Bill Van Auken

Bill Van Auken

Bill Van Auken (born 1950) is a politician and activist for the Socialist Equality Party and was a presidential candidate in the U.S. election of 2004, announcing his candidacy on January 27, 2004. His running mate was Jim Lawrence. He came in 15th for the popular vote, receiving 1,857 votes. [http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2004/federalelections2004.pdf] In November 2006, Van Auken ran for the United States Senate seat held by Hillary Clinton [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/elec-m212.shtml] . He finished in fifth place, with 11,071 votes [http://www.elections.state.ny.us/NYSBOE/elections/2006/general/2006_ussen.pdf]

Van Auken is a full time reporter for the World Socialist Web Site, and resides in New York City.

ee also

*New York United States Senate election, 2006
*United States presidential election, 2004 (detail)

External links

* [http://wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/stat-j27.shtml Socialist Equality Party announces US presidential campaign]
* [http://www.socialequality.com/ Socialist Equality Party site]
* [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/kerr-a24.shtml Kerry’s dilemma: defending medals from a criminal war - article by Van Auken, including some of his own biographical details]


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