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For a woman who has had a relationship with him, unless the other party is really suitable, Simon would rather give the other party a check for $100 million than stuff it into an inappropriate project.

Shaking her head again, Linda Vargas had no choice but to continue introducing the next candidate.

Neither of the subsequent two could satisfy Simon.

Until the fourth one, seeing the information of Sela Ward, Simon made a decision directly.

Although she also went to bed, Sela Ward is more suitable for the role of Bree Van Dikan than Marcia Cross in terms of appearance and temperament.

After all, the memory of Marcia Cross's obviously overdosed face still makes people feel uncomfortable.

Sela Ward's looks and temperament are natural.

After Lynette and Bree, the other two housewives, Susan and Gabriel, were initially finalized.

Because it is a female-led movie, Simon only cares about the candidates for the four core housewives, the women's husbands and other roles, and Simon only pays attention to the final result.

Busy with various things, another week passed before I knew it.

Simon flew to New York on Friday, March 3.

Because Cersei has accumulated a lot of things during her pregnancy, Janet has been staying on the east coast for the past week, and Simone deliberately came to spend the weekend with the woman.

Inside the manor in Greenwich, New York.

The time is Saturday morning.

The winter chill is gone on the East Coast in March.

Simon had just had breakfast with Janet when Joseph Schlapp of Schlapp Consulting came to visit.

Entering March 1992, the quadrennial US presidential election has officially kicked off.

The two major political parties in the United States, the incumbent President George Bush will definitely be eligible for the Republican nomination.

On the Democratic side, major candidates such as Arkansas Governor William Clinton and New York State Governor Marlowe Gummer have surfaced and began to compete for the Democratic party's nomination.

However, the most concerned by the North American media these days is the billionaire Ross Perot, who announced his participation in this year's presidential election as an independent candidate of the third party.

In late February, in a live interview with CNN's Larry King, Ross Perot publicly announced that if he could get enough signatures from voters in all [-] US states and Washington, D.C., he would formally run as an independent candidate this year. U.S. presidential election.

Since last year, Ross Perot has publicly stated more than once that he will participate in this year's presidential election.

According to the U.S. Election Law, if an independent candidate wants to participate in the election, he must obtain a certain number of voter signatures in each state in the United States in order to be eligible for candidacy.

Therefore, compared to previous statements, this public collection of signatures announced the official launch of Ross Perot's candidacy.

The U.S. stock market has recovered since the Gulf War last year, but the U.S. economy is at its lowest point after the 1987 stock market crash and the last bond crisis.

In addition to winning a foreign war, the results of George Bush’s three-year administration as president have really disappointed voters. In addition, several candidates from the Democratic Party are somewhat weak. Ross Perot’s candidacy has aroused Quite a lot of interest from voters who are deeply disappointed in both parties.

Therefore, after participating in an interview with CNN at the end of February, in less than half a month, Ross Perot had collected enough voter signatures in 29 states in the United States.

Obviously, it is only a matter of time before Ross Perot collects enough signatures in all fifty states of the United States and Washington, DC.

Because Ross Perot's personal political inclination is biased towards conservatives similar to the Republican Party, once he runs for the election, he will definitely divide the votes that George Bush deserves.Therefore, as Ross Perot began to collect voter signatures, driven by some undercurrents, many media also began to use a magnifying glass to observe everything about Ross Perot, and a large number of public opinion attacks followed.

Some people always think that the power of the President of the United States is not great, he has to be restrained by Congress, and he is often attacked by the media. The head of state of a big country, the President of the United States, is definitely a 'job' that pays the least but can get the most power.

Because the threshold is not too high, the payment is small enough, and the power is large enough, the competition is naturally extremely fierce.

In order to win the election, the candidates and the forces behind them did everything possible during the election process.

Although Ross Perot is a billionaire, he also experienced fierce market games in the process of starting from scratch.However, this rich man is still a mediocre politically. After a combination of various parties and opinions, this billionaire showed a tendency to be overwhelmed.

Chapter 469

PS: Chapter 468 is repeated, the VIP chapter cannot be deleted, so the content is changed to Chapter 469.

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The U.S. presidential election does not adopt a universal suffrage system that counts votes uniformly across the country, but a special electoral system.

The so-called electoral system means that each state in the United States has a certain number of electoral votes.

In the U.S. presidential election, the voting results of voters in each state determine the target of the corresponding electoral votes for this state.Presidential candidates decide the general election based on the number of electoral votes they ultimately receive, not the specific turnout nationwide.

This "winner takes all" electoral system means that apart from the deep-rooted Democrats and Republicans, it is difficult for candidates from other parties in the United States to win elections.

Facts have also proved that in the more than two hundred years since the founding of the United States, except for the original George Washington, no president has come from a third party other than the Democratic Republic.

Although Ross Perot's candidacy has attracted intense media and public attention, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the possibility of Ross Perot breaking the deep-rooted political monopoly of the two parties in the United States is very slim.

