Can someone explain how Jill Stein can offer the VP slot to Nina Turner...

[brooklynite]

...since she's not the nominee? Green hasn't held it's nominating Convention yet. Seem's presumptious to me.

[onehandle]

1. They have rules?

What rule was it that made Nader spend so much time in Florida 16 years ago?

[Bongo Prophet]

19. I think it was the "all about me, unsafe at any speed" rule

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Like Cruz and Fiorina. eom

[stopbush]

3. Points for being the only person on DU who knows that.

[emulatorloo]

4. Thank you! Darryl Cherney or Bust!

http://cherney2016.com

[Koinos]

5. If you recall, Stein actually offered the presidential nominee spot to Sanders.

Sanders quite wisely ignored that pitch altogether.

So what kind of a party is it, if someone can offer an outsider a presidential spot?

[Rex]

6. Because she is running unopposed?

No idea, never heard of her before a few weeks ago.

[brooklynite]

7. Nope...

A total of five candidates will stand in the primaries, including the preceding Green nominee for president in the 2012 presidential election, Jill Stein, who is seeking the nomination for a second time. Also running is Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza Curry, who had previously worked as a campaign manager for the presidential campaign of the Green Party's 2008 nominee, Cynthia McKinney, in addition to singer-songwriter and Earth First! activist Darryl Cherney, perennial candidate Kent Mesplay, and University of South Carolina professor William Kreml. Stein currently leads in the popular vote and delegate count. Not all state Green Parties have announced their primaries, caucuses, or conventions yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016

[Rex]

8. Good question then, I can only guess they have different rules.

I went and looked and it seems the only person they are running is her (not a mention of her rivals), no wonder they never get anywhere in politics. She is advertised as the presumptive nominee.

http://2016.green-party.info/

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

11. A bunch of DUers should show up and fuck it up

[Maru Kitteh]

15. The Green party is only recognizing Stein and William Kreml. No idea why or who gets to decide that

Loonies and cranks gotta do what they gotta do I guess.

[BobbyDrake]

18. Jill Stein is trying to earn that "perennial candidate" designation, obviously.

[jcgoldie]

9. She said today on Diane Rehm

That she has 80% of the delegates to their party convention. Now sure where they came from.

[JaneyVee]

10. Ego.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. Queen Stein: What's good for thee is not for me.

[OilemFirchen]

13. How can they even pick a nominee?

They don't have primaries in all fifty states. Those primaries which are held are closed to Green Party members, IIRC.

Why do they feel it appropriate to disenfranchise such a large population?

[procon]

14. Would anyone really care when she did anything? nt

[TSIAS]

16. Didn't Johnson do the same with Weld?

Not sure if the Green Party nominates President and Vice President separately. I would assume the delegates would go along with whom the presumptive nominee chooses.

Clinton offered Kaine VP when she wasn't officially the nominee.

[bettyellen]

17. It's rigged!!