John Wolfe, Jr.

John Wolfe, Jr. ( * April 21, 1954 in Nashville ) is an American lawyer and multiple candidate for political office. He called Barack Obama out in the primaries for the presidential nomination in 2012 in several states.

Life

John Wolfe was born on April 21, 1954 in Nashville. He received his degree in Law he made at the College of Law of the University of Tennessee. He has been a lawyer and lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Policy

Elections to the House of Representatives

Wolfe competed unsuccessfully in 1998 for the nomination of the candidate of the Democrats for the 3rd district for elections to the House of Representatives of the United States. 2002, he joined again for election for the 3rd district, this time as the official candidate of the Democrats. With 34 percent of the vote he lost the election against Zach Wamp - against whom he took up again in 2004 and this time won with 33 % of votes. On August 5, 2010 John Wolfe won the Democratic primary against three other candidates and entered again for election in the 3rd District. He was defeated in the election Chuck Fleischmann with 28 % to 57% of the vote.

Presidential campaign in 2012

On 27 October 2011 John Wolfe stated that he will participate in the primaries for the Democratic presidential nomination, but was regarded as completely hopeless. He advocates for a health care system that is similar to the European and supports the right to abortion. He also proposes the taxation of derivatives, according to bear half of buyers and sellers before.

As of early December 2011 Wolfe campaigned in radio and newspapers for his campaign. Among them was a newspaper ad in which he offered Newt Gingrich $ 10,000 for a public debate on Israel, war, oil, and peace in the Middle East. The display began with: Newt Gingrich says the Palestinians are " invented people. " We think Newt will invent facts. Again. John Wolfe took 19 December 2011, at the lesser known candidates forum at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in part, in which he was also affected due to its location next to Randall Terry of Vermin Supremes Glitter Bomb against Randall Terry partially.

Wolfe occurs only in New Hampshire, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia and Texas. In New Hampshire, he only got 245 votes (0.40 %), so he ended up far behind in 16th place. Quite surprisingly, he got in Louisiana 17,804 votes ( 11.82 %), in some counties, he got more than 20% of the vote. This secured him a minimum of three delegates. Once it became clear that Wolfe could commit at least three delegates to be called for the losing candidate Darcy Richardson removal wolf from the ballot in Texas, due to the lack of statutory disclosure of election expenses which do not bear the requisite of President oath to the Constitution would be compatible.

After moderate success in Louisiana Wolfe received national attention before the primaries in the state of Arkansas by his criticism of Obama's policies. In Arkansas Wolf then reached 42 % of the vote and won several counties - which would have required him theoretically 19 delegates. Overall, commit 23 delegates at Wolfe. The result was commented upon the world as embarrassment for Barack Obama. For formal reasons, among others, because he had failed to be named the delegates before the election, they would not be recognized for the Democratic National Convention. A lawsuit against it was dismissed.

2001 Wolfe lost the mayoral elections in Chattanooga. The election won Bob Corker, John Wolf reached only 2.8 percent of the vote.

In 2007, he won with 33 % of the vote, a special election for a seat in the Senate from Tennessee. He places his campaign finance open correctly, which led to a penalty of $ 10,000 by the Tennessee Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance, and the exclusion of elections in Tennessee until payment of the penalty, which was not done until at least December 2011, the result had.