From: 76330.3412@CompuServe.COM ("John M. Sulak")
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Nancy Lord campaigns in Illinois for Libertarian ticket
Date: 9 Sep 92 05:23:55 GMT


September 8, 1992.
   
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (UPI) -- A vice-presidential candidate visited 
Springfield Tuesday to talk about lowering taxes, cutting the deficit 
and abolishing government regulations that restrict business. 

But the candidate in question wasn't Dan Quayle, despite the 
Republican-style rhetoric. 
   
"I personally don't know anyone named Murphy Brown, and I don't have 
dialogues with sitcom characters," the candidate said. "I like to 
talk to real people with drivers' licenses and names listed in the 
phone book and that kind of stuff." 
   
Nancy Lord may be more real than the television character Quayle 
attacked but she definitely lags behind Murphy Brown in name recognition.
   
Lord, the Libertarian Party candidate, is trying to change that with a 
series of appearances across the nation. She spoke at the state Capitol 
while Libertarian presidential nominee Andre Marrou appeared in Peoria.
   
Leaders of the nation's third-largest political party hope their 
philosophy of less-is-more government finds receptive ears this fall 
among disaffected Ross Perot supporters.
   
Lord, a 46-year-old physician and attorney from Atlanta, said Perot 
did the American people a service by showing that regular party 
candidates could be beaten. 
   
But he did them an even greater disservice by abandoning his 
supporters midway through the election year, she said. 
   
"He marched them out in the field with the banners flying, but as 
soon as he heard gunshots, he ran away," she said.
   
Although Marrou and Lord are already on the ballot in Illinois 
and 46 other states, they admit they don't stand a chance of 
winning this fall. 
   
But like Perot, Lord said the mere act of voting Libertarian 
sends a message that the old style of politics as usual is doomed.
   
"By casting a ballot for Andre Marrou and Nancy Lord, you're 
sending a message that you're not sound asleep anymore," she 
said. "You may be voting for people who might lose right now, 
but in the end you're going to take back your country." 
   
The Libertarian Party platform says the federal government is 
involved in too many areas best left to private enterprise. A 
central government is only needed to defend against war, fight 
crime and protect people from natural disasters or other harm, 
she said.
   
Lord said George Bush has fattened the federal bureacracy and 
broke his no-tax promises, while Democratic nominee Bill Clinton 
is big spender who would make the deficit even larger.
   
A Libertarian administration would slowly abolish big-government 
programs like Medicare and Social Security because they only 
drive up medical costs and give more money to the rich, she said. 
   
Welfare would also be eliminated because it penalizes the poor 
for working, she said. 
   
If Libertarians were in the White House, the president would 
have a line-item veto and the vice president would control the 
U.S. Senate. Lord said officials have those powers under the 
current Constitution but have never exercised them.
   
She said the federal government already shuts down during 
budget crises with no appreciable effect. A permanent shutdown 
"wouldn't make any difference except in (people's) pocketbooks." 
   
"Every year the government shuts down for a week or two, and no 
one notices. I'd like to give the American people the chance to 
see how little they do for us, that the world would still go on 
without them," she said. 
    
    
Copyright 1992 The United Press International  

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