Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Ventura first stole the spotlight as a populist icon, he was catapulted to greater prominence earlier this month when Patrick J. Buchanan threatened to quit the Republican Party and run for president on the Reform Party's presidential ticket...
Buchanan has a tentative nod from the Reform Party's founder and father-figure, Perot, but the arch-conservative's isolationist politics clash with Ventura's libertarian leanings...
When Ventura's hand-picked candidate to be president of the Reform Party beat out Perot's incumbent earlier this summer, Ventura positioned himself to control both the party's national offices and, as its highest elected official, its national image...
Ventura is now charged with bringing the Reform Party from the sidelines of American politics to the mainstage--to make it a dominant fixture of a three-party system, instead of the occasional spoiler for one or the other parties...
Back home in Minnesota, however, Ventura still has practical problems to attend to. He has made reform of the state's education system a priority and wants to do so without spending more money. Like many politicians around the country, his approval ratings have profited from the strong economy...