Business Insider reports: Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein is raising money for a recount in several key states following New York magazine’s report that several top computer scientists alerted Hillary Clinton’s campaign they had found possible voter manipulation in several states. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Stein press director Meleiza Figueroa announced that Stein would be filing a …
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How Third Party Voters Helped Elect Trump
CNN reports: Neither Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson nor the Green Party’s Jill Stein managed to make a dent in the Electoral College, but they did post a significant enough showing in several states arguably to help elect Donald Trump. Trump won 290 Electoral College votes to 232 for Hillary Clinton, as of Wednesday evening, with Clinton topping him in …
Read More »Jill Stein Makes Final Pitch: Vote Green Party So We’ll Get Federal Funding And Ballot Access In 2020
“Just 5 percent of the national vote for the Green Party Stein/Baraka ticket can be a true game-changer for American politics. It will qualify the Green Party for recognition as an official national party, and for federal funding in the 2020 presidential race proportional to the amount of votes received — at least $8 million to $10 million. It would …
Read More »GREEN PARTY: Jill Stein Is Furious With John Oliver’s “Hypocritical” Attack On Her Student Debt Plan
Via press release from the Green Party: We were pleasantly surprised when John Oliver’s research team reached out to us regarding several statements that have been frequently taken out of context to ask if we felt they were missing any context, which we promptly provided. It was beyond disappointing to see that our responses were completely ignored. The same tired, …
Read More »John Oliver On Third Parties [VIDEO]
Vulture recaps: There’s no denying that both major party presidential nominees have their drawbacks: One is considered by many to be too rehearsed and hard to relate to, while the other is a liar, alleged serial sexual predator, and definite racist. So it’s possible to feel sympathetic toward those undecided voters — though maybe not Ken Bone anymore — and …
Read More »Green Party: Hillary Wants World War III
Today the Green Party literally declared that you must vote for Jill Stein because Hillary Clinton wants everybody in the world to die in a nuclear holocaust. That IS, after all, how most people expect WWIII to go. Moments after this insanity was posted, it was retweeted by Jill Stein herself or whoever is running her Twitter account. (Of course, …
Read More »Jill Stein To Protest Outside Presidential Debate
Because reasons. Via Politico: Jill Stein didn’t get invited to the first presidential debate, but the Green Party candidate is still hoping to cause a stir. In the hours before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage, Stein and her supporters plan to hold a “Let Jill Debate” protest and subsequent “People’s Debate.” Both events are to be held …
Read More »Jill Stein: Hillary Clinton Is Worse Than Trump
Politico published a lengthy interview with Jill Stein yesterday. An excerpt: As much as Stein despises Trump – and she really, really does – she describes the choice between him and Hillary Clinton as an abominable binary offering “death by gunshot or death by strangulation.” But her contempt has a more cutting quality when she talks about Clinton. She mocks …
Read More »Jill Stein And Gary Johnson Fail To Make First Debate
Unsurprising. The Wall Street Journal reports: Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Green Party have failed to qualify for the first general election debate, in a significant blow to their already long-shot presidential campaigns. The Commission on Presidential Debates said Friday that only Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton qualified to be on the stage …
Read More »Jill Stein Demands “The Full Truth” About 9/11
Some pundits are saying that Jill Stein has gone “full 9/11 truther.” You be the judge. Via press release: The families and friends of those who were murdered on 9/11 deserve justice. They also deserve to know the truth. Led by the families of those who died on 9/11, the American people wanted—and deserved—a comprehensive and independent inquiry into the …
Read More »Jill Stein To Face Trespassing And Vandalism Charges
The Associated Press reports: North Dakota authorities plan to pursue charges against Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein for spray-painting construction equipment at a Dakota Access Pipeline protest. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said Tuesday that the charges would be for trespassing and vandalism. State court records Tuesday evening didn’t yet list any formal counts against Stein. A spokeswoman for …
Read More »Jill Stein Calls For “Hacking Hillary” To Drop Out
Green Party nominee Jill Stein today exploited the right wing’s continuing bogus and sexist claims about Hillary Clinton’s health by using their #HackingHillary hashtag to launch a call for Clinton to drop out of the race. Stein is polling in the low single-digits in most states, but she’s running at 7% to 10% in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oklahoma, Oregon, …
Read More »Jill Stein Makes Virginia And New Hampshire Ballots
Richmond.com reports: Libertarian Gary Johnson, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent Evan McMullin have qualified for the presidential ballot in Virginia, the Department of Elections announced on Friday. Democrat Hillary Clinton will appear first on the ballot, followed by Republican Donald Trump, Johnson, Stein and McMullin. In order to qualify for the Virginia ballot, candidates had to submit the …
Read More »OHIO: Jill Stein Disappoints Tens Of Supporters
The Columbus Dispatch reports: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was scheduled to speak at Capital University in Bexley at noon today but it looks like she’s running a little late. That’s because instead of flying into Columbus, she accidentally went to Cincinnati instead, according to the Capital University Greens Student Organization who is sponsoring the event. Yes. You read …
Read More »Jill Stein: Julian Assange Is A Hero
Jill Stein went on a pro-Wikileaks tweetstorm today because, hey, so what if Julian Assange has facilitated the criminal hacking of a major US political party? So what if Julian Assange is a tool of the murderous Putin regime? So what if Julian Assange has outed gay men and male rape victims in Saudi Arabia? She’s talking big picture, people!
Read More »Wikileaks Founder To Address Green Party Convention
Unsurprising, since he openly loathes Hillary and timed the release of those hacked emails for maximum damage. From the Houston Chronicle: Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, the organization that recently posted thousands of the Democratic Party’s internal emails online, will speak via live stream at the Green Party national convention, party officials announced Friday. Assange is scheduled to speak …
Read More »New Jill Stein Ad Backs Black Lives Matter [VIDEO]
In her second national campaign ad in as many days, Green Party nominee Jill Stein and backer Cornel West speak while an on-screen tagline reads “There is a candidate who supports #BlackLivesMatter.” Watch below. Stein is currently polling at about 5%. In 2000 Green Party nominee Ralph Nader finished with 3% of the national vote, a margin that many blamed …
Read More »New Jill Stein Ad Pitches To Bernie Backers: Don’t Choose The Lesser Evil Of Hillary Clinton [VIDEO]
Here’s a recap: “I would feel terrible if Donald Trump gets elected, and terrible if Hillary Clinton gets elected.” Dr. Jill Stein’s new ad equates both Trump and Clinton as being the wrong choice for president. Stein explains that with either of these candidates, America will be in a perpetual state of war, the “social safety net” will be destroyed …
Read More »Bernie Sanders: We’re Not Ready For A Third Party
The Washington Post reports: Bernie Sanders rebuffed calls from the Green Party — and a loud minority of his delegates and supporters here — to abandon the Democratic Party and build a third force outside of it. “I don’t know the leadership of the Green Party, but I respect what they’re trying to do,” Sanders said, at a breakfast sponsored …
Read More »Green Party’s Jill Stein Has The Bernie Sadz
Wah-wah. Via Politico: On the same day Bernie Sanders officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination and declared she will make an “outstanding president,” presumptive Green Party nominee Jill Stein was having none of it. As Sanders began speaking, Stein offered her own hashtags to disaffected Bernie backers. “The revolution continues with those who will fight for a government …
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