Jill Stein

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Jill Stein (2016)

Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American doctor and politician . In 2012 she ran for the first time for the presidency of the United States . As a candidate for the Green Party , she was nominated again for election in 2016 .

Life

Origin and education

Stone was in a progressive - Jewish born family in Chicago. Her ancestors on her father's and mother's side fled to the United States because of anti-Jewish pogroms in Tsarist Russia . She grew up in Highland Park and then attended Harvard College and Harvard Medical School . She graduated from the latter in 1979 with the grade magna cum laude .

Political career

Stein ran multiple times for the Massachusetts- based Green Rainbow Party . For example, she ran against Mitt Romney in the 2002 election for governor of Massachusetts , and in 2004 she ran for a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and two years later for the office of Secretary of the Commonwealth . In 2010 she ran for the second time for governor, but was defeated again, this time to the Democratic incumbent Deval Patrick .

In 2012 she was run as a presidential candidate by the Green Party of the United States. Her candidate as runner-up was Cheri Honkala . While trying to take part in the second televised debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, she was arrested on October 16, 2012 on the grounds that she had blocked traffic in front of the building.

In February 2015, Stein announced that she would run for president of the United States again in 2016. Her running mate this time was Ajamu Baraka .

In September 2016, Stein attended the protest movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock . A video was released on September 6, 2016 showing Jill Stein spraying a political message on one of the bulldozers. As a result, the Morton County Sheriff's Department in North Dakota issued an arrest warrant for her.

In the presidential election on November 8, 2016 , she and her running mate Ajamu Baraka received around 1.45 million votes (share: 1.06%) according to preliminary information. In late November, Stein requested an official vote recount in the state of Wisconsin . Computer experts had criticized the voting machines used there; they are extremely vulnerable to hacker attacks (in other states, such as California , voting machines are not allowed to be used). The defeated Hillary Clinton had, compared to Republican election winner Donald Trump , done significantly worse in constituencies where voting machines were used than in polling stations where handwritten ballot papers were used. The recount came to a conclusion before December 13, 2016, as required, but produced only minor deviations from the original result and confirmed Trump's success. Stein, who had largely funded her campaign with donations on the Internet, also wanted to recount in the states of Pennsylvania and Michigan . In Michigan, a count that had already started was stopped on December 9, 2016 by the Supreme Court. In Pennsylvania, Stein withdrew her application because of excessive costs; it subsequently failed in an attempt to force a new count by court order.

Private life

Stein is married to the doctor Richard Rohrer. The couple have two sons, Ben and Noah, and live in Lexington .

Positions

Jill Stein criticizes the two-party system in the USA as undemocratic. By excluding them from debates and media reports, opposition voices and parties would be eliminated in advance.

Stein also advocates a more environmentally friendly policy and wants to expand renewable energies in the USA. She denies that reforming the energy system would destroy jobs and harm the economy. It wants to end energy generation from fracking , oil sands , offshore drilling and shut down uranium mines.

She also advocates a strong middle class. To do this, she wants to introduce a “ right to work ” that includes a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour. She sees continuous education as the key to a professionally successful nation and therefore, like Bernie Sanders, wants to offer education at universities free of charge and to abolish student debts.

Stein advocates the legalization of marijuana , as well as the protection of minorities such as LGBT people and indigenous peoples .

Domestically, she calls for "non-constitutional espionage and surveillance" and the prosecution of whistleblowers to be stopped. She wants to close the Guantanamo prison camp . In addition, the police are to be "demilitarized"; independent investigators should deal with the problem of police violence on a sustained basis .

Web links

Commons : Jill Stein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jessica Taylor: Green Party Officially Nominates Jill Stein. National Public Radio, August 7, 2016, accessed August 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Who Is Jill Stein Anyway? Green Party Candidate Discusses Her Background , October 12, 2012, Forbes , accessed June 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Stein to jump into gov race with Green-Rainbow bid , Jan. 7, 2010, Boston Herald
  4. ↑ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82490.html
  5. ↑ Green Party candidate Jill Stein considers a second run for president - The Boston Globe. Retrieved June 16, 2015 .
  6. ^ A history of Native Americans protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ tagesschau.de. "US election: Wisconsin is counting". tagesschau.de, accessed on November 26, 2016. https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/uswahl-neuauszaehler-101.html .
  8. ^ Independent: Donald Trump's election victory in Wisconsin confirmed after recount
  9. ↑ tagesschau.de. "US election: Greens call for recounts in three states". tagesschau.de, accessed November 26, 2016. https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/jill-stein-103.html .
  10. ↑ The Detroit News: Michigan Supreme Court denies Stein's recount appeal
  11. ↑ AOL news: US judge rejects Jill Stein bid for Pennsylvania recount
  12. ^ AJ +: Jill Stein: The Two-Party System Is Broken. May 23, 2016. Retrieved August 6, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Politicks.org: Jill Stein | Presumptive 2016 Green Party Presidential Nominee. (No longer available online.) In: 2016.presidential-candidates.org. Archived from the original on August 6, 2016 ; accessed on August 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 2016.presidential-candidates.org
  14. ↑ a b c Power to the People Plan. Retrieved August 7, 2016 .
  15. ^ Jill Stein for President Booster Club: Jill Stein Interview With Fox Business News Panel. July 7, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Jill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Jill Ellen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois