From: ddc1@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.activism.d,alt.individualism
Subject: H. Ross Perot on some issues
Date: 13 Apr 92 06:05:06 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism, alt.activism.d, alt.individualism
Organization: University of Scranton


	A while back someone asked about H. Ross Perot and his views, I've 
finally seen my first article longer than 5 lines on him and here it is.

	This is from the NEW YORK POST (don't tell anybody i ever read this
shitty paper, someone at work had it...honest!) without a thought about
permission.  Simple sentence construction and third grade reading level theirs,
typos are mine. 

 Thursday, April 2, 1992  p. 20

			PREZ PEROT? IF THE VOTERS BEG

	Ross for Boss?
	
	Well he hates Washington, but Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot is
willing to spend a fortune to get there-if enough people beg him to run for
President.
	
	Perot's crewcut and leathery face are becoming more familiar outside
his native Dallas since he floated his name as a possible independant
presidential candidate- and set up a toll-free hotline in the basement of his
Dallas offices.

	So far, more than a million people have phoned in $5 pledges. Many of
them hope Perot would do for Washington what he did for Electronic Data
Systems: make it work.

	The computer company he started in 1962 with a $1,000 investment was
sold 22 years later for $2.5 billion.

	In 1979, Perot enhanced his reputation as a guy who could get things
done when he sent helicopters into Iran to rescue two of his employees who were
being held hostage there.

	But several stories about Perot paint a less-than-flattering portrait.

	In 1988, he outraged the black community in Dallas when he opposed a
panel to review complaints against police.

	Then he proposed reducing crime by cordoning off minority neighborhoods
and conducting door-to-door weapons and drug searches.

	Oliver North, architect of the Iran-Contra scandal, wrote in his book,
"Under Fire," that Perot promised to take care of the ex-Marine's family and
give him a job if North would go to jail to sheild President Reagan from hte
scandal- a charge that Perot denies.

	For somebody who does not claim to be a politician, Ross does a fair
imitation of one.

	He has even named his running mate- retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale,
68, a former Navy combat pilot in Vietnam who earned the Medal of Honor after
seven years as a prisoner of war.

	Perot has said he'll make a bid for the White House if volunteers put
him on the ballot in all 50 states.

	Political insiders say most Perot voters are disillusioned George Bush
supporters, unlike Buchannan, however, nobody knows much about where Perot
stands. But here's a glimpse:

	1. He was against the Persian Gulf War.

	2. He wants to put any tax increases to a national vote.

	3. He wants a law to limit executive salaries in the private sector.

	4. He would charge Germany and Japan for defense.

	5. He's pro-choice on abortion.


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        Well there you have it...the most complete coverage this candidate has
gotten thus far. Parts of the above list sounds good to me (the list only), but
I don't know about the rest of the stuff, anyone else hear anything on other 
issues?
 	
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ddc1@jaguar.uofs.edu	   |	that people don't think.
ddc1@SCRANTON		   |			   -Adolf Hitler	
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