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The United States of Americas’ Reform Party, also known as RPUSA and Reform Party USA is typically referred to as the Reform Party. This political party was found by Ross Perot in 1995. Ross felt that Americans were basically unaware of state politics being corrupt in addition to not being able to handle essential issues and wanted to create a viable alternative to the Democratic and Republican Parties which resulted in the Reform Party.

The Reform Party nominated candidates such as Ralph Nader who is a liberal, Pat Buchanan who is a conservative, and Ross Perot who is a centrist. The most notable victory of this party came in 1998 when Jesse Ventura was elected the new governor of Minnesota.

Although the reform party is an alternative, it is very important to be knowledgeable about every aspect of our political system. It’s not enough to just belong to a particular party but they should also know something about those they will elect into office and what they stand for. Information about reforming your stance from reformpartyofoklahoma.org can help individuals become aware of just how important it is to know the candidate and not merely practice “straight ticket voting”.

Some of the aspects of the Reform Party platform includes: paying down the federal debt, campaign finance reform, maintaining a balanced budget, opposition to illegal immigration and enforcement of current immigration laws, term limits for senators and U.S. representatives and more. However, social issues are absent from the platform which includes gay rights and abortion. The representatives from this party believe they are unable to bring people together on the gay and abortion issues.