Kat Swift (born June 6 1973) is a United States
political activist, former co-chair of the Green Party of Texas, and spokesperson
for the Green Party's National Women’s Caucus. She announced her
intention to seek the 2008 Presidential nomination of the US Green Party at the 2004 Green
Party National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
. She is one of the youngest candidates to
seek the office in 2008, meeting the age requirement of
35-years-old only months before Election Day in 2008.
In 2007, Swift ran for
City Council, District 1 in San Antonio, Texas
finishing second of three candidates with 1,630
votes for 29.48% of the total vote. On July 12, 2008 she
finished third on the single ballot for the party's
presidential nomination with
38 out of 532 delegate votes cast. She later endorsed the winner of
the presidential nomination
Cynthia
McKinney.
Swift is a critic of electronic voting machines, and during a
2008 interview said:"The people must have
precedence over corporations and political machines! Think about
who is counting [votes] and paying for the candidates to run for
office. Are they people who are acting out of duty for an
egalitarian society, justice, and liberty…or are they in it for
other reasons?”
See also
References
- Bexar County election results
- Mikolay, Dennis. "Swift Run for the White House".
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