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Houghton
Campaign Meeting 7 pm Tues., Nov. 19 at Frieda's
house to
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discuss
in a relaxed atmosphere the campaign's strengths and weaknesses,
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develop
plans for a fundraiser to help offset campaign costs, and
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hang
out together and enjoy each other's company.
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THANK
YOU, everyone, for your
support!
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DELAWARE WINS
WITH HOUGHTON CAMPAIGN Despite Jane
Brady's reelection on Tuesday, Delaware citizens emerge as winners with Houghton's
"People First" campaign for the office of Attorney General. The three-way race
and bold positions taken by the Houghton campaign led to an increase in votes
for Attorney General of over 50,000 (28%) from the previous Attorney General
election (1998). (click here for
complete news release)
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Victory
Party!
Election night at United
Auto Workers Hall, Old Capitol
Trail, Prices Corner Shopping Center. Doors open at 7 pm, but don't leave
a busy polling place. (click
here for details)
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Houghton
Supporters Needed On Election Day!!
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR: (click
here for details)
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Polling
Places: New
Castle County (278 kb file), Kent County, and
Sussex
County.
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The
Nation online (THE ONLINE BEAT by John Nichols) on
Vivian Houghton for Delaware Green Attorney General, "In
a state that prides itself on letting corporations off easy - especially
local firms such as the DuPont chemical conglomerate - candidates for the
position of Delaware Attorney General do not typically talk about throwing
corporate criminals in jail. But Vivian Houghton is not a typical
candidate for the top law enforcement job in Delaware - or, for that
matter, most states." (click
here for complete article)
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Houghton
Campaign Questions "Secret" Organizations' Support of Brady
- American Taxpayers Alliance and Republican Attorney
Generals Association (RAGA) refuse to list its members and contributors.
Houghton maintains independence by relying on grassroots community
support. (click here for
details)
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Houghton
Campaign for Attorney General Ignites
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Prominent Delawareans endorse her character, abilities, and positions on
the issues. As the Houghton campaign enters the last two weeks of the
campaign, several prominent Delawareans have stepped forward to endorse
her candidacy for the office of Delaware Attorney General, adding fuel to
her grassroots campaign that has caught fire throughout the State. (click
here for text)
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Candidates
for attorney general meet - News
Journal reports on candidates forum hosted by Italo-Americans United.
Brady and Schnee stress record; Houghton focuses on independence (click
here for complete text)
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Residents
listen to state, local candidates -
Newark Post Article excerpt - Newark residents got a
chance to "Meet the Candidates" who are running for public
office last Wednesday. (click
here for complete text)
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Omowali and
Ayo Walker invite you to join them for a fundraising house party
7 p.m.. Friday, October 25, Middletown,
Delaware. (click here for
details)
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News
Journal says, "3-way race expected to be close" - Three
longtime Delaware attorneys are facing off in the race to be the state's
top prosecutor in what party leaders expect will be one of the closest
contests on the Nov. 5 ballot." (see
text of page A-1 article)
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News
Journal says, "Green Party candidate not 'humdrum' - Vivian
Houghton drives a 1995 Oldsmobile with a bullet hole near the gas tank.
The car was hit this spring while parked outside her row house
in the 800 block of Bennett St. on Wilmington's East Side." (see
text of article)
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News Journal
column by Vivian A. Houghton, "Go after polluters and monied interests with
equal vigor. The most important issue
facing the attorney general's office is fairness." (click
here for text)
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Campaign
works Pulaski Parade - Click
here to see pictures of campaign workers having a good time getting the word out.
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The
Living Law, speech
given at the Vision of Justice forum, University of Delaware, October 10, 2002,
by Vivian Houghton, "Good evening. I want to start my discussion about justice in
Delaware by dealing with the facts of a court case that didn’t occur in
Delaware but somewhere else." (click here
for text).
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Houghton Earns
Coalition of Black Trade Unionist Endorsement - Vivian
Houghton, Green Party candidate for Delaware Attorney General has received the
endorsement of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists of Delaware (CBTU-DE).
