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...personality-driven popularity contests, it's only perception that matters. Which candidate didn't mention any members of his family? Which candidate did not say he personally had held a crack baby--but only that his wife had? Which candidate announced that "democracies are our friends"? Well, Herbert Ross Perot, George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton respectively...
Like Texas billionaire Ross Perot, Hagelincites his political inexperience as an advantage...
Most of the team Perot assembled last spring have dissociated themselves from the candidate. Dallas lawyer Thomas W. Luce III, Perot's confidant and loyal spear carrier for 20 years -- the man Perot reportedly blamed for his earlier troubles -- has returned to corporate law. Ed Rollins, Ronald Reagan's former campaign manager, is back in Washington working as a political consultant. Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's chief of staff who was hired with Rollins in June to run the campaign, has gone back to his corporate life at Whittle Communications in Knoxville, Tennessee. James Squires, former editor of the Chicago...
Though many of the original staff members left with some bitterness, they continued to collect large sums of money from the Perot campaign even after they departed. In July and August, according to financial documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, the Perot campaign paid Thomas Luce and his company $402,377.47; Hamilton Jordan received $154,872.18; Ed Rollins $97,032.34; James Squires $36,084.40; and John White $22,939.00. Rollins said last week that in addition to the money he had already received, Perot offered him $500,000 not to talk to the press about the campaign. Rollins...
...Perot's payouts have hardly been limited to his senior staff. According to FEC records, some of the smiling souls sporting Perot buttons and canvassing the country are workers hired from temporary agencies. They had to be taken on, according to a campaign spokesman, because so many of Perot's early volunteers left in disgust after the candidate pulled out in July. In California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois and New York, Perot has spent at least $430,000 to keep his volunteer networks manning the telephones and walking the streets. Which goes to show that...