Kathleen Ronayne (Associated Press ap.org via Yahoo News); Wisdom Quarterly
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Long before presidential recounts crossed her mind, trash dumping and mercury contamination pushed Jill Stein into politics.
Stein, a physician, joined a 1990s movement to shut
down or better regulate mercury-polluting incinerators in Massachusetts.
She authored papers on child neurological damage and spoke at public
gatherings. She testified at hearings as a medical expert.
Massachusetts eventually enacted strict limits on
mercury emissions, and a few incinerators closed. But Stein had begun to
see the system as set up to block change, and when the Green Party
recruited her to run for governor in 2002, she took the chance.
"I was part of a very frustrated public health
initiative, and then the Green Party came to me and said, 'Why don't you
run for office?'" Stein said in an October interview with The
Associated Press. "I said, 'Everything else is failing, I might as well
try electoral politics.'" More
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