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...became famous: [Ross Perot] read an article in the Miami Herald about the report I did. It's called "The First Annual Report of the United States." It's supposed to be like the annual report of a corporation, only it's about public finance...
...21st century politics should serve to build confidence among skeptics. The mood of the nation is ripe. Last year survey takers reported that U.S. computer owners listed politics online as one of their highest priorities. And the newest political parties and movements often show a high-tech underpinning. Ross Perot's 1992 organizers, for example, drew their highest ratios of petition signers in high-tech strongholds -- from Massachusetts' Route 128 across the nation to Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie. Upbeat theorists are prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home, and several...
CREATING VIRTUAL WASHINGTON Perot has already urged national town meetings, a group in Pennsylvania is talking about voters advising Washington via an electronic Congress, and nostalgia is growing for a high-tech update of Athenian democracy or of Norman Rockwellian townspeople gathered around a cast-iron stove in rural Vermont. Virtual Washington would be a wired, cyberspatial capital in which U.S. Representatives and Senators could participate from their states or districts, while citizens, too, would have any information, debate or proceeding at their fingertips. G.O.P. presidential candidate Lamar Alexander, who talks about sending members of Congress home for six months...
...Republicans have no single candidate who can beat Gore. He's shown his mettle in debates, especially against Ross Perot's demagoguery. Unlike all four Republican presidents since Eisenhower, Gore can put together a complete sentence off the cuff...
Bagby says she is still looking for a job forafter graduation. While recruiting, Bagby says sheapplied to law schools. Ironically, Perot calledher on the same day that she was rejected fromHarvard Law School...