In 1976 John Brennan voted for Gus Hall. Claimed it was a “protest vote,” but Gus Hall was so notoriously vile no sane person would associate with him- and voting for a guy worse than any moral problem you could have with another candidate doesn’t make for convincing “protest vote.” Should have wrote in Porky Pig.
Brennan claims he feared this one vote would ruin his chances of being hired but I call BS on that- voting is secret. There had to be something else in his background he did not want discovered.
Per Wikipedia (an all these sources): "In 1976, he voted for Communist Party USA candidate Gus Hall in the presidential election; he later said that he viewed it as a way "of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change.""
1) BUT also from the above Wikipedia LINK, we know he was born and graduated HS in North Bergen, NJ and then attended Fordham till graduation in 1977.
2) Since Fordham (Bronx, NY) is 13.5 from North Bergen and he 'rode a bus to class at Fordham' we can be certain he lived and voted in NJ in 1976:
Map: North Bergen - Fordham3) Below is the ballot for United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1976 (from everipedia.org/wiki/)
If Brennan was not a Commie and merely meant his vote as a protest of the two-party system, why didn't he choose any of the other NINE fringe party candidates rather than single out the Communist party of Gus Hall for his approval? Why didn't Jimmy Carter's & Stansfield Turner's CIA ask in 1980? Why has it not been asked?Republican Gerald Ford Democratic Jimmy Carter Independent Eugene McCarthy Libertarian Roger MacBride American Independent Lester Maddox Socialist Labor Julius Levin Communist Gus Hall U.S. Labor Lyndon LaRouche Socialist Workers Peter Camejo People's Margaret Wright Prohibition Ben Bubar Socialist Frank Zeidler
Instead he gets into the CIA, eventually becomes it's director , is now in the lead of a "resistance" to overthrow the elected president of the US... and lectures real Americans on "patriotism." If this was a movie script it would be rejected as totally unbelievable
How vile was Brennan? He was an Catholic who while attending a Catholic college (Fordham) looked at his 1976 presidential ballot of 12 candidates and voted for the one man who said this: