1. Jill Stein was the Green-Rainbow Party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010.
68 Facts About Jill Stein
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Jill Stein ran her first political campaign as the Green-Rainbow candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, losing to Republican Mitt Romney.
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Jill Stein ran for the same position in 2010, losing to the then-incumbent Massachusetts governor, Democrat Deval Patrick.
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Jill Stein first ran for president of the United States in 2012, selecting Cheri Honkala as her running mate.
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Jill Stein ran for the second time for president in 2016 with running mate Ajamu Baraka against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump, the latter of whom won the election.
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Jill Stein ran a third time in the 2024 election against former President Trump and Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris on a campaign focused on an anti-war stance, universal healthcare, free public education, an eco-socialist "real Green New Deal", and strong worker rights.
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Jill Stein is among the list of several women who have run for president of the United States and one of the few who received more than a million votes in the general election, behind Hillary Clinton, Jo Jorgensen, and Kamala Harris.
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Jill Stein was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in nearby Highland Park, Illinois.
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Jill Stein was raised in a Reform Jewish household, attending Chicago's North Shore Congregation Israel.
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Jill Stein then attended Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1979.
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Jill Stein practiced medicine in the Boston area for 25 years.
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Jill Stein served as an instructor in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Jill Stein has said that she left the Democratic Party and joined the Green Party when "the Democratic Party killed campaign finance reform in my state".
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Jill Stein delivered a speech encouraging protesting against the "American Empire" and Israel, and celebrated the pro-Palestine student protest movement.
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Jill Stein proposed the Green New Deal, a government spending plan intended to put 25 million people to work.
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On July 1,2012, the Jill Stein campaign reported it had received enough contributions to qualify for primary season federal matching funds.
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Jill Stein likened her arrest to the persecution of dissident Sergei Udaltsov in Russia.
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On February 6,2015, Jill Stein announced the formation of an exploratory committee in preparation for a potential campaign for the Green Party's presidential nomination in 2016.
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Jill Stein stated during the 2016 campaign that the Democratic and Republican parties are "two corporate parties" that have converged into one.
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Jill Stein was charged in Morton County with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
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Jill Stein's running mate, Ajamu Baraka, received the same charges.
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Jill Stein defended her actions, saying that it would have been "inappropriate for me not to have done my small part" to support the Standing Rock Sioux.
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On November 25,2016, with 90 minutes remaining on the deadline to petition for a recount to Wisconsin's electoral body, Jill Stein filed for a recount of its presidential election results.
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Jill Stein signaled she intended to file for similar recounts in the subsequent days in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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Meanwhile the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that Jill Stein, who placed fourth, had no chance of winning and was not an "aggrieved candidate" and ordered the Michigan election board to reject her petition for a recount.
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Jill Stein said she had attended the event in the hope of speaking to Putin about his policy in Syria, climate change and other issues.
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Jill Stein, who has regularly appeared on RT and Sputnik during her 2012 and 2016 campaigns, announced her decision to form an exploratory committee to run in 2016 during the US-based RT program "Redacted Tonight" in February 2015.
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NBC said there was no evidence in the reports to indicate that Jill Stein was aware any influence operation.
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Jill Stein originally supported activist and scholar Cornel West's 2024 presidential campaign under the Green Party and became his campaign manager.
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On November 9,2023, Jill Stein announced her third bid for president.
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Jill Stein has been an outspoken critic of US foreign policy, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Peter Rothpletz in The New Republic criticized Jill Stein for the decline in Green party membership from 319,000 in 2004 to 234,000 in 2024 and for arguing in a 2016 interview that Hillary Clinton was a greater threat than Donald Trump.
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In 2012, Jill Stein opposed the raising of the debt ceiling, saying that the US should instead raise taxes on the wealthy and make military spending cuts to offset the debt.
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Jill Stein supported the creation of nonprofit publicly owned banks, pledging to create such entities at the federal and state levels.
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Jill Stein opposes charter schools and has been critical of the Common Core, saying that teachers rather than "corporate contractors" should be responsible for education.
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Jill Stein favors canceling all student loan debt, saying that it could be done using quantitative easing, similar to the Wall Street bailout, without raising taxes.
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Jill Stein is critical of the two-party system, and argues for ranked-choice voting as a favorable alternative to "lesser evilism".
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Jill Stein has noted that when Cuba lost Soviet oil subsidies it experienced plummeting diabetes, CVD and all-cause death rates.
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In 2012, Jill Stein favored maintaining current levels of international aid spending.
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Jill Stein is in favor of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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Jill Stein said that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the 2024 Gaza war and that both Democrats and Republicans are enabling the genocide by providing military aid to Israel while de-funding the UNRWA.
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Jill Stein wants to remove US nuclear weapons from foreign countries.
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Jill Stein said that the US "helped foment a coup against a democratically-elected government", contending that the post-revolution government contained "ultra-nationalists and ex-Nazis".
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In October 2016, Jill Stein characterized the conflict as "the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse, on steroids".
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Jill Stein said that Russia had been "surrounded" with NATO assets.
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Jill Stein told CNN that she attended the conference to advocate for a ceasefire in the Middle East and to tell Russia to stop its military incursion in Syria.
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Immediately after the UK voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, Jill Stein came out in support of Brexit.
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Jill Stein has been critical of subsidizing unhealthy food products and of "agri-business" for its advertisements encouraging unhealthy eating.
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Jill Stein has said that due to agri-business, Greeks no longer have the healthy diets they once did.
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Jill Stein has deplored what she and others identify as the structural racism of the US judicial and prison system.
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On Juneteenth in 2016, Jill Stein called for reparations for slavery.
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Jill Stein has supported the Great Sioux Nation's opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, and in September 2016 joined protesters in North Dakota.
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In 2012, Vote Smart reported that Jill Stein wanted to "slightly decrease" spending on space exploration.
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Jill Stein favored maintaining current levels of spending on scientific and medical research.
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Jill Stein said that she would have Snowden in her Cabinet if elected.
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In 2004, Jill Stein ran for state representative for the 9th Middlesex District, which included portions of Waltham and Lexington.
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Jill Stein received 3,911 votes in a three-way race, ahead of the Republican candidate but far behind Democratic incumbent Thomas M Stanley.
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In 2005, Jill Stein set her sights locally, running for the Lexington Town Meeting, a representative town meeting, the local legislative body in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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Jill Stein was elected to one of seven seats in Precinct 2.
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Jill Stein finished first of 16 candidates, receiving 539 votes.
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Jill Stein was reelected in 2008, finishing second of 13 vying for eight seats.
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Jill Stein resigned during her second term to again run for governor.
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Jill Stein ran as the Green-Rainbow Party candidate in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election with Tony Lorenzen as running mate.
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At the Green-Rainbow Party state convention on March 4,2006, Jill Stein was nominated for Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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On February 8,2010, Jill Stein announced her second candidacy for governor.
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Jill Stein's running mate was Richard P Purcell, a surgery clerk and ergonomics assessor.
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Jill Stein received 469,015 votes, the largest number of votes any woman presidential candidate had received up to that point.
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Jill Stein is married to Richard Rohrer, who is a physician.