However, as Ross Perot attracts more and more attention, neither party in the United States dares to take the independent candidate lightly.

The recent attacks on Ross Perot in some conservative media have obviously been deliberately done for a long time.

In Simon's memory, not only were the attacks from the media, but the Bush administration even resorted to some dirty tricks in order to prevent Perot from running for the election.

Ross Perot also withdrew from the election once under the pressure, but after several twists and turns, this powerful billionaire finally participated in the general election that year and won an unprecedented 19% approval rate for an independent candidate.

Because of apportioning a large number of conservative votes that should have belonged to the Bush camp, it also largely led to the failure of George Bush's re-election.

Simon, who had bet on Clinton last year, has been quietly pouring money and resources into promoting the candidate for six months.

However, in Simon's view, if Clinton, who has little qualifications, wants to win the presidential election, he can only find another way in the final analysis.

To put it bluntly, it is to ensure the election of Ross Perot to share Bush's votes.

"A friend of mine has been doing media and public relations work for the Perot family. I talked to him and took the opportunity to attend a reception hosted by Ross Perot a few days ago. Overall, it was a very Strong and conceited people tend to be stubborn and don't like to listen to other people's advice."

In the reception room of Greenwich Manor, Joseph Schlapp introduced the situation of Ross Perot: "For the recent attacks in the media, Perot was very angry and believed that he had been treated unfairly. This has strengthened his determination to continue running for the election."

Janet brought in the coffee herself.

Joseph paused his narration temporarily, and after Janet poured coffee for everyone and sat down next to Simon, he continued: "However, I think Perot's determination is difficult to last for too long, because the Republican Party wants to prevent Perot's election will definitely not only exert pressure on public opinion.

For example, recently, Perot's computer service company is planning to assist several major securities and commodity exchanges to establish a new online trading system. approval.

If Perot insists on running, the Republican Party may put obstacles in the way of Perot's company in these areas.Perot himself should be very clear that the possibility of him winning the general election is very low. For this matter, the interests of the company will be damaged. "

Where there is a national government, there is never a shortage of things that use public power to suppress opponents.

The United States is no exception.

In the past Watergate incident, the Nixon administration threatened to refuse to issue a cable TV license to the Washington Post Group in an attempt to prevent the relevant reports of the "Washington Post".The Washington Post Group also almost caved at one point.

Of course, everyone knows the final result.

But other than that, the list of other similar things is simply too numerous to list.

The two acquisitions of the Westeros system last year, because of Simon's tendency to side with the Democratic Party, also encountered some warnings from the Republican Party.

Ross Perot's family has a big business, and he belongs to the reverse "those who wear shoes are afraid of bare feet". If they insist on running for the election, they will indeed have a lot of scruples.

Speaking of which, in the 80s, Ross Perot was on the top of the "Forbes" rich list several times. In the 90s, the wave of new technology rose, but the Perot family, which mainly engaged in computer services, was silent. The presidential election led to continued suppression of family companies.

After several years of cooperation, Joseph Schlapp has gained the trust of Simon, so he also knows most of Simon's layout.

Hearing what he said, Simon generally understood that this was a reminder to Simon that if he wanted Ross Perot to insist on participating in this year's presidential election, he should help the other party solve some "worries".

Simon and Ross Perot are not familiar with each other, but for example, what Joseph just said about the online trading system, using the contacts established by the Westeros system, can indeed provide some help.

Moreover, after Clinton stated his interests to the Democratic Party, the Democratic camp should also make efforts to push Perot to continue running for the election.

Although the current White House cabinet is controlled by the Republican Party, it does not lack the power of the Democratic Party. The SEC is even a government department under the Congress.

After discussing the details of promoting Ross Perot to continue running for the election, Joseph Schlapp handed over some documents sent by the Clinton team, mainly hoping that Simon can provide public opinion help for Clinton's campaign on the Igret Portal platform .

Speaking of which, in this presidential election, what Simon has to do is to push the boat along with the flow, and will not invest regardless of cost.

Still the same sentence, the position of the President of the United States, the investment is too small, the harvest is too great, so too many interests are involved.

For the current Simon, getting involved too deeply may not be worth the candle.

The main target of the expansion of the Westeros system in the political arena is still the members of the Senate and House of Representatives who have great power but do not attract much attention.

Therefore, in just over 20 minutes on this matter, Joseph Schlapp then talked about the lobbying progress of several telecommunications and media industry bills that the Westeros system is concerned about.

What Simon is most concerned about recently is the bill on lifting the telecommunications industry operators from getting involved in the field of telecommunications equipment manufacturing.

After releasing the first GSM digital mobile phone last year, Nokia has expanded rapidly in the European market. In the United States, AT&T, the largest telecom operator in North America, and Verizon, controlled by Westeros, have begun to lay GSM mobile phones. Communication Systems.

