Jill Stein paid $100,000 to a Republican consulting firm led by a suspected January 6 rioter

I'm sure the usual suspects will be along shortly to explain how this isn't what it absolutely, positively is.

With all this stuff about Jill coming out, it’s no wonder all the Lemmy.ml and Hexbears are so supportive of her. She’s a Russian asset!

What is the Russian word for Wumao?

Insurrectionist*

Nothing about this story or Jill is important except for one thing. She is aligned with Putin in denying Ukraine weapons to defend itself. She may not be purposefully supporting Putin but she is supporting his position and making his position stronger ignoring Putin's past patterns of behavior.

I wonder where she got the money from?

Jill was always a double agent

In Nevada, the Democratic Party initiated a lawsuit to exclude the Green Party from the ballot, claiming the party used the wrong form to collect signatures from voters. The Green Party appealed the case and was represented by Jay Sekulow, an attorney who defended Trump throughout his impeachment trials (last week, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected Stein’s bid to be put back on the ballot).

In Wisconsin, Democratic National Committee employee David Strange sought to remove Stein from the ballot by arguing the Green Party can’t nominate presidential electors without legislative candidates eligible to do so. The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Stein was again legally represented by a Trump-affiliated lawyer, Michael D. Dean, who was involved in lawsuits that attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, the Journal reported.

From another article:

The affidavit originally submitted with the Green Party’s petition in July 2023 was the correct one. However, because the petition that the Green Party submitted contained a separate mistake, an employee in the secretary of state’s office sent the party a sample petition that included the wrong affidavit – for use with petitions to put initiatives and referenda on the ballot. As a result, the affidavits that the Green Party later submitted with its petitions did not contain the attestation required for access to the ballot.

The secretary of state eventually announced that the Green Party had submitted enough signatures to qualify for the 2024 general election ballot.

The Nevada Democratic Party went to state court in June of this year, arguing that the signatures were invalid because the Green Party had used the wrong affidavit.

On Aug. 12, the state trial court ruled in favor of the Green Party, but on Sept. 6 a divided Nevada Supreme Court reversed. It concluded that the attestation that the Green Party had failed to include “serves an essential purpose.” Therefore, the majority reasoned, allowing the Green Party to have its candidates on the ballot when it had not fulfilled all of the prerequisites to do so would nullify “the requirements that were put in place for the public’s benefit.”

SCOTUS ruled with the Nevada Supreme Court and chose to keep the Green Party off the ballot. Their only real mistake here was really just some legal red tape filled out incorrectly. It doesn't really matter if Jill Stein is a terrible candidate or not, the two party system will clearly go to the ends of the earth to kill 3rd parties from every becoming a thing lol. I guess it matters more for democrats since green party would be taking out more of their votes than republicans.

@UniversalMonk@lemmy.world, your thoughts?

The Green Party in the USA is f'n weird.

Blyat!

I wish she'd go away tbh.

I have more respect for people who don't vote then I do for people who vote for her.

Well, she didn’t pay it.

The US Green Party, and all other minor parties, have no incentive to act professionally or nominate serious candidates because voters can't really punish it electorally for nominating shit candidates or other screw-ups by the party.

Green Party electoral results:

Libertarian Party electoral results:

Working Families Party electoral results:

Constitution Party electoral results:

She's weird.

like Trump, she is VERY old

Gosh, how weird.

Since when do we care what she does with Russia’s money?

Seriously though… the propagandists are swinging for the fences here today! Sheesh! The comments are something else!

embarrassing for the green party

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What moves this beyond Third party pays consulting firm for political campaign work that had previously done work for one of the duopoly parties.... Like who else is there to hire for this kind of thing?

Did nobody here read the article?

A spokesperson for Stein said she was unaware of Pool's reported connection to Jan. 6; a lawyer for Pool insisted his client was filming a documentary, not taking part in the attack.

Just because you're somewhere people are doing bad things doesn't mean you're in support of it, especially if you're filming them doing bad things..

The real story here is that she had to pay any law firm at all to fight against the Democratic party to get on the ballot, because the Democratic party is suing to undermine democracy.

Cornell West 2024!!!

Democrats litigate to deny a candidate ballot access, candidate hires non-democrat lawyer to defend herself and democracy.

Well I should definitely vote for genocide now.

I never see positive posts about Kamala because centrist Dems know that there isn't anything they can post about her that will be actually appealing so their only tactic is to beat up on the anti-war leftist candidate as much and as often as possible

Do you ant Jill shills understand how corrupt the Democratic party is? Biden straight up supported segregation and Kamala jailed poor children's parents because they skipped school.

And there's countless times Democrats have collaborated with Republicans.