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Meet Joe Labonte-Your Human Party Candidate,
Community Based Representation & Voice
Joe Labonte is
a man on a mission to establish a creditable voting alternative in
the November 2004 election campaign in Utah . Just Joe is running
under an emerging political party and social activist organization
that he has so-founded and participates in as Executive
Director.
He has
undertaken these herculean tasks because he believes that all
individuals as human beings have the personal power to make a
difference in their community when they speak the truth and compel
all political campaign participants to speak the truth to
voters.
Please accept
Joe's personal invitation to learn more about his candidacy, the
issues facing Utah voters in this crucial election campaign and the
growing appeal of a political party founded on the principal of
individuals being human to each other.
Lean more about
Joe LaBonte, who when not driving the highways of North America as
a long haul trucker is working in commnity development and social
action committees to make a difference. Join Just Joe and consider
learning more about the Being Human Party and their candidates for
office.
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Joe Labonte’s
Biographical Statement
Who is Joe
Labonte, co-founder and Executive Director of the Being Human Party
and our Being Human candidate for the U.S. Senate from Utah?
"Just" Joe is a truck driver, the
owner-operator of an 18 wheel big rig, carrying goods across
America.
In his fifty
five years Joe has:
- raised
chickens, cattle and gardens in the 4-H Club of Louden, New
Hampshire and worked on dairy farms
- hunted,
fished, played hockey and tennis with his dad
- sang in the
choir of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
- served during
the Vietnam conflict from ’68 to ’72 on the U.S.S. Lexington as an
electronics technician until being honorably discharged
- worked with
first-time offenders through the local probation department
facilitated meetings and conferences for day-care, adoption, child
abuse and neglect agencies
- directed the
technical crew in a star-package summer stock theater and advised
teens in developing their own youth theater program
- danced in a
ballet company and acted and sang with a Florida opera
company
- was a
"roust-about" on oil rigs and a deck hand and second mate on tugs
in the oil fields of the bayou and delta region of Louisiana
- walked with
and assisted native Americans in a Trail of Tears Walk from Georgia
to Oklahoma in 1992
- joined the
Sacred Run program in Australia and New Zealand in 1993 to bring
attention to the Aboriginal and Maori land claims
 joined in a Walk for
Justice from Sacramento, California to Washington, D. C. in 1994 to
present a million names in petition for the release of Leonard
Pelletier from Federal prison
- crossed the
country on foot from Los Angeles to St. Augustine, Florida in 1996
with the Walk For Survival of Family and Mother Earth
- worked hand in
hand with Utah’s Goshute Tribe on environmental justice issues out
of which came the Environmental Justice Foundation.
But if that’s
all you know about Joe, you don’t know why he has such a passion
for the truth, for peaceful solutions to human problems and for our
democracy of, for and by the people.
What you need to know is
that, through his life experience, Joe has discovered the value of
heeding, respecting and acting on his moments of intuition and
innate wisdom.
What you need to know is
that Joe has discovered that each human being has a center of
wisdom that is needed in today's world.
What you need to know is
that, wherever Joe has gone, whatever he has done with his life, he
has borne witness to the power of community, diverse people sharing
their time, talents and dreams and, yes, working through their
differences.
What you need to know is
that, wherever Joe has experienced community, he has found people
willing to risk finding their strengths and helping the young to
find theirs.
What you need to know is
that Joe has learned, through his own experiences, that the
individual makes it best in life surrounded by supportive folk of
all ages who help her or him remain responsible for and accountable
to our best values as a people.
What you need to know is
that Joe is running as a Being Human Party candidate for the U. S.
Senate from Utah because he feels that we, the people, need to
reassert our responsibility for our government which protects and
enhances our common good, and that only the people should "own"
their government.
If that's all
you know about Joe, you now know that Joe will lead by inviting us
all to play our parts in building a strong responsible and
accountable democracy here at home and as a helpful and responsible
neighbor within the community of nations.
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