Howie Hawkins
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Howie Hawkins (Other) ran for election for President of the United States. He lost as a write-in in the general election on November 5, 2024.
He ran on a joint ticket with the lieutenant gubernatorial nominee, Jia Lee (G) in the 2018 New York gubernatorial election.
Hawkins announced he was running in the 2020 presidential election as a Green candidate on May 28, 2019.[1]
Elections
2020
The Green Party selected Howie Hawkins as its presidential nominee at the 2020 Green National Convention on July 11, 2020. Angela Nicole Walker was named the Green Party vice presidential nominee. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the convention took place virtually.[2][3][4]
Prior to the national convention, state primaries and conventions were held to select the presidential nominating convention delegates. These delegates then selected a party nominee at the convention by majority vote.[5]
"In the eyes of the nation, the Green Party nominee will be the principal voice of the party. The success of the nominee will determine ballot access in some states and will impact the fortunes of Green candidates in state and local races," the party stated in official documentation.[5]
Jill Stein, the 2012 and 2016 Green presidential nominee, did not run for a third presidential election.[6]
Presidential election, 2020
Candidate/Running mate |
% |
Popular votes |
Electoral votes |
||
| ✔ |
 
| Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D) |
51.3
|
81,282,632 | 306 |
 
| Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R) |
46.9
|
74,223,234 | 232 | |
 
| Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L) |
1.2
|
1,864,873 | 0 | |
 
| Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker (G) |
0.3
|
402,795 | 0 | |
 | Roque De La Fuente (multiple running mates) (Alliance Party) |
0.1
|
88,214 | 0 | |
 | Gloria La Riva (multiple running mates) (Party for Socialism and Liberation) |
0.1
|
84,905 | 0 | |
 
| Ye/Michelle Tidball (Independent) |
0.0
|
67,906 | 0 | |
 
| Don Blankenship/William Mohr (Constitution Party) |
0.0
|
59,924 | 0 | |
 
| Brock Pierce/Karla Ballard (Independent) |
0.0
|
49,764 | 0 | |
 
| Brian T. Carroll/Amar Patel (American Solidarity Party) |
0.0
|
35,260 | 0 | |
 
| Alyson Kennedy/Malcolm Jarrett (Socialist Workers Party) |
0.0
|
6,791 | 0 | |
 
| Bill Hammons/Eric Bodenstab (Unity Party) |
0.0
|
6,647 | 0 | |
 | Jade Simmons (multiple running mates) (Independent) |
0.0
|
6,534 | 0 | |
 
| Jerry Segal/John de Graaf (Bread and Roses) |
0.0
|
5,949 | 0 | |
 
| Dario David Hunter/Dawn Neptune Adams (Progressive Party) |
0.0
|
5,394 | 0 | |
| Phil Collins/Billy Joe Parker (Prohibition Party) |
0.0
|
4,844 | 0 | |
 
| Jesse Ventura/Cynthia McKinney (Green Party of Alaska) |
0.0
|
3,284 | 0 | |
| President Boddie/Eric Stoneham (C.U.P.) |
0.0
|
3,171 | 0 | |
| Joe McHugh/Elizabeth Storm (Independent) |
0.0
|
2,843 | 0 | |
 
| Mark Charles/Adrian Wallace (Independent) |
0.0
|
2,662 | 0 | |
 | Sheila Tittle (multiple running mates) (Independent) |
0.0
|
1,806 | 0 | |
| Connie Gammon/Phil Collins (Independent) |
0.0
|
1,475 | 0 | |
| J.R. Myers/Tiara Lusk (Life and Liberty) |
0.0
|
1,372 | 0 | |
 
| Tom Hoefling/Andy Prior (Independent) |
0.0
|
1,241 | 0 | |
| H. Brooke Paige/Thomas Witman (Grumpy Old Patriots) |
0.0
|
1,175 | 0 | |
 
| Christopher Lafontaine/Michael Speed (Independent) |
0.0
|
856 | 0 | |
 | Kyle Kenley Kopitke (multiple running mates) (Independent) |
0.0
|
815 | 0 | |
| Ricki Sue King/Dayna Chandler (Genealogy Know Your Family History Party) |
0.0
|
546 | 0 | |
 
