Dan La Botz
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Dan La Botz | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
September 8, 1945
Political party | Socialist Party USA |
Spouse(s) | Sherry Baron |
Children | Jake,Traven, Reed |
Residence | Cincinnati, Ohio United States |
Alma mater | Southwestern College San Diego University University of Cincinnati |
Profession | Teacher, Historian, Journalist, Truck driver |
Daniel H. La Botz (born August 9, 1945) is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author. He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico. He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity, which describes itself as "a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization,"[1] which comes out of the Trotskyist tradition. La Botz ran in 2010 for a seat in the United States Senate for the Socialist Party.
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Early Life and career
La Botz was born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up outside San Diego, California.[2] He attended Southwestern College and San Diego State University. When he was in college, he opposed the American involvement in the Vietnam war and supported the United Farm Workers.[citation needed] He is a leader of the socialist organization Solidarity,[3][4] which describes itself as "a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization"[5] and which comes out of the Trotskyist tradition. In the 1970s, La Botz worked various jobs in Chicago before working as a truck driver.[2] Within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), he was a co-founder of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU),[4] a reform caucus associated with Solidarity. TDU began in 1975 when a small group of freight Teamsters, some from the International Socialists group in Berkeley, CA met in Chicago, Illinois and founded Teamsters for a Decent Contract (TDC).
He subsequently worked as a community and union organizer and later a journalist.[2] La Botz worked in the 1980s as a journalist in Chicago and Mexico City and as an author on topics of workers' struggles and unions in the United States and Mexico. He earned a PhD in American history at the University of Cincinnati in 1998. He later became Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the Miami University,[6] the University of Cincinnati and the Northern Kentucky University.[2] La Botz is an editor of Mexican Labor News and Analysis (MLNA).[4][7][8] In May 2010, La Botz was working as a Spanish teacher at Waldorf elementary school in Cincinnati.[2]
Senatorial campaign
Dan La Botz | |
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Campaign | U.S. senate election in Ohio, 2010 |
Candidate | Dan La Botz |
Affiliation | Socialist Party of Ohio |
Status | Lost |
Website | |
http://danlabotz.com/ |
On February 19, 2010, La Botz announced that he was running for the United States Senate in Ohio on the Ohio Socialist Party ballot.[9] He subsequently gathered 1,200 signatures to gain ballot access.[10][unreliable source?] La Botz was the only Ohio candidate running on the ticket of the Socialist Party USA.[2]
In the United States Senate election in Ohio, 2010, SPOH candidate La Botz received 25 thousand votes (0.68%); the Republican winner Rob Portman received 2.125 million votes (57.25%) and the Democratic candidate Lee Fisher received 1.448 million votes (39.00%).[11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Rob Portman | 2,125,810 | 57.25% | -6.61% | |
Democratic | Lee Fisher | 1,448,092 | 39.00% | +2.85% | |
Constitution | Eric Deaton | 64,017 | 1.72% | N/A | |
Independent | Michael Pryce | 48,653 | 1.31% | N/A | |
Socialist | Daniel LaBotz | 25,368 | 0.68% | N/A | |
N/A | Arthur Sullivan (write-in) | 1,512 | 0.04% | N/A | |
Majority | 677,718 | 18.25% | |||
Total votes | 3,713,452 | 100.0 | |||
Republican hold | Swing |
Published works
Books
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Pamphlets
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References
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External links
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- ↑ Solidarity | A democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization official Web site.
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"Dan La Botz was a founding member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and is the author of Rank and File Rebellion: Teamsters for a Democratic Union (Verso). He edits the biweekly Mexican Labor News and Analysis and is a member of SOLIDARITY."
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- 1945 births
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- Living people
- Politicians from Cincinnati, Ohio
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