The Green Party is the only party working hard to achieve economic, social, democratic, and environmental justice for all the people. And right now, we need the people to help us get a Green Party presidential candidate on the ballot so we can continue that struggle.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and the Illinois Green Party (ILGP) are in a real bind. Due to Illinois election law written by the two corporate bribe taking parties, the Green Party is required to get 8 times more signatures than the presidential candidates for the two political parties that wrote the law to get our presidential candidate on the November ballot. We need a minimum of 25,000 signatures. To make matters worse, we know from past experience that it’s highly likely that the Democratic Party will spend their immense corporate PAC and individual supporter donations to hire lawyers to frivolously challenge our petition filing: so we actually need 40,000 signatures to safely fend off their challenge!

The ILGP and the Stein campaign currently only have about 8,500 signatures with less than 5 weeks left!

As you know, the Green Party NEVER accepts donations from corporations or corporate PACs. As a result of our modest success in raising donations from individuals, we are able to offer petitioning stipends. Via this program we are able to offer 25 cents per signature. As there is overhead in paying stipends, we ask that one commit to at least 200 signatures to receive the stipend.

If you would like to volunteer to petition to provide the voters a choice of a real peace and justice candidate AND pick up a little bit of extra money as a result of your effort during these hard financial times, please contact our Illinois petition coordinator, Samantha Rocknowski, samantha.rocknowski@gmail.com, 815-955-4571. Once you contact Samantha, she will be able to provide more details and suggestions on when, where, and how to petition. We have no shortage of petitioning opportunities to recommend. If you haven’t petitioned before, you will be provided training by experienced petitioners. Petitioning can be great exercise and lots of fun, so please consider joining our team!

If you don’t have the time, alternatively you can make a donation to help with the stipend costs. Just mention in the comment section that you are donating to help with the petitioning stipending program.

More info:

www.jillstein.org

www.ilgp.org