Perot Group Forms New Virginia Party
A group of Ross Perot supporters formed a new state political party and voted Sunday to back the Senate candidacy of independent Marshall Coleman.
Coleman, a former state attorney general and two-time unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor, said he welcomes the support of the new party, called the Virginia Independent Party.
The group’s support of Coleman was arranged by Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported today.
Warner has said he cannot support Oliver L. North, the GOP nominee to unseat Democratic Sen. Charles S. Robb. He said North is unfit to serve in the Senate.
The Virginia Independent Party will be run separately from United We Stand, America, Inc., the nonprofit group that is the successor to Perot’s presidential candidacy.
Perot took 14% of the Virginia vote in the 1992 presidential election. Under state election law, if the party can document its Perot connection, it could be entitled to a slot on November’s ballot, since he got more than 10% of the vote.
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