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State News Release - Sept 04, 2002 |
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| Delaware Green Party Attorney General Candidate Responds to Common Cause Survey of Elected Officials. |
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For immediate release: Attorney General 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. Wilmington - At a press conference held today, J. Roy Cannon, representing Vivian Houghton, Green Party candidate for Delaware Attorney General, presented the candidate's response to the recently completed survey conducted by Common Cause of Delaware. The following are remarks made on her behalf: "Of course the Houghton campaign is for campaign finance reform. "When big money is allowed to buy political influence as it does now through campaign contributions, it in effect buys the political system, robbing our citizensı of their voice, and uses the system for its own ends. Those ends are to control our leaders so that they serve corporate interests rather than the peoples' interests. "Look at MBNA. MBNA's financial contributions have squashed any opposition from Senators Bidden and Carper or Congressman Castle as MBNA pushes for bankruptcy law changes that will help the rich and hurt the poor. "Or look at the situation of African-Americans and Hispanics. The fact that, as a group, they are politically under-represented and earn about the per capita income of whites means that they have less political influence than do predominantly white corporate contributors. This means that in Delaware, where 9.4 blacks are imprisoned for every white, little effort is made to change the criminal justice systemıs racial biases. Those who have the money pay the piper and minorities suffer. "Another example is companies that pollute. Here in Delaware such companies - -
Rodel, Motiva, Metachem and so on - - get off with relatively mild fines when they break our environmental regulations contributing to our stateıs health problems. Yet if the average person were to commit a felony by poisoning people, that person would be sent to jail. Big companies, which make big financial contributions to our current leaders, can get away with murder because, in effect, theyıve paid for protection.
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State News Release - Sept 04, 2002 |
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