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  Diamondstone, Peter I.
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AffiliationLiberty Union   
NamePeter I. Diamondstone
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Brattleboro, Vermont , United States
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Born December 19, 1934
Died August 30, 2017 (83 years)
ContributorJoshua L.
Last ModifedRBH
May 10, 2019 12:47pm
Tags Atheist -
InfoPeter Isaac Diamondstone
Born in New York City
BA Queen's College 1957
JD University of Chicago 1960
Attorney, business owner

We provide a unique service to voters. We owe it to them to provide candidates that offer a socialist alternative. That seems to me to be the principal purpose for socialists to use the political process. Electoral politics is never the leading edge of change. Electoral politics is not useful for seeking elective power to create change. Electoral politics is not a useful medium through which to "educate" anyone, except, perhaps, ourselves,--those who vote, and those who do not, mostly know what we know, even if survival needs compel them to deny and reject their knowledge.


But in that supposedly secret place where employers, police, co-workers, drinking buddies, Elks, Rotarians, clergy & congregation, Chambers of Commerce leaders, etc., cannot intrude, we (socialist candidates) give voters the opportunity to allow their suppressed knowledge to surface, even for those few seconds it takes to pull the lever or make the "x." And it is important that we make those opportunities consistently available so that voters consistently experience, year after year, a moment of truth until it becomes a moment of self realization about human nature, quite different from that ground into us by every institution of capitalism. And at that moment, it may become impossible for the departing voters to permit the voting booth curtain to resuppress what they already know. Comradely,
Peter Diamondstone


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  11/08/2016 VT US Senate Lost 1.03% (-60.23%)
  08/09/2016 VT US Senate - PRG Primary Lost 3.67% (-48.16%)
  11/04/2014 VT Governor Lost 0.87% (-45.49%)
  08/26/2014 VT Governor - LBU Primary Won 89.26% (+78.52%)
  11/06/2012 VT US Senate Lost 0.86% (-70.17%)
  10/15/2011 Socialist Party USA National Committee- Male Members Lost 1.20% (-10.40%)
  11/02/2010 VT US Senate Lost 0.61% (-63.72%)
  10/10/2009 Socialist Party USA National Committee- Male Members Lost 3.53% (-5.88%)
  11/04/2008 VT Governor Lost 0.54% (-52.90%)
  10/21/2007 Socialist Party USA National Committee- Male Members Lost 6.05% (-3.23%)
  11/07/2006 VT US Senate Lost 0.31% (-65.10%)
  10/22/2005 Socialist Party USA National Committee- Male Members Lost 2.24% (-6.72%)
  11/02/2004 VT Governor Lost 0.42% (-58.28%)
  09/14/2004 VT Governor - PRG Primary Lost 27.90% (-27.17%)
  11/05/2002 VT Governor Lost 0.27% (-44.67%)
  09/10/2002 VT Governor - PRG Primary Lost 23.97% (-30.19%)
  11/07/2000 VT At-Large Lost 5.26% (-63.95%)
  09/12/2000 VT At-Large - D Primary Won 90.94% (+85.02%)
  11/03/1998 VT At-Large Lost 1.00% (-62.40%)
  09/08/1998 VT At-Large - R Primary Lost 17.46% (-30.98%)
  09/08/1998 VT At-Large - D Primary Lost 10.15% (-37.73%)
  11/05/1996 VT At-Large Lost 0.77% (-54.46%)
  11/08/1994 VT Attorney General Lost 5.52% (-81.61%)
  11/03/1992 VT At-Large Lost 1.30% (-56.48%)
  11/06/1990 VT At-Large Lost 0.94% (-55.06%)
  09/11/1990 VT At-Large - D Primary Lost 39.42% (-1.85%)
  11/08/1988 VT At-Large Lost 0.61% (-40.60%)
  11/04/1986 VT At-Large Lost 3.74% (-85.39%)
  11/06/1984 VT At-Large Lost 2.15% (-63.27%)
  11/02/1982 VT At Large Lost 1.69% (-67.53%)
  11/04/1980 VT At-Large Lost 7.82% (-71.42%)
  11/07/1978 VT At-Large Lost 5.40% (-69.86%)
  11/02/1976 VT Attorney General Lost 4.23% (-48.94%)
  09/10/1974 VT At-Large - D Primary Lost 6.27% (-35.10%)
  11/07/1972 VT Attorney General Lost 3.36% (-54.52%)
  09/12/1972 VT Attorney General - R Primary Lost 6.07% (-27.54%)
  11/03/1970 VT Attorney General Lost 1.34% (-56.48%)
  09/08/1970 VT Attorney General - D Primary Lost 32.79% (-34.18%)
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US President - D Primaries - Jun 11, 1968 D Eugene J. "Gene" McCarthy
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