P. activist but Lamm admirer in Denver, thinks his suck-a-lemon style won't have much appeal.
Formerly a Clinton supporter, Lamm himself has repeatedly blasted the President for breaking faith.
"Ross Perot, to his credit, has built a party bigger than himself, " Lamm deadpans.
Lamm says a 12-year legal battle between Winston and his brother, Bruce, sapped the company of money.
Lamm Memorial Award for outstanding leadership and dedication to U.S. highway transportation programs.
"I really feel that I've been dealt with fairly, " Lamm said after Perot announced his willingness to serve if called.
Lamm calls himself a controversial politician whose time is now, the right man to appeal to a public sick of platitudes.
Then Dick Lamm entered the race, in a manner of speaking, and started talking about the long-term effects of unchecked entitlement programs.
"Ron's not an execution guy, and he's not a manager, " says Peter Lamm, chief executive of Fenway Partners, a Manhattan-based private equity group.
But as long as Clinton's diet-substance strategy is working so well, he's not likely to hustle to appropriate Lamm's message, unless anyone seems to be buying it.
Both Lamm and Perot promise an aggressive agenda of deficit reduction, campaign reform and entitlement cuts, problems that worry the swing voters who will decide this race.
Lamm announced his intention Tuesday to seek the nomination.
There was a socially conservative, blue-collar, anti-NAFTA group, the same people who flirted with Buchanan earlier this year--and it's not clear that Lamm, a pro-choice free trader, would have much to offer them.
After leaving office, Lamm abandoned politics to teach and write, returning to the stage for a brief and ignominious Senate race in 1992, in which he lost in the primary to Ben Nighthorse Campbell.
For his part, Lamm was saying last month that he wouldn't run if Perot did, a reasonable position given the fact that Perot owns the casino, hired the dealers, set the stakes and keeps the books.
The son of prosperous Republican coal-mine owners, Lamm worked his way through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, even though he didn't have to, spending summers as a lumberjack in Oregon and an ore-boat deckhand on the Great Lakes.
He even has what amounts to a primary challenger in the person of former Colorado Governor and china breaker Richard Lamm, who by announcing last week that he would indeed seek the Reform Party's nomination, has given Perot a chance to win his first miniature election.
Lamm, on the other hand, having been a Democratic Governor and as a pro-choice environmentalist, may well hurt Clinton more--a point made by Lamm's wife Dottie, a devout Democrat and a friend of Hillary's who warned her husband that she doesn't want a Dole victory on her conscience.
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