Jill Stein for Governor

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From Jill Stein for Governor

October 1, 2010

AFTER LOSCOCCO’S DEFECTION, STEIN/PURCELL EMERGE AS THE TRUE INDEPENDENTS

BOSTON – As news spread of Paul Loscocco’s decision to abandon Tim Cahill’s campaign and join the Republican camp, Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow candidate for governor commented that “The Cahill campaign has never really established its independent credentials with voters who are looking for change. At this point its becoming clear that my campaign is the only one that is really independent of the Beacon Hill machines.  We’re not going to surprise everyone by suddenly deciding to join the business-as-usual parties.  We’re in this race to offer a true alternative, and the only alternative that really stands for change.”

Stein also reminded voters and political leaders that a solution exists for the so-called “spoiler” problem.

“The news around the high-profile defections from the Cahill campaign have focused primarily on how Cahill’s candidacy helps Deval Patrick and hurts Charlie Baker. The truth is there is a voting reform that gets rid of the problem that voting for the candidate you truly support might have unintended consequences – like helping a candidate you don’t like.”

Continue reading After Loscocco’s defection, Stein/Purcell emerge as the true independents
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Woo-frickin-hoo!!!!!!!!

From the Jill Stein for Governor campaign:

Dear friends and supporters,

YOU DID IT!  YOU blew past the $100,000 we needed to ensure our place in the media consortium debate. Our voices will be heard! Voters will get to hear real vision and practical proposals for our common wealth and common health – not just the petty bickering of Beacon Hill insiders avoiding real issues.

AND THAT’S NOT ALL!  Today just before the 5 p.m. deadline campaign staffers turned in qualifying contributions of over $129,000 to the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) – exceeding the required threshold for state matching funds. We are optimistic that the application will be approved, and we will keep you posted. If it is approved, we will have qualified our campaign for public financing, and every dollar we raise between now and the end of October will be matched by the state.

No matter what happens, though, it’s clear that a groundswell for democracy is rising up in this campaign. People sacrificed, people dropped everything, people put their lives on hold to make sure that we reached the threshold for debate inclusion and would not be silenced by the corporate press – and that we qualified for public finance matching funds. Your hard work and inspiration made it happen. Money is continuing to come in from all over the commonwealth, from everyday people who are fed up with the bailouts, layoffs, ripoffs and payoffs, and who are ready for  the healthy, secure green commonwealth that’s within our reach today!

Continue reading Congratulations! YOU are what democracy looks like!
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Clean Money Tidal Wave for Jill Stein

Jill Stein’s campaign has about 24 hours to raise $25,515 in order to ensure that Jill’s voice will be included in these debates that are so important to the future of the Commonwealth. She has expanded the public dialogue and political discourse, and the media drumbeat to shut her out from future debates is raging. If Jill can qualify for state matching funds, however, the media will have a hard time trying to justify excluding a candidate receiving public funding for her campaign.

Continue reading Join the Clean Money Tidal Wave for Jill Stein
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Boston public radio station WBUR entered the debate this week over whether or not ballot-qualified candidate Dr. Jill Stein was worthy for inclusion in the gubernatorial debates.

In Controversy Grows Over Excluding ‘Outsider’ Candidates From Debates, WBUR features this nails-on-chalkboard quote from its own big-d Democratic political analyst, Dan Payne:

Because Jill Stein will get one quarter of the time and camera and she has not a million-to-one chance to become governor. For her to be given a seat at the table is unfair to the voters, who will then have to wade through the clutter of a fourth candidate in the race.

My question to WBUR: care to hire me as your Green-Rainbow Party political analyst? Who the hell appointed him as a guardian and protector of “the voters”?

Continue reading Ralph Nader says Stein “should be in the debates”
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From the Stein campaign:

BOSTON – A campaign song written for gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein was released today in order to boost Stein’s push to meet her September fundraising goals.   The song, entitled  “Follow the Money”,  was donated to the campaign by songwriter Tom Neilson from Greenfield, Massachusetts.  The song pokes fun at Stein’s gubernatorial rivals while urging listeners to show support for the Green-Rainbow Party candidates,  “Purcell, Fortune and Stein.”  Rick Purcell is Stein’s Lieutenant Governor running mate and Nat Fortune is the Green-Rainbow candidate for State Auditor.