| Princess Khadijah Maryam Jacob-Fambro/Khadijah Maryam Jacob Sr. (Independent) |
0.0
|
497 | 0 | |
 
| Blake Huber/Frank Atwood (Approval Voting Party) |
0.0
|
409 | 0 | |
| Joseph Kishore/Norissa Santa Cruz (Socialist Equality Party) |
0.0
|
317 | 0 | |
| Richard Duncan/Mitch Bupp (Independent) |
0.0
|
213 | 0 | |
|
| Jordan Marc Scott/Jennifer Tepool (Independent) |
0.0
|
175 | 0 | |
 
| Gary Swing/David Olszta (Boiling Frog) |
0.0
|
141 | 0 | |
|
| Keith McCormic/Sam Blasiak (Bull Moose) |
0.0
|
126 | 0 | |
|
| Zachary Scalf/Matthew Lyda (Independent) |
0.0
|
29 | 0 | |
| Other write-in votes |
0.1
|
183,207 | 0 | ||
 |
Total votes: 158,402,026
0 states have not been called. |
2018
General election
General election for Governor of New York
Incumbent Andrew Cuomo defeated Marcus Molinaro, Howie Hawkins, Larry Sharpe, and Stephanie Miner in the general election for Governor of New York on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Andrew Cuomo (D / Working Families Party / Independence Party / Women's Equality Party) | 59.6 | 3,635,340 |
 | Marcus Molinaro (R / Conservative Party / Tax Revolt Party)  | 36.2 | 2,207,602 | |
| Howie Hawkins (G) | 1.7 | 103,946 | |
 | Larry Sharpe (L) | 1.6 | 95,033 | |
 | Stephanie Miner (Serve America Movement Party) | 0.9 | 55,441 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 7,115 | ||
| Total votes: 6,104,477 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of New York
Incumbent Andrew Cuomo defeated Cynthia Nixon in the Democratic primary for Governor of New York on September 13, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andrew Cuomo | 65.5 | 1,021,160 |
 | Cynthia Nixon | 34.5 | 537,192 | |
| Total votes: 1,558,352 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Greg Waltman (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Marcus Molinaro advanced from the Republican primary for Governor of New York.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John DeFrancisco (R)
- Pankaj Shah (R)
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Marcus Molinaro advanced from the Conservative Party primary for Governor of New York.
Green primary election
The Green primary election was canceled. Howie Hawkins advanced from the Green primary for Governor of New York.
Reform Party primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joel Giambra (Reform Party)
2016
Hawkins was a 2016 Green Party candidate for vice president of the United States. He was on the ticket with Jill Stein in Minnesota.
2014
- See also: New York gubernatorial election, 2014
Hawkins ran for election to the office of Governor of New York. Hawkins secured the Green nomination on May 17, 2014.[7]The general election took place on November 4, 2014.
Results
General election
| Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Andrew Cuomo/Kathy Hochul Incumbent |
54.3% | 2,069,480 | |
| Republican | Rob Astorino/Chris Moss | 40.3% | 1,536,879 | |
| Green | Howie Hawkins/Brian Jones | 4.8% | 184,419 | |
| Libertarian | Michael McDermott/Chris Edes | 0.4% | 16,967 | |
| Sapient | Steven Cohn/Bobby K. Kalotee | 0.1% | 4,963 | |
| Total Votes | 3,812,708 | |||
| Election results via New York State Board of Elections | ||||
2010
Hawkins faced Andrew Cuomo (D), Carl P. Paladino (R), Warren Redlich (L) and six other candidates in the general election on November 2, 2010.[8]
| New York Governor/Lt. Governor, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Andrew Cuomo/Robert Duffy |
61% | 2,910,876 | |
| Republican | Carl Paladino/Gregory Edwards | 32.5% | 1,547,857 | |
| Green | Howie Hawkins/Gloria Mattera | 1.3% | 59,906 | |
| Rent is 2 Damn High | Jimmy McMillan/No candidate | 0.9% | 41,129 | |
| Libertarian | Warren Redlich/Alden Link | 1% | 48,359 | |
| Anti-Prohibition | Kristin Davis/Tanya Gendelman | 0.4% | 20,421 | |
| Freedom | Charles Barron/Eva Doyle | 0.5% | 24,571 | |
| Blank | - | 2.3% | 107,823 | |
| Void | - | 0.1% | 3,963 | |
| Scattering | - | 0.1% | 4,836 | |
| Total Votes | 4,769,741 | |||
| Election results via New York State Board of Elections | ||||
2002
On November 5, 2002, Alan G. Hevesi won election to the office of New York Comptroller. He defeated John Faso (R), Garifalia Christea (RTL), Howie Hawkins (G) and James Eisert (L) in the general election.
| New York Comptroller, 2002 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Alan G. Hevesi Incumbent |
50.4% | 2,095,913 | |
| Republican | John Faso | 46.5% | 1,933,104 | |
| Right to Life | Garifalia Christea | 1.5% | 61,464 | |
| Green | Howie Hawkins | 1.1% | 47,771 | |
| Libertarian | James Eisert | 0.5% | 19,235 | |
| Total Votes | 4,157,487 | |||
| Election results via New York Board of Elections. | ||||
Campaign themes
2020
Howie Hawkins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hawkins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I'm Howie Hawkins, the original Green New Dealer. I was the first US candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010.
