Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, October 06, 1992, Page 13, Image 13

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    ELECTION ’92
Gore calls for change, new day
ORLANDO. Fla. (AP) - To
hoar Al Corn toll it. voters not
only will chooso a president on
Nov. 3 but decide the next
day's woathor as well.
"Picture for a moment how
you would fool if you woke up
on the morning of Nov. 4,"
Gore told crowds in appear
ances with Dill Clinton In Day
tona Beach and Orlando.
“You had gono to bod early
the night before, didn’t know
tho outcome. And you walked
out and got the newspaper off
your front stoop and it was a
gray day and you looked at tho
headline with sleep still in
your eyes and it said. ‘Four
More Years of the Same.'
Would anyone foel a burden
had been lifted and that hope
was going to reign supremo?"
Or "imagine a second head
line," Gore said. "That you
woko up on Nov. 4 and the sun
was shining, the flowers wero
smelling sweetly, the aroma of
fresh-brewed coffee was com
ing from the kitchen, little birds
were singing outside the win
dow and you picked up tho pa
per and tho headline said, 'A
New Day — Change is Coming
Our Way.* ”
After listening to his running
mate first deliver that lino at
Bolhuno Cookman (iollegn In
Daytona Beach, Clinton de
clared, ‘it is ntco to be the clos
ing speaker at Rev. Cora's tent
revival."
Throe of Clinton's follow
governors were on hand for an
early afternoon Orlando rally.
Including Florida's Lawton
Chile*.
Joining Chiles and Clinton on
stagn worn Georgia Gov. Zell
Millor and Virginia Gov. L.
Douglas Wilder, who was for a
brief period a Clinton rival for
the Democratic nomination.
“I know Bill Clinton." Wild
er told thu crowd at a slop in
Leesburg. Fin. "Bill Clinton is a
friend of mine, and George
Bush ain't no Bill Clinton."
One sign in the crowd at the
Orlando rally on a picnic
grounds not too far from Disney
World "Mickey Mouse for
Clinton -Go re,"
Quayle makes Tacoma appearance
I TACOMA (AI*) — Vico President Dan Quuyle,
campaigning Monday in a state whore Democrats
hold a commanding load in presidential polls,
pledged tho administration will light for jobs In
I timber communities.
Tho vice president, making his first Washing
ton state appearance of tho 1992 campaign, ech
oed timbor-and-onvironmont remarks made in tho
state by both the Democratic ticket and President
| Bush.
I He used, almost verbatim, a statement by Bill
Clinton and Al Core that ‘‘jobs vs the environ
ment is a false choice.” Core was in Seattle and
tho Trl-Citios over the weekend, calling for bal
ance In tho timber supply issue Clinton talked
extensively about tho issue when ho campaigned
in Spokane and Seattle In July.
Both environmental protection and bettor con
sideration for the worker are required. Quaylo
told a cheering crowd of about 3(X> lumber mill
workers.
Ho also reiterated comments made by Bush al a
mill in Eastern Washington three weeks ago that
the federal Endangered Species Act has squeezed
out consideration of "the human factor in efforts
to protect tho threatened northern spotted owl
and other creatures.
Quaylo's five-hour visit was carefully choreo
graphed with no major public appearance He
staged a $50O-a-person fund-raiser at a posh Taco
ma dub. sipped a cup of comm al a lJenny s res
taurant with a man named Lenin ("Ilka the Rus
siun revolutionary") Bird, attended a private
roundtable discussion wilh sawmill owners, gave
a seven-minute speech to lumber worker* and
conducted several TV and radio interviews.
Ho was not accessible to reporters
His low-key appearance did not draw a single
"name" Republican officeholder or candidate
Stale COP Chairman Ben Bettridge and Veda Jel
len. vice chairwoman of the state Bush-Quayle
committee, wore the ranking party officials in the
receiving lino at the airport.
Quayle’s press secretary, David Beckwith,
smiled when asked why the vice president was
bothering to visit a stute lhai most observers as
sume will go Democratic, as it did four years ago.
ulong wilh Oregon.
•' The West Coast is tough," he conceded. It's
tough. We’re going to now! some serious help to
get into serious contention.”
Quuylc told a TV Interviewer. "We’re here to
talk to people and not to the pundits We think
the state of Washington may have a surprise for
ihe Democrats."
The latest statewide poll, published by the
JtHjmul Anwrlcan. Valley Dully News and M)MO
TV, showed Clinton wilh a commanding lead —
•Mi percent to Bush’s 20 and 11 percent for inde
pendent Ross Perot.
Perot buys 30-minute
prime-time TV spots
DALLAS (AP) — Rom Porot promised Monday to lay out
the "scope and the magnitude" of the nation's economic
woe* in a 30-minute commercial ho said would bo the first In
a series.
"It's such a massive problem, you have to tako it a piece at
a time?," said Perot, who joined iho presidential race last
Thursduy.
Ho said his advertising campaign, which begin* with a
half-hour show Tuesday and continues with a 30-minuto spot
on Friday, "will be kind of like the old Superman serial ...
slay tuner! tomorrow and we'll go to the next phase."
Aides declined to provide details of the commercial,
Perot's first since ho began talking about joining the cam
paign last soring.
Perot said he personally put together tho 30-minute ad. and
added. "I wrote the script and drew the charts." He said he
hopes to help tho American people "understand the size, tho
scope and the magnitude” of the country’s economic prob
lems.
Before ho dropped out of the race In July, Perot wrote a
never-delivered campaign speech accompanied by 21 color
charts showing the decline of the nation’s growth, productiv
ity and investment rates His lx>ok, United We Stand, starts
off with a chapter laying out tho country's economic prob
turns anti including stunt! t>i mu same marts
Perot Is paying S380.000 to run his 30-mlnuln show on
CBS l*fore the National Ltiogue playoff game In the eastern
half of thu country and after the game In the west
Perot spokeswoman Sharon Holman, who announced
plans Sunday for o 60-second commercial on ABC's Monday
Night Football, said the idea was later scuttled
Though he did nol rule out short ads, Perot said on NBCs
Ttx/uy show, "You can't cover much in one minute. We need
to get down In the trenches and really diagnose the problem,
explain to the American people where we are, what we have
to do That's what we‘11 bo trying to do."
Perot's economic program rails for attacking the deficit
through higher taxes, lower entitlement payments and an
across-the-board government spending cut
l or the time being, the ad campaign Is the chief tool of the
Dallas billionaire's independent drive for the White House
Aides said Purot had no public appearances lined up this
week and was preparing for Sunday's delta to with President
Bush and Bill Clinton.
Perot's ad was produced by The 270 Croup, a consortium
of Dallas ad agencies and freelancers that was hastily formed
to work on the campaign Much of It was filmed in the few
duys since Perot’s formal entry, said a source Involvod in the
production who asked nol to he named
The 270 Croup is led by Dennis McClain, president of
Tomnrlin McClain, a $400-mllllon ad firm that is ihu largest
in the Southwest
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