From: 76330.3412@CompuServe.COM ("John M. Sulak")
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: slanted media coverage of otherwise uncovered candidates
Date: 29 Aug 92 19:45:01 GMT

The Associated Press. 
   By ANASTASIA BENSHOFF 
 Associated Press Writer 
   
   WASHINGTON (AP) -- While George Bush and Bill Clinton trade jabs, jeers 
   and sound bites, a host of third party and independent presidential 
   candidates are setting their sights on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. 
   
   They may be fringe candidates, but they've all got agendas. Some tend 
   to the Quixotic. Like the idea of a 30-hour work week? Want to 
   abolish the Internal Revenue Service? How about brain-mapping for 
   political candidates? 
   
   Many of these candidates have run for president before and though 
   they know it's an uphill battle, they are confident of a November win. 
   
   Here are some of the people seeking certification on state presidential 
   ballots: 
   
   RON DANIELS, Independent 
   Daniels, the former executive director of the Rainbow Coalition and 
   Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign manager, calls his effort 
   the "Campaign for a New Tomorrow." He wants to establish a "socially 
   responsible economy" that features full employment, universal health 
   insurance, strict environmental codes and inner-city restoration 
   programs. Daniels said his campaign is a "rejection of candidates who 
   cannot publicly embrace a black agenda." He expects to be certified on 
   as many as 25 state ballots.    
   
   LENORA FULANI, New Alliance Party 
   Fulani said she represents a black-led, multiracial and pro-gay party. 
   Her plan is to "build a new America" by reducing racism, unemployment, 
   drugs and crime. The New Alliance Party, which Fulani has been associated 
   with since it began in 1979, has been criticized as a therapy cult that 
   brainwashes its members. The party refutes brainwashing charges, calling 
   their techniques "social therapy" or "crisis normalization" to help 
   people with "the everyday crises situations that happen to everyone." 
   Fulani, a psychologist from New York, ran unsuccessfully for mayor of 
   New York City and for lieutenant governor and governor of New York. The 
   party said it expects to be on the ballot in 43 states. 
   
   JAMES "BO" GRITZ, Populist Party
   Gritz rejects Bush's "New World Order," the GATT treaty and U.S. 
   military intervention anywhere outside the country. He said he would 
   propose a national vote to determine the legality of abortion rights. 
   Gritz, who lives outside of Las Vegas, ran as the party's vice 
   presidential candidate in 1988 for a week, but pulled out when the 
   Populists nominated ex-Ku Klux Klan leader and Nazi sympathizer David 
   Duke as their presidential candidate. The party said Gritz is on the 
   ballot in 19 states and expects him to be on as many as 32. "It's my 
   full intention to win the election," Gritz said. 
   
   JOHN HAGELIN, Natural Law Party 
   Hagelin, a professor of "quantum physics" at Maharishi International 
   University in Fairfield, Iowa said the party's main objective is to 
   bring scientific knowledge into politics. Some of the party's more 
   unconventional planks include mapping the brains of political 
   candidates to create a "mental profile" to determine if a person is 
   intelligent, creative and emotionally balanced enough to hold public 
   office; and the application of Transcendental Meditation in prison 
   systems. The ticket is led by a follower of Transcendental Meditation, 
   a method of relaxing the body that became popular in the 1970s. 
   Hagelin said he's on the ballot in 19 states and expects to be certified 
   in as many as 40. "This is an idea whose time has come ... we expect to 
   win," he said. 
   
   HELEN HALYARD, Workers League 
   The Workers League is a socialist party founded in 1966 on the ideology 
   of Leon Trotsky. Halyard said the party's basic goal is to form a 
   workers union to overthrow capitalism. Halyard, a resident of Detroit, 
   ran for vice president in 1984 and for mayor of Detroit in 1985 and 
   1989. She said she is certified in two states and is encouraging 
   supporters to write her in on the remaining ballots. 
   
   LYNDON LAROUCHE, Independent 
   LaRouche is serving a 15-year sentence for fraud in federal prison 
   in Rochester, Minn. A perennial candidate, he has run for president 
   four times. He has promoted a quarantine of AIDS victims and has 
   maintained that the virus is transmitted much like any other virus 
   and that most medical warnings about how it is spread are "an outright 
   lie." He also has stated that the International Monetary Fund is 
   "engaged in mass murder" by spreading AIDS through its economic policies 
   and he's accused Queen Elizabeth II of England of being a drug dealer. 
   In 1988, LaRouche detailed a plan to colonize Mars. A spokesperson for 
   LaRouche said he expects the candidate to be certified in 21 states by 
   November. 
   
   ANDRE MARROU, Libertarian Party 
   Marrou and his Libertarian party promise to repeal the federal income 
   tax and abolish the Internal Revenue Service. He said government has 
   only three legitimate purposes -- to provide national defense, to 
   oversee the court system and to command police forces. The Libertarian 
   platform urges legalizing so-called victimless crimes such as drug use 
   and prostitution, and lifting bans on ownership of certain firearms. 
   The party also supports a woman's right to have an abortion and 
   advocated personal freedom and voluntary cooperation. It opposes 
   taxes and regulation and see national defense as the federal 
   government's main function. "We are building the next major party," 
   said Marrou, a real estate broker in Las Vegas. The Libertarians say 
   they are currently on 43 state ballots and expect to be on all 50 
   states and the District of Columbia.
   
   HOWARD PHILLIPS, Taxpayer's Party 
   The Taxpayer's Party platform advocates putting $500 billion from the 
   federal budget into the private sector to jump-start the economy. 
   Phillips said the party is "100 percent pro-life," regards homosexual 
   activity as a "threat to public health," and opposes federal subsidies 
   for Planned Parenthood and "gay health" organizations. The party also 
   rejects Bush's "New World Order" and funding for the International 
   Monetary Fund. Phillips, who is the chairman of a conservative interest 
   group in Vienna, Va., said he expects to be on the ballot in 25 states. 
   
   JAMES WARREN, Socialist Workers Party 
   The Socialist Workers Party platform supports a 30-hour work week for 
   40 hours' pay. Warren contends a reduced work week will increase the 
   number of jobs available and boost employment. The party predicts the 
   country is "on an accelerating course" toward World War III that can 
   be prevented only by an international movement of workers and farmers 
   to abolish all weapons and military presence around the world. Warren, 
   a steelworker from Chicago, was the Socialist Workers Party candidate 
   in 1988. The party expects to be on the ballot in 20 states. "It's our 
   contention that this is the best time since World War I for 
   socialists," said Warren. 
   
   End Adv Thurs AMs Aug. 27 
    
	



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