Word: perots
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Turns out there's a good reason why John McCain's still a Republican. Why Nader went with the Greens. Why Jesse Ventura sits unaffiliated in Minnesota, and why former Connecticut senator Lowell Weicker and New York mogul-o-maniac Donald Trump stayed on the sidelines. Why Ross Perot, according to his assistant, is "out of the country...
...John Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who believes wind power and transcendental meditation are the way to start solving the country's problems. Hagelin, a soft-spoken professor at Maharishi University who is getting his first taste this week of national media exposure, has adopted most of Ross Perot's platform and won the support of most of the Texas billionaire's supporters. He plans to merge his current presidential candidacy with the Natural Law party with the Reform banner, rise above the current fray and pull a Jesse Ventura on an American electorate that he says is thirsting...
...witty and undeniably well-turned tirades against the "godless New World Order," the "gods of the global economy" and the "Visigoths and Vandals of multiculturalism." Simultaneously, Hagelin was sounding softer - and considerably more soporific - notes in his acceptance speech, steering clear of social issues in the Perot tradition and calling on his audience of delegates and supporters in a decidedly more new-agey call to arms. "This is your party," he told the cheering crowd. "Breathe strength into it. Grow it into America's next major party...
...Hagelin drafted a complaint to the FEC earlier in the week claiming Buchanan used fraudulent means to win the Reform party election. The Buchanan camp has up to 15 days to answer the charges before the FEC makes its decision, but Pat Choate, Perot's 1996 running mate and now a friend of the Buchanan campaign, feels Hagelin's complaint is a non-issue. "Pat will have certification from the duly elected party chairman and treasurer that the FEC recognizes. That's that. The money will come quick and if it doesn't, we'll just pop it in straight...
...Perot loyalists have already filed an FEC complaint, claiming fraud and hoping to discredit Buchanan, get the dough, and save the party by somehow rallying 5 percent of the vote with it. Buchanan, however, seems to have the inside track. Good thing Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who advocates transcendental meditation, has a fall-back...