Mass. doctor wins nomination to be Green Party candidate

Associated Press

BALTIMORE

A doctor who ran against Mitt Romney for Massachusetts governor a decade ago won the chance Saturday to challenge him again, this time as the Green Party’s presidential nominee.

Jill Stein, an internist from Lexington, Mass., blasted both Romney and President Barack Obama, saying both had become too dependent on donations from corporations to acquire office at the expense of the nation’s citizens.

“We need real public servants who listen to the people — not to the corporate lobbyists that funnel campaign checks into the big war chests,” Stein told applauding supporters at a Holiday Inn in Baltimore. “That’s what brought me to the Green Party, the only national party that is not bought and paid for by corporate money.”