I was active in “The Movement” for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam in the 1960s as a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area. When my draft number was called in 1972, I enlisted in the Marine Corps while continuing to organize against the Vietnam War. I am a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
In 1984, I was one of the co-founders of the Green Party. As the Green Party’s candidate for governor of New York in 2010, 2014, and 2018, each time I received enough votes to qualify the Green Party for a ballot line for the next four years.
After studying at Dartmouth College, I worked in construction in the 1970s and 1980s. I helped organize a worker cooperative that specialized in energy efficiency and solar and wind installations.
I was a co-founder of the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976. I was also a leader in the anti-apartheid divestment movement to end US corporate investment in the racist system of oppression and labor exploitation in South Africa.
I moved to Syracuse in 1991 to develop cooperatives for CommonWorks.
From 2001 to 2018, I worked as a Teamster unloading trucks at UPS. Now retired, I remain a supporter of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, US Labor Against the War, the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare, the Labor Network for Sustainability, and the Labor Notes network.
Economic Bill of Rights with Medicare For All to Address Inequality, and an Ecosocialist Green New Deal to Avoid a Climate Catastrophe.
Community Control of the Police.
Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Initiatives to End the New Nuclear Arms Race
Our campaign's two major policies include the Economic Bill of Rights and the Ecosocialist Green New Deal.
Unbought: No campaign funding from for-profit special interests.
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Howie Hawkins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hawkins' responses.
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
1. Sign the NY Health Act for universal single-payer health care. 2. Sign the NY Off Fossil Fuels Act for 100% clean energy by 2030. 3. Tax the rich to fund infrastructure repair and upgrades: MTA, NYCHA, roads and bridges, water and sewer systems.
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?
1. Addressing the climate emergency. If we don't mourn a World War II scale mobilization to build a clean energy system and restore carbon-sequestering soils and forests to achieve negative greenhouse gas emissions, nothing else will matter as runaway global warming and climate catastrophe impoverishes the world and threatens our survival. 2. Reversing the growing concentration of income, wealth, and power in the hands of the 1%. We need a democratic socialism where economic democracy is the foundation for real political democracy, where workers receive the full fruits of their labor and no one lives off the labor of others, and where basic economic rights to useful work, an income above poverty, a decent home, comprehensive health care, and a good education are secured by public provision as a human rights and social goods.
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
The members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were my political mentors. They didn't substitute their own views for the people they organized. They organized people to act and speak for themselves for civil and politics rights and economic justice. That is how we will win real political and economic democracy.
Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?
Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism
What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?
Honesty. Transparency. Accessibility.
What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?
Persistence. Understanding of our social and environmental problems.
What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?
Hard work. Follow through on campaign platform.
What legacy would you like to leave?
The Green Party as a party of the working people independent of the two-party system of corporate rule.
What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?
When I was five years old, I learned that my half-Japanese cousins in Virginia would be sent to the colored school while my white cousins would be sent to the white school. I just thought that was wrong, stupid, and had to be changed.
What was your very first job? How long did you have it?
Working as a busboy, food server, and short order cook in several restaurants while in high school.
What happened on your most awkward date?
She stood me up.
What is your favorite holiday? Why?
