Word: perots
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President Clinton, while declining public comment, was privately elated at Perot's announcement. And he took pains to cultivate his own image as a free agent. "The Democrats in Congress can be more partisan and lead the party, but I have to think more about leading the country," the President told Time. "I have to make clear where I stand, but I can't let that get in the way of doing what's good for the country." Clinton's most formidable rival on the Republican side, Senate majority leader Robert Dole, referring to Perot's legislative agenda, grumped...
...Buchanan, he just tried to outdo Perot at his own game, setting out again last week to champion some of the Texas billionaire's pet causes. Buchanan's top aides were relaxing in a hotel bar after a long day of campaigning in New Hampshire when someone began reading aloud the first wire story on Perot's new party, and the group started plotting how to respond. Buchanan, however, joined Perot's attack on lavish congressional pensions, an issue stirring fresh voter outrage since the disclosure that disgraced Senator Bob Packwood will receive $89,000 a year for life. Referring...
...Dole or Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, protest votes will flow to the third-party candidate and deliver the White House to Clinton in "a rerun of 1992." Meanwhile, Charles Black, chairman of the Gramm campaign, sipped a Diet Coke and tried to do his bill paying while watching Perot's announcement, but had to put the checkbook aside and take notes. "By the end of the show," he said, "I'd written down a dozen potential election-law violations" in Perot's announced plans...
...center of these questions is this: Can Perot spend his personal fortune on the start-up costs of a political party, or must he abide by the contribution limits that apply to existing parties? As yet the Federal Election Commission has no answer to this and other thorny questions, which will probably get hashed out in various state courts. Black holds that Perot should comply with the $25,000 cap on contributions from a single individual to candidates in an election cycle. Perot's advisers retort that Perot should be allowed unlimited spending on "party building" activities, just as wealthy...
These legal tangles are matched by the logistical difficulties and internecine fights involved in establishing the party in every state and on every ballot. The first and harshest test will come in California, where Perot supporters must collect 890,000 signatures, or enroll 89,000 party members, by Oct. 24. It was that deadline--and restlessness in the California chapter of Perot's existing political network, United We Stand America--that forced Perot to move last week. And move he did. Perot's new party flew paid organizers into California, bought full-page ads in newspapers and set up petition...