Grab and Keel

From Wapo:

Green Party presidential, VP nominees freed from jail after Pa. arrests at foreclosure protest

According to POLITICS PA, in order to get on the ballot in Pennsylvania the Stein and PA based Honkala team had to produce 10 times the number of signatures that the dempubs need. They got more than 35,000:

[This year the Green Party of PA was required to submit 20,601 notarized signatures. The number equals two percent of those received by David Wecht during his 2011 run for state Superior Court.

Democratic and Republican candidates must submit only 2,000 signatures.]

Third parties get squat in the way of airtime. Since mortgage debt forgiveness is part of Stein’s platform and Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac and the Conestoga Bank are less than 400 feet apart in downtown Philadelphia, it makes sense that the team would choose  this location in an effort to dramatize their campaign. I wonder why Philly police gave the Green Party and Stein/Honkala the press? Every activist work his or her salt knows getting arrested comes with the territory. (Just ask Chris Hedges.)