OntheWilderSide

After spending the whole year exclusively covering only the two corporate party candidates, Democracy Now! breaks away to give a third party candidate some coverage. Unfortunately, this is the same timing chosen by the corporate media such as the New York Times because it is the Green Party Presidential convention.  Please let Democracy Now! know that you expect them to live up to their name and give equal time to third party candidates throughout the remainder of the presidential race.  Democracy Now! is supposed to be the War and Peace Report, they should give equal time to the peace candidates such as Jill Stein that they give to war candidates such as Obama and Romney.

As the corporate media [IW: and DN!] covers every move made by Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney and Democratic incumbent Barack Obama, we go to Baltimore to cover the Green Party 2012 National Convention. “We need big solutions, you know, not solutions around the margins. We really need to end unemployment. We need to put 25 million people back to work with good-paying jobs,” says presumptive presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein, who is running on a platform called “the Green New Deal” that emphasizes economic justice, tough financial regulation, the repeal of Citizens United and a transition to a “green economy.” The Green Party expects to be on the 2012 ballot in at least 45 states and plans to spend approximately $1 million on its campaign. Stein is the party’s first candidate to independently qualify for federal matching funds, a milestone for this 11-year-old third party.

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Filed under: 3rd party, Election 2012, Green Party, News, president, presidential Tagged: | Citizens United, Green New Deal, Jill Stein