Source: The Washington Post

By Peter Holley

Donald Trump is the king of dire post-election predictions, warning that a Hillary Clinton presidency would result in — among other things — terrorists flooding the country, illegal immigrants “flowing across the border,” “disasters on the Supreme Court” and “a very massive recession.”

“It won’t be pretty,” Trump has warned.

But Dell “Super Dell” Schanze, a little-known candidate running for governor of Utah, may have one-upped the presidential hopeful. 

Voters who fail to cast their ballots next month for Schanze, a member of the Independent American Party, will “face the judgments of God,” according to language the candidate authored in the state’s official voter information pamphlet.

Schanze, who has previously told a judge that he is a Christian, didn’t specify the type of judgments awaiting Utah voters who don’t vote for him. And after reaching Schanze by phone, he hung up after identifying himself as the manager of Paraglider Mall, the adventure-sport business he owns.  

He didn’t respond to subsequent requests for comment.

Schanze’s full voter-pamphlet statement, which calls for a return to freedom, declares that “RIGHTEOUSNESS can solve every problem in the world. God made a promise ‘as ye keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land’. The vast majority in our state are against murdering unborn children. You are against perversion and perversion of marriage. You are against more encroachment on your 2nd Amendment rights.

“The voice of the people and the constitution are being utterly mocked!!! Vote SUPERDELL Schanze or face the judgments of God. If even one single state can return to freedom and the constitution the entire world would flow unto it. Your honor rests on your vote.”

Schanze has been in and out the local limelight — and on and off Utah ballots — for nearly a decade.

He made his first bid for governor as a libertarian in 2008, when he racked up nearly 25,000 votes, about three percent of the electorate,according to Fox affiliate KSTU. A year later, he ran for mayor of Saratoga Springs, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. He did not win.

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