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...CITIZEN PEROT AND SCOTT BARNES...
After reading Gerald Posner's piece, based on his book Citizen Perot [NATION, Aug. 5], describing why Ross Perot got out of the 1992 presidential race, I have a question: How could Perot, with the enormous assets available to him, not check out the credibility of controversial "sometime soldier of fortune" Scott Barnes and his charges of political intrigue by the Republican Party? Barnes has been lying to the public for years with his cloak-and-dagger make-believe charges about pow rescues, cia assassinations and finally Republican smear campaigns. Ross Perot and Scott Barnes deserve each other. WILL LEVISON...
...Gerald Posner stated in his story, I played a role in Perot's decision to quit the 1992 race, but I am now a born-again Christian and am deeply sorry for this incident [in which Perot said that due to a Republican Party plot to embarrass his family he was dropping out of the campaign]. Yes, there was in fact a very involved conspiracy to remove President George Bush from the White House, and yes, I was one of the many people involved in that episode. I admit my wrongdoing and accept full responsibility for my own actions...
...Ross Perot has been breaking promises at such a rate that his Reform Party allies are starting to desert him. First one broken: that he'd name a running mate "in just a few days" after his nomination. Perot has been rejected by House members ranging from Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, a liberal, to Linda Smith of Washington State, a conservative. He plans to concentrate on the 65 members of Congress retiring this year...
Even rank-and-file Reformers are snubbing Perot. Some think his decision to accept nearly $30 million in taxpayers' money is a raid on the very Treasury he complains is already empty. Others worry that he is attracting types like left-fringe politico Lenora Fulani. Officials of New York's Independence Party are threatening to drop Perot from their ticket because of what they see as massive irregularities in the nomination process. Nearly a third of their 38,000 members didn't receive ballots as promised, while nonmembers got ballots simply by phoning Reform headquarters and asking for them...