----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Petkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <snipped> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:20 PM Subject: [July30] The war continues July 30 in Philly - www.unity2000.com Published Sunday, July 30, 2000 Buchanan: Party Move is Illegitimate By WILL LESTER / Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A combative Pat Buchanan said Sunday a weekend attempt to throw him off the Reform Party presidential ballot was the work of a group of dissidents trying to " steal this nomination from us." The party' s chairman said the move will not stand. Members of the party' s executive committee announced Saturday night they had tossed Buchanan off the ballot by a 7-0 vote. But party chairman Gerald Moan said Sunday the action was not legitimate because two of those present were no longer committee members and without them the committee had no quorum. " Pat Buchanan remains on the primary ballot and balloting will continue, " said Moan. " The national committee ultimately will decide what to do (about the ballot) when it meets August 8." Buchanan said his opponents pulled off a hoax " and everybody went for the bait." " All they can hope to do is derail the nomination and put it in court, " he added in an interview Sunday with The Associated Press. Later, Buchanan told nearly 100 supporters at a fund-raiser in Sterling, Va., that " the reports of my political death are premature." Nevertheless, both sides in the dispute made impassioned arguments that party rules are on their side. " If fairness and objectivity are going to rule the day, Pat Buchanan will be the nominee of this party, " said Bay Buchanan, the candidate' s sister and national co-chair of his campaign. " We have won it if they play by the rules." But Jim Mangia, party secretary and a Buchanan opponent, accused Buchanan of trying a " hostile takeover of the party." He said the recall in the last month of two members of the executive committee -- two that voted Saturday night to dump Buchanan -- was itself illegitimate. " All factions of the party are united against Buchanan. If you want to rope a bucking bronco and bring him down, it takes a few steps. We just took the first step, " said Mangia. The Reform Party' s national committee meets Aug. 8 in Long Beach, Calif., where both sides will argue their case. The next big power struggle is over control of the credentials committee there, which could affect who gets to participate in the national committee meeting. The Reform Party' s convention is Aug. 10-13, also in Long Beach. JohnHagelin, an Iowa physicist running against Buchanan for the Reform nomination, said " Buchanan' s campaign is imploding and way behind in the popular primary vote." " The situation is that the Buchanan campaign is trying to throw a wrench into every one of the governing bodies of the Reform Party, " said Mangia. " They' re trying to subvert the process to steal the nomination and make off with $12.5 million." Hagelin has demanded an audit of a list of 500, 000 Buchanan supporters to see if they are eligible to vote in the Reform Party' s nominating process, either as party members or signers of state ballot access petitions. K.B. Forbes, a Buchanan spokesman, countered that the party' s nominating committee Friday night defeated measures that would have disqualified Buchanan from the nomination. The forces trying to derail the Buchanan nomination are the same people that had vowed to stop Buchanan " in Texas and California where he won the majority of delegates in each of those states, " said Forbes. Copyright 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. � Copyright 2000. 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