Jill Stein's Recount Cash Pays for Her Russia Legal Defense

[oberliner]

Former Green Party nominee Jill Stein promised her donors they would have a say where the leftover money they gave to fund the 2016 recount was spent. They didn’t.

Money that Jill Stein raised to recount votes in 2016 swing states is being used by her campaign to pay for legal bills stemming from the investigation of Russian interference in the last presidential election.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-recount-cash-pays-for-her-russia-legal-defense?ref=home

[AnotherMother4Peace]

7. I was one of those suckers. I voted Hillary, but was desperate & disbelieving of the "election" &

"donated" to her thieving "recount efforts" - everything was a sham - fleecing money from desperate folk like me. I've asked for a refund many times, accompanied by my angry opinion of her. All that's accomplished is to get me off her email list (I guess she's still out there "fundraising".

[still_one]

9. A lot of people were duped, and I know my comment is harsh, but after 2000 it should have been

evident that the Green Party did not have a realistic approach, and spewing the false equivalency rhetoric, which I might add was done this time too, has only resulted in one disaster after another. This one is going to be much more difficult to recover from since we have lost at least two SC seats

Incidently, I know a good number of hard-core Hillary supporters who donated to that recount effort also. You were not alone

[AnotherMother4Peace]

11. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe even the Hillary campaign gave money to the recount - we were

all so desperate, and it was obvious that the Russians stole the election. Nothing was being done and that damn Trump train kept heading toward us. I never really paid attention to Stein during the election, not realizing how she was a part of the Russian end game. I was played.

[still_one]

12. I know she or her campaign expressed sympathies toward it, but I cannot comment if the actual

campaign donated real money toward the effort

Ignore my previous "suckers" snark. It was really uncalled for, and I am going to self-delete

[AnotherMother4Peace]

13. No don't delete - It was a cloudy, dark time after a Russian attack - They installed their puppet

We need to think about how vulnerable we are. Your discussion opens self-reflection and self analysis.

[still_one]

18. I already deleted, and there is no need to throw salt on a wound that we are all going through right

now. Thanks though

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. To the recount or to Jill Stein for using for the recount?

The former, I think, i.e. directly to the recount effort.

Whereas Stein over-collected money for the recount, trying to save her ass because she could see she has some blame. Then she used the money for her own benefit, it is alleged.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

15. It was all self interest on her behalf. I hope she's held accountable. side note - go Rosenstein

[pnwmom]

17. I never saw that Hillary paid money into it. I think she asked for her people

to be allowed to observe whatever vote count occurred.

[still_one]

19. That was my recollection at the time, she had no problem with the recount, but no hard money was

committed

[NCTraveler]

2. 12/13/2016

Stein’s campaign is planning to reach out to each of its 161,000 donors and ask them to vote on which “non-partisan election reform and voting rights organizations” will receive the leftover money. The campaign did not immediately release a list of possible organizations, but said it will do so “in the coming weeks” when it begins surveying donors.

Under FEC law, money raised into a recount account can only be used for recount-related expenses -- and a campaign must reach out to donors to either refund their excess donations or ask them whether the funds can be used for another purpose. Based on Tuesday’s announcement, it sounds like Stein’s campaign is looking to go the route of repurposing the funds.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jill-stein-announces-plans-for-leftover-recount-money/

[oberliner]

5. Who could not have seen this coming?

[NCTraveler]

8. Even a lot of people who contributed understood it was a screw job.

Many were in an understandable mental fog. I remember a conversation I had with a poster here that I respect very much. They said they were donating and I questioned them on it. I told them that I saw it as a scam and that Stein was doing nothing more than confirming the numbers for Trump. They told me they saw it as an option of last resort and understood they were throwing their money away. They viewed it as a part of fighting on all front.

To be clear, the manner in which Stein acted was going to do nothing more than confirm the numbers for Trump. It was the only possibility. She didn't know what she was doing and didn't have competent people around her.

[still_one]

10. I remember your comments then reflecting your skepticism

[MineralMan]

3. That's not at all surprising.

It is, however, a sad commentary on misplaced loyalties.

[Gothmog]

4. Who is surprised by this?

[oberliner]

6. Seemed obvious at the time

Yet many DUers gave her money.

[pnwmom]

16. Thanks for posting this, oberliner! nt