Stewing on the Sidelines

摘要

It would have been a pretty good crowd—for a county commissioner's race. When Pat Choate came to an Atlanta strip mall to open Georgia's Reform Party headquarters, only about two dozen folks showed up: veterans, retirees, even an irritable libertarian who kept demanding to know if Ross Perot's running mate had read Ayn Rand. Still, Choate defended the small turnout and his lack of an entourage—just one assistant and a cell phone. "We're husbanding our resources," says Choate.