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Ezola Broussard Foster (born August 9, 1938) is an African American conservative political activist. Foster is president of "Americans for Family Values", authored the book What's Right for All Americans, and was the Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform Party candidate for Vice President of the United States|Vice President in the U.S. presidential election, 2000|U.S. presidential election of 2000. In April 2002, Foster left the Reform Party to join the United States Constitution Party|Constitution Party. Foster was born and raised in Louisiana and earned a master's degree from Texas Southern University. <!-- 1973 grad. seems to be incorrect--> In 1960, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was a public high school teacher for 33 years - teaching typing, business courses and sometimes English classes. She had sought public office prior to 2000 - as a United States Democratic Party|Democrat in the 1970s and as a United States Republican Party|Republican candidate for California State Assembly in 1984. In the 1980s, she became an outspoken opponent of pornography, sex education, AIDS education and gay rights and founded "Black Americans for Family Values." She was arrested in 1987 with several other women while disrupting the state Republican convention to protest its recognition of the Log Cabin Republicans|Log Cabin Club, an organization of gay Republicans. In 1992, she was a staunch defender of the police officers in the Rodney King beating case and organized a testimonial dinner for Laurence Powell, one of the convicted officers, in 1995. In 1994, while teaching typing at Bell High School in Los Angeles, Foster was a public advocate of California Proposition 187 (1994)|Proposition 187, a California ballot initiative to deny social services, health care, and public education to illegal immigrants. Her position was extremely unpopular at the school where she taught, which was 90 percent Hispanic. In 1996, after she argued on PBS's "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" that illegal immigration was responsible for the low quality of Los Angeles schools, some of her colleagues at the school condemned her in an open letter. Two days later, she attended an anti-immigration rally where several of her supporters were attacked by members of the Progressive Labor Party (USA)|Progressive Labor Party, who allegedly wanted to harm Foster herself. Shortly thereafter, she left her job, which she calls a necessity resulting from her treatment at work. She went on speaking tours for the John Birch Society and took workers' compensation for an undisclosed mental disorder -- which she describes as "stress" and "anxiety" -- until her official retirement as a teacher in 1998. Pat Buchanan selected Foster as his running-mate after several other candidates such as Jim Traficant and James P. Hoffa declined his offer. Foster, who had supported Buchanan's campaigns in 1992 and 1996, quit her speaking tour to join the race. While Buchanan was hospitalized during part of the campaign, Foster was the ticket's mouthpiece, campaigning through television and radio appearances. The issue of her workers' compensation claim was raised during the campaign and led to questions about her mental state. She responded that she had filed the claim for stress and anxiety, and did not release her records. Foster is Roman Catholic Church|Catholic. Her first marriage, by which she has a son, ended in annulment, she says, when she found out that her husband was a convicted felon. Later, in 1977, she married Chuck Foster, a truck driver. They have two adult children. Foster is a grandmother. She lives in Los Angeles. What's Right for All Americans (1995)
start box succession box| title=Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform Party Vice President of the United States|Vice Presidential candidate| before=Pat Choate| after=Peter Camejo| years=U.S. presidential election, 2000|2000 (lost) end box Category:Louisiana politicians|Foster, Ezola B. Category:Paleoconservatism|Foster, Ezola B. Category:African American politicians|Foster, Ezola B. Category:LGBT rights opposition|Foster, Ezola B. Category:Roman Catholic politicians|Foster, Ezola B. Category:African American writers|Foster, Ezola B. Category:Women writers|Foster, Ezola B. Category:1938 births|Foster, Ezola B. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ezola B. Foster".
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