Sister Diane Drufenbrock is a Franciscan nun and Christian socialist. She was the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party USA in the 1980 U.S. presidential election. That campaign resulted in the Party's recognition by the Federal Elections Commission as a national political party. She works as a teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ... Christian Socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two things as being interconnected, perhaps because one derives from the other. ... The Socialist Party of the United States of America (SPUSA) is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of America of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an agency created to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1975 (FECA), the statute that regulates the financing of federal elections in the United States. ... Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin, United States and the county of Milwaukee. ...
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In 1958 he ran as a write-in SPA candidate and than in 1968 as a Peace and Freedom Party candidate for Congress.
In 1980, he ran for President of the United States as the SPUSA candidate, with DianeDrufenbrock as vice presidential candidate, receiving some 6,898 votes and also becoming the first openly gay man to run for President in U.S. history.
Upon the request of fellow Socialists, McReynolds ran again for President as the SPUSA candidate in 2000 with Mary Cal Hollis as his running mate and received approximately 5,602 votes.
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