(click here for news release)
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The
Raw Spirit of Democracy,
Speech
given after Ralph Nader’s endorsement, October 5, 2002, by
Vivian Houghton, "Before
saying anything else, let me first say the obvious: I cherish Ralph Nader’s
endorsement. Since
one of the main jobs of the attorney general position that I am running for is
the prosecution of criminals, let’s take a few minutes to look at prosecution
and incarceration trends in Delaware." (click
here for complete text)
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Houghton
supports ILWU workers - Vivian Houghton joined Green
Party in calling for national support for locked out workers of the
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and condemned President
Bush's invocation of the Taft-Hartley Act and threats to empower the Department
of Homeland Security. Greens see special danger in possible plan by
the President to send the Navy to work as scab labor at the docks, which would
effectively strip ILWU of its collective bargaining rights. (click
for news release)
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The
Review (University of Delaware) reports Ralph Nader endorses Vivian Houghton
- Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader delivered
an impassioned speech to approximately 250 people Saturday night, fiercely
attacking corporate criminals and criticizing President George W. Bush for his
pursuit of war against Iraq. "To divert attention from the
necessities that are ignored in our country," Nader said, "the
president of the United States is beating the drums of war." Nader,
who visited the Unitarian Universalist Church on Willa Road to endorse Vivian
Houghton as Delaware's Green Party candidate for attorney general, also said
corporate theft plagues the United States. (click
here for link to The Review Archive of the story)
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The
News Journal reports Ralph Nader endorses Vivian Houghton - Attorney
General candidate Vivian Houghton was endorsed by 2000 presidential candidate
and consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader in Newark on Saturday. (click
here for News Journal article text)
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Houghton Appalled
by Lack of Available Health Care for Delawareans -
According to recent estimates there are 96,000 uninsured Delawareans. A
large portion of them are the working poor, who do not qualify for Medicaid, are
not provided health insurance by their employers, and whose income is
insufficient to purchase basic health care coverage. Some 32,000 children in
Delaware, nearly one out of every six, are without health insurance. (click
here for text)
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Nader
to endorse Vivian Houghton for Delaware Attorney General - Newark,
DE: 2000 Green Party presidential candidate, Ralph Nader, will endorse Vivian
Houghton's bid for the office of Delaware Attorney General at a Newark press
conference on Saturday, October 5th. (click
here for text)
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AG
Candidate Responds to Common Cause Survey of Elected Officials -
Houghton supports initiatives for free air time, campaign finance reform,
establishment of a non-partisan redistricting commission, enforcement of the
Freedom of Information Act, and House/Senate rule reform at press conference. (click
here for text)
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Schnee Contradicts Himself on Corporate
Campaign Contributions - Mr. Schnee
refused to even acknowledge the possibility of political corruption. As he
persisted in his refusal, Ms. Houghton hammered home the point that it was
precisely such corruption (the kind that Mr. Schnee dismissed as
unsubstantiated) that helped create a political climate in which Motiva,
Metachem, Sunoco, General Chemical and other multi-million dollar companies have
gotten away with only token fines while dumping carcinogens in our soil, spewing
poisons in the air, and fouling our water. Now that Mr. Schnee lags behind
in the race, he has suddenly reversed himself in a key issue in order to rev up
his dispirited campaign. (click here
for text)
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Houghton
Rebuts News Journal Editor Williams One
of Williams’ more curious criticisms is that while Brady and Schnee talk about
“legitimate” concerns, I waste his time by insisting that “voters
are…interested in issues about race, justice, and pollution.” That
Williams views such issues as irrelevant to the attorney general contest is a
sad commentary on how little political understanding is required to become a
News Journal editor. (click here
for text)
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Green
sets record straight on Green Party winning and growth -
Contrary to Ron Williams' opinion, the Green Party does win elections. In
just a few short years, the Green Party has gone from a handful of state parties
and elected officials, to a nationally organized party with public officials
elected across the nation. (click
here for text)
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Houghton
Responds to Opponent's Views on Establishing an Environmental Crime Unit Green
Party candidate for Attorney General Vivian Houghton responded today to her
Democratic opponent's recent statements on establishing an environmental crime
unit in the Attorney General's office. "Unfortunately, Mr. Schnee is a
Johnny-comes-lately with regards to this issue," said Houghton. (click
for text)
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UAW
CAP endorses Houghton for Attorney General
- The Delaware State
Community Action Program (CAP) Council of the United Auto Workers (UAW) this
week endorsed Vivian Houghton for state Attorney General. The endorsement
followed their review of Houghton's positions and in light of her many years
advocating for Delaware's union workers, including testimony to the Delaware
General Assembly against the anti-union "right to work" legislation
which she re-named the "right to work for less" legislation at the
time. (click here for text)
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"Vision
of Delaware Education," by
Vivian Houghton. The office of attorney general occupies an intersection of
law and public policy, where there is much opportunity to have policy impact
on state government agencies and the legislature. (click
here for text)
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Houghton
Chides Brady/Schnee at Wilmington Press Conference.
