About Doug
Doug Hughes is a retired mailman living on the Gulf Coast of Florida. In previous jobs, he’s been a restaurant manager, computer programmer, and he’s held a few dozen other jobs from mopping hospital floors to driving for Uber.
He made a daring and unauthorized flight in a 250-pound ultralight gyrocopter with 535 letters, one to every member of Congress, landing on the west lawn of the US Capitol Building in 2015. After proving his dedication, he demonstrated his expertise on the crisis of institutional corruption in dozens of media appearances and speaking engagements. The flight earned Doug four months in prison, cost him his job with the U.S. Postal Service and the gyroplane, a deal he does not regret.
Doug is an activist, especially but not exclusively on big money in politics, speaking, demonstrating, and writing on the subject whenever an audience will tolerate him.
He lived in Northern California much of his early life, left just before “the big one”, the Loma Prieta Earthquake. He lived in Northern Oregon and left just before Mount Saint Helens blew. Doug spent about 20 years in North Carolina in the Raleigh area, where he raised three kids from his first marriage. When Doug moved to Florida, Raleigh was awarded a rare hurricane in 1998 which devastated the Research Triangle Area.
Florida entered into a binding contract with Doug to die there because they don’t want to know what will happen to Florida if he moves. (Just kidding.)
Doug lives with an incredibly patient wife, a daughter about to leave the nest, a dog and two cats. An outline for a two-part science fiction novel waits on the drawing board until a few other projects reach completion, including ending legalized corruption. Doug works on his new gyroplane and flies when weather and his wife permit.