We are now nearly seven days into our field audit by the Federal Election Commission, and we have a clearer picture of what to expect from our auditors. Last Tuesday, the field team arrived in our Madison, Wisconsin office and began work. Each day, they go through our files and submit requests for answers about specific expenses, reports, and income. Our staff then has between 24 to 48 hours to respond to each request. We expect that this process will go on for another 4 weeks, at which point the auditors will issue a preliminary report.
It is no understatement that the Jill Stein for President team is committed to ensuring that this audit leave Jill Stein, Cheri Honkala and the Green Party in as strong a position as possible. We have made great progress in our preparations for this moment. But the reality still is that we are dealing with an audit process designed for campaigns 100 to 1000 times the size of ours. Please make a donation to help us get through this difficult period.
Our spring wave of Green Campaign Schools are done, and thanks to you, nearly 500 people took part in our regional trainings across the country, in Minnesota and Massachusetts, Oregon and Texas, New York and California. Thanks to Craig Seeman of the Green Party of New York State, we have videos of a number of the sessions at the New York City campaign school, and have provided those below.
The results are in, and together with our partners at Northwoods Advertising, we are proud to announce that our TV advertising campaigns have won not one, not two, but six prestigious Pollie Awards from the American Association of Political Consultants. All three of these ad campaigns were produced by the incredible folks at Northwoods Advertising with the intimate involvement of our campaign team, who supplied original scripts, concepts, images, and more.
Our controversy-producing TV ad, "Enough!," which Google TV attempted to censor for calling American politics what they are, won a silver in the "Television" category, as well as bronzes in "Best Use of Humor" and "Best in Show."
Our "Climate Storm" ad, produced in one day in response to Hurricane Sandy and the Obama-Romney chorus on fracking, Keystone XL, and Middle East oil policy, won a silver in "Best Use of Negative Contrast" as well as a bronze in "Best in Show."
Our three-part "Most Important Color" ad campaign (aka "What Does Green Mean?") won a bronze in "Best in Show."
You can find below all three of these TV ad campaigns, seen by tens of millions of voters in almost every state across the country. You can also click here to see them.
Of this extended interview by Lauren Windsor on Current TV's The Young Turks, Windsor says:
"I talk to Ben Manski, the campaign manager for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, about her race and the fate of the party vis a vis the political reality of two-party hegemony. He tells me about his work with the democracy movement, and gives me an update on the progress of Move to Amend. Watch to find out about the Citizens United sequester... Enjoy!"
We are now nearly seven days into our field audit by the Federal Election Commission, and we have a clearer picture of what to expect from our auditors. Last Tuesday, the field team arrived in our Madison, Wisconsin office and began work. Each day, they go through our files and submit requests for answers about specific expenses, reports, and income. Our staff then has between 24 to 48 hours to respond to each request. We expect that this process will go on for another 4 weeks, at which point the auditors will issue a preliminary report. 
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The results are in, and together with our partners at Northwoods Advertising, we are proud to announce that our TV advertising campaigns have won not one, not two, but six prestigious Pollie Awards from the American Association of Political Consultants. All three of these ad campaigns were produced by the incredible folks at Northwoods Advertising with the intimate involvement of our campaign team, who supplied original scripts, concepts, images, and more.