No Debate: Stein Excluded

June 22, 2010

By Stephanie Kraft
The Valley Advocate
The old stereotype has hardly changed. It wasn’t three white men in front of the microphones during the gubernatorial debate at WRKO in Boston last week. It was two white men, Tim Cahill and Charlie Baker, and one black man—Gov. Deval Patrick—in the debate from which Green-Rainbow candidate Jill Stein was [...]

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Jill Stein: ‘People are hungry for change’

June 22, 2010

By Steven Ryan
GateHouse News Service
Posted Jun 21, 2010 @ 05:30 PM

Needham —
Green-Rainbow Party candidate Jill Stein said she’s the only true outsider running for governor of Massachusetts, touting herself as the only candidate who hasn’t been part of the Beacon Hill establishment.
“People are hungry for change; they are hungry for a healthy, just and green [...]

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Exclusionary Gubernatorial Debate Was Disservice To Voters, Stein Charges

June 16, 2010

BOSTON –  Following today’s gubernatorial debate on WRKO,  gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein  noted that “In this debate, Tim Cahill, Charlie Baker, and Deval Patrick cozied up with the disgraced former House Speaker Tom Finneran to give the voters of the Commonwealth a very narrow vision of the state’s future.  The failing policies of the Beacon [...]

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A Vote For Real Change

June 15, 2010

Published online at metro.us and in The Metro – 6/14/10
An old Chinese proverb carries this advice: “If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.”
As we look around us this summer, it is clear that we badly need to change direction. From the massive oil [...]

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Troubled By Governor’s Lobbyist Fundraiser, Stein Calls For Clean Election Reforms

June 15, 2010

BOSTON – In the wake of revelations about Governor Deval Patrick’s use of a registered lobbyist as his campaign’s top fundraiser, Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein issued a call to fundamentally reform the state’s campaign finance laws, starting with a commitment to public financing of elections. Stein, in a statement issued today, said that [...]

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At Senate Hearing, Candidate Stein Calls For Green Jobs, Not Casinos

June 9, 2010

BOSTON (June 9, 2010) – Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein told a Senate committee that gambling casinos are a bad deal for Massachusetts, asserting that the money they drain from the economy will cost the state more jobs than they can create.  Stein testified at a public hearing that represented the first opportunity for [...]

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Jill Stein tells Paxton she’s the only grassroots gov. candidate

June 4, 2010

Here’s your coffee and change
Jill Stein tells Paxton she’s the only grassroots gov. candidate
By Michael Ballway(photo by Michael Ballway) -  The Landmark
mballway@holdenlandmark.
Jill Stein, the Green-Rainbow candidate for governor, found herself wishing she’d had a chance to meet some of the Paxton’s Tea Party members last week, a sign of how the 2010 elections are [...]

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March with Jill! Sunday June 6th

June 4, 2010

Join Jill, Lt. Governor candidate Rick Purcell, and Auditor candidate Nat Fortune at Richmond Street and Adams Street, Dorchester, MA 02124 at 10:30am to march with the campaign in the Dorchester Day Parade. Please call (617) 506-8576 for more information or to let us know you’ll be coming!

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Patrick Goofs, Stein Scores

June 2, 2010

By Stephanie Kraft – The Valley Advocate

It was news late in May when Gov. Deval Patrick tried to cap off a gushing scandal about patronage in hiring at the Massachusetts Probation Department by calling the department, headed by John O’Brien, a “rogue agency.” It sounded tough, it sounded true—but it took Green gubernatorial candidate Jill [...]

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Stein sees opening for third-party candidates

June 1, 2010

By Stephanie Bergman
The Boston University Statehouse Program

LEXINGTON — Jill Stein has been seeking office as a political maverick long before a tea party was anything more than a game little girls play with their dolls.
Now she says the rise of the grass-roots political movement and the election of Sen. Scott Brown may mean her time [...]

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Stein Supports Immigrant Rights Rally, Condemns Recent Senate Bill

May 30, 2010

BOSTON (May 30, 2010) – Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow Party candidate for governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, attended a rally in support of immigrant rights on the Boston Common on Saturday. After participating in the rally, she released the following statement:
“I am proud to stand with those protesting recent attacks on the immigrant community, here [...]

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Stein Condemns Cahill’s Remarks About The Muslim Community

May 28, 2010

BOSTON (May 28, 2010) – Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow Party candidate for governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, released the following statement in response to Tim Cahill’s criticism of Governor Patrick’s visit to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center over the weekend:
“Tim Cahill’s statement yesterday – suggesting that the Muslim community is a terrorist threat [...]

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Jill Stein Calls Probation Scandal “The Tip Of An Iceberg Of Waste And Abuse On Beacon Hill”

May 25, 2010

BOSTON – Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein cited recent revelations of patronage and pay-to-play promotions in the state Probation Department as underscoring the need for sweeping changes on Beacon Hill.  “This is just the tip of an iceberg of waste, fraud, and abuse that will continue to steal from the taxpayers of the commonwealth [...]

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