If Nokia cannot enter the North American market as soon as possible, even if it has the advantages of a channel operator like Verizon, it will fall behind step by step, and it will only become more and more difficult to develop the North American market in the end.

Fortunately, not only the Westeros system, AT&T and other giants in the telecommunications industry are promoting the liberalization of telecommunications industry regulations.

Although it will take a year or two to relax restrictions on the integration of services such as long-distance and short-distance calls and cable TV, the ban on telecom operators not being involved in the manufacture of telecom equipment will probably be lifted by the end of this year.

At that time, Nokia can enter the North American market.

In the media field, after Sony acquired Columbia, more Japanese and European companies are eyeing big Hollywood studios. In order to prevent Hollywood from being continuously invaded by foreign capital, it is almost impossible to lift the ban on mergers between content providers and channel operators in the media industry. It is already an inevitable trend.

The relevant ban will be lifted by next year at the latest.

At that time, the three traditional TV networks and the major Hollywood studios will be able to merge with each other, and the FOX TV network, which is restricted in many aspects because of the [-]th Century Fox film industry, can also expand its scale as much as possible. , It has completely become the fourth largest TV network in the United States together with the three old public TV networks.

After the promulgation of the "Sherman Antitrust Act" in 1890, the United States has been continuously restricting the expansion of large corporate giants for a century. During this process, Standard Oil Company was split up, the Paramount Act was born, and ATT was a Divided into seven, many other industries are also subject to many restrictions of the anti-monopoly law.

It is in response to the phrase 'divided for a long time must be combined'.

At least, in the next 30 years in Simon's memory, the United States has always maintained a laissez-faire attitude towards the expansion of corporate giants.

This country will therefore enter the next capital 'golden age'.

Continued expansion has enabled American corporate giants to maintain their global competitiveness against the background of globalization, but at the same time, this expansion will undoubtedly suppress innovation and hinder the development of the industry, so it is difficult to say whether it is good or bad.

However, for the Westeros system, the next 30 years will definitely be the best era.

Various matters were discussed for a whole morning, and it was already one o'clock in the afternoon to retain Joseph Schlapp for lunch and see him off.

It happened to be a sunny day, and the sunshine in early spring brought a little warmth.

There was a large reclining chair on a terrace of the manor villa, and the sun was shining warmly. Janet was like a cat in spring, snuggling up and rubbing against Simon.

Indeed, 'spring' is here.

After giving birth to the little one, I rested for a few months, and I was finally able to have hearty love last night, so I woke up very late this morning.They had just had breakfast when Joseph Schlapp arrived at nine o'clock.

Simon also squinted his eyes comfortably, feeling the warm afternoon sun and the fragrant and soft woman in his arms. He didn't know how long it had been before the sun was blocked by the partition wall on the side of the terrace, and he said softly: "Baby, how are you going to spend your birthday?"

The woman's birthday is March 3, next Friday.

Simon remembered it clearly.

Janet, who was wrapped around Simon, moved her body, scratching the man's body a few times with her little paws, and said dissatisfiedly: "It's not my birthday, it's not my birthday."

Simon smiled and said, "Just treat it as your 18th birthday, okay?"

"Ouch..."

"Okay, okay." He reached out and patted the woman who was biting his shoulder. After thinking for a while, Simon said again: "Why don't we go to Australia next week and take a look at the child by the way."

"Well, it's only been a few days, are you sure you want to go see the child?"

"..."

"Ha ha."

Speaking of which, through video communication, the couple can actually see the little guy in Australia every day.

Brought to Australia by Veronica, Simon still had some worries in his heart that the little man might not adapt to the climate.

However, this situation did not happen.

Surrounded by a big family, the little guy is even cuter than he was here in Los Angeles.

Janet, despite her frequent rants about a minor annoyance, was not unqualified as a mother, and she had always loved children.It's just that women don't like the feeling of being tied down by a little guy to live freely.

As for Simon, the coma after meeting Veronica for the first time made him have a strange fusion with the original soul of this body.

Simon's original consciousness is still firmly in charge of this body, but, inevitably, many memories and emotions of the original owner of this body have unknowingly affected him.

In the final analysis, a body has fused the souls of more than a dozen people, so it is impossible to be a simple so-and-so.

Now Simon Westeros is just Simon Westeros

Janet made a joke. Seeing that Simon didn't speak, she stood up and looked up: "Why don't we go to Manhattan to watch the fashion show at night? The two 'waist' and 'leg' you raised in Europe last time are all here recently. Oh."

Of the four major fashion weeks of this era, New York Fashion Week is still after London, Paris and Milan.

This year's New York Fashion Week officially opened yesterday and will last for ten days.

Simon picked up two models, Yasmin Gary and Nadja Allman, in Milan last year. His fame has continued to rise in the past six months, and he will naturally not miss the New York Fashion Week show.