2: Paragraph 30 The 'News Journal' is the handmaiden of the Establishment and generally manipulates its coverage to present the party line. During the 1990 campaign it endorsed Oberly and mostly ignored my candidacy except for an occasional deliberate distortion of the facts. The PBS station reneged on its promise to include me in its candidates' debate, apparently on Oberly's instructions, and the ABC station refused to let me debate Oberly and Stone, but after I complained to the FCC, the station put me on for an equal amount of time weeks later. Storer refused to accept my commercials until the FCC told them the law required them to, but they still refused to sell me the time slots I wanted. The radio stations were unfailingly cooperative, and WILM was unexpectedly supportive. At a candidates' debate sponsored by a radio station in Dover I met the president of Delaware's chapter of NOW, and he endorsed me on the air after the debate. In May 1991 I ran into him, and he said afterward Oberly called him and said as AG he could make things bad for NOW for endorsing me. I was flattered.
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CHAPTER III. The chits hit the fan
3: Paragraph 1 In early 1984 I was living in Maryland and working as a tax law editor at the Bureau of National Affairs, an employee-owned publishing house in Washington originally related to 'U.S. News & World Report', but I was looking for another job; I liked the one I had, but it didn't pay enough. One of the people I'd sent a r sum was David J. Garrett, a partner at the Wilmington law firm Potter, Anderson & Corroon, who had led a seminar I'd taken on estate and gift taxation.
3: Paragraph 2 At work one day I got a phone call from a man who said he was Paul Butler with E. F. Hutton Trust Company, and I might be interested in a job he had open. In those days, when Hutton talked, people still listened. Butler said he'd had lunch with Garrett, who told him I was looking for a job, and the one at Hutton wasn't the kind I'd talked to Garrett about, but he'd like to tell me about it. We discussed it a little, and when he invited me to Wilmington for an interview, I accepted.
3: Paragraph 3 At the interview, Butler outlined the Trust Company's history: After some months of handling only pension trusts, the Trust Company wanted to get into personal trusts, so it had hired Butler away from one of the local banks to head the personal trust department; he'd come on board the beginning of 1984 and had been trying to hire two people to work for him: one to stay inside and mostly draft documents, which is what they were considering me for, and one to travel around the country teaching Hutton's brokerage house employees about trusts. In a year or so they might add an office on the West Coast, and in about three years Butler would be retiring; I figured that would give me time to learn what I needed to from Butler, and I'd either get to run the West Coast Office or get his job when he left. What they were proposing was a new concept in personal trusts, and I really liked the idea of getting in on the ground floor of that, but with such a big company behind us that we could afford to do it right.
3: Paragraph 4 At that interview I met Jay Abbes, the Trust Company's CEO, and I may have met Bill Hitchcock, its president and COO. I felt uncomfortable with Abbes; at first I thought he'd taken a dislike to me, but then I decided it was Butler he was down on, and I'd just wandered into the firing line.
3: Paragraph 5 They offered me the job, with a salary I probably couldn't have refused even if I hadn't liked the job so much, and I accepted, to start work a few weeks later on 30 April. I gave notice at BNA and started a Wilmington realtor looking for a house. On my next-to-last day of work at BNA, they threw me a going-away party, and I got home in one of those mixed moods: touched by how happy my BNA friends were for me and sad to be leaving them but excited about the prospects at Hutton.
3: Paragraph 6 There was a message on my answering machine from Abbes asking me when I'd been planning to start work, telling me Butler was leaving in a reorganization that would eliminate the job he'd hired me for, and saying we could discuss it when I got to Wilmington. Fat chance! I felt like I'd been punched in the stomach, and I couldn't wait that long to know whether I still had a job at Hutton, so I called Abbes back right then. He kept talking around most of what I wanted to know, but he did confirm that I still had a job, on the same terms, but that it would be a different job: Butler would be staying on for a few months, but then I'd be in charge of personal trusts; and I'd still come on as assistant corporate secretary, but when Butler left I'd succeed him as secretary.
3: Paragraph 7 So from the first day I reported to work at Hutton, I already knew there was a lot of internal political stuff going on behind the scenes, and I kept my eyes and ears open in self defense. I learned overlapping parts of the following story from Abbes, Hitchcock, and the Trust Company's other directors, from Hutton people in New York and around the country, from Wilmington lawyers in several of the firms hired to charter the Trust Company, from the Delaware bank examiners who audited the Trust Company, from the documents setting up Hutton Trust Company and Hutton Bank that Hitchcock showed me, and from the Trust Company's corporate records that were turned over to me when I became secretary.