Parody political candidate
Nobody for President was a parodic campaign for the 1976 United States presidential election ,[1] [2] as well as the 1980, 1984, and 1988 presidential elections.
Wavy Gravy , master of ceremonies for the Woodstock Festival and official clown of the Grateful Dead , is believed to have nominated Nobody at the Yippie national convention outside the Republican National Convention in Kansas City in 1976.[3] [4] [5] Another of those responsible, Arthur Hoppe (a syndicated columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle ) claims to have distributed "several thousand" Nobody for President campaign buttons and to have written "dozens of columns extolling Nobody's virtues."[6] It was the second time the Yippies had nominated an ineligible candidate for the Presidency, following the nomination of a boar named Pigasus eight years prior.
The organizers of the campaign staged a ticker-tape parade down a boulevard in Berkeley, California , with motorcycle police flanking a convertible limousine occupied by nobody.[7] [8] The campaign's slogans included "Because Nobody Is In Washington Right Now, Working For You," "Nobody's Perfect," and "Nobody Should Have Too Much Power."[9] [10]
See also
References
^ Boese, Alex. "Nobody for President" . hoaxes.org.
^ Conliff, Steve (Spring 1977). "Everybody needs nobody sometimes" (PDF) . Open Road.
^ Wavy Gravy (Winter 1988). "20th Anniversary Rendezvous - Wavy Gravy" . WholeEarth.com . Whole Earth Review. Archived from the original on 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2018-03-25 .
^ Bogad, Larry (2005). Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements . London: Taylor & Francis Ltd. p. 32. ISBN 0415332249 .
^ Urgo, Joseph (1991). Novel Frames . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 198 . ISBN 0878055304 .
^ Hoppe, Arthur (1995). Having a Wonderful Time . San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p. 100 . ISBN 081181145X .
^ Sumano, Ajahn (1999). Questions from the City, Answers from the Forest . Wheaton: Quest Books. p. 78. ISBN 0835607747 .
^ *PHOTO: Nobody For President, Curtis Spangler and Wavy Gravy, October 12, 1976 (photo credit: James Stark) HeadCount.org
^ "None". The Economist . Vol. 317, no. 7679–7682. Economist Newspaper Ltd. 1990.
^ Nobody for President.org contains a detailed timeline of these events