American Reform Party
 NEWS RELEASE

Don Torgersen, Press Secretary 847-359-2999
Ted Muga, National Chair  619-299-9866 www.AmericanReform.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

AMERICAN REFORM PARTY ENDORSES RICK HUBBARD OF VERMONT FOR U.S. SENATE

CHICAGO.  10/16/00.  The American Reform Party today announced its endorsement of Rick Hubbard, Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate from Vermont.

ARP Chairman Ted Muga said, “After reviewing Rick Hubbard’s positions on issues, the national delegates wholehearted backed his candidacy for the Senate. Vermont is one of those New England states taking the lead in Clean Elections, and Rick is certainly taking the lead in promoting campaign finance reform in the Green Mountain state.”

Rick told the ARP delegates, “Our democracy is in trouble today. Big money from special interests massively influences legislation and public policy by Congress and we all know it. This practice transfers hundreds of billions of dollars collectively from citizen wallets to special interest coffers, limits and defines our choices of candidates, and undermines the principle of self government so elegantly stated by President Lincoln at Gettysburg—of the people, by the people, for the people.”

Hubbard has walked the entire state of Vermont to publicize his campaign. He was the most efficient vote getter in the primary, spending less money by far than any of the other candidates. Last November, he walked side-by-side with Granny D (Doris Haddock) through Kentucky when that wonderful 90-year-old woman was making her 3200-mile trek across the nation to stress how big money in campaigns has corrupted the democratic process in America and in turn compromised our elected officials.

To counteract the undue influence of “soft money,” Hubbard supports public funding of elections.  He has also made proposals to reduce the high costs of pharmaceuticals, to make cars more fuel efficient, and to auction—not give away—the public broadcasting frequencies.

Rick holds a BA from the University of Vermont, an MBA from Dartmouth, and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

The American Reform Party, a centrist party, was formed in 1997 when delegates of 23 states voted to become independent from Dallas and Ross Perot. Many were supporters of Colorado Governor Dick Lamm who challenged Ross as the Reform Party nominee for president in 1996.

The ARP has also endorsed Ralph Nader for President, Republican Tom Campbell for  U.S. Senate in California, Sam Rankin, Reform candidate for U.S. Senate in Montana, and James Gibson, Independence candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota.

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