On July 24, the five individuals seeking the Green Party presidential nomination presented their ideas to the national meeting of the Green Party being held in St. Louis. Jill Stein mentioned that she is close to qualifying for primary season matching funds. That involves raising $5,000 in small donations from each of 20 states. Stein said she believes this is the earliest a minor party or independent presidential candidate has ever achieved that goal.
In mid-August 1991, Lenora Fulani, who was seeking the nomination of the New Alliance Party, met the matching funds requirement. She went on to receive more than $2,100,000 for her 1992 campaign.
She meant that LP candidates don’t rule out taking corporate money. Of course, there’s no actual deluge of corporate money in the LP.
No political party (except for the convention committee loophole) has accepted corporate funding. It’s illegal. One wonders what she meant.
Nothing in particular, i suspect. Her statement seems like a meaningless political platitude.
No political party (except for the convention committee loophole) has accepted corporate funding. It’s illegal. One wonders what she meant.
Well, this is very interesting. When I met Jill Stein at the May 2015 United We Stand Fest, she was announcing to the small crowd around her that the Green Party was the only one who hadn’t accepted corporate funds. I asked her about the Libertarian Party, and she quickly said that Johnson has accepted matching primary funds (which I thought was a strange answer.) Now this? Even odder.