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In reply to the discussion: Jill Stein Campaign Response to Accusation of Use of 2016 Recount Money for Legal Defense [View all]Baitball Blogger
(46,698 posts)I provided $ to Stein's recount effort because I was frustrated with the election results and nobody else moved to organize us to find out what happened. Stein made the first outreach so I responded.
Do I feel duped? Just as bad as when I donated to John Edward's campaign. Except, that Stein feels particularly misleading and I have seen this kind of thing happen before when the master HOA in our community asked for money so we could find a lawyer to research our PUD to see what our "vested" rights were in relation to changes on the golfcourse. The first thing they did wrong was relying on local lawyers, which it appears to me, have so many conflicts of interests that they never help you move forward. What tends to happen is that they look the other way as the authoritarians in the community try to bully everyone into submission. So it's no surprise that the local lobby group crossed the line too many times and the organization became the subject of a lawsuit.
It was a surprise when those those funds became part of their legal defense fund, but the money was eventually returned. And I think the Stein group should do the same.