Electoral Campaigns
Socialist Action has run candidates for elected office on a number of occasions. It views electoral campaigns as a way to promote socialist politics, as well as to advocate on behalf of issues that the organization is promoting. As a result of legal challenges, Socialist Action does not have to disclose who the financial supporters of its election campaigns are because of demonstrable government harassment of past socialist candidates.
Socialist Action is the only Trotskyist group in the U.S. that has gotten a member elected to public office. SA member Adam Ritscher was elected to the Douglas County Board of Supervisors in Northern Wisconsin in April 2006. Other examples of Socialist Action election campaigns are Jeff Mackler's 2006 write-in campaign for U.S. Senate in Northern California and Sylvia Weinstein's 1988 campaign for San Francisco Board of Education, in which she won 21,000 votes. In 2010, Socialist Action ran Christopher Hutchinson for the Connecticut's 1st congressional district. Hutchinson gained 955 votes or 0,42%.
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