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...suggestion is to write in somebody's name. Ross Perot. Gregory Peck. Teddy Roosevelt. Anyone but these...
Former presidential candidate and permanent gadfly H. Ross Perot has endorsed Texas democratic Gov. Ann Richards in herfight against George W. Bush. Perot called the Democrat "one of the greatest governors in the history of Texas" and then slugged the son of the ex-President -- a Dallas oilman and managing general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team. "Running Texas as governor is big business. It is not an athletic event," he said. Richards was all smiles. "I'm really pleased to be endorsed by someone who is the personification of change in government," she said.The endorsement could have...
...path prescribed by the prophets! A sizable portion of the electorate, probably no less Judeo-Christian than anyone else, stands ready to let the richer candidate buy its votes, on the theory that the rich cannot be bought themselves. In the case of Michael Huffington in California or Ross Perot in '92, piles of earthly treasure are proffered, with a straight face, as proof of one's ability to lead. But who can fault our lucre-crazed political culture when even the televangelists promise financial well-being, i.e., "prosperous ease," as the reward for supposedly Christian virtue...
Panelists included experts from both parties: Rachelle Cohen, editorial page editor for the Boston Herald; Al Hunt, Washington executive editor for the Wall Street Journal; former H. Ross Perot pollster Frank Luntz; and Kennedy's media consultant Robert Shrum. They concluded that voters are frustrated with government and will vote against whoever is presently in control...
...Electronic Data Systems, the company Ross Perot founded and later sold to General Motors, last November bagged a glittering international prize: a $1.5 billion, 10-year contract to overhaul and then manage the computer network of Inland Revenue, the British government's main tax-collecting agency. Again it was a case of American firms' specializing in a particular high-tech field. Other countries' firms may provide tough competition in making computer hardware and software, but nobody matches the Americans at the fine art of tying computers together into networks that do everything from running automated factories to sending out medical...