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Steven Kneussle qualified as a Constitution Party candidate in HD 62 for the November ballot. According to his campaign website, Kneussle is a commercial airline pilot and Navy veteran who has lived in Tuscaloosa since 1989.
The state Constitution Party issued a press release about Kneussle’s qualification, noting that he is their first candidate in Alabama’s history.
(As a Friday funny aside, I note that Kneussle’s Facebook presence includes a photo looking down “runway 44″ at La Guardia. Yes, he certainly gets the joke.)
Kneussle faces Democrat Ed Patterson and Republican John Merrill in the general election.
Good job, Constitution Party. By splitting the conservative vote, you help the Democrats.
Steven is a fine man with good principles.
@Anonymous
Help the Democrats? Wasn’t John Merrill a Democrat up until 2009? Didn’t John Merrill run as a Democrat in 2002? Wasn’t Don Chamberline (for US Congress 7) a Democrat last year? Wasn’t Bradley Byrne a Democrat?
I am having a hard time telling the difference between the two these days.
Republicans= Unjust war, bank bailouts, unconstitutional patriot Act, Dept. of Homeland Security (useless big gov), NAFTA (sending jobs overseas), etc.
Democrats= Continuing unjust war, bank bailouts, gov. health care, amnesty, big gov, North American Union, Cap and Trade.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. I THINK I WILL GIVE THIS GUY A TRY. HE LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE WHO WILL SHAKE THINGS UP AND CLEAN UP THE MESS.
Steven is an amazing person that I’ve known for many years and think he would be a wonderful asset. He has great values and he stands up for what he believes in. I’m excited about what I know he can accomplish in our community.
Since when is “today’s Alabama” republican party conservative? We do not even have a conservative in the gubernatorial runoff.
Hmm, thought David Walter in the AL-01 Congress race was their first candidate.
wonder if they realize the old Communist Party Alabama also used cpalabama as a name in the 30′s for a while.
If people really want change from the power grabbing, rights stealing, law breaking politicians that are squeezing the life out of the Country, then they will have to look past party affiliation. You need to know with the highest degree of certainty that the person you vote for is a man like Steve Kneussle who is willing to defend our rights and the Constitution of this Republic. If we continue to vote for these globalists that do not believe in the sovereignty of this Nation, then soon will will have no Nation at all. If you want to be just like the rest of the world, then don’t vote for the Constitution Party candidates, but if you want to remain an American and remain free, vote for Mr. kneussle.
David Walter qualified shortly after Mr. Kneussle. Walter’s Congressional District is of course larger than Kneussle’s State House District; therefore, Walter needed significantly more signatures which took longer for the Secretary of State to count and verify.
Steven Kneussle is the only candidate in the State advocating Family Rights and exposing the millions of dollars, we the tax payer, spend on a corrupt and broken system which is destroying the lives of our children and the well being of our community.
This is why I am voting for him!
Jimbo
Steven was the first Constitution Party candidate to qualify. However, the local media will not print Steven’s press release. Until today the only people who knew Steven qualified were Steven, secretary of state office, and members of the Constitution Party
Not quite. He’s been hanging around the forums of the Tuscaloosa News for the past few weeks, announcing his qualification and railing about local home rule.
ewwwww home rule more the invasion of personal property rights. I am sure if he is running as a CP candidate, he would be agianst this unconstitional act. I will have to go check out the forum.
JJ, You left out his 238 Face Book supporters, the members (hundreds) of the Alabama Family Rights Association, property rights groups, consumer rights groups, the Rainy Day Patriots, TEA Party supporters, the people who saw him at the Bentley-Byrne debate, the numerous charities he is involved in, his neighbors, and friends.
Is it surprising that no media has printed this press release? Steven goes against the establishment, addresses, and provides common sense solutions for issues that no other candidate or politician will talk about.
Finally, a political party which understands the Constitution and how a Republic form of government is suppose to work. This is scary stuff for politicians taking money from big business, lobbyists and special interests.
I say great job to Steven Kneussle, David Walter and all the members of the Constitution Party for giving the public an alternative choice this November. The party’s chairman, Joshua Cassity, has brought the party far in a short two year period. I can’t wait for 2012!
