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Joe Schriner
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Schriner participating in a presidential debate for the nomination of the American Solidarity Party in 2019
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Born | Joseph Charles Shriner (1955-03-03) March 3, 1955 (age 69) |
Years active | 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 |
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 an American political activist and journalist. Schriner has run for the United States presidencyinsix consecutive election cycles spanning from 2000 to 2020.[1] Advocating Christian democratic policies, he has primarily run as an independent candidate, until the 2020 presidential election when he sought the American Solidarity Party nomination instead.[2][3][4] Schriner's political views largely revolve around Catholic Social Teaching.[5] He also ran as a Republican during the early portions of the 2000 and 2016 presidential election cycles.[6] He also vied unsuccessfully for the Green 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 a house painter.[10]
Joe Schriner was born on March 3, 1955, in Cleveland, Ohio.[11] In 1973, he graduated from Bay Village High School, where he was the starting quarterback on the junior varsity football team.[12]
Schriner spent his freshman year at Bluffton CollegeinOhio. After taking a year off from school to work, he transferred to Bowling Green State University. He majored in journalism, wrote for BG News, and completed an internship as a reporter on Ohio's Troy Daily News.[13] Schriner earned a Bachelor of Artsinjournalism from Bowling Green State University in 1978.[14]
Schriner began his career as a journalist after college for the Sandusky Register. Schriner left the Register after two years.[15]
In 1983, Schriner began working at a halfway house in Lorain as a drug 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 for U.S. President with a speech at the Liberty BellinPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 30, 1999.[17] He initially declared as a Republican candidate, but then switched to independent after George W. Bush won the Republican Primaries.[18] Schriner ran again in 2004, 2008, and 2012.[19]
Schriner declared his 2016 candidacy in a podcast on the home page of his official campaign website.[20] 2016 marked his fifth consecutive run for president.[21]
Schriner announced he would run in the 2020 United States presidential election as an American Solidarity Party candidate. He lost the nomination to Brian T. Carroll.[3][4][22] He continued to run as an independent.[23]
Schriner resides in Steubenville, Ohio.[24] He and his wife Liz have three children.[25] Schriner met his wife, a native of New Zealand, in Homer, Alaska.[26] He is Catholic.
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