Serve America Movement
The Serve America Movement (SAM) was a big tent political organization founded in 2017 by Morgan Stanley lawyer Eric Grossman. The party achieved its first state party in New York with ballot access, but as of November 4, 2021, it lost its ballot status. Under New York election law, parties must get more than 130,000 votes every two years to maintain ballot access. Party officials said afterward they intended to surpass the state elections vote requirement and use petitions to gain ballot access in other states, in order to contest future elections.
Serve America Movement | |
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| Abbreviation | SAM |
| Chairman | David Jolly |
| Founded | April 2017 |
| Dissolved | July 27th, 2022 |
| Merged into | Forward Party |
| Headquarters | Denver, Colorado |
| Membership (November 2020) | 649 |
| Ideology | Big tent (official) Majority: Neoconservatism Conservative liberalism Electoral reform Factions: Conservatism Liberalism |
| Political position | Center to center-right |
| Colors | Red, white and blue (national colors) |
The party contested its first election in the New York gubernatorial election of 2018 with candidate Stephanie Miner, former chairperson of the New York Democratic Party and former mayor of Syracuse. It merged with the Forward Party and the Renew America Movement in 2022.