“Now when Tim, Deval, & Chuck think of casinos

Their hearts go pitter, pitter, pitter, pat

And their legs take off like palominos

For casino lobby money’s where it’s at.

Just follow the money and you’ll find your money where

Your money is like honey in the corporation lair.

But if business as usual you want to redefine

Put your check on the ballot for Purcell, Fortune, and Stein.”

Continue reading Campaign Song May Boost Stein Fundraising
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From the Stein for Governor campaign:

The 9-member Boston media consortium sent a letter to Jill Stein today telling her that they intended to exclude her from their upcoming televised debates.  The letter, signed by Jen Peter of the Boston Globe, said that “Jill Stein does not meet the criteria for participation”.

Upon being informed of the letter, Stein responded “The people of this Commonwealth deserve to hear about how badly the Beacon Hill establishment has failed them under both Democratic and Republican governors.  They deserve to hear from the one candidate who isn’t taking money from the lobbyists or from the favor-seeking CEO’s.  They deserve to hear from the one candidate who is advocating for secure jobs across the Commonwealth – not just low wage casino jobs in three communities – for universal health care, for comprehensive fair tax reform and for ending the wars that consume 10 million Massachusetts federal tax dollars each day.  These badly needed solutions will assuredly be ignored in the debates if we let the three establishment candidates crowd me off the stage.”  

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I am forwarding this excellent editorial from Jason Pramas from OMG.

Mike Heichman

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Let Jill Stein Debate

by Jason Pramas (Staff), Aug-13-10

• OMB Editorial

It’s really something to watch the mainstream media in our fair state close ranks around the mainstream candidates in the Mass. gubernatorial race. On Tuesday, Green-Rainbow Party candidate Jill Stein was contacted by a consortium of nine major local media organizations and (to quote her press release) “invited to participate in two major televised debates, providing she met certain criteria including raising $100,000 in campaign funds and achieving at least a 5 percent score in election polls.” I would have to agree with Stein that the media outlets in question are setting the bar for entry to the debates too high to easily allow qualified third-party candidates to participate.

I would also agree with her campaign position on the matter, “All candidates that have qualified for the ballot under the election laws of the Commonwealth should be invited to participate in debates that use the public airways. We also think that fair treatment of all candidates is to be expected from the media corporations that are taking advantage of the privileges our society accords to journalistic enterprises. Those privileges are based on an assumption that journalists will contribute to the free and open dialogue that is essential to a healthy democracy. Journalists should refuse to be parties to any attempt to restrict the flow of information that voters need and deserve.”

Continue reading Let Jill Debate
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{Cross-posted at Blue Mass Group and Red Mass Group}

It’s Democracy Day today, and Massachusetts voters have a clear choice before them. They can support the one candidate who refuses to take corporate money to fuel her campaign, or the 3 candidates who swim through lobbyist-fueled campaign coffers like Scrooge McDuck. They can support the one candidate who unequivocally stands up for justice and sustainability, or the 3 candidates who treat ill-fated and harmful get-rich-quick schemes as though they were sensible, thoughtful, and helpful policy. They can support the one candidate who is standing up for real democracy — clean elections, open meeting and public records laws that apply to the legislature, and meaningful transparency and oversight of government spending — or the 3 candidates who laugh at real democracy as though it were a joke.

With the Green-Rainbow Party putting 3 candidates for statewide office on the ballot November 2nd — Jill Stein for Governor, Rick Purcell for Lt. Governor, and Nat Fortune for Auditor — Massachusetts voters have some real choices. These candidates will unwaveringly support, and fight for, government of, by, and for the people. They have great ideas to strengthen the Commonwealth and a compelling vision of our common future. While Bill McKibben laments the shameful collapse of the mainstream environmental movement’s ability to push climate legislation, the Green-Rainbow Party’s leadership never held out hope that our government — nearly entirely beholden to corporate interests — would have the answers.

Continue reading 4-way race for governor, and one clear choice for democracy
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