Gyrocoptering for campaign finance reform

Mary Bruno

Mary Bruno Jun 30, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Gyrocoptering for campaign finance reform</h1>
                <h2><p>You have to hand it to Doug Hughes, the 61-year-old Florida mailman, seen here (thank you, ABCNEWS) landing his gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building in D.C. According to the Washington Post, the ardent advocate for campaign finance reform was trying to deliver letters</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mary-bruno-crosscut-com/">Mary Bruno</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>You have to hand it to Doug Hughes, the 61-year-old Florida mailman, seen here (<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/helicopter-lands-west-front-us-capitol/story?id=30339315&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">thank you, ABCNEWS</a>) landing his gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building in D.C. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/florida-mailman-lands-a-gyrocopter-on-capitol-lawn-hoping-to-a-send-message/2015/04/15/3be11140-e39a-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_wonk&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">According to the Washington Post</a>, the ardent advocate for campaign finance reform was trying to deliver letters to Congress demanding reform. Hughes publicized his so-named "Kitty Hawk Project" both online and in his hometown paper. Score another point for Capitol security, which arrested Hughes shortly after he touched down. No word on what happened to the letters.</p>
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You have to hand it to Doug Hughes, the 61-year-old Florida mailman, seen here (thank you, ABCNEWS) landing his gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building in D.C. According to the Washington Post, the ardent advocate for campaign finance reform was trying to deliver letters to Congress demanding reform. Hughes publicized his so-named "Kitty Hawk Project" both online and in his hometown paper. Score another point for Capitol security, which arrested Hughes shortly after he touched down. No word on what happened to the letters.

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By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,