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US: Jill Stein announces Muslim convert as VP running mate

2024-08-18

[NEWARAB] US Green Party candidate Jill Stein announced her pick for her vice-presidential running mate at an online event on Friday night - academic, activist and Moslem convert Rudolph "Butch" Ware.

Perhaps they’ll split the Moslem vote with the Democrats and the Republicans. But it still won’t be enough to get the Green Party out of the small single digits as their share of the vote.

The announcement came after days of speculation over who Stein would choose in her, by all indications, quixotic campaign for president.

Over the past several days, multiple names - mainly Arab Americans - have been floated as Stein's VP contender, however Ware's name did not appear in most major news reports on the subject.

After Stein announced him as her running mate, Ware described himself as a "willing warrior with resolve in the cause of liberation."

Stein, who ran for president in 2016 and in 2020, followed up by saying, "We're going to turn the empire upside down." She went on to praise their alliance as a Jewish woman and a Moslem man, describing their ticket as unstoppable.

The web event lasted nearly an hour and 45 minutes with around the first hour and a half dedicated to the run-up to the VP pick. The discussion mainly focused on the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and the duopoly of the two-party system that prevents multiple parties from running for president.

Though Stein appears to have no viable path to the presidency, raising concerns among many that she is a potential election spoiler, she does have a significant following in the Arab and Moslem communities. This is mainly due to her unconditional support for a ceasefire in Gaza and for a US arms embargo on Israel.

"She's the only campaign with a principled stance on Paleostine. We should all get behind her," Amer Zahr, a comedian and activist from Dearborn told, whose name has been in the news recently as a potential running mate for Stein told The New Arab.

Wikipedia’s Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III page is rather bare bones (he apparently doesn’t use the III socially):

Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III is a historian of West Africa at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Santa Barbara. He formerly taught at the University of Michigan and before then at Northwestern University.[1][2] He received his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.

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