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Green Party Criticizes Jill Stein for Attempting a Recount

<p>Things aren&rsquo&semi;t going well post-election for Green Party candidate Jill Stein&period; Unable to accept the fact that Donald Trump &&num;8211&semi; a man whom she no doubts thinks will destroy the planet &&num;8211&semi; won the election&comma; Stein has demanded a nonsensical recount&period; &nbsp&semi;In fact the latest results indicate Trump has gained votes in Wisconsin rather than losing them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last week&comma; Stein began raising money in an effort to conduct a recount of election votes in numerous states&period; Knowing that many of these states would refuse&comma; Stein used the fundraiser to pad her own pockets&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump called the move a &ldquo&semi;scam&rdquo&semi; and many of Stein&rsquo&semi;s &lpar;former&rpar; supporters agree&period; Dr&period; Margaret Flowers&comma; a Green Party candidate for the Senate&comma; wrote a letter complaining about Stein&rsquo&semi;s misuse of funds in the party&rsquo&semi;s name&period; The letter received over 200 signatures from party members&comma; officials&comma; and candidates&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;The decision to pursue a recount was not made in a democratic or a strategic way&comma; nor did it respect the established decision making processes and structures of the Green Party of the United States &lpar;GPUS&rpar;&period; &nbsp&semi;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&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes Flowers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;There were close races in other states such as New Hampshire and Minnesota where Clinton won&comma; but which were not part of the recount&period; And this recount does not address the disenfranchisement of voters&semi; it recounts votes that were already counted rather than restoring the suffrage of voters who were prevented from voting&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Flowers notes that the GPUS&nbsp&semi;understands the &ldquo&semi;undemocratic actions taken during the primaries by the DNC and the Clinton campaign&&num;8221&semi; and insists that the Greens&nbsp&semi;cannot be &ldquo&semi;perceived to be allied with such a party&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> We all know that Stein is merely a surrogate for Hillary&&num;8217&semi;s campaign at the moment&period; &nbsp&semi;The money is coming from Hillary&&num;8217&semi;s supporter and this is a last ditch effort for Hillary to wedge herself into the White House&period; We are not sure why Jill Stein would put herself into that position&comma; but then again the Green Party has struggled for relevance during the entire campaign season&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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