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Greens Capture Fourth Place

7 Nov

What an upset! Maybe not. The Green party candidate for president, Jill Stein, placed fourth in Florida. Mine was one of the 223 votes in Seminole County. Now, I can spend the next four years criticizing President Barack H. Obama.

Yes, there are actually people who aren’t in the two main parties who have their own ideas about fixing this country, who had the courage to run for president. Number 3, behind Obama and Romney, was Gary Johnson, a Libertarian who had 348,000 votes by 9:47 p.m. Not bad for raising only $1 million bucks.

Johnson backs abolishing the IRS, legalizing marijuana and creating alternate currencies. He’s a triathlete who has climbed Mt. Everest, and he started his own multimillion dollar construction company

Jill Stein, a Green Party candidate who backs job creation through environmental initiatives, was running fourth with 98,000 votes. Continue reading