[1] A spin-off of New York-based Students for a Democratic Society, the U.S. Labor Party campaigned for policies that increased economic growth and prosperity and criticized laws and judicial rulings that were socially liberal.
[2] Pennington had worked as a newspaper journalist, a press aide, and a lobbyist for the Health and Welfare Council of the District of Columbia.
[2] Pennington said her campaign was against the conspiracy formed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the "liberal fascists of the Democratic Party".
[2] According to Pennington, the only solution was nuclear fusion that would create energy from the ocean water, ending worldwide dependence on oil.
[2] Pennington said that Vice President Rockefeller had brainwashed the world into thinking there was an oil shortage and was orchestrating a nuclear war in the Middle East.
[6] Pennington said a socialist economy would help elders, and crime would be reduced by abolishing the United States Department of Justice's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.
[9] In 1975, Pennington ran as the U.S. Labor Party candidate to represent Ward 1 on the District of Columbia Board of Election.
[4] Pennington claimed that Europe and Japan had formed a new monetary system during a summit and that the United States needed to join it.
[25] She advocated for increased enforcement of drug laws, incentives by the government to increase construction, establish high-technology research programs, build a nuclear power plant, improve schools, maintain funding of social service programs, build affordable housing,[25] and enact voter identification laws.
[26] She was opposed to energy conservation, gay rights, drug use, and cuts in social service programs because none of them increased economic growth.
[27] A bank teller, Director said that if Marion Barry and other Democratic candidates won their elections, the District could come under a hideous form of social control not seen since the Roman Empire.
[30] Rosenblatt said that voters who did not support the U.S. Labor Party have "condemned your family to burn in the thermonuclear war or at best to be squeezed dead in a period of brutal Hitlerian austerity.
"[30] Rosenblatt said that implementing significant decreases in interest rates, increased employee wages, and importation of oil from Mexico would guarantee one-hundred years of prosperity and no inflation.
[33] Rosenblatt predicted that Mayor of the District of Columbia Marion Barry would severely cut public schools' budgets, leading to poor performance by students, which he would then blame on teachers and principals.