* Tribune…
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein campaigns in Chicago. She’s got a morning visit to the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, an afternoon “reality walk” in South Austin and an evening rally in Uptown.
* WLS TV…
A warrant is out for Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s arrest.
Stein, who is from north suburban Highland Park, tweeted a photo Wednesday that shows her spray-painting a bulldozer at an oil pipeline protest in North Dakota.
She was charged with criminal trespassing and vandalism. Stein campaign spokeswoman Meleiza Figueroa could not immediately comment on whether Stein plans to turn herself in.
Court records show Stein was charged Wednesday in Morton County with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief. The same charges have been filed against her running mate, Ajamu Baraka. […]
Morton County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Rob Keller said the warrant has been filed and if authorities were to come across Stein, “they would arrest her.”
* More…
Stein’s campaign, in a statement Wednesday, said the Green Party standard bearers were supporting Native American groups in protesting the construction of the Dakota Pipeline.
“In support of the action that stopped pipeline construction on Tuesday,Stein spray-painted the words ‘I approve this message’ onto the blade of a bulldozer that had been used to destroy sacred burial sites of the Standing Rock Sioux,” the campaign said in the statement.
A defiant Stein said in the statement that “I hope the North Dakota authorities press charges against the real vandalism taking place at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation: the bulldozing of sacred burial sites and the unleashing of vicious attack dogs.”
“I hope they take action against the Dakota Access Pipeline company that is endangering drinking water not only for the Standing Rock Sioux, but for millions of people downstream of the reservation who depend on the Missouri River,” she added.
*** UPDATE *** Sun-Times…
Morton County sheriff’s office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey on Thursday said Stein must be arrested in North Dakota, since the charges are misdemeanors.
“She has to be arrested in state, or unless she wants to cooperate,” Preskey said.
Both offenses are Class B misdemeanors.
- x ace - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:38 am:
Misdemeanor ?
Out of State Extradition -Unlikely, may even be Impossible ?
- Honeybear - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:42 am:
I’m sure the Tribbies would love to call the cops.
Go for it. You’ll make her famous in a second.
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:44 am:
Between this, Gary Johnson not knowing what Aleppo is, and the well documented issues with Clinton and Trump, there sure seems to be a missing level of competency and proper decorum in the 2016 Presidential field. I may have to go get one of those “Giant Meteor 2016 - Just End It Already” bumper stickers.
- Fusion - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:45 am:
Now that Gary Johnson doesn’t know what an Aleppo is, perhaps Jill Stein will rocket to 9% in the polls.
- Matt Vernau - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:46 am:
Never Trump! Never Ever Hillary! Steins doin time. Whose left….or right?
- Honeybear - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:49 am:
Oh, and I forgot. Thank you Jill Stein for visiting the Austin neighborhood. Money where your mouth is sister Jill. That’s why I’m voting for you. (unless it gets tight in Illinois between HRC and Trump)
- JoanP - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:50 am:
@ x ace:
Not impossible at all, though perhaps unlikely.
Unless the warrant has geographic limits on it, the police would have to serve it and she’d have to go through the extradition process. North Dakota would then need to decide whether they wanted to spend the time and money to haul her back there for trial.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:51 am:
At 2% in national polls, Jill Stein couldn’t get arrested in any town.
- Last Bull Moose - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:51 am:
If she had spray painted “Free Aleppo!” it would have been more presidential. /s
- northsider (the original) - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:53 am:
Sanctuary Tower!
- Stuff Happens - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:53 am:
She just didn’t know what ‘trespass’ and ‘vandalism’ meant, and assumed the signs were labels to help organize tracts of land.
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:55 am:
- If she had spray painted “Free Aleppo!” -
Then Gary Johnson would ask where to get his free Aleppo, and Trump would say he’s gonna stop giving out free Aleppo if elected.
- The Fool On The Hill - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 10:58 am:
She’s got the Native American vote!
- Bill Thomas - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 11:12 am:
Unreal
- Louis G. Atsaves - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 11:27 am:
If memory serves, she was a Green Party candidate for President in 2012 and was arrested several times for sit ins and once for trying to crash a official presidential debate.
- Huh? - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 11:29 am:
So Stein “vandalized” the blade of a bulldozer with spray paint. The paint will be polished off 5 minutes after the dozer starts pushing dirt. Give me a break.
- Just Observing - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 11:48 am:
I had no idea she was originally from Highland Park.
- Michelle Flaherty - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 11:51 am:
Maybe the edit board will grant her asylum. She can live in the Tower, until everyone has to leave.
- Excessively Rabid - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 11:57 am:
Free Aleppos are properly referred to as Obamaleppos.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 12:09 pm:
It’s not easy being Green.
- Just Me - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 12:17 pm:
I was disappointed to learn this post wasn’t about TRIBBLES and today’s 50th Anniversary of Star Trek. That would have been far more interesting.
- Ghost - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 12:19 pm:
wait you all are missing the point…. at a protest over dmg to the environment and burial grounds she used spray paint…. releasing damaging fluorocarbons into the atmosphere…. /s
- Anonymous - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 12:21 pm:
What’s with the Aleppo jokes? Systematic annihilation of a civilian population is a knee-slapper?
- Keyser Soze - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 12:34 pm:
Would have fit right in with Abbie Hoffman’s Yippies.
- Nick Name - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 12:35 pm:
“What’s with the Aleppo jokes? Systematic annihilation of a civilian population is a knee-slapper?”
This morning, libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson was asked, by Mike Barnicle on MSNBC, “What would you do, if elected, about Aleppo?”
Johnson replied, “And what is Aleppo?”
- JoanP - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 12:46 pm:
@ Nick Name -
He’s an isolationist. He doesn’t need to know about other countries.
- @MisterJayEm - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 1:39 pm:
Say what you will about him, Deez Nuts was never a vandal!!1!
– MrJM
- ArchPundit - Thursday, Sep 8, 16 @ 5:54 pm:
Unfortunately she accidentally flew into Peoria.