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	Willie Horton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Willie Horton is also the name of a former Major League Baseball player.
		Horton was convicted of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment, and incarcerated at the Concord Correctional Facility in Massachusetts.
		On April 18, 1996, Horton was transferred to the Maryland House of Correction Annex, a maximum security prison in Jessup, Maryland, where he remains today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willie_Horton (1815 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Willie Horton
		A sandlot star in Detroit, Willie Horton was the youngest of 19 children, a four-time All-Star and a fan favorite for the Tigers in the 1960s and 1970s.
		Willie Horton was a strong man. It once took four teammates to keep the slugger from beating an opposing pitcher after a brush back pitch.
		Horton and his role in the campaign became something of a cause celebre among liberals in the United States, including in the media; Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin published an interview with Horton on the day of Bush's inauguration.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Willie-Horton (3344 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Willie Horton (baseball player)
		Willie Watterson Horton (born October 18, 1942 in Arno, Virginia) is a former left fielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball who played for the Detroit Tigers for the majority of his career.
		Horton was a four-time member of the American League All-Star team (1965, 1968, 1970 and 1973).
		Willie Horton, the slugger who starred on the '68 World Champions...the little kid from the streets of Detroit...the strong man who broke bats with brute strength...broke down and cried like a baby.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Willie-Horton-%28baseball-player%29 (1979 words)

	Player Profile: Willie Horton
		Player notes: Horton was a four time All Star who was a mainstay in the Tigers' outfield during the Sixties and early Seventies.
		Horton's HR total that year was second in the AL only to Frank Howard's 44, his BA was fourth in the league, and he finished second in slugging percentage.
		Horton was not particularly well known for his fielding, but he had a strong arm, and made one of the most significant plays of the Sixties in Game 5 of the 1968 World Series.
	www.diamondfans.com /profile-hortonw.html (200 words)

	Excepts from Willie Horton: True Crime and its Influence on a Presidential Election
		Horton would even agree that the mug shot was repelling.
		In 1987, Horton was often the center of local press stories because of his new crimes.
		When asked what he thought about Horton and the intense press coverage, all he could say was, "Who would have thought all this would happen?" All of the officers in the room seemed somewhat intrigued that a criminal from our city was being mentioned virtually every night in the national news.
	www.1988election.com /excerpts.html (530 words)

	Baseball Savvy: Where Are They Now - Willie Horton
		Four-time All-Star Willie Horton was a mainstay in the Detroit Tigers outfield, and an important member of their 1968 World Series Championship team.
		The youngest of 21 children, Horton also credits his parents and his Little League coach for providing the inspiration and the example he needed to become the man he is today.
		Horton’s number 23 has been retired by the Tigers, and there is a statue of in his likeness at Comerica Park.
	www.baseballsavvy.com /archive/w_horton.htm (701 words)

	Independent Ads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One was Willie Horton, who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times [picture of Willie Horton, with text of Willie Horton on screen].
		Horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend [picture of Horton under arrest by police with text of Kidnapping, Stabbing, Raping].
		At that point, the threatening-looking mug shot of Horton appeared on the screen and the announcer informed viewers that Horton murdered a boy in a robbery and despite a life sentence, received a weekend pass from prison.
	www.insidepolitics.org /ps111/independentads.html (5676 words)

	Did Gore Hatch Horton? Timothy Noah
		Gore is the one who introduced Willie Horton to American politics in the 1988 primary against Mike Dukakis.
		Horton, you may recall, is a fl man who, while doing prison time in Massachusetts for murder, escaped from a weekend furlough and committed a particularly brutal assault and rape.
		Horton's story was subsequently offered up by Vice President George Bush's campaign as evidence of Dukakis' softness on crime, and--less directly--of the Democratic party's excessive fondness for fl people.
	www.slate.com /id/1003919 (911 words)

	Willie Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Horton was imprisoned at the Concord Correctional in Massachusetts for murder.
		The case of Willie Horton was discussed a political issue during the 1988 Democratic primary by Senator Al Gore.
		Willie Horton is also the name of baseball player who played for the Detroit Tigers.
	www.freeglossary.com /Willie_Horton (689 words)

	Willie Horton - Detroits Own Willie the Wonder - Grant Eldridge and Karen Elizabeth Bush
		No one player is a better symbol of the relationship between the '68 team and the city than is Willie Horton.
		When eight-year-old Willie was walking the six miles from his home in Stonega, Virginia to neighboring Appalachia to play baseball, he never dreamed that one day he would star in a major league World Series.
		Willie Horton: Detroit's Own "Willie the Wonder" takes this warm and generous man from his disadvantaged childhood through the excitement of a baseball career, and ends with an account of his ongoing work among today's youth.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /glb/young/eldridgewh.htm (182 words)

