>>http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/bloomberg_perot_president/2008/01/...

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>> Bloomberg Meets With Perot Manager, Ballot Expert

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>> Friday, January 18, 2008

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>> 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.

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>> 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.

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>> 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 ...

>> ... so Hillary gets nothing, no
>> health care, no tax hikes on the rich, no withdrawal from Iraq, etc."

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> Well, certainly not after the Republican congressional landslide in
> 2010.