Massachusetts physician Jill Stein will announce her candidacy for the Green Party presidential nomination Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 at the National Press Club in Washington.
Stein was the Green nominee in 2012 and received 469,501 votes, the highest popular vote total for a female candidate in U.S. history. She and running mate Cheri Honkala received three times as many votes as 2008 Green nominee Cynthia McKinney, and four times the total of 2004 Green nominee David Cobb.
Stein is widely seen as the Green Party frontrunner. Environmental activist Darryl Cherney and 2012 candidate Kent Mesplay are also actively considering 2016 bids.
In case any of the conversation above seems disjointed, someone (I am guessing Orvetti) has erased past comments on many threads. Not sure why, and I wish they hadn’t, but that appears to be what it is.
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/22/exclusive_green_partys_jill_stein_announces
I’m glad Jill Stein has officially started her campaign in June 2015 as opposed to November or December of 2011, as she did during her past campaign. It is a thankless job to run for President and she is tireless campaigner. I don’t think there will be any serious challengers to her within the Green Party nomination process which allow her to get on more ballots in 2016. In New England where I live, I plan to help her get on every state’s ballot. She was not on in New Hampshire, Vermont or Connecticut in 2016. I’ll be sending a donation today as well.
Don’t worry about it Peter. Some people just like to pick nits. What you were talking about is perfectly clear and accurate, and original reporting is always appreciated.
“She and her running mate” in the next sentence could only refer to a general election, and Jill Stein is in fact the female presidential candidate to have won the most votes in a general election to date. I’m a quibbler for technicalities and precision, but NF’s complaint is without merit. None of the counter-examples he cites would fit in context.
Peter’s reporting is accurate. As he already explained.
“If it gives you joy to debate semantic technicalities, knock yourselves out.”
Accuracy is nice, too!
Did you write this, Peter?
Yes, he did.
BTW, the highest vote total for a female nominee in a presidential election was 59,950,323. Sarah Palin in 2008. Those votes were not just for John McCain.
By “original reporting” what do you mean? Did you write this, Peter?
“Stein was the Green nominee in 2012 and received 469,501 votes, the highest popular vote total for a female candidate in U.S. history.”
That needs qualification. Many female candidates for U.S. Senator – including Sen. Boxer & Sen. Feinstein of California, along with Sen. Gillibrand of New York – have received far more that 469,000 votes. Meg Whitman received more votes for Governor of California in 2010.
If she means than any female candidate for President, Sen. Hilary Clinton received 18,155,676 votes in the 2008 Democratic primary.
If she means she has received more votes for President in November than any female candidate – that needs to be specified in the release.
I sure wish we had more Greens commenting on IPR. I’d really like to explore how some of their positions would play out, if they were in charge.
Looking forward to your report, and thanks for posting and welcome back to posting articles. BTW the new owner has asked us to include an image with every article. I added one to this one, but you can change it if you have a better one you want to use. I’ll have to check if you got taken off the about page; I think you did. In which case let me know if you want to be added back to that.