BALTIMORE, July 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Green Party nominated New Englander Jill Stein as its candidate in the November presidential election.
Stein was the overwhelming choice of delegates to the party convention in Baltimore this weekend, handily beating out actress Rosanne Barr.
Stein told a crowd in the hotel lobby, "We are the 99 percent, and this year we take our country back."
The Baltimore Sun said Stein lumped President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney together as candidates of Wall Street and warned electing either one would amount to a "mandate for four more years of corporate rule."
The Greens are proposing a platform that includes forgiving student loans and a moratorium on evictions of residents from foreclosed homes.
The Sun said Stein and her running mate, political activist Cheri Honkala, will have to mount successful petition drives in every state in order to qualify for the November ballot. Making it to the Maryland ballot will require collecting 3,000 signatures by Aug. 6.
