- Julius Hobson
Julius W. Hobson (
May 29 ,1922 —March 23 ,1977 ) was the People's Party Vice Presidential candidate in 1972.Benjamin Spock was the People's Party Presidential candidate. They polled 0.1014% of the popular vote and no electoral votes. [cite web
url=http:http://www.search.eb.com/elections/etable3.html
title=American Presidential Elections 1932-2000
accessdate=2008-05-15
publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica
archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20051217192837/http://search.eb.com/elections/etable3.html
archivedate=2005-12-17]Hobson was also a "key early founder" of the D.C. Statehood Party. In 1971, he ran as a member of the party to be the District's delegate to the House of Representatives but lost to Democrat
Walter E. Fauntroy .cite news
title=Fauntroy Election Certified
work=The Washington Post
page=C6
date=1971-04-06
url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/144589292.html?FMT=ABS
accessdate=2008-07-28] Hobson was elected in 1974 as one of the at-large members of theCouncil of the District of Columbia at its creation, and he served in that position until his death in 1977. [cite web
url=http://www.dcboee.org/information/eo_index/history/AT_LARGE.shtm
title=Historical Elected Officials: At-Large Member of the Council of the District of Columbia
publisher=District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics
accessdate=2008-07-15]Pithy quotes
Hobson quotations from Sam Smith's "Captive Capital" [cite book
last=Smith
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title=Captive Capital: colonial life in modern Washington
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edition=First edition
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year=1974
month= |publisher=Indiana University Press
location=Bloomington, Indiana
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pages=303 pages |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ]On democracy: "In this country, you don't have any democracy really. You have the right to elect but not to select. For example, here's two people: you get to vote for one of them. But you didn't choose in the first place either of them. That's not democracy from what I understand."Fact|date=May 2008
On being a politician: "I am not a politician. A politician is someone who does things to get elected. He's a guy who says things to please the public, that he thinks the public wants to hear, and his story changes with every passing day. I want to be elected, but I am not going to say a damn thing for your benefit, or that person's benefit out there on the street, or anybody's."Fact|date=May 2008
On a local black minister: "I was asked to speak at his church one Sunday. I went over there and when I went there I looked over the congregation. I would say the average person in there had on a pair of Thom McAn shoes, that their suits cost an average $35 a piece, that their shirts were from Hechts basements and that they were very poor and very illiterate - almost illiterate - people who were emotionally shocked just came to the church to let out this scream. [The minister] took up a love offering, he took up a minister's travel offering and then he took up a regular - he took up five or six offerings. So when he got to me to speak, I got up and said, 'God d*** it, if this is christianity, I want no part of it.' And 'this s** of a b**** is stealing from you and the thing is, he's not just stealing your money, he's stealing your minds. And I refuse to be a part of this.' And I walked off."Fact|date=May 2008
References
External links
* [http://dclibrary.org/dcpl/cwp/view.asp?A=1264&Q=567171 "Guide to the Papers of Julius Hobson" Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Washingtoniana Division]
* [http://www.search.eb.com/elections/etable3.html Election results (Encyclopedia Britannica)] Dead link|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051217192837/http://search.eb.com/elections/etable3.html
date=May 2008
* [http://www.pogolaw.com/people-attorneys-profile-1060.html Julius W. Hobson, Jr. - Washington lobbyist]
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