Jimbo
Steve has the capacity and intelligence we need in our community and state leaders. It is refreshing to see someone with actual morals, values, and integrity doing something about the problems going on in our state and not just ‘talking’ about it. I think we could benefit from the type of representation and leadership that Steve offers and I wish there were candidates of this caliber in every facet of our local and state government. I love the fact that he speaks his mind and calls those around him into accountability and action – Keep it up Steve!
We desperately need new blood and not someone who wants to join the good ole boys club.
It would do the state well if he wins.
Ever since Steve Nodine hit the skids, I have become an expert in political biographies.
This fellow’s bio is strange. Education seems to be a bit spotty, lot’s of courses no real degree. Proudly lives in a trailer park and while he’s president of some kind of a family organization, his young family seems to have dissolved.
Every airline pilot I know is nutty and extreme.
The Alabama Constitution Party proclaims on the left front side of its home page “the principles for which the South contended in 1776 and 1861 are the same principles that are being contended for today.” If that’s what it believes, the party is saying the principle that a state should have the right to decide whether slavery is legal in its borders is a principle worth fighting for now. We can argue that the war wasn’t over slavery, it was over state and regional rights, ’til the cows come home, but when we look in the mirror and face reality we know it was over the right to own a slave. And, lumping the South as unified defies history. We had out share of loyalists to the British crown — maybe more than other regions, in the Revolution. And we had our share of Unionists in the “Lost Cause.” Another point — anyone who has toured Shiloh and read the inscriptions on the massive monuments has to cringe a little when a political party tries to manufacture votes out of the deaths of hundreds of thousands who wore gray — many of them who had never owned or even hoped to own a slave. Part of the inscription on one monument says “as a greeting to the living remnant of that host of gray and in honor of its dead whether sleeping in distant places or graveless here in traceless dust this monument has been lifted up by the hands of a loving and grateful people.” political parties ought to leave it at that.
@Willie
“Proudly lives in a trailer park” At least he is a real person not hiding behind fake morals or preying on the upper class vote. Does not get more real then this in my opinion.
“his young family seems to have dissolved” This is an unfortunate fact it would seem however instead of throwing stones why not get to the facts. It appears to me that for what ever reason he had a divorce, and his rights as a father are being violated. He has taken initiative (something majority of people do not have these days) to try to be proactive and do something about it. So you are going to cast stones at someone for being proactive? Come on lets look at our lovely people in office now.
Education: No degree required to fly planes, it appears he is/was certified firefighter (no degree required) EMT (no degree required). Trying to find where a degree is required to have common sense and be able to understand and stand up for the constitution.
“Every airline pilot I know is nutty and extreme” WOW what a generalization cause the few airline pilots you know are nutty and extreme they all must be? I will assume the few you know are probably your friends which as the old saying goes “Birds of a feather”. Anyways, I can’t say I know very many airline pilots, but considering the amount of lives they are responsible for on a daily basis compared to the amount of times I have heard of an airline pilot going “postal” I would say they most be fairly stable group of people. Ohhh and don’t airline pilots have to have occasional pysch evals and such?
Mr Kneussle, I applaud you for taking a stand. We see so many people say we need real change, we need this we need that, but when asked what will you do to help they turn and run tail. You choose to stand up be accounted, but your life in the spotlight to be open to dissection and I wish you all the luck in the world.
God Bless You.
Always amusing to see residence in working class neighborhoods like trailer parks seen as a negative.
@jimbo
I am not the least bit surprised at the local media failure to run Steven’s press release. This could be one of many reasons the print media was screaming for a bailout. After years of declining advertisement sales and 2-day old news stories (thank to the internet) the age of print news will be obsolete, as we once knew it.
@Willie, The comparison of accused murderer Steve Nodine to Steven Knessuel is a bit far fetched and almost desperate. If one chooses to live in a trailer instead of a country club, hyper-inflated house that is his God given right.
I am liking this Steve Guy!
@ivan swift
The Alabama constitution Party and the Constitution party of Alabama are two diffferent organizations.
Steven is qualfied with Constitution Party of Alabama http://www.cpalabama.org
The media of this state is in bed with the good ole boys and has a natural tendency to ignore and put down anyone who does not want to join the club.
Merrill still wins this district easily. Steven will get less than 3%.
Corruption will continue to rule Goat Hill. But that’s ok as long as it has R label plastered over it?
