Honkala is Green Party's vice presidential choice

Cheri Honkala, a welfare-rights activist and former candidate for Philadelphia sheriff, was selected as the running mate for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who announced her choice Wednesday.

"Ever since deciding to run for president, I've been thinking about who would have the strength and courage to take up this fight with me," Stein said on her campaign website. "Cheri Honkala has shown tremendous perseverance and leadership, despite remarkable odds. Her selflessness and demonstrated capacity to inspire make her the perfect vice presidential candidate to help me reclaim democracy."

Honkala, 49, is national coordinator for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and a longtime activist with the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. She was the Green Party's candidate for sheriff in 2011.
- Robert Moran