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The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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