About Rick Hubbard

Rick Hubbard is a native Vermonter, retired attorney and former economic consultant, now living in South Burlington where he writes and is an activist for reforming our democracy to better serve all citizens.

Rick has a BA degree from the University of Vermont, an MBA from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business, and a JD law degree from Georgetown University Law School.

He’s a long time advocate for democracy reform who, in the 1970s, helped co-organize Common Cause/Vermont and subsequently, in the early 1980s, was twice elected to the National Governing Board of Common Cause.

In 1999 and 2000 Rick, inspired by 89-year-old “Granny D’s” 18-month walk across the entire United States to highlight the need for campaign finance reform, walked with her for a week in Kentucky. Subsequently Rick walked some 450 miles around three sides of Vermont to similarly advocate through interviews with more than 50 radio, newspaper, and television discussions and stories as they covered his journey.

He subsequently qualified as a candidate, across all party lines, to raise these and other issues in the 2000 U.S. Senate race against Jim Jeffords.

More recently he has joined other activists to support efforts by Lawrence Lessig and The New Hampshire Rebellion to encourage New Hampshire voters to ask 2016 Presidential primary candidates the question: “What specific reforms will you advance to end the corrupting influence of big money in politics?” As part of these efforts Rick has:

• Walked the length of New Hampshire, 185 miles, in January of 2014, with other NHR supporters, in memory of “Granny D’s” walk across the USA in 1999/2000 for democracy reform.
• Walked New Hampshire again in January of 2015, 150 miles, from Dixville Notch to Concord (New Hampshire’s capitol) as part of 4 marches from different corners of New Hampshire to all meet at the Concord state Capital in support of democracy reform.

Rick walked in support of Democracy Spring’s massive 140-mile march from Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell to our Capitol in Washington D.C., from April 2–15, 2016, to demand that Congress take immediate action to end the corruption of big money in politics, and ensure free and fair elections in which every American has an equal voice.

Once there, he was one of over 1,200 citizens peacefully arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in protest that our Federal political system no longer properly represents its citizens.