|
Affiliation | Democratic |
|
|
2000-01-01 |
|
|
Name | Caroline P. Killeen |
Address | Tucson, Arizona , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
Born |
00, 1926
|
Died | December 00, 2014
(88 years)
|
Contributor | 411 Name Removed |
Last Modifed | Mr. Matt Aug 28, 2021 07:52pm |
Tags |
Caucasian - Single - Catholic - Christian - Celibate - Lesbian -
|
Info | Caroline P. Killeen
Flagstaff, Arizona
Democrat
Age 70 "The Hemp Lady"
"Killeen up the earth"
A former Roman Catholic nun from Arizona, Caroline ran against U.S. Senator Dennis DeConcini in 1982 and for Governor in 1994. An acre of hemp produces oxygen equivalent to four acres of most other plants which, she said, is good for the environment, and marijuana which has medicinal benefits. It's time, she believed, to "bring hemp out of the closet' "
Unmatched as a true grass roots campaigner, traveling always by bicycle, she pedaled across the United States at least ten times over the last @ years. This taught her so much about America's demographics, being out there with Americana, that it became her lifestyle. She slept in fields, in churches, in college dormitories and homeless shelters, while "@g to look presidential."
"They used to call me a Bohemian years ago, a happy camper. But now, when you're out there in sleeping bag and traveling, they call me homeless."
She had a hemp plant adorning her bumper sticker to tout the "re-legalization of marijuana." Though she pushed mainly environmental themes since her first presidential bid in 1976, the controversial candidate said she was anti-gay rights, calling her own lesbian tendencies "a curse" that one must sublimate "until there is a religious pronouncement on it."
Touting marijuana's medicinal and recreational benefits, she aimed her message at New Hampshire high school and college students. She would lower the drinking age and promote smokers' rights. "Let Clinton inhale, legalize marijuana," was the bumper sticker she peddled statewide at $2 apiece, to finance her fifth bid for the Democratic presidential nod. She also used her Social Security check to help raise the $ 1,000 filing fee. "Willie's a wash and Perot's a horses you-know-what," she said. "How could I not try again?"
In late January of 1996, during a record-breaking snowfall winter, our pro-cannabis candidate wore out her welcome at Phi Psi Panarchy, an undergraduate society residence at Dartmouth College in Hanover. House members were forced to call the police after several days of unsuccessful efforts to get Killeen to leave. One night of hospitality turned into two, then three. By then she had acquired a dog and became very upset when house members insisted she depart. Panarchy's experience is "not untypical of Caroline," said a person who knew her. "She does that quite a lot. She settles in and moves her stuff in and then doesn't want to move on." She did move on finally, to a homeless shelter in Manchester, which became the centerpoint of her final weeks campaign.
Killeen received 96 votes in 1992; 393 votes in 1996.
[Link] |
| BOOKS |
|
|
Title |
Purchase |
Contributor |
|
Start Date |
End Date |
Type |
Title |
Contributor |
|
Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
| INFORMATION LINKS |
|
|
|