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Perot ad tonight will be repeat

 
Published Oct. 9, 1992|Updated Oct. 12, 2005

Ross Perot will rerun his half-hour campaign ad on the nation's economic problems tonight instead of a new one that discusses solutions, aides said Thursday.

The campaign will broadcast the solutions ad sometime after Sunday's presidential debate, spokeswoman Sharon Holman said. It is expected to include painful prescriptions he has proposed in the past, such as tax increases and cuts in government spending programs.

Aides said Perot decided to repeat the first ad, shown on CBS Tuesday night, after thousands of viewers called his Dallas headquarters and the network's affiliates asking for it.

The ad will be run at 9:30 p.m today on ABC. The cost of the half hour is $620,000, ABC has said.

"People who didn't get to see it wanted to see it and people who saw it wanted to see it again," said Orson Swindle, who leads the Perot supporters' organization.

The presentation won second place in its time period Tuesday night, a showing that Holman said "proves that the American people are very concerned about the economy."