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...jointly written 1993 Perot-Choate book excoriating the North American Free Trade Agreement; even some other treaty opponents found it overstated. Perot nonetheless has paid his coauthor--well, not the ultimate, or even the penultimate, but maybe the antepenultimate compliment. After other, bigger names, such as former Senator David Boren of Oklahoma and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, refused to sign on as Perot's vice-presidential running mate, the billionaire turned to Choate, who accepted. Said Choate, the son of a sharecropper from tiny Maypearl, Texas: "It's sort of a Cinderella story...
...selecting a running mate, Perot understands that he cannot repeat his blunder of '92, when he chose the stouthearted but miscast Admiral James Stockdale. Perot would love to have a blue-chip candidate like David Boren, Warren Rudman or Sam Nunn, but so far none of them will give him a tumble. Perot, by most accounts, would be a most happy fella to have Lamm on the ticket, but Lamm has demurred, a stance that doesn't make sense if Lamm wants to build the party and become the heir apparent...
Perot says he hopes that the party's nominee will be a fresh face. High on his wish list are David Boren of Oklahoma and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, both of whom served as Governor and Senator; former Missouri Senator John Danforth; and retiring Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. But anyone the party chooses will face spending limits, unless it is Perot, who by law can spend all he pleases on his own candidacy. That may be enough to decide who gets the Reform Party nod when it holds its convention in late summer. Don't be surprised...
...says that Perot probably won't make a decision on who will get his party's nomination until April or May: "Regardless of what he says right now, Ross Perot may yet run. Ideally, he would prefer to get an established political leader, such as former Oklahoma Governor David Boren to fill that spot. We won't know Perot's strategy until late spring or early summer...
...Boren said that the American public has never been as critical of its elected officials as it is now. He cited the inefficiency of the national government as one reason for the widespread discontent...