I went to high school with Steve. I can remember hanging out at Snow Hinton on the weekends and Steve would show up in his EMT uniform when he got out of training. He would hang out and sort of look out for everyone. Occasionally someone would get hurt doing something stupid and Steve would be there to help. Later I realized this was the reason he came out, because he truly cared.
Steven was a well rounded guy, we even voted him “Best All Around” our Senior year. He was in the newspaper all the time for his work in the fire department. He even received an award from the county police department.
While most of us were having a good time, Steve was saving lives and helping people. He had his struggles in life, but I believe that is what made him care so much for others.
He is a man of principles. He will never sell out to anyone. I can’t believe people would attack him personally, after all he has done and continues to do for other people.
I wish I lived in his District, I would definetly vote for him.
thanks for straightening me out on the two Alabama constitution parties. i wonder which oen was first and which one poached on the the other’s name? If i’ve got the right one this time, it’s tenets include this one — “constitution and bill of rights be interpreted according to the actual intent of the founding fathers.” Whew — that’s a big order. how can anyone figure out what the intent of the founding fathers would be to issues that no one could imagine in 1787 when the constitution was written, and in the subsequent years when the bill of rights was adopted? people can play around and hoke up an argument but to project how a majority or some or any of them might want the constitution interpreted in the light of today’s situations and developments is hokum. Someone tell me what the intent of the founding fathers was when they put “a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state” in front of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” the histories i read say that the founding fathers were scared and worried about a large military — a large standing army, a big navy. their study of history told them that people lose control to rulers aligned with the military — a representative government becomes weaker and military control becomes stronger. so they wanted citizen armies like the national guard, with a gun in the house for when the citizen was called to duty. did they want no state or municipality to regulate guns in any way? Federalist Paper No. 54, written by either Madison or Hamilton (no more founding father than those two) says slaves are both “persons” and “property.” so does the party believe taking a person’s property away from him or her — the emancipation proclamation — violated the principles set forth by the founding fathers?
@ivan swift
“Federalist Paper No. 54, written by either Madison or Hamilton (no more founding father than those two) says slaves are both “persons” and “property.” so does the party believe taking a person’s property away from him or her”
Wow, I am astonished at your reaching to find something that would try to make Mr. Kneussle and/or the Constitution party look like a bunch of racist supremacist. I myself a supporter of the Constitution party, but some 600+ miles away from Tuscaloosa in the heart of the Mid West am appalled with your allegations. First you use the wrong organization to try to paint them as racist, now when you was called out on that you had nothing to support racist behavior so delve deep into the archives to pull something out.
As far as poaching on each others names. The Constitution party is present through out the nation it is not an Alabama thing. It is US thing. There are branches in nearly every state just like Democratic and Republican.
One of my favorite quotes is from Benjamin Franklin:
“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
I agree 100% Mr. Kneussle is trying to preserve these rights. Why do I continue to call him Mr. Kneussle when everyone else just calls him Steve or Steven? Simple I have GREAT respect for this man.
I’ve read and think i comprehend CW’s “astonished” view of my thoughts on the constitution party, whichever one of them it is we’re discussing. he or she quotes Benjamin Franklin. made me think of another Franklin quote appropriate to CW’s comments. it is “none preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.”
Ivan maybe I am incorrect, but in your first attempt to discredit the Constitution party you pulled some valid points but from the wrong organization, so when called out on it you sought out the Federalist paper No. 54 to try to make the same original point you was making. That is my view on your comments. My view is that you are trying to make people of the Constitution party out to be racists. Now maybe your motives was quite the contrary, but that is what I saw.
Steven is a humble servant to his community. He has saved lives as a volunteer firefighter/EMT, served our country in the Navy, and keeps people safe in the sky. He is a wonderful father and a dear friend. He responds to desperate pleas for help from single fathers and mothers who suffer the injustices of the courts, while he suffers the same. He defends those who do not have a say, the children who suffer from not having both parents equally in their lives. He defends the right to live.
With very little, he can do so much. He is not a politician but a true citizen who believes in justice, equality, and liberty for all. He has strong values and upholds the Constitution. He is very Christ-like. Christ took up our cross to set us free and Steve takes up our burdens as his own to preserve our freedom and happiness.
How can a Commerecial Airline Pilot take off for a three month
Legislartive Session?
