From: "Linda Muller" <linda@buchanan.org>
To: brigade@zeus.wwol.com
Date: Sun, 2 Jul
Subject: [BRIGADE] So long, Ross Perot... 'twas nice knowing ya'
Dear Brigade - Letter from a long-time Reformer.
FYI - Linda
Date sent: Sat, 01 Jul 2000
From: Cliff Cofer -cmcofer@home.com
To: OFFICIALPHOENIX@onelist.com
Subject: So long, Ross Perot... 'twas nice knowing ya'!
July 1, 2000
Mr. Ross Perot:
It was you who inspired/motivated me to join the Reform Party
and take an active part in trying to take back our country from
the Special Interest groups who now control it through the
politicians they have 'bought & paid for'.
I stuck with you through 'thick and thin,' relying on what I
perceived to be a man of integrity.
When the Verney & Co. skullduggery & maneuvering was
going on I presumed that you were not a part of it. I reckoned
that you were busy running your businesses and were not
aware of, nor an active participant in, the low-ball stunts that
Verney & Co. and the Reform Leadership Council were pulling
almost daily.
When the Reform Party meeting was held in Nashville in
February, it quickly became obvious that Verney & Co. were
going to oust Jack Gargan (the duly elected National Chair)
and that they were going to use every duplicitous, underhanded
trick they could to get it done. It became known as the
Saturday MASSACRE... a name that fits the event to a "T."
When the Nashville meeting was in progress, I wrote you and
asked whether or not you sanctioned what Verney & Co. were
doing. You passed my letter on to Mike Hicks to answer on
your behalf. I specifically wanted to know whatever happened
to your own lifeguide, "DON'T ASK IS IT LEGAL... ASK IS IT
RIGHT?" ...as applied to what was happening at Nashville.
Frankly, Mr. Hicks gave me no straight answers. Again, I gave
you the benefit of the doubt and presumed that you were not
aware of all that was happening at the Nasville MASSACRE.
I have since observed a long list of tricks and underhanded,
duplicitous acts perpetrated by Verney & Co.... and NOW. I
see that you have joined in the trickery with them.
With your letter to the Reform Party nominating committee
asking that you be listed on the ballot as "No Endorsement"
you have finally lifted the veil... ROSS, you are as duplicitous
as the rest of the Verney gang. As long as you were silent, I
gave you the benefit of the doubt... now that you, yourself, have
spoken, I see you for what you are. Judas is too kind a word to
call you! Shame, shame on you! Disappointment doesn't come
close to describing my feelings.
You may waste your breath putting a different spin on your
ballot request, but its purpose is clear... to encourage the
voters to declare nobody as a nominee to run for the
Presidency in the November election. IOW, Ross, your action
is like that of a lion who kills its offspring rather than see them
grow up to become potential rivals. Goodbye, Ross Perot,
'twas nice knowing you. I do not envy you the position you will
find yourself in when you have to stand before your maker and
try to explain the double-dealing you did in the Reform Party's
efforts to select a candidate for the year 2000 election.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to
deceive!" -Sir Walter Scott
At least, I no longer have to keep asking the question,
"WHERE'S ROSS PEROT IN ALL OF THIS?" Sadly, I now
know where he is... sitting at the head of the table with all the
other underhanded, low-ball schemers who torpedoed the
Reform Party!
Regretfully,
Cliff Cofer
West Des Moines, Iowa
