And Stein’s Green Party is having none of it.
First, from BizPacReview.com:
Green Party releases statement distancing itself from Jill Stein: Why only recount states Hillary lost?
by Warner Todd Huston
As failed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein continues her crusade to help Hillary win the White House through a series of recounts in key states, her own Green Party is now saying they want nothing to do with her effort.
Why might that be, you may wonder?
Stein has targeted three key states for recounts in the hope that the vote for Trump can be overturned in favor of Democrat Party nominee Hillary Clinton. But because Stein is now working for Clinton, her own Green Party is calling foul on the recount effort.
The Green Party officially weighed in.
“The decision to pursue a recount was not made in a democratic or a strategic way, nor did it respect the established decision making processes and structures of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS),” the official press release asserts. “The recount has created confusion about the relationship between the Green and Democratic parties because the states chosen for the recount are only states in which Hillary Clinton lost. There were close races in other states such as New Hampshire and Minnesota where Clinton won, but which were not part of the recount. And this recount does not address the disenfranchisement of voters; it recounts votes that were already counted rather than restoring the suffrage of voters who were prevented from voting.”
You have to ask yourself some very basic questions when considering Jill Stein’s insistence upon recounts in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — as Stein received such minuscule vote counts there, overall.
These are states with a narrow Trump win over Clinton, not a narrow Stein win. Jill Stein had a remote chance.
One must ask, then: cui bono? The answer is clearly: Hillary Rodham Clinton. Those three states were expected to turn blue for Clinton but instead turned red for Trump.
The meme from Leftists then became: we must question the election results because there is clearly no way Trump could have won absent rampant cheating. Despite the massively hypocritical Hillary Rodham Clinton having said the following.
As of Saturday (12-3), Stein has dropped her pursuit of a recount in Pennsylvania. The Stein campaign will seek relief in federal court, however, because it couldn’t raise the $1 million dollar bond required by Pennsylvania for said recount by the due date. I suppose the Stein campaign expected — as Leftists are wont to do — the state to provide expensive services to her for free.
On Wednesday, November 30th, a Wisconsin judge denied Stein’s demand for a hand recount in that state, leaving it up to the individual counties to decide whether votes are counted by machine or hand. I make this notation because Hillary Clinton joined in that legal effort.
At first blush the entire situation appears to be summed up thusly: “the womenses has to stick togetha.”
More division instead of union by Leftists and Demorats.
Factually, Jill Stein raised roughly $4 million dollars (now, $6.7 million dollars, TWICE what Stein’s GPUS presidential campaign did) for recounts in those three states. That begs the obvious next question: what happens to the money left over from contributions and donations aimed at supporting the recount?
“If we raise more than what’s needed, the surplus will also go toward election integrity efforts and to promote voting system reform,” the new line on the (GPUS) website said.
As CBSNews.com writes:
But as for where the additional money can go, FEC guidelines are unclear. “There’s limited guidance from the FEC on how these funds need to be spent,” (Brendan Fischer, an associate counsel at the Campaign Legal Center) Fischer said.
Leftist pablum-speech for “anything we want it to, since we control the FEC.”
The bottom line is this. There is no evidence that voting machines were hacked, nor any evidence that the “Russians were involved.” There is evidence, however, that dead people voted, that illegals voted — prodded and abetted by Leftists, Demorats, all the way up to the Oval Office itself as this video indicates.
Consequently, there are only a limited number of conclusions one can draw about the recount, Stein, the Green Party and Hillary Clinton. They are
- This is a propaganda/publicity stunt;
- It’s a fundraising effort for Stein and/or the Green Party, a donor list increase;
- It’s cover for HRC’s attempt to sour/overturn the election;
- An overarching attempt to diminish or foil Trump by any means possible or any Conservative traction or momentum
Leftists and Demorats talk about healing America, about uniting its people when, in fact, recounts do nothing of the sort. Instead, they continue to fracture, divide and erode the confidence that Americans require in order to look forward to a new administration, fomenting instability, disrespect, incivility and precisely the kind of violence, looting, fires and riots you saw in the streets of America directly following Trump’s election — at the hands of, I should specifically emphasize, Leftists.
On the other hand, these actions and this philosophy is perfectly in keeping with the past antics of Leftists who seek not to unite — as opposed to their verbal emesis — but to continue with the wedges of division.
BZ
Leave out the Demorats statement and the derogatory remarks. This is a good article that sums up what’s happening. I am a republican who did not want Trump after the general election I contemplated not voting. I realized however that there where other things that needed to be addressed. Supreme court etc. It pained me to vote for him but I realized as others must. He is one man acting in behalf of many. We can still control what he does.
Derogatory comments, Steve? What, specifically?
In any event I was/am like you. Trump was far from my first choice. But I vowed I would NOT stay away or simply vote down-ticket. I voted for Trump because of 1) SCOTUS and 2) he wasn’t Hillary Rodham Clinton. Everything else, as far as I am concerned, is gravy.
Please continue to read and comment.
BZ
I voted Trump because HE will clean house.
Our Govt is overrun with deadbeats.