Green party may try to ‘escort’ Jill Stein into the presidential debates

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Green party may try to ‘escort’ Jill Stein into the presidential debates

A Stein supporter is calling for volunteers to take part
in protest and civil disobedience in Hofstra, New York,
where the first debate is set for Monday

Lauren Gambino
Wednesday 21 September 2016 17.30 BST

The Green party may try to “escort” candidate Jill Stein into the presidential debates in an attempt to get her onstage, a campaign adviser announced on Wednesday.

Calling for volunteers to take part in protest and civil disobedience in Hofstra, New York, where the first debate is due to take place on Monday, Kevin Zeesa wrote on Stein’s website: “We may decide to have supporters attempt to escort our candidates (Stein and vice-presidential nominee Ajamu Baraka) into the debates. This situation may lead to arrest – it is possible but not definite. There will be actions you can take with us at Hofstra that do not risk arrest.”

He added: “Some people are signing up to risk arrest, others are coming for a no-arrest protest. Let us know if you want to participate in civil disobedience.”

The Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Friday that the third-party candidates Stein and Libertarian Gary Johnson had failed to qualify for the first debate.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/21/green-party-jill-stein-presidential-debates-hofstra-new-york

[geek tragedy]

1. Losers nt

[Hortensis]

14. Basically -- yes! If they try, they'll fail.

There're many reasons why they can't move off the fringe, but they all start with the dysfunctions of those who find their way there and their lack of what it takes to consistently succeed in achieving goals.

Every time I think about them, I just wish we could purchase the party name "Green." It was once meant to rally people to fight for a sustainable planet.

[SaschaHM]

2. Did she ever clear up her other arrest warrent?

[oasis]

3. That move should be a sure vote getter.

[shenmue]

6. Yeah

[Hortensis]

44. Lol. Right up there with crashing the Dem convention

and being escorted out by security.

[Blue Idaho]

4. Tone deaf

Calamity Jill...

[DesertRat]

5. Blerg!

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. If they could not escort her to 15% in the national polls, they are not going to get her on stage.

The green party needs to address the problems at its Grassroots before trying to be the biggest leaf at the top of the tree.

[Tanuki]

8. Maybe they'll stage another "fart-in,"

or something equally relevant.

[onehandle]

9. Save time. Arrest them now. nt

[LiberalFighter]

10. Where will she stand with only two podiums?

What will she do when the moderator ignores her?

How will she speak without a mic that works?

What will she look like when the cameras do show her?

[tonyt53]

11. The Secret Service will take care of that situation.

[TeamPooka]

19. that was my first thought too. Next issue, moving on. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

12. She should be escorted to a facility

for delusional has-been grifter anti-science woo-woo peddlers.

[politicaljunkie41910]

13. She's been running for president on the Green Party ticket for how many years now, and she can't

muster up 15% in the polls. At the most she's polling at 4%. The rules for the Debate have been known for more than a year, now. She had the entire primary season all to herself, and failed to get the requisite 15% in the polls so she has no one to blame but herself and the Green Party. If they aren't 15% of the population, then they aren't a political party. If no one knows who she is, it's her own fault. It also wouldn't be fair to the 17 other members of the GOP and Bernie Sanders who campaigned for a year and a half to let these Johnny-come-lately's bully their way onto the debate platform. How many people knew who Barrack Hussein Obama was before 2004?

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. Has she ever got 1% in the polls???

15%?????

[mercuryblues]

34. perhaps if she

had spent that time building up the party from the ground, instead of just trying to syphon support away from Dems I would take her seriously.

[Renew Deal]

15. Yeah, that's going to work.

Fringe extremists acting like fringe extremists

[still_one]

16. Dr. Stein this isn't about you, this is about the Supreme Court, and decades of hardship that

a trump presidency would exert on our country for decades to come

This is about the right to privacy between a person and her doctor, the reversal of citizen's united, halting the further disintegration of the civil rights act which been slowly eroding since the eighties, and so much more.

What do you expect to accomplish? The fact is either Hillary or trump will be the next president, and the next president will select at least the next two Supreme Court appointments, perhaps even a third. The damage a trump presidency is terrifying.

Your predecessor Ralph Nader had that same mindset in 2000, and that resulted in Alito. Nader won enough votes in two states, Florida and New Hampshire, that if that support went to Gore, it would have put those states into Gore's column. Even without Florida, adding Nader's 4% of the New Hampshire vote to Gore's 47% would have give Gore victory in the electoral college.

The consequence were a disaster in 2000, and they will be unrecoverable if trump wins.

Even though Dr. Stein's influence is not as great as Nader's in 2000, that 2% could possibly make all the difference.

Grow up Dr. Stein, drop out and endorse the Democratic nominee

[Rocknrule]

17. Stein = Ralph Nader in drag

[DemonGoddess]

18. jackasses n/t

[DawgHouse]

20. derp.

[Skidmore]

21. She planning on spraying graffiti on the lecterns?

"Jill Stein was here."

[leftynyc]

22. I hope the Secret Service

body slams her for this stunt.

[SidDithers]

23. Lather. Rinse. Repeat...

Green Party Candidates Arrested at Presidential Debate



Sid

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. They might make some noise on the sidewalk outside, ...

... and a little of it might get on television. Maybe that's a victory, in some small way.

[Blue_Tires]

25. No chance of this happening and they know it

but their mission here was just to whore for attention, and the Guardian happily obliges...

[bigwillq]

26. Folks should do whatever they feel is right

and to stand up (or sit or kneel) for what they believe in.

That's democracy. That's freedom. That's America.

[nolabear]

27. "We demand entry!" "Nope." Game over.

What do they think they're going to do, for Chrissake? Jill Stein is not going to storm any barricades.

[kimbutgar]

28. She is a brought and paid for spoiler

Someone is supporting her campaign, I think Putin is giving her money to help cheeto

[BobbyDrake]

32. Rove and Putin. Stein has some disgusting bedfellows. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. Wait. There's a Green Party?

[Codeine]

31. I'm sure the Secret Service will be thrilled

with their nonsense.

[BobbyDrake]

33. The Green Party and all of its enablers are scum.

Fuck 'em. They should keep their pathetic temper tantrums out of our politics.

Or maybe try to win local, state, or federal office ANYWHERE before demanding the Presidency like the spoiled brats that they are.

[Rocknrule]

35. In the deck of cards that was the 2000 election, Ralph Nader was the joker

Stein is setting herself up to be the same thing.

Jill Stein 2016: Healing crystals and Cherokee hair tampons for everyone!

[Godhumor]

36. "Won't someone PLEASE pay attention to me????"

Voters: Did you hear something? Maybe just the wind?

[MineralMan]

37. Morons abound. nt

[Scurrilous]

38. Lock her up!

[Hekate]

39. Oh that reminds me: hubby said he's changing his voter reg from Green back to Dem...

Must remember to go pick him up a new form when I get over this bug.

[GulfCoast66]

40. You can do it online

Tonight!

[quaker bill]

41. This will get her back down to the more usual 0.4%

Rebels without a clue, ya gotta love 'em.

[VOX]

42. Jill SteinNader™ n/t

[workinclasszero]

43. I am sure Trump and the republicans appreciate all the help

Green Party!