Calls for Delaware to move beyond two
party system to address people's needs. Vows to attack the virus of
injustice by putting "people first." (click
here for details)
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Showing
of the classic movie "Casablanca" to benefit Houghton campaign
on Friday, September 27th in Middletown (click
here for details)
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Houghton
to Speak at Rehoboth Fundraiser
Vivian Houghton,
Green Party candidate for Delaware Attorney General, will address supporters
and other interested people at a Rehoboth fundraiser Wednesday, September
25th. In her address she is expected to speak to her major policy
positions on the criminal justice system, civil rights, health care, and
over-development. (click here
for complete text of news release)
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Dear
Union Brothers and Sisters "The
state Attorney General's job is to enforce state laws. Theoretically,
this means enforcing those laws equitably so there is no difference in how
the laws are applied to rich and poor, whites and people of color, and so
on." (click here for
complete text)
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AG
Candidate Responds to Common Cause Survey of Elected Officials Houghton
supports initiatives for free air time, campaign finance reform,
establishment of a non-partisan redistricting commission, enforcement of the
Freedom of Information Act, and House/Senate rule reform at press
conference. (click
here for details)
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Delaware Law
Weekly reports Vivian Houghton speech to national convention of Green Party
"Vivian A. Houghton took on racial
injustice, polluters, corporate greed and worker exploitation in a
brass-knuckle speech for the Green Party's national convention Friday, July
19, in Philadelphia." (click here for
complete text)
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Plummer-Schmiesing
host dinner party for Vivian Houghton
(click here for details)
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Terri
Maurer-Carter & family host pool party for Vivian Houghton. (click
here for details)
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“Pregúnteme
donde tienen yo sido y le diré [Thoughts Concerning Delaware’s Latino
Communities]," Speech presented
by Vivian Houghton 7/30/02 to Phoenix Community.
"From Georgetown’s “Little
Guatemala” to Wilmington’s 4th St. just north of I-95, the statistics
concerning the growth of Delaware’s Hispanic population aren’t just
numbers, they’re flesh. [click
here for details]
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"Freedom,
The Product of Our Actions," July
19, 2002, Speech by Vivian Houghton at the Green Party National Convention,
Philadelphia, "One of the reasons we're all gathered here from around
the nation tonight is because we know that what happens in each of our
states is connected to what happens in other states. When Donovan
Jackson, a 16-year-old black youth from Inglewood, California was handcuffed
and them smashed face-first against a police car trunk by a white officer,
it wasn't only Donovan Jackson who was battered, it was the whole criminal
justice system. [click here for
details]
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Sign
Placement / Removal Guidelines
Delaware Department of
Transportation (DEL DOT) notified the campaign on July 17 of the sign
placement/ removal guidelines. (click
here for details)
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Letter
to the Editor on Bankruptcy
Dear Editor:
The Sunday (7/21) News Journal published a lengthy bankruptcy article that
paid almost no attention to the controversy surrounding the so-called reform
bankruptcy bill being considered by congress. This omission is unforgivable, given that Sen. Joe Biden and MBNA stand at
the center of this controversy. (click
here for the complete text)
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Vivian
Houghton anunciará
su candidatura para la oficina de Fiscal General de Delaware
Wilmington -- Partidaria del Partido Verde (Green Party)
de Delaware Vivian Houghton, licenciada de familia y bancarota, anunciará
su candidatura para la oficina de Fiscal General de Delaware durante una
conferencia de prensa en los tres condados el dia 29 de abril. (PARA
MÁS INFORMACIÓN)
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Delaware Law Weekly
Views Houghton as Strong in Debate
"Houghton in her appropriately
colored green jacket made herself a presence, almost always being the first to
answer Oliver's questions and often displaying disbelief or skepticism when the
other candidates were talking. Schnee looking up at the ceiling and down
at his shoes, as if searching for political air wherever he could find it."
(click for the complete article as a pdf file
or html file)
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The
interconnected issues of women, politics and power
"As you know, the title of my
talk this morning is 'Thinking about Political Alternatives in a Changing
World.' Although the theme I eventually want to discuss with you
pertains to the interconnected issues of women, politics and power, let me
first give you a specific example, one you will be familiar with, of what
the changing world we live in looks like. Seventeen years ago in
1985..." (click for the
complete text as pdf file or
html file)
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Attorney
General Campaign Accuses the News Journal of Unethical Reporting
"The Vivian Houghton Campaign for
Attorney General today accused Delaware's largest newspaper of distorted
reporting in a story published on Sunday, June 23, 2002. The story,
which purported to summarize..." (click
here for the complete text)
