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from Wikipedia: John Herman Cox (born July 15, 1955) is an American lawyer, accountant, businessman, broadcaster, and aspiring politician. He was the first Republican to seek formally the party's 2008 nomination for president, but effectively withdrew from the race in late 2007 and suspended his campaign shortly after.
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On March 9, 2006, Cox announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for U.S. president in 2008, becoming the first Republican to formally enter the 2008 presidential race.
His campaign said he visited all 99 counties in Iowa, and his website indicated he continued to make almost monthly visits there during 2007. It also stated that he made twelve campaign trips to the early primary state of New Hampshire between March 2006 and February 2007, and visited the early primary state of South Carolina at least five times since the announcement of his campaign.
Statewide and national Republican Party polls consistently showed Cox with one percent or less of the popular vote. Because of this, Cox was not invited to participate in any of the Republican presidential debates held, except for the September 17, 2007, Values Voter Debate. He asked a federal court to stop the May 15, 2007, South Carolina debate unless he could take part, asserting in a lawsuit that the South Carolina GOP and Fox News Channel "rigged" their selection process to exclude him, by not including his name in the state poll that was used to determine who would be allowed in the South Carolina debate. On May 11, 2007, the judge refused to halt the debate. Cox also accepted an invitation to a debate at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, scheduled to air on MSNBC on November 6, but the debate was eventually cancelled.
His name was on the ballot in the Ames Straw Poll on August 11, 2007, where he also spoke. He came in last (eleventh) with 41 votes, or 0.3% of the vote.
On October 27, 2007, Cox "all but conceded defeat" during the annual Reagan Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, sponsored by the Republican Party of Iowa. He stated he would return to Chicago to start a political action committee to promote "non-career politicians". His joking about his chances of winning was widely taken as a concession speech. However, the next day, Cox clarified to the Rocky Mountain News that he was "not out of the race". On November 12, the Des Moines Register published his letter to the editor and identified him as a Republican candidate seeking the nomination for president. He stated he continued to seek change within the Republican Party, and has paid ballot fees and appears on ballots in South Carolina, California, and several other states; he can also be included in non-fee caucus states such as Nevada. |
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