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Howie Hawkins
Howie Hawkins (born December 8, 1952) is an American politician and activist with the Green Party of the United States. In the years 1993 to 2015, Hawkins ran for public office 20 times, as he sought offices ranging from the Syracuse Common Council to the U.S. Senate; he has never won an election.〔O'Brien, John (November 3, 2015) ("Syracuse auditor: Marty Masterpole beats Howie Hawkins." ) Syracuse.com. (Retrieved 11-15-2015).〕
He was New York's Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in the State of New York in 2006. During the 2008 Green Party primaries Hawkins served as a placeholder candidate for Ralph Nader on some 2008 Green Party primary ballots, until Nader announced his intentions for the 2008 election. In 2009, he received 41 percent of the vote as the Green Party candidate for 4th District Common Councilor in Syracuse, New York. In 2010 Hawkins ran as the Green Party's candidate for 2010 Governor of New York and restored ballot status for the party by receiving more than the necessary 50,000 votes.〔 ''The New York Times''〕〔Mariani, John (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/hawkins_votes_for_governor_boo.html ) ''The Post Standard'', November 3, 2010〕 On April 9, 2014, Hawkins announced his second campaign for Governor of New York.〔Seiler, Casey ''Capitol Confidential'', April 9, 2014〕 The Green party under Hawkins in 2014 received 5 percent of the vote which moves the party up to line D for the next four years surpassing the Working Families and Independence parties. In May of 2015, Hawkins announced he would run for City Auditor and that the election would be a "voters' audit of the city auditor," Marty Masterpole.〔Breidenbach, Michelle ''Syracuse.com '', May 18, 2015〕
==Early life and career==
Born in San Francisco, California in 1952, Hawkins was raised in a multi-racial neighborhood in nearby San Mateo. He became politically active at the age of 12, when he witnessed the multiracial Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was denied recognition at the 1964 Democratic Convention. He eventually began protesting against the Vietnam War, the military draft, and racial discrimination. After graduating from Burlingame High School, he attended Dartmouth College. Hawkins worked as a carpenter, logger, and cooperative business developer. He was a co-developer and co-owner of a construction workers cooperative that specialized in solar and wind energy systems.
Hawkins came to Syracuse in 1991 to be Director of CommonWorks, a federation of cooperatives working for a cooperatively owned and ecologically sustainable economy. For the last decade, Hawkins has worked as a truck unloader at UPS, where he is a member of Teamsters Local 317 and active in the national Teamster rank-and-file reform caucus, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, as well as US Labor Against the War and the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.
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