4th of July because, at its best, it celebrates the ideals in the Declaration of Independence, that we are all created equal with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is your favorite book? Why?
Huck Finn by Mark Twain because of Huck's independent mindedness and it's satiric exposé of American racism.
If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?
Gideon Jackson in Howard Fast's Freedom Road. The prosperous community of freed slaves and poor whites he led during Radical Reconstruction was destroyed in the end by Ku Klux Klan terrorists sponsored by aristocratic plantation owners. That is basically what happened across the South to destroy Reconstruction and restore government of, by, and for rich white people. But the fight for Radical Reconstruction was righteous and I would have wanted to be a part of it.
What is your favorite thing in your home or apartment? Why?
My library of 10,000 books.
What was the last song that got stuck in your head?
RESPECT by Aretha Franklin
What is something that has been a struggle in your life?
Buying books faster than I can read them.
A governor is the top executive authority in his or her state. What does that mean do you?
A governor should use the powers of the office to help the masses of people, not the wealthy special interests who now benefit from government action at the expense of the people.
Governors have many responsibilities, which vary from state to state. Which of those do you personally consider the most important in your state?
Proposing the state budget, which embodies the state's policy priorities.
Different states require governors to have different degrees of responsibility for the state budgeting process. If it were your choice, what do you believe is the appropriate degree of gubernatorial involvement with this process in your state?
The governor should propose a budget and let the legislature consider through regular order. The infamous "three men in a room" determine the budget should end. Make the process more open and give all the legislators more say.
In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?
The Governor of New York has line item veto power. It is mostly used to clean up mistakes in the enacted budget, like appropriations for programs that have ended, but also to veto legislative policy priorities. I oppose the line item veto. It gives the governor too much power. Mistakes can be corrected by the legislature at the governor's request. There would be fewer mistakes in the budget if the legislature were included from the beginning instead of being handed a budget at the last minute determined behind closed doors by the three men in a room.
If the governor's office in your state does not have the line-item veto power, do you believe it should? Why or why not?
The New York governor does have the line item veto. I is mostly used to clean up the budget enacted, e.g., appropriations for programs that no longer function. I believe the line item veto gives the governor too much power. The budget mistakes such as appropriation for programs that no longer exist should corrected through the legislative process, preferable before or otherwise after the budget is adopted. The budget wouldn't have so many mistakes if the legislature was fully included from early in the process instead of the three men in a room giving the legislature a budget at the last minute before the deadline.
What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?
Collaborative.
What do you love most about your state?
Ethnic diversity.
What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?
Climate action and reducing economic exploitation and inequality.
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See also
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- Governor of New York
- New York gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018
- New York gubernatorial election, 2014
- New York gubernatorial election, 2010
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Governor of New York
- Official campaign website
- Campaign Facebook page
- Howie Hawkins on Twitter
Footnotes
- ↑ Green Party, "Hawkins Announces," May 28, 2019
- ↑ Green Party, "Greenline August 2019," August 28, 2019
- ↑ Green Party, "Media Advisory - Green Party of the U.S. Presidential Nominating Convention," July 6, 2020
- ↑ Syracuse.com, "Syracuse’s Howie Hawkins is the Green Party’s presidential candidate," July 11, 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Green Party, "How to Seek the 2020 Green Presidential Nomination," accessed October 21, 2019
- ↑ The New York Times, "Green Party, Eyeing the 2020 Presidential Race, Prepares for the Midterms," August 1, 2018
- ↑ wcdonews, "P.M. NEWS MONDAY 5-19-14," May 19, 2014
- ↑ New York State Board of Elections, "NYS Board of Elections Governor/Lt. Governor Election Returns November 2, 2010," accessed December 22, 2010
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