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Article: Perot's people talk about forming a new party. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 26, 1995
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Perhaps such things are meant to start humbly, as when a handful of disaffected Whigs and Democrats gathered in Ripon, Wis., some 140 years ago and founded the Republican Party. Who would have guessed?
So it was last week, when a few dozen Floridians, most of them retired, came together in a conference room in Naples, Fla., to discuss the idea of forming yet another new party, one to be baptized in the current disenchantment with Democrats and Republicans.
The meeting was anything but spontaneous. The idea of forming a new party sprang _ perhaps not surprisingly _ from Ross Perot.
The Dallas businessman-turned-talk-show host warned in a speech late last ...