DETROIT - Socialist Party Vice-Presidential candidate Mary-Alice Herbert will be visiting Detroit from October 29th-November 3rd to campaign for both the Socialist Party presidential ticket and local and state candidates of the Socialist Party of Michigan. Herbert will be appearing on Michigan’s ballot, along with her running mate Walter Brown, as the candidate’s of the Natural Law Party due to the Socialist Party’s lack of ballot-access in Michigan. The other two Socialist Party of Michigan candidates, Ben Burgis and Lisa Weltman who are running for Michigan State University Board of Trustees and 14th District Representative in Congress respectively, will be appearing on the Michigan ballot as candidates of the Green Party.

During her visit, Herbert intends to speak to as many local residents and media outlets as possible about the Socialist Party’s campaigns and the philosophy and principles of democratic socialism. Among other events, Herbert intends to do a round of trick-or-treat campaigning in Detroit with Weltman on the evening of Halloween and will also spend Election Day at the polls to greet and talk to voters.

“It is a great honor to have Mary-Alice Herbert choose Detroit as the city in which she’ll spend Election Day campaigning,” said Socialist Party of Michigan Chairperson Matt Erard. “Herbert is not coming to Detroit to court swing-state voters like the candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties, but rather to spread her message of socialism and liberation to the working people of the city.”

The platform of the Socialist Party presidential ticket includes worker-control of production, the withdrawal of all U.S. troops stationed overseas, a 50% cut in the military budget and a massive expansion of social services and labor-rights including universal healthcare, a $12/hr minimum wage and full-employment.

For more information or to schedule an interview with Mary-Alice Herbert, contact Matt Erard by email at spmi@spmichigan.org or by phone at 248-765-1605.