Howard Gresham Hawkins III was born on December 8,1952 and is an American trade unionist, environmental activist, and perennial candidate from New York.
49 Facts About Howie Hawkins
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Howie Hawkins has played leading roles in anti-war, anti-nuclear, and pro-worker movements since the 1960s.
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Howie Hawkins is a retired teamster and construction worker; from 2001 until his retirement in 2017, Howie Hawkins worked the night shift unloading trucks for UPS.
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Howie Hawkins has run for various offices on twenty-five occasions, all unsuccessfully.
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Howie Hawkins was New York's Green Party candidate for the US Senate in 2006.
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In 2010, Howie Hawkins ran as the Green Party's candidate for Governor of New York, which restored ballot status for the party when it received more than the necessary 50,000 votes.
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In 2014, Howie Hawkins ran again for the same office and received five percent of the vote.
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Howie Hawkins ran for Mayor of Syracuse in 2017 and received four percent of votes.
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Howie Hawkins then ran a third time for Governor of New York in 2018 but received less than two percent of the vote.
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Howie Hawkins was the Green Party nominee for governor of New York in 2022, running as a write-in candidate after changes to ballot access laws prevented him from being the ballot.
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Howie Hawkins failed to win, as the Democratic incumbent, Kathy Hochul, beat Republican Lee Zeldin in the narrow race.
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Howie Hawkins was born in San Francisco, California, in 1952, and raised in nearby San Mateo, California.
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Howie Hawkins grew up in a diverse neighborhood in the city near the Bayshore Freeway, which had seen a large influx of migrants from the southern United States, both black and white: Hawkins has credited his southern-inflected accent as being a result of this.
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Howie Hawkins's father was an attorney who was a football and wrestling student-athlete at the University of Chicago and served in the counter-intelligence unit for the US Army's Manhattan Project during World War II.
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Howie Hawkins became politically active at the age of 12, when he saw how the multiracial Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was denied recognition at the 1964 Democratic Convention.
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Howie Hawkins was never granted a degree because he did not complete the foreign language requirement.
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Howie Hawkins was never ordered back to active duty after completing boot camp.
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That same year Howie Hawkins campaigned for Bernie Sanders, then the Liberty Union Party candidate for senate and governor of Vermont.
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In 1973, Howie Hawkins joined Socialist Party USA, a membership which has continued to the present day.
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In 1976, Howie Hawkins was one of the co-founders of the Clamshell Alliance which was an anti-nuclear power organization aimed at stopping its use in New England.
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Later in December 1999, Mike Feinstein and Howie Hawkins wrote the Plan for a Single National Green Party which was the plan to organize the ASGP and GPUSA into a single Green Party.
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In 2012 Howie Hawkins was approached over the possibility of running for the Green Party nomination, but declined due to his employment commitments at UPS forcing him to campaign for offices in New York at most and would interfere with a national campaign.
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Howie Hawkins was accidentally listed on ballots in Minnesota as the Green Party candidate for vice president, along with Jill Stein for president in the 2016 general election.
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In 1993, Howie Hawkins favored anarcho-communism as well as libertarian municipalism, as the "best way of integrating worker's control and community control in a process of social change that ultimately yields in a marketless, moneyless, stateless cooperative commonwealth".
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Howie Hawkins was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Howie Hawkins disagrees with the "party-within-the-party" approach to the Democratic Party advocated by organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America or by individuals such as Bernie Sanders.
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Howie Hawkins became the first politician to include the Green New Deal in their election platform when he ran for Governor of New York in 2010.
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Howie Hawkins was the Green Party of New York's candidate for the United States Senate in the state of New York.
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In 2008, Howie Hawkins ran for the United States House of Representatives in New York's 25th congressional district on the Green Populist line.
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Howie Hawkins won 9,483 votes, losing to Democrat Dan Maffei by 147,892 votes.
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In May 2010, Howie Hawkins was nominated to run for Governor of New York as the Green Party candidate.
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Howie Hawkins's campaign was supported by the Socialist Party of New York.
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On November 2,2010, Howie Hawkins received nearly 60,000 votes, allowing the Green Party of New York to be listed on the ballot for the next four years.
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In December 2010, Howie Hawkins was named co-chair of the newly recognized Green Party of New York.
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Howie Hawkins announced his candidacy for 4th District Common Councilor in Syracuse in September 2011, running as a Green Party candidate.
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Howie Hawkins received endorsements from the Syracuse Post Standard, UNITE HERE Local 150, and the Greater Syracuse Labor Council.
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Howie Hawkins planned to sponsor resolutions for state tax code reforms to require more from the state's wealthiest, and to share more revenues with cities.
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On May 20,2013, Howie Hawkins announced that he would again run for 4th District Common Councilor in Syracuse.
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On October 16,2013, Howie Hawkins published a fiscal position paper with mayoral candidate Kevin Bott focused on a new scaled local income tax, and the role of the state in the fiscal crisis in Syracuse.
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Howie Hawkins lost the election to Democrat Bey by a vote of 1,471 to 995.
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In 2015, Howie Hawkins ran for Syracuse City Auditor against incumbent Marty Masterpole.
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In 2017, Howie Hawkins ran for Mayor of Syracuse as a Green Party candidate to replace outgoing mayor Stephanie Miner.
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Howie Hawkins and running mate Jia Lee received 95,716 votes.
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In 2012 Howie Hawkins was approached over the possibility of running for the Green Party nomination, but declined due to his employment commitments at UPS forcing him to campaign for offices in New York at most and would interfere with a national campaign.
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On October 26,2019, Howie Hawkins won the nomination of the Socialist Party USA in his effort to unite smaller left-wing parties together.
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On May 5,2020, Howie Hawkins selected Angela Walker as his running mate.
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On July 11,2020, Howie Hawkins was chosen as the Green Party's nominee for the 2020 US presidential election.
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Howie Hawkins's platform includes the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, a federal jobs guarantee, a $20 minimum wage and a guaranteed minimum income.
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Howie Hawkins had received 407,068 votes of the popular vote, and 0 electoral votes.