A presidential candidate, who did not qualify to be in Sunday's debate, campaigned on the South Coast this past weekend.
Green Party Candidate Jill Stein held a rally at De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara on Saturday in front of a crowd of supporters. She tells KCLU that it was nice to be in a city that shares her environmentally progressive agenda.
“It was the kind of vision and passion that we’ve seen from Santa Barbara for so many decades, with Santa Barbara leading the charge to stop the plundering of our coastlines and the climate itself,” she said.
While Stein has garnered little media attention compared to frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, she says she’s the right choice in this race.
“The biggest wasted vote is for the political parties that have been throwing us under the bus. There’s a new way forward,” she said.
Stein says her campaign calls for free higher education, a bailout for student-debt and environmental protection.