Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2012
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| Campaign | U.S. presidential election, 2012 |
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Jill Stein Former member of the Lexington Town Meeting from the 2nd district (2005–2011) Cheri Honkala Political and social activist |
| Affiliation | Green Party |
| Status | Announced Candidacy: October 24, 2011 Presumptive nominee: June 2012 Official Nominee: July 14, 2012 Lost Election: November 6, 2012 |
| Key people | Cheri Honkala (Running mate) Ben Manski (Campaign manager) |
| Receipts | US$893,636 (Oct. 17, 2012) |
| Slogan | A Green New Deal for America |
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| Jill Stein 2012 | |
The 2012 presidential campaign of Jill Stein was announced on October 24, 2011. Jill Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, gave indication in August 2011 that she was considering running for President of the United States with the Green Party in the 2012 national election. She wrote in a published questionnaire that she had been asked to run by a number of Green activists and felt compelled to consider the possibility after the U.S. debt-ceiling crisis which she called "the President’s astounding attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – a betrayal of the public interest."
Stein received the presidential nomination of Green Party at its nominating convention in Baltimore on July 14, 2012. The campaign received enough contributions to qualify for primary season federal matching funds from the Federal Election Commission, and on July 11, 2012, Stein selected anti-poverty activist Cheri Honkala as her running mate for the Green vice-presidential nomination.
In a survey conducted in September 2011, Stein suggested that she would announce her intentions by the end of that month and later stated that she would announce her intentions in October. On October 24, 2011, Stein launched her campaign at a press conference in Massachusetts, saying: "We are all realizing that we, the people, have to take charge because the political parties that are serving the top 1 percent are not going to solve the problems that the rest of us face, we need people in Washington who will refuse to be bought by lobbyists and for whom change is not just a slogan".
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