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Joe Schriner | |
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.jpg) Schriner participating in a presidential debate for the nomination of the American Solidarity Party in 2019 | |
| Born | Joseph Charles Shriner (1955-03-03)March 3, 1955 (age 70) |
| Years active | 2000-Current |
| Known for | United States presidential campaigns Christian democracy |
| Political party | American Solidarity Party (2019–) Independent (before 2019) |
Joseph Charles Schriner (born March 3, 1955) is anAmericanpolitical activist and journalist. Schriner has run forthe United States presidency insix consecutive election cycles spanning from 2000 to 2020.[1] AdvocatingChristian democratic policies, he has primarily run as anindependent candidate, until the 2020 presidential election when he sought theAmerican Solidarity Party nomination instead.[2][3][4] Schriner's political views largely revolve aroundCatholic Social Teaching.[5] He also ran as aRepublican during the early portions of the 2000 and 2016 presidential election cycles.[6] He also vied unsuccessfully for theGreen Party presidential nomination during the 2008 election cycle.[7]
Schriner has been referred to as "average Joe" in the media.[8] He is also sometimes referred to as "Joe the Painter."[9] He is currently self-employed as ahouse painter.[10]
Joe Schriner was born on March 3, 1955, inCleveland, Ohio.[11] In 1973, he graduated fromBay Village High School, where he was the starting quarterback on thejunior varsity football team.[12]
Schriner spent his freshman year atBluffton College inOhio. After taking a year off from school to work, he transferred toBowling Green State University. He majored in journalism, wrote forBG News, and completed aninternship as areporter on Ohio'sTroy Daily News.[13] Schriner earned aBachelor of Arts injournalism from Bowling Green State University in 1978.[14]
Schriner began his career as ajournalist after college for theSandusky Register. Schriner left theRegister after two years.[15]
In 1983, Schriner began working at a halfway house inLorain as adrug and alcoholism counselor. The halfway house was a 90-day treatment program run operated by the Lorain County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (LCCADA). During the next two years, Schriner pursued seminar studies to become a drug and alcoholism counselor.[16]
Schriner declared his first run forU.S. President with a speech at theLiberty Bell inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 30, 1999.[17] He initially declared as aRepublican candidate, but then switched toindependent afterGeorge W. Bush won theRepublican Primaries.[18] Schriner ran again in 2004, 2008, and 2012.[19]
Schriner declared his 2016 candidacy in apodcast on the home page of his official campaignwebsite.[20] 2016 marked his fifth consecutive run for president.[21]
Schriner announced he would run in the2020 United States presidential election as anAmerican Solidarity Party candidate. He lost the nomination toBrian T. Carroll.[3][4][22] He continued to run as an independent.[23]
Schriner sought the nomination of theAmerican Solidarity Party for a second time[24] Peter Sonski would defeat him In the primary[25]
Schriner resides inSteubenville, Ohio.[26] He and his wife Liz have three children.[27] Schriner met his wife, a native ofNew Zealand, inHomer, Alaska.[28] He isCatholic.
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