The Boston Globe briefly covers Jill Stein’s announcement that she will seek the Green Party presidential nomination, writing, “She ran for president once and is running again. No, she is not Hillary Rodham Clinton but Jill Stein, who in 2012 was the presidential nominee of the Green Party. This puts at three the number of women in a crowded field of presidential hopefuls from both major political parties.”
Most of the report focuses on Stein’s June 22 appearance on Democracy Now!, saying that during her appearance, Stein took “shots at the two Democratic frontrunners. Stein said that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, whose vision she said was similar to her own, should have run outside the Democratic Party, which ‘is marching to the right,'” and called Clinton “a Walmart candidate.”
The piece notes that Stein, a Massachusetts resident, has sought statewide office twice and ran for state representative once. Stein finished third of five candidates, with 3.5% of the vote, in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial race won by Republican Mitt Romney. That race also featured longtime Libertarian activist Carla Howell.