I see that John Andrews is complaining about a media blackout when it comes to reporting results. Perhaps he or someone on Jill’s staff can give us the actual vote tally (not delegates and not percentages–actual number of voters in MA who voted for JS in the 2012 presidential primary)?
Continue reading Can the Stein Campaign Provide the Actual Numbers from the MA Primary?Well, this certainly news..
“On Thursday, two days after Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein received enough delegates to win the ticket, Roseanne took to Twitter asking, “I wonder if someone can tell me if I am still a candidate for green party presidential nominee or not?”
“Isn’t that something you should know if you want to be the leader of the free world?” a posting on Twitchy responded.
Classic.
From Ms. Barr’s Media & Comm person: “I agree with your perception on this. But this is her Twitter and this is microblogging and like anything else is not official until it is made official by the campaign. She is “rogue” on her own Twitter and the official one is #roseanne_2012. On her Twitter it is almost like she is thinking aloud. Her thoughts come out and then she backtracks. This is how she communicates to her followers. This is her PERSONAL Twitter, let me reiterate that.”
“Rogue on her own Twitter.” Holy shit. Baltimore’s going to be a blast.
Continue reading BARR TO RUN ON “GREEN TEA PARTY” TICKETBy Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
June 7, 2012
Spare me the spin. This was a whupping.
After sixteen months of the most historic and exciting citizens’ uprising that I’ve ever been a part of in my thirty-five years of progressive activism and journalism, we’re left with this disaster.
Scott Walker is governor for another two and a half years.
He claims vindication for his rightist onslaught.
The national rightwing media is carrying him around on their shoulders.
And the Koch Brothers are popping the expensive champagne.
Meanwhile, the movement-a real giant grassroots movement, which flooded the capitol square with more than 100,000 people and which gathered a million recall signatures-is disintegrating.
From Jill Stein for President, June 06, 2012:
The Green Party’s Jill Stein has clinched her party’s presidential nomination after celebrating a major victory in yesterday’s California primary, winning 49% of the vote against her chief contenders, television comedienne Roseanne Barr and public servant Kent Mesplay. The California win followed other recent Stein victories in Michigan, Florida, and Iowa.
With 182 delegates required to win the nomination, and 194 delegates now in hand, Stein will go into the Green Party convention in Baltimore, July 12-15, with a clear majority of delegates. She has won over 66% of all delegates allocated, and 27 of 29 Green Party primaries, with the next nearest candidate, Roseanne Barr, at 22%.
Continue reading Stein clinches nomination with big wins in California, Michigan, Florida, IowaFrom Jill Stein for President, June 06, 2012:
Dr. Jill Stein, the victor in the Green Party presidential primaries, this morning issued the following statement about yesterday’s recall elections in Wisconsin:
“For over a year now, the working people of Wisconsin have been under siege by the fossil fuel, mining, and toxic chemical corporations. Yesterday’s recall election was deeply flawed. Thousands of qualified voters were turned away from their polling places. Thousands more were told not to vote, or that election day was yet to come. The corporate media declared the election results while voters still stood in line to vote, and at a time when only the most conservative ward results were reported. Many votes were cast on electronic voting machines that are easy to manipulate because they lack a paper trail. And nearly all of the money spent in the election came from out-of-state big corporate interests. If an election like that is free and fair, then I have a nuke plant in Vermont to sell you.”
Continue reading Wisconsin betrayed by silencing of democracy movement, says SteinHaving accepted nomination from Independent and from Green-Rainbow voters to be placed on the ballot, and having filed certified nomination signatures and other necessary paperwork with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, I choose to make public my federal and state tax returns from 2011.
Continue reading Tax and Finance Transparency in the 2012 Election