Joe Manchik
Joe Manchik was a Green Party of Ohio candidate for Ohio's 12th congressional district (U.S. House of Representatives) in the 2016 general election and again in the August 2018 special election.[1] According to some media, the candidate who said he descends from aliens from the Pleiades star cluster, was a third-party spoiler candidate who may have cost the Democrat Party the election,[2][3][4] while Reason magazine called the reporting "tiresome shaming of third-party voters".[5]
Manchik is a 1975 graduate of Ohio Institute of Technology.[6] At the time of his candidacy, he was a self-employed data networking contractor in Licking County.[7][8]
Political positions[edit]
Manchik ran in 2018 on clean energy, national high speed rail, single-payer health care, restoration of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, and legalization of marijuana and hemp.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://ballotpedia.org/Joe_Manchik
- ↑ "Meet the spacey Green Party candidate who may cost Democrats a win in Ohio's special election", The Week, August 8, 2018
- ↑ Katelyn Caralle (August 8, 2018), Green Party spoiler candidate in Ohio special election claims to be descended from aliens, Fox News
- ↑ "Editorial: The Green Party's Game", The New York Sun, August 8, 2018
- ↑ Scott Shackford (August 8, 2018), "Close Ohio Congressional Race Leads to Typically Tiresome Shaming of Third-Party Voters; No, the Green Party didn't "spoil" the Democrats' chance at a seat", Reason
- ↑ Joe Manchik biography, Vote Smart, retrieved 2018-08-08
- ↑ Jeremy Pelzer (July 30, 2018), "Mike Pence rallies support for Troy Balderson as 12th District special election nears", Cleveland Plain Dealer
- ↑ Owen Daugherty (July 16, 2018), "Ohio special US House election: Green Party congressional candidate tries to make noise – on low budget", The Columbus Dispatch
- ↑ Emily Mills (July 25, 2018), "Balderson, O'Connor, Manchik vie for Tiberi's seat in Aug. 7 special election", Mansfield News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio
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