Bloomberg Meets With Perot’s Campaign Manager
Pay attention, he said: “I’m not a candidate.” Present tense. That means he could be one tomorrow. Kind of like when Romney said to the AP guy (very quickly, I might add, as though he had carefully worded his associations): “Did you hear what I said? I said I do not have lobbyists running my campaign. He’s not running my campaign, he is a senior advisor.”
AUSTIN, Texas- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg met Friday with the ballot access expert and campaign manager for H. Ross Perot’s third-party presidential bid, a sign of the multibillionaire’s seriousness about a possible independent run.
Bloomberg met privately with Clay Mulford, who is well-versed in third-party ballot access and served as campaign manager for Perot, according to an individual close to the mayor. Perot sought the presidency in 1992 and 1996. The lunch meeting with Mulford comes less than two months before Bloomberg would be able to start gathering signatures to get on the ballot and meet Texas’ early deadline.
If Bloomberg wants a chance at winning the state’s large slice of electoral votes—34—he would need to collect about 74,100 signatures by May 12, and cannot begin circulating petitions here until March 5. Not only does he have a short window to petition, the signatures need to be from Texas residents who did not vote in a party primary.
1992, Did Ross help Bubba get elected?
Earlier Friday, during a news conference, Bloomberg was asked about the significance of being in Texas, with its early ballot deadline. He seemed irritated with the question, having said only a moment earlier that he is “not a candidate” despite all the calls for him to run.
“I just said, I’m not a candidate—it couldn’t be clearer,” he said. “Which of the words do you not understand? People have urged me to do it but I’m not a candidate.”
(AP)
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Those two, Perot and Bloomberg do it for their egos. They want to be in the history books. They know they can’t win. In fact, Perot is a dispicable traitor, because he gave the 1992 election to Bill Clinton. Without Perot, G.Bush would have been reelected. I say traitor because Perot is somewhat of a conservative, and for him to do that for his ego, well…
January 19th, 2008 at 10:32 amOld Ross diluted GHW Bush because he has personal issues with the “New World Order” globalist agenda of Bush et al.
Bloomburg wants to throw his weight around brokering new laws to take away our 2nd Amendment rights. If he gets in it will be to insure the election of his fellow anti-gunners in the D’rat party. If McCain or Huckleberry are the Republican nominee he’ll run.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:02 pm