Every effort of the Obama Administration has been to prop this system up and keep it going at taxpayer expense. And when homeowners could no longer pay them what they demanded, they went to government and got trillions of dollars of bailouts. The developers and financiers made trillions of dollars through the housing bubble and the imposition of crushing debt on homeowners. Stein explained her willingness to be arrested: On August 1, 2012, Stein, Honkala and three others were arrested during a sit-in at a Philadelphia bank to protest housing foreclosures on behalf of several city residents struggling to keep their homes. Shortly the selection was made, Stein's campaign manager Ben Manski had said Barr's shortlist for running mates had included Roseanne Barr, her chief opponent in the party's primaries. On July 11, 2012, Stein selected anti-poverty activist Cheri Honkala as her running mate for the Green vice-presidential nomination. Vice-presidential running mate selection On July 1, 2012, the Jill Stein campaign reported it had received enough contributions to qualify for primary season federal matching funds from the Federal Election Commission, making Stein the second Green Party presidential candidate ever to have qualified, with Ralph Nader being the first in 2000. Stein won the presidential nomination of Green Party on July 14, 2012, at its nominating convention in Baltimore. Now we know there will be a third candidate on the ballot who is a genuine champion of working people.' In a statement following the California election, Stein said, 'Voters will not be forced to choose between two servants of Wall Street in the upcoming election.

Stein became the presumptive Green Party nominee after winning two-thirds of California's delegates in June 2012. In December 2011, Wisconsin Green Party leader Ben Manski was announced as Stein's campaign manager.

Campaign staff Д¬ampaign manager Ben Manski at Wisconsin Wave Rally, 2011 If I can quote Alice Walker, 'The biggest way people give up power is by not knowing they have it to start with.' And that's true, for the environmental movement, the student movement, the antiwar movement, health-care-as-a-human-right movement - you put us all together, we have the potential for a Tahrir Square type event, and turn the White House into a Green House in November. During an interview with Grist Magazine, Stein said: Encouraged by this success, she decided to run. The mock election featured the Green ticket of Stein/Mesplay, the Democratic ticket of Obama/Biden and the Republican ticket of Romney/Ryan, with Stein receiving 27% of votes, Romney 33% and Obama 39%. Stein's decision to enter the presidential race stemmed from a mock election at Western Illinois University where she fared well. On October 24, 2011, Stein launched her campaign at a press conference in Massachusetts, saying: 'We are all realizing that we, the people, have to take charge because the political parties that are serving the top 1 percent are not going to solve the problems that the rest of us face, we need people in Washington who will refuse to be bought by lobbyists and for whom change is not just a slogan'. In a survey conducted in September 2011, Stein suggested that she would announce her intentions by the end of that month and later stated that she would announce her intentions in October. 1.5 Vice-presidential running mate selectionД¬ampaign developments Announcement.

The campaign received enough contributions to qualify for primary season federal matching funds from the Federal Election Commission, and on July 11, 2012, Stein selected anti-poverty activist Cheri Honkala as her running mate for the Green vice-presidential nomination. Stein received the presidential nomination of Green Party at its nominating convention in Baltimore on July 14, 2012. debt-ceiling crisis which she called 'the President's astounding attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid вЂ“ a betrayal of the public interest.' She wrote in a published questionnaire that she had been asked to run by a number of Green activists and felt compelled to consider the possibility after the U.S. Jill Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, gave indication in August 2011 that she was considering running for President of the United States with the Green Party in the 2012 national election. The 2012 presidential campaign of Jill Stein was announced on October 24, 2011.

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