In 1984, William Osborne Hart, one of the party's founders, intended to run for President of the United States and failed due to a Wisconsin Supreme Court deliberation.
Its platform demanded larger government intervention with regard to factory and farm operations, protecting farmers' and workers' welfare, and shared civil rights concepts with members of the "Rainbow Coalition" of feminists, the LGBT lobby, as well as included other notions.
This failed due to a Supreme Court of Wisconsin decision,[2] and Hart subsequently resignation from the party.
The party concentrated its efforts in an attempt to defeat Les Aspin in 1986, then Wisconsin's 1st congressional district Representative.
[1] However, Lucille Berrien ran for State Treasurer of Wisconsin in 1990 with the LFP, but lost to Cathy Zeuske.