Endorsements & Quotes From Prior Campaigns

MetroWest Daily News Endorsement: Jill Stein for Secretary of State Tuesday, October 31, 2006

“What Massachusetts needs is a champion for government transparency and democratic reform. We need someone who will speak up when the political bosses and special interests are cutting the rest of us out of the discussion, someone who will advocate for stronger civic engagement and healthier politics.”  Read Full Statement

Blue Mass Group Endorses Jill Stein Fri Nov 03, 2006

“…Jill Stein is running on a platform that emphasizes openness and transparency in government (including limiting the use of outside sections in the budget process), clean elections, independent redistricting, and Instant Runoff Voting. Good ideas all. She’s racked up a bunch of newspaper endorsements, including most recently the MetroWest Daily News and the New Bedford Standard Times. She’s a serious person and a serious candidate, and we’re pleased to endorse her for Secretary of State.” Read Full Statement

The New Bedford Standard Times

November 1, 2006

“…our endorsement of the physician and open government advocate from Lexington and your vote for her will send an important message. The voters need an activist secretary of state who will open up government on Beacon Hill.” Read Full Statement

The Pittsfield Gazette, 2006

“SECRETARY OF STATE. Jill Stein is intelligent, ethical and clearly interested in the role this office should play in empowering the people. She may be the worthiest candidate on the ballot in any statewide race.  Incumbent Bill Galvin, the state’s chief election officer, gallingly declined to debate his primary opponent or Stein. Galvin has assigned a low priority to election issues and a high priority to his old-boys network and partisanship, including creating jobs for supporters such as former Mayor Gerald Doyle Jr. Galvin’s laissez faire attitude toward election-machine concerns is vexing.”

More Endorsements: The Pittsfield Gazette, The Waltham Daily Tribune, The Cambridge Chronicle, The Brookline Tab, Milford Daily News, Watertown Tab, UE Northeast Union

Clean Water Action: We are pleased to announce our endorsement of Jill Stein for Secretary of State. In the words of the Metrowest Daily News, Jill Stein is “a champion of good government, a referee willing to blow the whistle on the other players, a watchdog who’ll protect voters and taxpayers.”

“I’m working and voting for Jill because I believe in her kind of politics – dealing with real issues, helping people make government responsive, insisting on integrity, and based on a just process as the key to a just outcome.” Mel King 5/06

“There’s hope for real people in politics after all.” Cosmo Macero, Boston Herald 10/02

“Stein possesses the ability to work with the state legislature and the bureaucrats to galvanize a new era of policy activism and to inspire a new group of voters…” Needham Times endorsement 11/02

“In the midst of the madness, the candidate who spoke the most clearly was Green Party candidate Jill Stein.” Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe 10/02