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In reply to the discussion: Jill Stein got to keep over $4 million from the funds she scammed for her recounts. [View all]brush
(53,758 posts)16. We've known repugs game electronic voting for at least since Bush and the Diebold non-paper...
trail machines.
So how does that make Stein a hero, or Nader for that matter?
Is it because we got Bush and Trump because of them?
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Jill Stein got to keep over $4 million from the funds she scammed for her recounts. [View all]
pnwmom
Jan 2017
OP
Sorry keeping the money shows what she is...and never forget she helped elect Trump and is way to
Demsrule86
Jan 2017
#131
Wouldn't that mean that Al Gore and John Kerry had "ties to Russian interests" too?
PotatoChip
Jan 2017
#130
Nope. She's dumb like a fox, and she is playing American voters hoping for better.
Hekate
Jan 2017
#13
This just makes me sick. The Green Party is not worth diddly squat. I can remember ....
Hekate
Jan 2017
#12
We've known repugs game electronic voting for at least since Bush and the Diebold non-paper...
brush
Jan 2017
#16
She's an anti-hero. If she'd been serious, she wouldn't have waited till after the PA deadline
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#19
Jill Stein stepped in to help computer scientists & election lawyers who couldn't get Hillary to ask
diva77
Jan 2017
#115
Hillary knew they couldn't qualify for the PA recount because the margin was too big.
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#116
How could $2 million cover the WI $3.5 million filing fee, even if she pulled out of PA?
scipan
Jan 2017
#107
Her original website request was for $2.5, which would have covered almost all of that.
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#108
And yet no one has proven this WAS a "cash grab" and fact she did get recounts going in multiple
KittyWampus
Jan 2017
#77
I'd rather she has money left than no attempt at recounts and left wondering what could have been.
uncle ray
Jan 2017
#22
Her second plea on her website, on day two, she linked directly to two other groups.
NCTraveler
Jan 2017
#33
I have enough vitriol left in me to include her, too. Maybe I'd feel differently
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#42
And yet the OP is about smearing Stein regarding donations for the recount.
KittyWampus
Jan 2017
#75
Yes -- that's exactly what she did. Because those recounts didn't turn up anything,
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#43
Big deal. After Stein started the effort, Hillary's team was going to participate
LisaL
Jan 2017
#76
People here we claiming they were happy to do it, even though some of us tried to warn them.
LisaL
Jan 2017
#62
The caliber of Jill Stein's character will be sealed as we watch how the money is spent.
SticksnStones
Jan 2017
#50
Wow, she's right up there with that "I am not a witch" scammer. WTF is her name?
catbyte
Jan 2017
#57
stein voters really didn't mind a trump victory and stein is more than happy to keep the money
beachbum bob
Jan 2017
#71
Why do you twist the issue by including Stein's votes? That has NOTHING to do with the recount.
KittyWampus
Jan 2017
#72
No, she didn't. No recount occurred in PA, so she kept the $2 mil she had raised
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#81
What's really sad is that Democrats were so desperate for SOMEONE to fight this stolen election
Tatiana
Jan 2017
#78
I appreciate your response. Al Gore didn't lose. Jeb rigged the Florida results for his brother.
Tatiana
Jan 2017
#87
Hillary has always been a realist, and she doesn't take advantage of desperate people. n/t
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#82
If you donated to Stein for the recount, call your credit card company for a charge back refund.
lapucelle
Jan 2017
#88
she was the green party candidate, so yes, the entire party is about defeating democrats
JI7
Jan 2017
#117
Well, so far everyone talks only about Jill Stein, rather than the Green party itself, as though
braddy
Jan 2017
#121
The staunchest BOBs dislike feminists because they assume they are for HRC and voting "with
bettyellen
Jan 2017
#138
The money should be donated to the ACLU and it should be done immediately!!!
FreeStateDemocrat
Jan 2017
#133