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GRAPEVINE, Page 23Cutting the Grass
By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT GREGORY
Ross Perot pitches himself as a Man of the People, with
the people helping him, in true grass-roots fashion, to get on
the ballot. But as Perot gathers strength, the little people
are finding themselves pushed out by local bigwigs. In Virginia a
Perot backer says he was ousted, partly over his desire to
include more blacks in the campaign. One Oklahoma activist, wary
of losing control to local heavies, says he's keeping 35,000
petition signatures in a bank vault until he delivers them to
state election officials. The Perot campaign insists that it is
not trampling the grass. "Democracy, after all, is an unruly
process," says Perot spokesman James Squires. Big changes are
afoot within Perot's inner circle too. Hamilton Jordan,
campaign manager and chief of staff for Jimmy Carter, has
decided to join the campaign, as has former Reagan adviser Ed
Rollins. They're just the kind of political pros Perot has been
seeking.