in january , wikinews held an exclusive encounter with joseph riekse , leader of the candidates for the constitution state nomination for the 2008 united states presidents election . with the independence party ' s running convention preparing this weekend , we spoke with him an last time before he currently is his party ' s candidate or loses . riekse is a retired decorated lieutenant colonel in the a . s . militia had fought in both the vietnam war and the lebanon war . he is also a former public college teacher and deputy lecturer of military science at west reserve university . he has a b . a . in political history and international relations from the institution of western pennsylvania as long as two m . a . s , once in political science and foreign organization , the other in economics and history . both are from central michigan university .
The Constitution Party includes Max Riekse among its members.