{"id":1293,"date":"2009-06-22T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/22\/hampton-kicks-off-campaign-to-replace-tauscher\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:39:11","slug":"hampton-kicks-off-campaign-to-replace-tauscher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1293\/hampton-kicks-off-campaign-to-replace-tauscher\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampton Kicks Off Campaign to Replace Tauscher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/adriel_hampton_kickoff_090620\/_w2w3460_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nAdriel Hampton officially kicked off his campaign Saturday in Walnut Creek.<br \/>\n<strong>Photo by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 22, 2009<\/p>\n<p>City of San Francisco investigator Adriel Hampton kicked off his grassroots campaign Saturday to replace Rep. Ellen Tauscher in the tenth congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>Tauscher, who has been endorsed this week by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said she will resign her seat following her expected US Senate confirmation as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The reason I&rsquo;m running for Congress is because I believe we have a political system that no longer serves the average American citizen,&rdquo; Hampton told his supporters and campaign volunteers during a barbecue held at the Maxwell House, an historic building Hampton helped save from being condemned by the City of Walnut Creek.<\/p>\n<p>A former journalist and editor of the <em>San Francisco Examiner<\/em> newspaper, Hampton said, &ldquo;We have a great founding constitution. We have a great history of democracy in our country and people having a voice in their government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What we have now isn&rsquo;t really that. It doesn&rsquo;t matter what party it is.  It doesn&rsquo;t matter what leader it is.  It&rsquo;s a system that&rsquo;s very oppressive to average working people, and it&rsquo;s oppressive to the poor. It&rsquo;s oppressive to small business owners.  It, basically, I believe, serves large corporations,&rdquo; Hampton stated.<\/p>\n<p>Hampton, 31, was born in Modesto, California and was home schooled by his mother. A citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Hampton graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001 and lives with his Japanese wife and two children in the City of Dublin.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/family_052309.jpg\" alt=\"family_052309.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Photo by Jeremy Maurer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Running as a Democrat, Hampton faces a competitive runoff against Democratic frontrunners Lt. Governor John Garamendi, California Senator Mark DeSaulnier and Assemblymember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/16\/buchanan-kicks-off-campaign-to-replace-tauscher\/\">Joan Buchanan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/ca-10_candidates_forum_090518\/_w2w8858_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nLt. Governor John Garamendi<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/ca-10_candidates_forum_090518\/_w2w8952_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nSenator Mark DeSaulnier<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/hampton_buchanan_090614\/_w2w2056_std.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nAssemblymember Joan Buchanan<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s this myth that you have to have a million to two-million dollars to run for office,&rdquo; Hampton said of his self-financed campaign using personal savings and credit card advances. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe it because I&rsquo;ve run this far and I would say I have the best literature in the campaign and some of the best people working for me around the nation with just twenty thousand dollars.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think for a hundred thousand dollars I can win this race,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what differentiates him from his opponents, Hampton told Fog City Journal: &ldquo;My opponents are professional politicians, nice folks groomed by a system to work within the parameters of that system. I am an independent Democrat, beholden only to the ideals and policies that I have been articulating on the trail &#8211; anti-war, pro-labor, pro-single payer, pro-equality. I am a common person and my friends are common people. My supporters are the working poor, the young and those disturbed by the system. Unlike my opponents, I&#8217;ve never spent millions of dollars on an election, and I believe we can break that framework and show grassroots candidates a new way of campaigning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hampton is also the only candidate so far to have vowed to oppose continued funding of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Hampton said he is an advocate of &lsquo;Government 2.0&#8242; &#8211; using new technologies to increase citizen participation and government transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>On the big issues facing CA-D10 residents, Hampton said the foreclosure crisis is &ldquo;destroying whole East Bay neighborhoods.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would go to work immediately on saving folks&#8217; homes through foreclosure moratorium legislation and would fight to ensure that our tax money is not going to the banking industry while allowing it to turn around and increase interest rates,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe in trickle up economics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>If elected, Hampton&#8217;s first order of business would include introducing legislation to repeal the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which, he said, has &ldquo;cut the legs out from organized labor over the past three generations&rdquo; and &ldquo; has allowed nearly unchecked power for big business.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s time to move the needle back to favor the working class,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I think that we need people in Washington who believe in standing up for the little guy. President Lincoln said we&rsquo;ve got to have government by the people, for the people, and I believe that,&rdquo; Hampton added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m killing myself on this election not because I need a promotion or I like hearing myself talk, not because anyone asked me to run, but because I&#8217;m deeply disturbed by where this country is headed. Sometimes it takes loud and hard-headed people to make change, and I think the time is right for the kind of leadership I can offer. I want to take the voices of everyday folks in District 10 to Capitol Hill, and I need help. I&#8217;m running this campaign like a startup &#8211; most of the money I&#8217;ve spent has been loans to the campaign on credit card advances. I&#8217;m hoping more than just me want a new kind of politics, and that many more will join our reform campaign. I&#8217;m so grateful to those who already have,&#8221; Hampton said.<\/p>\n<p>Other officially declared candidates, or those likely to run include Democrats Tiffany Attwood, Tony Bothwell, and Anthony Woods; Republicans Nick Gerber, David Harmer and Catherine Moy; Green Jeremy Cloward; and independent Gino VanGundy.<\/p>\n<p>Though no date has been officially set for the special election, it is expected to take place no later than early November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Info<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adrielhampton.wordpress.com\/\">AdrielHampton.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adriel Hampton officially kicked off his campaign Saturday in Walnut Creek. 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