Lewin Is Peace and Freedom Nominee
The Peace and Freedom Party, after a raucous debate that caused about a third of the voting delegates to walk out of its convention, on Sunday nominated Philadelphia socialist Herb Lewin for President.
Lewin, 73, is a veteran labor union organizer who also is affiliated with the Internationalist Workers Party, a San Francisco-based Trotskyite group.
For vice president the delegates nominated Emma Mar, who identifies herself as an independent socialist. Mar, who would not give her age, also was the party’s vice presidential candidate in 1984, when feminist Sonia Johnson was the presidential nominee.
Lewin, with 684 votes, finished fourth in the nonbinding Peace and Freedom presidential primary in June, but he captured the nomination by relying on party rules that permitted him to bring to the convention as delegates a large number of undocumented immigrants, minors, convicted felons and other people who are not eligible to vote.
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