The Green Party is at it Again,

[gab13by13]

The Green Party is collecting signatures to get candidates on the ballot for governor and Senator in Pa. in the November election.

I am still confident in Fetterman and Shapiro victories but this Green party is getting mighty annoying, to say the least.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/third-party-candidates-file-to-run-for-pa-governor-senate/ar-AA10bVCg?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=c03b29d8476c44a1bdad3d7fba691f2f

[JI7]

1. This is what they are about. It's just about helping Republicans win

[blm]

2. Repub strategists funnel big $$ to Green Party

every time they are running behind.

[Dave says]

3. Aren't they ultimately funded...

… by dodgy Russians?

[samnsara]

4. they will end up being the Greene Party if they lose this election for us

[LakeArenal]

5. Jill Stein of the Green Party spent the Fourth of July in Russia along with Ron Johnson

‘Nuff said.

[TheProle]

14. Could you help out with a link for this?

[thucythucy]

15. This will get you started:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=jill+stein+moscow&qpvt=jill+stein+moscow&tsc=ImageHoverTitle&form=IGRE&first=1

And also this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696

[stopdiggin]

18. you might want to look at the date

I did. December 2015. So - these are two completely different affairs - and link Jill Stein to neither Ron Johnson, nor the shameful 4th of July pratfall.

[thucythucy]

21. My mistake.

Sorry about that.

[stopdiggin]

16. I can't find a thing to support this

while the rest of the junket, and sitting congress members involved are pretty well documented -

MSNBC, July 5, 2018 - "In addition to Shelby, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has limited foreign policy responsibilities, the official congressional delegation featured Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas)."

And please don't construe this as any sort of endorsement or excuse for Stein (and the morons that buy into the Green Party shtick). But I think we do better by sticking to supportable facts and misdeeds.

[TheProle]

19. Thanks

It’s not support of Stein to want to have our facts straight.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

6. They are saboteurs.

[JohnSJ]

7. The Green Party has time and again demonstrated they have no moral compass. 2000, 2016

One would hope people don’t listen to them anymore

[2naSalit]

8. THe only time they get active in...

Montana is when they are paid by the Rs to split the vote. They got busted for doing just that the last two elections. I don't think too many care to see them around in these parts.

[JoanofArgh]

12. Republican lawyers tried to get them ballot access in NC but failed

[MerryBlooms]

9. Going nowhere but down the sewer system. Hopefully, they're using recycled paper.💩💩 💩

[JoanofArgh]

10. The GOP actually hires people to run as Green Party candidates. Pretty sure

they're behind this.


There are tons of articles like this: Fake Green Party Candidate Exposed as Having Ties to Republican Congressman https://www.thedailybeast.com/fake-green-party-candidate-exposed-as-having-ties-to-republican-congressman

How Republicans Are Trying to Use the Green Party to Their Advantage (2020)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/green-party-republicans-hawkins.html

By Maggie Haberman, Danny Hakim and Nick Corasaniti
Sept. 22, 2020

Four years ago, the Green Party candidate played a significant role in several crucial battleground states, drawing a vote total in three of them — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that exceeded the margin between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton.

This year, the Republican Party has been trying to use the Green Party to its advantage again, if not always successfully.

In Wisconsin, a G.O.P. elections commissioner and lawyers with ties to Republicans tried to aid attempts by Howie Hawkins, the current Green Party presidential candidate, to get on the ballot there, which were ultimately unsuccessful. In Montana, state regulators found that the Republican Party violated campaign finance laws as part of an effort to boost the Greens in five down-ballot races, including for senator and governor.

And in Western Pennsylvania, petitioners from Florida and California were brought in to gather signatures for Mr. Hawkins by an outside firm whose actions Mr. Hawkins and the party said they could not account for. Mr. Hawkins also did not make the ballot there.

The Green Party's lawyers have ties to the Republican party and have sued for ballot access in Montana and NC (lost in NC). Probably other states as well.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

11. Arizona as well

Republicans were exposed hiring homeless people to run as Greens in blue-leaning districts.

[JoanofArgh]

13. Yep. I remember that!

[2naSalit]

20. That's what they do out in the western states.

It's a racket and they should suffer consequences for it.

[Retrograde]

17. Getting Republicans Elected Every November

I liked the idea of the Green Party when they first formed, but have not liked their focus on the bigger offices while ignoring the local and state ones. Back in the 90s a Green Party candidate was actually elected to the state assembly: she quickly switched parties (to Democratic, luckily)