It's Official: Lexington's Jill Stein is Green Party's Presidential Pick

The Massachusetts physician was formally nominated last weekend at the Green Party's National Convention in Baltimore. Also last week, Stein introduced anti-poverty advocate Cheri Honkala as her running-mate.

A local resident was officially nomiated as contender for President of the United States last weekend, and the candidate's name wasn't Mitt Romney. While the GOP hopeful hails from just over the line in Belmont, Lexington has a presidential candidate of its own: Jill Stein of the Green Party. A physician who once faced Romney in a race for Massachusett's governor, Stein was formally nominated last weekend at the Green Party's National Convention in Baltimore. "We are the 99 percent, and this is the year we take our country back," Stein told the convention crowd, according to the Baltimore Sun. "Voting for either Wall Street candidate gives a mandate for four more years of corporate rule." Also last week, Stein announced her running mate, …

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fitzroy

10:05 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012

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Roseanne for President? Lexington's Stein Stomps Sitcom Star in Green Party Poll

In a poll conducted earlier this week on the noted Green Party Watch blog, Lexington physician Jill Stein nearly doubled up Roseanne Barr in a race among candidates seeking the Green Party's presidential nomination in 2012.

It seems Lexington physician Jill Stein still has a leg up on her newest challenger for the Green Party's presidential nomination. Roseanne Barr made a bit of a splash as the press picked up on her apirations to become the Green Party's presidential candidate, but the TV personality wasn't able to outpace Stein in a poll this week on a leading Green Party political site.  From Feb. 1 to Feb. 2, the Green Party Watch blog coducted a poll featuring the four candidates currently the party's nomination for the Presidential Election. Of 1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223, or 68 percent, more than doubling up on Barr, who garnered picked up 526 votes, about 29 percent. According to Green Party Watch, Barr is an avid tweeter and has used…

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Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

1:34 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2012

The Green Party is truly the gift that keeps on giving. It offers more laughs than the funny papers. Jill Stein has as much chance of being elected, or even influencing the election, as Ted Williams does of opening his eyes and saying, "Where is everybody?" Oh to be at the Green Party Convention in Baltimore, Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III   more ›

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Five Things You Need to Know Today: July 25

Transportation talk, a public service seminar and the Estabrook School's OPM today in Lexington.

1. The Transportation Advisory Committee meets at 7 p.m. this evening at the Town Office Building and its agenda includes reviews of the electric vehicle charger and Flexpass programs, as well as senior transportation issues. 2. State Rep. Jay Kaufman, D-Lexington, will be at the Cary Memorial Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight for a seminar “You Too Can Be President: What are the: Benefits and Possibilities in Public Service?” 3. The Estabrook School Access Ad Hoc Task Force meets at 6 p.m. this evening at the Public Works Building and will receive an update from the Owners Project Manager (OPM), RF Walsh Collaborative Partners, who was chosen by the town recently and will present a brief overview of the Designer Selection Process and …

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