sounds way too committed to his ideals. I don't want a leader who'll keep trying to "do the right thing" if the situation is such that accepting a lesser evil is necessary to avoid a greater evil. (Besides, his economic policy makes no freaking sense.)

edited 22nd Aug '11 6:26:53 PM by feotakahari