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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]oberliner
(58,724 posts)53. Democrats gave her a lot of money under false pretenses
That is the part that is really annoying. She conned Democrats into giving her money that she is going to use to run against Democrats.
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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