WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Buchanan Wins Ballot Battle in California Thursday, August 31, 2000 By DAN SMITH SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- After weeks of intra-party turmoil that has threatened to tear apart the already fractured Reform Party, Patrick J. Buchanan was named the party's official presidential nominee in California Thursday and will appear on state ballots, Secretary of State Bill Jones announced. Jones acted on the last day for state party organizations to submit names to him to meet ballot printing deadlines for the Nov. 7 general election. He also acted after Buchanan forces threatened a lawsuit, although a Jones spokesman said that had no bearing on his decision. Backers of rival Reform Party candidate John Hagelin were outraged and said they may seek court action to overturn Jones' decision, which they said he lacked the legal authority to make. "It seems clear to me that either the Secretary of State has been threatened with a lawsuit or is looking for an easy way out or he does not care about the election process, which is a horrible thought," said John H. Place, vice chairman of the Reform Party of California. Buchanan campaign spokesman K.B. Forbes said the campaign's legal team prevailed on Jones. "Agreement was reached," Forbes said. "It shows that the merits of our case are credible." Jones' decision is a huge boost to Buchanan, who claimed the national party nomination after a raucous convention in Long Beach last month. Hagelin supporters, made up of many of the original backers of Reform Party founder H. Ross Perot, walked out of the convention in protest over what they viewed as a hijacking of the fledgling party by Buchanan, a former Republican. They held their own meeting at which they nominated Hagelin as the party standard bearer. Since then, the factions have joined the battle over which candidate is entitled to $12.6 million in federal campaign funds, and have fought state-by-state over who will be listed on the ballot. Election officials in Iowa and Montana held drawings to determine which name would be on the ballot. Buchanan won in Iowa. Hagelin prevailed in Montana, but a judge overturned that decision Thursday. Federal Election Commission officials have yet to decide which candidate will get the money. In California, Jones' decision to place Buchanan on the ballot was based on his office's "long-standing policy" of taking direction on such matters from the state party's chairman. In this case, California Reform Party chairman Raymond O. Mills submitted Buchanan's name on Aug. 15, just two days after the party's national convention had concluded. But Jones rescinded the name eight days later, after the state party's 13-member board of directors voted 7-6 to overturn Mills' decision and prohibit him from submitting a nominee's name without board approval. Jones spokesman Alfie Charles said the secretary of state only rescinded Buchanan because Mills, the party chairman, "told us it was the will of the party to rescind the name." The party infighting continued through Wednesday night, when Mills and other Buchanan supporters boycotted a conference call to hash out the issue, and Mills submitted another letter to Jones naming Buchanan the party's official nominee. Jones accepted the submission based on Mills standing as party chairman and turned it over to county officials for ballot printing. Charles acknowledged the Buchanan campaign was set to challenge Jones in court, but said Jones' decision was based on the office policy of following the direction of the state party chairman. Place charged that Jones abused his discretion by not following the will of a majority of state Reform Party board members. He said the board "will have to regroup now," but will likely consider legal action. But Charles said Jones was only acting by the book. "The secretary of state clearly stated the policy of this office and is not going to get into an analysis of intra-party disputes," Charles said. "The state needs the parties to conduct themselves in a way that will allow us to meet the deadlines in the election code." © 2000 Scripps-McClatchy Western Service *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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