We haven’t heard much from former IBM Corp disk drive boss Ed Zschau lately. His failure to turn around big blue’s disk drive business cost him his job (CI No 2,709). Zschau once said the compact disc will become the storage standard of the future before adding the company is not interested in making CD-ROM drives (CI No 2,674). Following his two year stint at IBM he went to Harvard to teach others how to be successful. However, Zschau recently reappeared as right-of-sensible Richard Lamm’s running mate for his far-fetched bid to snatch the Reform Party’s presidential nomination from party founder Ross Perot. The faithful will vote for their nomination by mail, telephone and over the Internet by Saturday. Former Colorado governor Lamm and ex-Californian Congressman Zschau face an uphill battle against a man that paid for the party’s two-part convention at Long Beach, California and its climax at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and even has his name engraved in the water melons on the dinner tables. Lamm claims the election is rigged, with people voting more than once. Sounds a bit like Chicago in 1968, where Mayor Richard Daley used to urge the faithful to vote early, vote often.
