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From a pay phone in Morristown, N.J., Kreimer keeps in contact with the producers who toil for the giants of television talk in a campaign to bring his message to the electronic masses. He is a homeless man with a story to tell, complete with a high-concept synopsis: He Took On a Town Without Pity...
...triumph over one's enemies is one of life's deepest satisfactions, and Kreimer has been blessed with the feeling. Thanks to a barrage of legal actions against suburban Morristown (pop. 16,500), Kreimer received a $150,000 out-of-court settlement last week. More money may be on its way. Usually sporting long black hair and scruffy beard, Kreimer resembles Rasputin -- and Morristown has discovered that he's just as difficult to dismiss...
...that I've become an individual who will stand up for his rights, some don't want to see me succeed." The path to success, he believes, may include pit stops at this year's Democratic Convention as a "homeless delegate," a billboard public-service campaign featuring Kreimer, a national lecture tour and a feature film. "I plan on being the homeless Ralph Nader...
Patrolling the streets in a greasy blue windbreaker, Kreimer adopts the manner of a small-city mayor. His staccato pronouncements, delivered in a North Jersey accent, arrive in sound-bite size. "Homelessness," he barks, "isn't an epidemic -- it's a pandemic." As he holds court at a local coffee shop, relating the tale of how he won a two-year police-harassment case, he keeps an eye on the sports page as he speaks. "Hey, Georgia Tech beat Colorado State." Some of his resentful neighbors will tell you that Kreimer is a publicity-mad hustler...
...most of his 42 years, Kreimer was one of the "status people," a catchall phrase he uses to describe middle-class workaday folks. He grew up in a prosperous household, the son of Victor and Katy Kreimer, a prominent local couple. But even as a kid, friends recall, he was kind of "dopey," a bit rebellious and unmotivated in school...