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- GRAPEVINE, Page 23Cutting the Grass
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- By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT GREGORY
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- 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.
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