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A Nice Chicago Doctor
Wants To Be President
KIMBERLY LIFTON
Staff Writer
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o Dr. Nathan Averick.
people are more impor-
tant that political
parties and their respective
rhetoric.
So the Chicago
pathologist, who also prac-
tices law, is taking his case
this week to the people of
Michigan in a last-ditch
effort he hopes will lead him
to the Oval Office.
"In anything I've ever
done in my life, I've always
gone for the top," said Dr.
Averick, adding his knowl-
edge of the law and medicine
is more than adequate to
qualify him for the nation's
top leadership job. "My goal
is to get to the White
House."
Dr. Averick is the only
Jewish presidential can-
didate, and he is one of a few
Orthodox politicians ever to
seek such a high political of-
fice. Sen. Joseph Lieberman,
D-Conn., is the only obser-
vant Jew in either house of
Congress.
If he musters enough
signatures — 8,329 to be ex-
act — Dr. Averick, 67, who
has never held an appointed
or elected public office, will
secure a spot on the Dem-
ocratic ballot for Michigan's
March 17 presidential
primary.
Yet Dr. Averick brings
with him some major prob-
lems in the political arena.
He has not organized a for-
mal campaign team, and he
isn't planning to do so. He
has no political experience
nor any name recognition.
And he hasn't printed any
literature, bumper stickers
or pins bearing his name.
With the exception of a
Chicago group, he is not en-
dorsed by political action
committees.
Dr. Averick has no plans to
start any massive fund-
raising campaign. He said
he is troubled by the concept
of raising millions of dollars
for a $200,000-a-year job.
Whatever he can do to get
the word out through the
media and volunteers — 20
to date — will work just fine,
he emphasized.
Political insiders add it is
far too late to obtain the re-
quired signatures. Dr.
Averick arrived in Michigan
last Friday, and filings are
due to the Michigan secretary
of state at the end of this
week.
Nathan Averick:
Fixing the economy.
"It seems outrageous, but I
didn't just do this on a
whim," Dr. Averick said.
Dr. Averick has no illu-
sions about his chances of
making it to the White
House, yet he is sick of rhet-
oric. If anything comes of
this entry into the national
political scene, he hopes to
stir debate among the other
candidates.
"I am the only candidate
who states issues and solu-
tions," he said. "If I can only
get my message out, that
will force the other can-
didates to come up with a
solution."
He brings with him a well-
known platform: fix the
economy. Maybe, then, the
country can successfully
implement a national health
policy, he said.
"We are now at the stage
of disaster," he said. "When
the president of the United
States goes begging to the
foreign powers to save our
economy, we have really
sunk to the lowest levels.
"We are not going to turn
the economy around by go-
ing to Japan and begging,"
he said. "We have a whole
army of unemployed people
who can make anything that
we are importing. We need
to tell these countries to
open the doors to our goods,
or we need to cut them off
from our market in no
uncertain terms.
"I'm the only one who
would kick the Japanese out
of this country," he said.
"I'm not interested in isola-
tionism. I'm interested in
reciprocity. I just want to
open doors.
"We need to put our own
people back to work," he
said.
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