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Weicker, who as an independent served as Connecticut's governor from 1990 to 1994, called for reforming campaign finance and ballot access laws to facilitate independent campaigns and to encourage "free enterprise" in government. "I can't think of anything more American," he said...
...When Wilson named Fuller his campaign chairman in June, Gorton, who has a penchant for Far East spirituality, went off to Thailand in a huff. But he returned to do battle. Soon Fuller found himself up against Gorton's vision: to squeeze Wilson's name onto the Dole-controlled ballot in the high-visibility New York primary, even at the price of $750,000 in signature gathering plus legal costs. Gorton won that debate. Then came the one over Iowa. Fuller said, "You can't run a media campaign elsewhere if you're not in Iowa beforehand." Gorton disagreed...
Some change in this area may be warranted. Perhaps current laws could be relaxed so that third party candidates, if they have a certain amount of support or can make it onto the ballot in a certain number of states, would be eligible to receive such funds. The current system's privileging of the existing two parties, the result of historical accident, has no strong justification...
...play today. Every one of Dole's 1996 G.O.P. opponents is swiping at the front runner with increasing ferocity, especially Phil Gramm, the Texas Senator who staged a surprising tie at the Aug. 19 Iowa straw poll most everyone expected Dole to win handily. Of course the Iowa ballot was phony; anyone who bought a ticket could vote, even non-Iowans, and some confessed to having voted more than once. It was still a test of organizational strength, but it was only the first part of a two-pronged strategy: rough Dole up and then cause him to lash...
Practical considerations also played a part in Perot's change of mind. His legal advisers told him that election laws in most states would bar using the party strictly as a pressure device--that is, to offer an extra ballot line as a prize to Republican or Democratic congressional candidates who toe Perot's line. Meanwhile, most U.W.S.A. chapters are not up to the Herculean task of fund-raising and recruiting efforts that would be necessary to field their own slates everywhere. In fact, the organization has suffered periodically from internal feuds within states and from tension between local activists...