From: fsspr@acad3.alaska.edu (Sean P. Ryan, Hardcore Alaskan)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections
Subject: Re: fact: Libertarian presidential support since 1972
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:39:15 GMT
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In article <PMETZGER.92Apr8105929@snark.shearson.com>, pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes...
> 
>Norma Segal, Andre's fiance, would be very interested to hear if Nancy
>Lord was seeing him. Nancy's fiancee would also doubtless be
>interested in hearing it. I suspect Andre and Nancy would also be
>interested in the news that they are an item, given that so far as I
>can tell they themselves are unaware of it.

Okay, if that's the case then, fine.  I have a friend who was forwarding
Libernet digests to me (I now get them directly through FTP).  In one of
them (I believe this was around the time of your convention), someone
referred to Nancy Lord as Andre's girlfriend.  Seeing as how no one
bothered to correct this person, I had to assume that perhaps there was
some truth to this.

But that still doesn't answer my question as to what happened between
him and his wife.  Last thing I heard (third-hand, about 4 or 5 years
ago), they were still married and were trying to have a child.

>As for the notion that Andre won't break a million votes: he has an
>excellent organization, good people working for him nationwide, and we
>are likely to be on the ballot in all 50 states for the first time
>since 1980. We are using television ads in a big way for the first
>time in a decade, Andre and Nancy have almost daily appearances on
>Radio and TV talk shows, and we seem to be on target for all our
>campaign milestones thus far. I don't know that we will break 1
>million votes, but the goal is well within reach.

How come it is that I see this same message in each and every one of
your posts, with little difference in the wording?  Do you have a cron
job that replies to these things?  This is much the same reason that I
fell to dislike Andre Marrou.  His method of campaigning in 1986 was to
devise a single spiel and repeat it word-for-word in every one of his 
public appearances.  Having seen or heard him some half-a-dozen times
during that campaign, the thought of hearing the exact same thing each
time was just a bit too much for me.  

It was only after the campaign that I came to realize the reasons behind
this approach - Andre had given up on being the standard bearer of the
Alaskan Libertarians and had already had visions of being a national
leader in the party.  This while he was still running for re-election to
his state house seat here.  So, as it should be obvious, he ran a very
sloppy campaign, the single-spiel approach being just a very small part
of it.  Then he had the audacity to blame everyone but himself once he
lost, including in an article in the LP News.  Again, each time the
spiel was the exact same.  But no matter, Andre had already left the
state even before his term in the legislature had expired.

Two more things.  First, I keep hearing praises heaped upon Andre by the
national Libertarians, so it should be obvious that they have little
knowledge of his reputation here.  Andre isn't very highly thought of
here by anyone, with the possible exception of the few Libertarian Party
activists left.  Also, I keep hearing people from outside of Alaska
refer to Andre as a former Congressman.  Is this another lie that the
campaign or the party is propogating?  Folks, Andre was a STATE
representative!  *NOT* a Congressman!

Secondly, the party would do good to learn a lesson from the Clark
campaign.  I thought that that campaign had a lot going for it (albeit
admittedly due to David Koch's money), but with Anderson in the race,
look at how far they got.  If Perot does make it into the race, I think
that the Marrou campaign will be hard-pressed to match even Bergland's
totals.

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