Current Events > Jill Stein "assisting" Cornel West campaign

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/jill-stein-cornel-west-president-2024/index.html

Two-time Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein told CNN on Thursday that she is now assisting Cornel West, the former Harvard professor and longtime progressive activist, as he builds up his recently announced campaign for the White House.

Im a transition coordinator helping his campaign move from its previous Peoples Party context into the Green Party and developing his team and the infrastructure that he needs to run a full-powered, people-powered campaign, Stein said.

West, a prominent surrogate for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during his two presidential campaigns, announced his own plans to run as a candidate with the little-known Peoples Party in a video earlier this month. But he quickly broke off from that group, which has limited campaign infrastructure amid concerns about ballot access, to join the Greens and seek their nomination.

Stein does not currently expect to have a long-term presence on Wests campaign. But her involvement will likely rankle Democrats who say her candidacy siphoned progressive votes from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 general election a claim she has always dismissed. In the key swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Steins vote total exceeded Donald Trumps narrow victory margins. Still, it is unclear whether Stein voters would have turned out for Clinton had the Green nominee not been on the ballot.

Stein also ran on the Green Party line in 2012, when President Barack Obama was reelected.

Stein said she and others aligned with the Green Party, including her former running mate Ajamu Baraka, reached out to West, through the journalist Chris Hedges, following one of the candidates early media appearances to offer their help.

It was really, I think, clear to everyone that Cornel needed to be in a campaign infrastructure that could make this campaign as big as the American people need it to be, Stein said. We just began the transition at that point, and we are close to moving most of our critical infrastructure and really getting down to work.

Explaining his decision to break from the Peoples Party last week on the The Katie Halper Show, West pointed to the Green Partys broader and deeper infrastructure and know-how when it comes to ballot access.
Any candidacy to run the empire, in order to dismantle the empire, has to be part of a movement, West said.

No idea who Cornel West is

I, for one, am shocked.

In the key swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Steins vote total exceeded Donald Trumps narrow victory margins.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/5/AAcJoVAAEnRl.jpg

"Totally not a Russian asset" Jill Stein with Putin.

EDIT: Mike Flynn's there too.

literally, and I do mean LITERALLY a repeat of 2016 lmfao

They forming the Green People Party? Cornel most likely running to either sell books or gain employment for a media/education gig.

Also yes trying to be a spoiler for Biden even though Republican policies are worse towards his followers.

Lol this is so on the nose it almost seems too scripted to be real.

brestugo posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/5/AAcJoVAAEnRl.jpg

"Totally not a Russian asset" Jill Stein with Putin.

EDIT: Mike Flynn's there too.

It always blows my mind that not only does that picture exist, but the literal website of the Green Party rather than criticizing Trump after the election immediately started attacking the Democrats over "Russia-gate" and you still have people thinking she was an actual candidate and not a Russian asset.

Jagr_68 posted...

literally, and I do mean LITERALLY a repeat of 2016 lmfao

Kradek posted...

Lol this is so on the nose it almost seems too scripted to be real.

We'll get the same justifications too.

Stein said she and others aligned with the Green Party, including her former running mate Ajamu Baraka, reached out to West,

This is the smoking gun here.

Newsweek:

In an interview with U.S. attorney Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz in the same month, West, describing Putin as a "gangster", echoed the Kremlin line that Russia launched what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine in part due to NATO's expansion in the past couple of decades.

Everyone jumps on Stien for playing spoiler in 2016, but no one gives Jorgensen credit for playing spoiler in 2020...

Avirosb posted...

Newsweek:
In an interview with U.S. attorney Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz in the same month, West, describing Putin as a "gangster", echoed the Kremlin line that Russia launched what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine in part due to NATO's expansion in the past couple of decades.

Man what the fuck. I know people have been talking about West's decline from his heyday, but I didn't know he shared this bullshit with RFK jr.

What the fuck is with these people becoming Russian propagandists.

Kradek posted...

Man what the fuck. I know people have been talking about West's decline from his heyday, but I didn't know he shared this bullshit with RFK jr.

What the fuck is with these people becoming Russian propagandists.

Money is a pretty big motivator for a lot of things.

I voted for Jill Stein in 2016.

Councillor West has spoken.

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