@Ivan Swift:
“Federalist Paper No. 54, written by either Madison or Hamilton (no more founding father than those two) says slaves are both “persons” and “property.” so does the party believe taking a person’s property away from him or her — the emancipation proclamation — violated the principles set forth by the founding fathers?”
With all due respect, the above statement is completely out of context. Madison stated that the current “law” views slaves as “persons” and “property”. FP 54 was an analysis of how Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution should be constructed as it pertained to the distribution of representatives in Congress. Lets see what else Madison said in Federalist Paper No. 54 for which Ivan haphazardly omitted:
“the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society; not as a part of the irrational creation; as a moral person, not as a mere article of property.”
“it is admitted that if the laws were to restore the rights which have been taken away, the negroes could no longer be refused an equal share of representation with the other inhabitants.”
“Might not some surprize also be expressed that those who reproach the southern States with the barbarous policy of considering as property a part of their human brethren, should themselves contend that the government to which all the States are to be parties, ought to consider this unfortunate race more compleatly in the unnatural light of property, than the very laws of which they complain!”
Madison also refers to the slaves as being “restrained in his liberty”, “chastised in his body, by the capricious will of another”
It can now be plainly seen that Madison referred to slaves as a moral people, our human brethren, had rights which had been taken away, and that slavery was unnatural and barbarous. Madison was advocating that slaves were no less equal than anyone else, and that in due time their rights would be restored and that they would have an equal share of representation.
Slavery was not conceived in America or by the Constitution. This unfortunate practice was initiated by African tribal leaders and based upon a tribal class system. Slavery was practiced in Africa before the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade. Slavery and the slave trade were an integral part of African societies and states which supplied the Arab world with enslaved people for centuries before the arrival of the Europeans.
It was the US Constitution and its founding principles of Liberty which led the world to abolish slavery. The United States outlawed the importation of slaves on January 1, 1808; a mere 9 years after the first Congress was seated. The State governments legislated laws pertaining to slavery within their borders until 1865 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution specifically outlawed the practice of slavery in America.
Once the blacks were free they came under attack from a different front. A new theory called “evolution” was gaining ground after the publication of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species” which was published in 1859. This new theory considered Africans an inferior race and less “evolved” than their white counterparts. This provided argument for segregation and limiting the rights of black Americans. Scientists only recently (last decade) adopted the “Out of Africa” model which theorizes that all people originated in Africa and that all races evolved equally while migrating to different parts of the world.
During the civil rights movement of the 1960′s, black leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King argued that the Constitution provided that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. It was the Constitution and these founding principles which made the civil rights movement a success.
In conclusion: THE CONSTITUTION PARTY SUPPORTS THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL REGARDLESS OF RACE AND THAT ALL MEN ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.
God Bless!
noodle
It has been a long time since the people of Alabama had someone on the ballot that was not a career polititian looking to line their pockets with special interest monies instead of serving the people they are supposed to represent. If you’re truly happy with the political direction of this country, there are plenty of entrenched politicians you can vote for. however, if, like most Americans, you’re sick of watching our elected officials forsake the voters for their own personal gain maybe you should do a little research on Steven Knussle.
Steven may be a nice guy. However, he picked a 3rd party to run on in a predominately Republican District. Standard political logic would say that Ed Patterson will pull the typical 33-34%, possibly as high as 40% Democratic Vote, Steven may pull 5-6%, and Merrill still wins without a runoff.
However, there are a number of people who don’t like Merrill. He won the primary easily enough, but if there is enough out there to give Steven higher than 10% of the vote, Merrill will simply have to win it in a runoff.
I still think that’s an unlikely scenario.
@FordF150 There are no runoffs in the November general election.
Hot Dang! I’ve been in primary mode since February! My apologies. Still, if I’m Merrill, I want to pull greater than 50% to ward off potential opponents for the next time. People may look closely if the incumbent didn’t get greater than 50% in his last election.
I suggest you know who you are voting for. Im sure that if he is fighting for his rights as a father there has to be public record of his cause. People believe to much of what they hear instead of investigating. Why throw a vote away on the decieving word of one man? Some people love a smoke screen.
@anonymous, What are you talking about? I am sure if he was worried about what was in a public record, he wouldn’t be running for office.
Plus his custody issues have been over for a long time and he gets to see his kids frequently, more than the 4 days the rest of us get. He fights for everyone else, on both sides, who go through the corrupt court system.