From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Rev. Butts Endorses Ron Daniels
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:58:31 GMT

    [A Ron Daniels speech is available by anonymous ftp
    from pencil.cs.missouri.edu (then do a "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map")
    under "daniels.speech.1" and .2, .3 and .4 -- see bottom]

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Topic 195       Butts Now Backs Daniels 
emcelroy        gen.racism      10:00 am  Jul 20, 1992 
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From: Eugene McElroy <emcelroy> 
Subject: Butts Now Backs Daniels 
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              BUTTS BACKS AN EDUCATOR FOR PRESIDENT 
                          by Ian Fisher 
             from the New York Times. July 20, 1992 
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     The Rev. Calvin O. Butts 3rd, the pastor of the Abyssinian 
Baptist Church in Harlem who came under fire from black leaders 
for his support for Ross Perot, said yesterday that he new was 
endorsing another independent candidate, Ron D. Daniels, an 
educator who Mr. Butts said could not win the presidency. 
     While he continued to attack the Democrats record with 
blacks, he said the "practical choice" for President, with Mr. 
Perot out of the race, was Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas. 
     "The two best reasons for voting for Bill Clinton and Al 
Gore are George Bush and Dan Quayle," he said in an interview at 
his church office. "I believe that's where the majority of the 
African-American vote will have to go. Unfortunately it will be 
because many people just feel that's the only place they have to 
go." 
     Mr. Butts comments carried a softer edge than remarks he 
made on the WNBC-TV new program, "News Forum", which was taped on 
Friday morning. In that interview, he said he was not likely to 
endorse Mr. Clinton, even as "the lesser of two evils". 
      
                     'Taken Us for Granted' 
      
     "I don't believe that Bill Clinton is going to be any better 
than George Bush," he said. "We all know that Bill Clinton was 
raised up by the Democratic Party, an elitist part of that party, 
to be the conservative Democratic answer to George Bush." 
     He also said: "The Republicans have ignored the people of 
African descent. The Democrats have taken us for granted." 
     In his remarks yesterday, Mr. Butts said his endorsement of 
Mr. Daniels, a former executive director of the Rainbow 
Coalition, was consistent with his support of Mr. Perot. He said 
his primary interest was in building a third, independent party 
that would represent a broader range of interests that the 
Democrats or Republicans. 
     "The only reason, the primary reason I should say, I 
supported Perot is because I believe in an independent political 
movement," he said. "And I believed Perot was at least serious 
about making a change." 
     For the week before Mr. Perot dropped out of the race, Mr. 
Butts served as co-chairman of his New York campaign. 
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	      Daniels Speech Availalbe by Anonymous FTP
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tba> ftp pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Connected to pencil.cs.missouri.edu.
220 pencil FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
Name (pencil.cs.missouri.edu:harelb): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:harel

230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd LOOKEE_HERE
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> cd map
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir *danie*
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (128.84.234.30,1662) (0 bytes).
-rw-r--r--  1 12       staff       10999 Jul 22 03:55 daniels.speech.1
-rw-r--r--  1 12       staff        9385 Jul 22 03:55 daniels.speech.2
-rw-r--r--  1 12       staff       11005 Jul 22 03:55 daniels.speech.3
-rw-r--r--  1 12       staff       14328 Jul 22 03:56 daniels.speech.4
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
remote: *danie*
288 bytes received in 0.23 seconds (1.2 Kbytes/s)
ftp> get daniels.speech.1
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for daniels.speech.1 (128.84.234.30,1663) (10999 bytes).
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
local: daniels.speech.1 remote: daniels.speech.1
11197 bytes received in 0.93 seconds (12 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit

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