Arizona Americans Elect Party Leaders Travel to New York for Convention of State Americans Elect Parties

NEW YORK, May 31 --

The leaders of the Arizona Americans Elect Party, the state's fastest-growing ballot-qualified party, today traveled to New York City for the first Convention of State Americans Elect Parties, meeting their counterparts in the eleven other states where the Americans Elect Party will be on the ballot in 2014: California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Speakers at the gathering will include Peter Ackerman, chairman of the Americans Elect Corporation, a nonprofit corporate entity, and chairman of Rockport Capital Inc.; outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent; the best-selling authors and activists Sister Souljah and Tao Lin; and officials and directors of the D.C.-based Americans Elect Corporation, including Kahlil Byrd, Chief Executive Officer; Elliot L. Ackerman, Chief Operating Officer; Joshua S. Levine, Chief Technology Officer; and Sarah Malm, Chief Communications Officer.

Issues to be discussed are the relationships between the state Americans Elect political parties, such as the one in Arizona, which ran two candidates for Congress in 2012 and which is running candidates for other federal and state political offices in 2014, and the national Americans Elect Corporation; state and national leadership of any coalition of state Americans Elect political parties; and federal and state campaign rules and funding.

The Arizona Americans Elect Party delegation consists of party leader Trey Young; treasurer Irina Tereshkova; first vice-chairwoman Buffy Lehman Auchincloss; artistic director Richard Grayson; Maricopa County co-chair Jaden Parascandola; and Pima County co-chair Elana de Carvajal.

"We're quite excited to meet people from the national Americans Elect movement and those in other states like California and New Mexico where individuals and groups also hope to be running Americans Elect candidates for public office next year," said Dr. Tereshkova.

The Convention of State Americans Elect Parties takes place today, May 31, and this weekend, June 1 and 2, at the Hotel Gansevoort in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.

Arizona Americans Elect Party Endorses President Obama; Carmona for Senator; Dolgos, Grayson, Grijalva, Barber, Cobb, Kirkpatrick, Salazar, Sinema and Morgan for Congress; Pout, Gohl and Meadows for Corporation Commission

MESA, Ariz., Oct. 21 -

Today the Arizona Americans Elect Party announced its endorsements in the races for President and Congress, as well as for three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Richard Grayson, Supreme Leader of the Arizona Americans Elect Party and an endorsed candidate for Congress in the Fourth District, announced the endorsement at the party's secret headquarters in Mesa.  

"I'm proud to endorse the entire Arizona Americans Elect Party slate, from President Obama and Rich Carmona for U.S. Senator, as well as our candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives," Grayson said.  "Although only Stephen Dolgos in the Eighth Congressional District and I are running officially on the Americans Elect Party, we are cross-endorsing candidates of other parties for the other congressional seats."

The Arizona Americans Elect Party endorses the following candidates in 2012:

President/Vice President: Barack Obama/Joseph Biden (Democrat)
U.S. Senator: Richard Carmona (Democrat)
U.S. House, District 1: Ann Kirkpatrick (Democrat)
U.S. House, District 2: Ron Barber (Democrat)
U.S. House, District 3: Raul Grijalva (Democrat)
U.S. House, District 4: Richard Grayson (Americans Elect)
U.S. House, District 5: Spencer Morgan (Democrat)
U.S. House, District 6: Mark Salazar (Green)
U.S. House, District 7: Joe Cobb (Libertarian)
U.S. House, District 8: Stephen Dolgos (Americans Elect)
U.S. House, District 9: Kyrsten Sinema (Democrat)
Arizona Corporation Commission: Daniel Pout (Green), Christopher Gohl (Libertarian), Thomas Meadows (Green)

Unofficial Statewide and Federal Results of Arizona Americans Elect Party Primary; Stephen Dologos in AZ-08 to be First Americans Elect Party Nominee for Congress in U.S.A.

MESA, Ariz., Aug. 29 - 

Stephen Dolgos of New River will become the first Americans Elect Party nominee for Congress on the November ballot in Arizona's Eighth Congressional District, following yesterday's Arizona Americans Elect Party primary. 

Dolgos won his primary and will be running against evil Rep. Trent Franks (Republican) and nonentity Gene Scharer (Democrat). The Americans Elect Party will await the official results, due in two weeks, to see if any of its write-in candidates also made the November ballot.  Richard Grayson of Apache Junction ran as a write-in candidate in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District.  [Sept. 10 update: the Arizona Secretary of State's office has announced that Grayson has won the Americans Elect Party nomination with eleven votes in the 4th C.D.]

"Over 360 voters Arizonans chose to cast their primary votes in the Arizona Americans Elect Party primary yesterday," said the party's Supreme Leader, Richard Grayson.  "In some races we outpolled the longstanding Green Party, and we're confident of something in the near future, or maybe not."

Here are the unofficial statewide and federal results of the August 28 Arizona Americans Elect Party primary:

 

U.S. Senator

Write-in (AEL) 181 100.00% Total 181

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 1

Write-in (AEL) 37 100.00% Total 37

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 2

Write-in (AEL) 13 100.00% Total 13

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 3

Write-in 16 100.00% Total 16

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 4

Write-in (AEL) 55 100.00% Total 55

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 5

Write-in 10 100.00% Total 10

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 6

Write-in 15 100.00% Total 15

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 7

Write-in 9 100.00% Total 9

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 8

DOLGOS, STEPHEN (AEL) 27 87.10%

Write-in 4 12.90%

Total 31

U.S. Rep. in Congress - Dist. 9

Write-in 17 100.00% Total 17

Corporation Commissioner

Write-in (AEL) 361 100.00% Total 361

Richard Grayson Qualifies as Write-In Candidate for Congress in Americans Elect Party Primary in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District

 
PHOENIX, June 5 -  

Richard Grayson has qualified as a write-in candidate in the Americans Elect Party primary in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District and today was listed on the Arizona Secretary of State website's list of candidates in the August 28 primaries. 

The other candidates, who will be on the ballot, in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District are Democrats Johnnie Robinson and Mikel Weisser; Libertarian Joe Pamelia; and Republicans Paul Gosar, Ron Gould, and Rick Murphy.

Stephen Dolgos Is Arizona Americans Elect Party Candidate for Congress in AZ-08, Running Against Evil Republican Incumbent Trent Franks

MESA, Ariz., May 30 - The Arizona Americans Elect Party today announced that it has its first candidate for Congress to get on the ballot in the August primary and November general election.

Stephen Dolgos of New River submitted enough signatures to qualify as the sole Americans Elect Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in District 8. He will be running against the evil Republican incumbent, Trent Franks, who has recently been trampling on the rights of the citizens of the District of Columbia.