2008 Campaign For House of Representatives
Hawkins ran for United States Congress in New York's 25th congressional district on the Green Populist line (which has no connection to the Green Party). In addition to ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, single payer health care, and a crash program for a Clean Energy Transition, Hawkins opposed the bailout of insolvent big banks, calling for their nationalization, a write off of bad loans, a moratorium on home foreclosures, and public refinancing of stressed home mortgages on a reduced principal, fixed interest, long term basis. He has characterized the Senate version of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) with an additional $100 billion in tax breaks as putting "Lipstick on a pig".
| US House election, 2008: New York District 25, 99.2% reporting | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Dan Maffei | 146,411 | 54.5 | +5.3 | |
| Republican | Dale Sweetland | 113,358 | 42.2 | +42.2 | |
| Green | Howie Hawkins | 8,855 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |
| Majority | 33,053 | 12.3 | +10.7 | ||
| Turnout | 268,624 | 100 | +23.4 | ||
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