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Roseanne not joking: More socialism

By PATRICK GAVIN

09/25/2012 08:52 AM EDT

As Roseanne Barr continues her presidential campaign as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate, she has a attention-grabbing message: We need more socialism.

“I do think that we need a little bit more socialism in this country at this time,” Barr told Sean Hannity Monday night. “We need to move stuff from the top to the middle and the bottom, because it keeps on staying at the top.”

Barr says her campaign is “very, very serious” and invited President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to debate her because “the American people are being given a false choice because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.”

That very campaign, however, seems to be in trouble. Politicker reports that a former press secretary, Anita Stewart, for Barr’s failed Green Party bid claims Barr owes her $4,300 for her campaign work.

“Ms. Stewart claimed she has spent nearly the past three months fighting to get the money Ms. Barr agreed to pay her and said the delay in payment has caused her immense hardships. She said the situation is especially egregious given the fact Ms. Barr has made millions through her comedy and TV career and ranked as the second-highest-paid woman in showbiz (behind only Oprah Winfrey) during the final two years of her eponymous sitcom in the late nineties.”

Stewart says she is “living below poverty level wages.”

“I think Roseanne has forgotten where she comes from and I think we need to look at what this woman is worth and how she’s playing the system,” said Stewart. “She’s taking campaign funds and contributions, but is she really running a real campaign, or is her bottom line and her agenda really all about this movie she’s making? If that’s the case, then she’s really duped the people that are standing up for her, and voting for her and supporting her.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2012/09/roseanne-not-joking-more-socialism-081640