	The Real Meaning of Willie Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We've been instructed countless times that "Willie Horton" stands for the dirtiest kind of dirty politics; for playing the race card to besmirch an opponent's record; for launching attack ads with coded appeals to bigotry; for trying to score points by demonizing an unpopular scapegoat.
		Why should using Horton's name (as George Bush did in 1988) or showing his picture (as an unofficial Republican group did in a pro-Bush TV spot) be deemed "race-baiting?" Horton was a vicious murderer who had been sentenced to life without parole, yet was repeatedly set loose by the Dukakis Administration.
		The notion that Bush used Horton as a racial wedge is a shibboleth the Democrats invented to explain away Dukakis's 40-state defeat.
	216.247.220.66 /jacoby/2000/jj01-21-00.htm (856 words)

	The Willie Horton alumni association - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But the Willie Horton controversy looms large in American politics, as evidenced by the fact that you won't find the creators of the ad affiliated in any way with the campaign of its beneficiary's son, George W. Bush.
		But the official campaign ad never mentioned Horton's name; and, of the 19 "prisoners" making their way through the "revolving door" of the Massachusetts penal system, 16 were white, two fl and one Latino.
		Willie Horton stabbed my teenage brother 19 times." Though there was no evidence of any collusion between any of these independent groups and the Bush campaign, Atwater had told GOP officials, "By the time this election is over, Willie Horton will be a household name."
	dir.salon.com /politics/feature/2000/08/25/horton (995 words)

	Willie Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Horton admitted to stealing the car but has maintained that he did not commit the assaults on the Barnes couple.
		Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was the governor of Massachusetts at the time, and while he did not start the furlough program, he had supported it as a method of rehabilitation.
		While the advertisement did not mention Horton or feature his photograph, it did depict a variety of intimidating-looking men walking in and out of prison through a revolving door.
	willie-horton.area51.ipupdater.com (836 words)

	Dissembling Sean played the Horton Card. Behind that, there lies a long story
		Dissembling hard, Will managed to say “you used Willie Horton” three separate times in a single “question!” Gore, asking if he could offer “a polite correction to the way you posed the question,” said that he had never even heard Horton’s name at the time that he raised the issue.
		The sister of Horton’s original murder victim was a woman named Donna Fournier Cuomo (no relation); back in 1988, she was quoted in some press reports about the Horton matter.
		It was he and Mario Cuomo who produced Willie Horton, and it was Al Gore who used Willie Horton in a Democratic primary.
	www.dailyhowler.com /dh110102.shtml (2677 words)

	Willie Horton
		In 1963 Willie Horton broke into the major leagues for 15 games at the young age of 19.
		In 1979 Willie Horton enjoyed one of his most productive years, with career highs in games (162), runs(81), hits(180), RBI's(106), and at-bats (646).
		On June 6, 1979, he hit his career 300th home run and was honored on June 9th with "Willie Horton Night" at the Kingdome.
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Field/3477/horton (350 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - Willie Horton signs deal with RNC.
		Willie Horton, famous for his relationship with HW Bush, is back and looking scarier than ever thanks to Lucas Film's costuming department.
		Willie will be used in a new array of RNC commercials designed to scare americans away from democrats.
		Willie will be seen robbing seniors, destroying the banking system, causing inflation and selling venezuelan oil to terrorists.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID40/22376.html (181 words)

	Willie Horton Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This book (Willie Horton Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder) is supposed to be for young readers.
		Willie Horton was born on Sunday, October 18, 1942, in Arno, Virginia.
		Horton was 20 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 10, 1963, with the Detroit Tigers.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=hortowi01 (289 words)

	'The attacks will begin' (Dukakis Moans Over Willie Horton Ads But Fails To Mention Algore)
		Willie Horton murdered a 17 year old gas station attendant during a robbery and then cut off the boy's tesiticles put them in the boy's mouth and threw the boy into a dumpster while he was still alive but dying.
		Willie Horton, the rape question and the tank ride wearing that stupid helmet all sent painful chills down the voter's spine.
		Willie Horton my ass, Dukakis lost because he was and is a dork.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1004113/posts (3633 words)

	Willie Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Willie Horton batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season...
		Willie Horton baseball stats with batting stats, pitching stats and fielding stats, along with uniform numbers, salaries, quotes, career stats and biographical data presented by Baseball Almanac.
		But the Willie Horton controversy looms large in American politics, as evidenced by the fact that you won't find the creators of the ad affiliated in any way with the campaign of its beneficiary...
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Willie_Horton (285 words)

