Word: perots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What's more, the money chase could serve Forbes in a highly personal way. Unlike Ross Perot, Forbes is not giving his own money to his campaign. He's lending it--with the option to repay himself later from any donor funds that remain unspent at the end of his campaign. If he gains the White House, he can also legally undertake postelection fund raising until he completely pays back his IOUs to himself. Though he says they haven't discussed it, Dal Col adds, "I'm sure Forbes would do it, pay himself back." In the meantime, by fronting...
...fall term, two of the six consultants who agreed to serve as on-line sounding boards for strategies devised by students included R. Clayton Mulford, key advisor to the 1992 H. Ross Perot presidential campaign and Donald Kellerman, founding director of the Times-Mirror Center for the People and the Press...
...liberal manifesto but recoiled at the idea of backing an independent candidate. Retiring New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley declined to endorse the program, and former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker rebelled at the idea of abandoning a third party. Some think Weicker may now try to hook up with Ross Perot's new party. But the chemistry between the two men is bad, and the most likely outcome is a second run by Perot...
...would have banned pac money and out-of-state contributions. As she said, "You can't perform surgery in a dirty operating room and with a team that hasn't scrubbed." LOW POINTS THE SUCKER AWARD: Republican presidential hopefuls rushed to genuflect at the Dallas conclave summoned by Ross Perot. Six weeks later, Perot announced the formation of an independent party...
...bigger question is whether any of them should even try. At this late date it would be hard to raise the millions of dollars necessary for a credible race. Ross Perot's nascent party would seem a convenient vehicle for an independent candidacy, but none of the participants wants to be seen as a Perot puppet. Still, the Lamm group would like to run its own candidate and, failing that, nudge those in the race toward their positions. "There is the danger of creating a spoiler and ending up with a worse result,'' frets Tsongas. The remarkable thing, perhaps...