SHERMAN OAKS : Perot Takes Campaign to the Sidewalks
Texas billionaire and potential presidential candidate Ross Perot is working the crowd on Ventura Boulevard these days--bashing politicians and putting his homespun spin on national problems for a sidewalk audience in Sherman Oaks.
Perot’s street speech is recorded on videotape and shown on a television set pressed to the window of a dress shop turned campaign headquarters, one of two in Los Angeles County.
Perot has said he will spend as much as $100 million of his money to run for President as an independent candidate if he qualifies for the ballot in nearly all 50 states. A Times poll released Tuesday shows Perot running about even with President Bush among voters in California.
“It’s like I’m sitting on top of Mt. Vesuvius,” said Perot’s west San Fernando Valley coordinator, Wayne Edington of Calabasas. The Sherman Oaks headquarters opened Monday and “at 10:45 last night we couldn’t close the front door,” he said. “People were still watching the tape and coming in to buy buttons and give money.”
The totals will not be tallied until the end of the week, he said.
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