	Pakistani made out to be the new Willie Horton - Sepia Mutiny
		The whole Willie Horton furor was basically about Bush 1's "insensitivity" in pointing out that Michael Dukakis supported a furlough program that had enabled Horton to assault, rob, and rape.
		Anyway, the point is that Horton was a criminal, and comparing the issue to Willie Horton ignores the fact that the media was primarily complaining about an insufficiently PC treatment of race and crime.
		Horton was captured and sentenced to two life terms to be served in Maryland.
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/000234.html (4455 words)

	Cloakroom - Why was the Willie Horton ad considered racially charged? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Willie Horton ad was done by an outside group with specific ties to the Bush campaign.
		The spirit of the Willie Horton ad came up 2 years later in NC when Jesse helms ran his infamous "white hands" ad, where a pair of whit male hands crumpled up a job rejection letter while the announcer says solumnly..." you needed that job, but they had to give it to a minority!"
		The Willie Horton ad was created by democrats and used in the gubernatorial primary campaign against Dukakis.
	politicalwire.com /cloakroom/comments.php?DiscussionID=737 (5236 words)

	The Yale Herald - Feb 27, 2004 - Don't give Bush another Willie Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BY DANIEL A. In May 2002, Jose Padilla was arrested as a suspect in an Al Qaeda plot to detonate a "dirty bomb" in the United States.
		These charges stemmed from Dukakis' grant of clemency to a prisoner named Willie Horton, who upon release committed a brutal rape and murder.
		Dukakis defended his release of Horton by touting the rehabilitative aspect of prison.
	www.yaleherald.com /article-p.php?Article=3034 (747 words)

	Willie Horton's ghost comes to Santa Monica -- October 1, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The initiative, Measure KK, is being backed financially with hundreds of thousands of dollars by Loews, Shutters, Casa Del Mar and others, determined to prevent the Santa Monica City Council from even considering a real living wage proposal that might apply to the hotels' underpaid employees.
		The Westwood-based Dolphin Group, which is running the slick campaign with massive mailings of ordinary, sincere, smiling folks saying they support the ballot initiative, is nationally known for having produced the infamous Willie Horton video ads that sank Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.
		Their descriptions of Horton's vicious attacks was a powerful attack on former Massachusetts Gov.
	www.robertscheer.com /2_localla/00_columns/100100.htm (1246 words)

	Catching Up with Willie Horton - Associated Content
		Horton was a fan favorite and one of Detroit’s key players, particularly on their 1968 Championship Team.
		Horton left Tiger Stadium in uniform in an attempt to quell the chaos in the burning streets.
		After leaving Detroit, Horton played with the Texas Rangers, the Cleveland Indians, the Oakland A’s, the Toronto Blue Jays and finally, the Seattle Mariners, where he spent two seasons before retiring in 1980.
	www.associatedcontent.com /content.cfm?content_type=article&content_type_id=2606 (429 words)

	2003 House Bill 5200 (Establish October 18 as "Willie Horton day") - Michigan Votes
		Willie Horton is a famous Detroit Tigers baseball player.
		Reported in the House on October 23, 2003, with the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
		Reported in the Senate on March 30, 2004, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
	www.michiganvotes.org /Legislation.aspx?ID=22165 (384 words)

	Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: John Kerry's Record: The Untold Story Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On October 26, 1974, Willie Horton and two accomplices robbed a gas station attendant in Lawerance, MA, and stabbed him nineteen times, and left him to bleed to death in a trash can.
		Willie Horton was released onto the streets under this program on June 6, 1986.
		Democrats blame Dukakis's defeat in 1988 in part to the repeated mention of the Horton case by George H. Bush, as well as an ad called "Weekend Passes" that ran in September 1988, which attacked Dukakis for his role in the Horton case.
	www.blogsforbush.com /mt/archives/002602.html (947 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| The Willie Horton alumni association
		But just because you have to look hard doesn't mean the Willie Horton alumni aren't doing everything they can for their boy.
		As long as there are Democrats and reporters sniffing around, eager to tie the Willie Horton Class of '88 to whomever they can, the likes of Carmen, McCarthy, Shirley and Brown will be kept as far away as possible from sophisticated pols like Bush.
		The GOP embraces Hispanic voters as the soccer moms of 2000 while Bradley resurrects Willie Horton and the story of a political romance can finally be told.
	archive.salon.com /politics/feature/2000/08/25/horton/print.html (1872 words)

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