Word: perots
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...power to force candidates to debate anyone. The question, ultimately, is do we really want the federal government to be in charge of how candidates campaign and whom, if anyone, they choose to debate, or is this an issue that should be left to candidates and voters? Ross Perot, and before him John Anderson, got included in debates because enough voters wanted to see them, and because one or both major party candidates thought they had more to lose than to gain by opposing inclusion of the third party candidate. Is that not the way it should be?...
...third party candidate Ross Perot went into the debates with seven percent support and ended up winning 19 percent in the presidential election, making him one of the most popular third party candidate in modern times. His inclusion in the debates (then the standard was only “a chance to win”) caused a jump in support and gave hope to third parties everywhere. However, it horrified the major parties, which knew that no candidate could win without being in the debates. They raised the bar in 1996 and raised it again...
...nearby Rosslyn, Va. When he heard the "earthquake," he looked out the window and saw black smoke, which television reports said was coming from his wife's side of the Pentagon. Within minutes, the roads were jammed and the Metro closed, so Sincock, who looks remarkably like Ross Perot except for his 6-ft. 2-in. height, took off on foot, sprinting two miles across highways and through Arlington National Cemetery. By the time he arrived, it was bedlam, thousands of people both fleeing and searching for survivors. Sincock tried to find his wife but also helped out, bringing water...
...when the second hardest job in America is harder than it has ever been. (Campaigning last month for Green, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo had one piece of advice for whoever won: "First, pray.") Bloomberg, 59, spent an estimated $60 million on the race--as much as Ross Perot spent running for President in 1992, more than anyone has ever spent running for mayor of anywhere. He is a novice at politics but a master at business, and that sounds good to New Yorkers right now. Green had been a public servant, but his experience was marginally relevant...
...behind the Dallas arena and Victory cleanup is Ross Perot Jr., 42, CEO of Hillwood Development Co. and son of the former presidential hopeful. Perot rammed the project through a fractious Dallas political scene, getting the EPA and Texas regulators onboard even before taxpayers in 1998 approved (by just 1,642 votes out of 125,000) a tourist tax to raise $125 million for the planned $225 million arena. The price tag soared to $420 million thanks to such amenities as recessed lighting, terrazzo mosaic floors, barbecue grills and ramps graded for easy elephant access. "We got carried away," Perot...