Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein is considering three potential vice presidential picks, the campaign told Al Jazeera over the weekend. She is expected to announce her choice during a livestream this upcoming Thursday.
Editorial note: The Stein campaign has rescheduled the VP announcement rally, originally planned for later today, to Friday, August 16, due to a family health emergency.
The Stein campaign confirmed to Al Jazeera that its vice presidential shortlist includes Abed Ayoub, Amer Zahr, and Jacqueline Luqman. Ayoub is the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Zahr is a Palestinian American activist and adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, and Luqman is a D.C.-based activist and host of the Real News Network.
All three are described as vocal critics of Israel and “the US’s unflinching support for the war on Gaza.” Additionally, they each confirmed that the Stein campaign approached them about considering the vice presidential slot on the ticket. The campaign will reportedly announce its choice from the current shortlist in a rally later this week.
The rally will be publicly viewable here through the Stein campaign website.
The Stein campaign previously considered Abdullah Hammoud, Mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, for the vice presidential role in June. However, Hammoud was too young to be constitutionally eligible to serve in the position in the event the ticket won.
No rally today. The Stein campaign states it has rescheduled the VP announcement rally to Friday, August 16, due to a family health emergency.
So in other words, Christine McIntyre has narrowed it down to Moe, Larry, and Curly. /s
IYKYK.
That’s the head of the AAADC that included nobody left of Stein in its internal poll a week ago, as noted here? Got it. Panderfesting much?
And, two of them from Michigan? The ground zero of Stein’s lesser-evilism based 2016 recount? Got that too. https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2016/11/election-wasnt-rigged-and-i-wont-pay.html And, yes, it was panderfesting. She didn’t disclose herself that a couple of other close states, won by Clinton not Trump, couldn’t be recounted due to their state laws. Some of her flaks and flunkies did later.