From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: [alt.activism et al: US presidential] "Debate"
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:08:23 GMT

A repost from alt.activism,talk.politics.drugs,talk.politics.guns:

From: atfurman@cup.portal.com (A T Furman)
Subject: "Debate"
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 11:58:44 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

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For immediate release.                             FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
11 October 1992                 Mary Gingell, LP National Chair: 415-858-1842
                               Gary Johnson, LP Media Relations: 512-441-6378


                   THREE CANDIDATES OFFERED NOTHING NEW

     "At a time when America desperately needs major change, the three
candidates invited to the Presidential debate Sunday offered nothing new,"
Libertarian Party national chair Mary Gingell (JING'-gel) said today.

     "If the Libertarian candidate, Andre Marrou (AHN'-dray mah-ROO'), had
been invited, the American people would have heard specific proposals for
real change to improve this country, proposals that they haven't had a
chance to hear" Ms. Gingell said.

     "The American people were presented with three candidates all of whom
would raise our taxes.  Bush already has.  Clinton proposes to.  And Perot
wants to raise gas taxes and 'expand the tax base.'  Andre Marrou would have
proposed deep tax cuts."

     "Those three candidates want to raise government spending.  Bush wants
more defense contract pork barrels.  Clinton wants more costly social
programs.  And Perot wants big government to be a 'partner' with subsidized
big business.  Andre Marrou would have talked about his plan for cutting
$500 billion in government spending and putting more money in the hands of
the American people and more private capital in the market economy."

     "Perot, just like the other candidates, thinks more government is the
way to solve our problems.  We think government itself is the problem."

     "If Andre Marrou had been there, he would have explained the need to
replace the unaccountable Federal Reserve with sound money.  He would have
presented the rational case for drug legalization.  The other three
candidates propose to continue the failed War on Drugs, but drug prohibition
has caused much of the violence and crime we are suffering today because
there is an exorbitant profit in drug dealing."

     "Regarding the Clinton war protest controversy, we need a President who
will defend the right to disagree with government policy, at home and on
foreign soil."

     "The Libertarian candidates for President and Vice President, Andre
Marrou and Nancy Lord, have earned the right to be included in these
debates.  The Libertarian Party is America's third largest.  Marrou and Lord
are on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. A
nationwide, grass roots campaign put them on the ballot.  More than 750
Libertarian candidates are running this year."

     "The voters deserve to hear someone else in the debates, the serious
and active candidate of America's third largest party -- not a failed
Republican who cannot be trusted, a fence-straddling Democrat who says
different things at different times, or a quitter who offers lame jokes
instead of specific solutions to our nation's ills."

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    Alan T. Furman         | VOTE LIBERTARIAN!!  Marrou/Lord in 92!!
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