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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: Rev. Butts Endorses Ron Daniels
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.035831.10886@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:58:31 GMT
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- [A Ron Daniels speech is available by anonymous ftp
- from pencil.cs.missouri.edu (then do a "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map")
- under "daniels.speech.1" and .2, .3 and .4 -- see bottom]
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- Topic 195 Butts Now Backs Daniels
- emcelroy gen.racism 10:00 am Jul 20, 1992
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- From: Eugene McElroy <emcelroy>
- Subject: Butts Now Backs Daniels
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- BUTTS BACKS AN EDUCATOR FOR PRESIDENT
- by Ian Fisher
- from the New York Times. July 20, 1992
- *********
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- The Rev. Calvin O. Butts 3rd, the pastor of the Abyssinian
- Baptist Church in Harlem who came under fire from black leaders
- for his support for Ross Perot, said yesterday that he new was
- endorsing another independent candidate, Ron D. Daniels, an
- educator who Mr. Butts said could not win the presidency.
- While he continued to attack the Democrats record with
- blacks, he said the "practical choice" for President, with Mr.
- Perot out of the race, was Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas.
- "The two best reasons for voting for Bill Clinton and Al
- Gore are George Bush and Dan Quayle," he said in an interview at
- his church office. "I believe that's where the majority of the
- African-American vote will have to go. Unfortunately it will be
- because many people just feel that's the only place they have to
- go."
- Mr. Butts comments carried a softer edge than remarks he
- made on the WNBC-TV new program, "News Forum", which was taped on
- Friday morning. In that interview, he said he was not likely to
- endorse Mr. Clinton, even as "the lesser of two evils".
-
- 'Taken Us for Granted'
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- "I don't believe that Bill Clinton is going to be any better
- than George Bush," he said. "We all know that Bill Clinton was
- raised up by the Democratic Party, an elitist part of that party,
- to be the conservative Democratic answer to George Bush."
- He also said: "The Republicans have ignored the people of
- African descent. The Democrats have taken us for granted."
- In his remarks yesterday, Mr. Butts said his endorsement of
- Mr. Daniels, a former executive director of the Rainbow
- Coalition, was consistent with his support of Mr. Perot. He said
- his primary interest was in building a third, independent party
- that would represent a broader range of interests that the
- Democrats or Republicans.
- "The only reason, the primary reason I should say, I
- supported Perot is because I believe in an independent political
- movement," he said. "And I believed Perot was at least serious
- about making a change."
- For the week before Mr. Perot dropped out of the race, Mr.
- Butts served as co-chairman of his New York campaign.
- **********
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- Daniels Speech Availalbe by Anonymous FTP
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- tba> ftp pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Connected to pencil.cs.missouri.edu.
- 220 pencil FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
- Name (pencil.cs.missouri.edu:harelb): anonymous
- 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
- Password:harel
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- 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
- ftp> cd LOOKEE_HERE
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> cd map
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> dir *danie*
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (128.84.234.30,1662) (0 bytes).
- -rw-r--r-- 1 12 staff 10999 Jul 22 03:55 daniels.speech.1
- -rw-r--r-- 1 12 staff 9385 Jul 22 03:55 daniels.speech.2
- -rw-r--r-- 1 12 staff 11005 Jul 22 03:55 daniels.speech.3
- -rw-r--r-- 1 12 staff 14328 Jul 22 03:56 daniels.speech.4
- 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
- remote: *danie*
- 288 bytes received in 0.23 seconds (1.2 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> get daniels.speech.1
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 ASCII data connection for daniels.speech.1 (128.84.234.30,1663) (10999 bytes).
- 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
- local: daniels.speech.1 remote: daniels.speech.1
- 11197 bytes received in 0.93 seconds (12 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> quit
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