-Caveat Lector- Dear Brigade - from the Nashua Telegraph - fyi GO BRIGADE GO!!!! Linda PS - My mail is jam-packed with great comments about our Brigade emails. Remember to include your name-city-state if you want your comments added to our Message Boards - Thanks!! Also read our Message Board FAQ at: http://wwwgopatgo2000.org/mb-faq.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:06:37 -0400 From: Santelman Associates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Area Buchanan support holds firm Rumors he’s leaving GOP don’t sway backers. By JOSHUA TRUDELL, Telegraph Staff Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan may become the second Republican to leave the party in recent months, and several area supporters said that they would jump with him should he move to the Reform Party. "Wherever Pat goes, I will go," said Mark Santelman of Nashua, a Buchanan activist. "I’m an unrepentant Pat Buchanan supporter." Rumors have swirled for much of the summer about Buchanan leaving the Republican Party. Earlier this week, campaign adviser Bay Buchanan, the candidate’s sister, and several other aides said that he is considering leaving to join the Reform Party. Reform Party officials said that they would welcome Buchanan. James Fallon of Hampton, who has donated $750 to Buchanan’s campaign and called himself a "very enthusiastic" supporter, said that he doubted Buchanan would leave the Republican Party. "I’m not at all sure the Reform Party fits Pat," Fallon said. "I know he and the governor of Minnesota" – Jesse Ventura of the Reform Party – "don’t see eye-to-eye." Santelman said he would tell Buchanan to go. "There’s nothing of value in the Republican Party," he said. "There are good Republicans, but the party as a whole is nothing to be proud of." Mark E. Johnson of Hollis, a 20-year Republican supporter who gave $500 to Buchanan in 1996, said he could easily follow Buchanan to the Reform Party. "It’s been more and more difficult to find out where the Republican Party stands," Johnson said. "I have no problem finding out where Pat Buchanan stands." Johnson suggested that Buchanan could put former president Ronald Reagan’s political coalition back together, merging blue-collar Democrats, conservative Republicans, and the voters that Ross Perot drew in 1996. Paul Busta, a supporter from Windham who donated $250 earlier this year, said that he was skeptical of initial rumors that Buchanan was leaving, but has become more convinced in recent days, with reports that Buchanan and campaign advisers are huddling at his Virginia home. "The rumors are going around, but they went around four years ago, too," Busta said. "It seems a little more likely when you throw in the nearly $13 million the Reform Party has." Busta said that he would probably continue to support Buchanan if he jumped to the Reform Party. Buchanan’s campaign has struggled in New Hampshire after two strong showings in the past two campaigns. His campaign has drawn only seven contributions totaling $3,050 so far, while his 1996 campaign, which won the New Hampshire primary, had 86 contributions for $36,975. In 1992, when he finished second in New Hampshire, he had 42 contributors who gave $22,000. In early August, Buchanan issued a statement insisting that he was running for the Republican nomination and calling reports that he was leaving the party "unsubstantiated and untrue." In the same statement, he said that his campaign would be renewing efforts at an Aug. 14 straw poll in Ames, Iowa. Buchanan spokesman Bob Adams said Wednesday that if the statement were released today, it would still be accurate. "He is a Republican candidate for president. That’s still true," Adams said. He added, "That doesn’t mean he’s not having impure thoughts, however." Buchanan was fifth in the Iowa straw poll, which seemed to be enough to sustain his campaign. However, on the day of the poll, he already seemed to be hinting that he was leaving the party on two nationally broadcast television shows. "I’m going right now down this road" toward pursuing the GOP nomination, Buchanan said on a "Face the Nation" broadcast at the time. Then he added: "I don’t know exactly where I’m going to be in August of 2000." Reform Party national chairman Russell Verney said Wednesday that Buchanan’s campaign had not officially contacted the party yet. However, Verney said that Buchanan would be welcomed. "He is one of the few candidates who could adopt our party platform with a straight face," Verney said. The Reform Party has a platform on government and economic issues, but it does not take positions on social issues, an area where controversy has surrounded Buchanan with his adamant pro-life stance. Verney said that Pat Choate, the party’s 1996 vice-presidential candidate, is a longtime friend of the Buchanan family and had urged him to join the Reform Party. However, Verney added, he did not think the two sides were anywhere near an agreement. Ventura, whose supporters recently gained control of the Reform Party, is reportedly not wholeheartedly behind the idea of Buchanan joining. Whoever the Reform Party candidate is will have access to more than $12 million in federal funding for their campaign. To date, Buchanan has only raised about $2.4 million. If Buchanan decides to leave the Republican Party, he will be following in the steps of Sen. Bob Smith, I-N.H., who renounced the Republicans in July during his own presidential campaign. When Smith made his announcement, Buchanan supported the decision, stating, "When a man as conservative and principled as Bob Smith walks away from the Republican Party, perhaps the problem is not with Senator Smith, but with the Republican establishment." Joshua Trudell can be reached at 594-6584 or by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------- The Telegraph Telephone: 603-882-2741 FAX: General 603-882-5138; Newsroom 603-882-2681 Mailing address: P.O. Box 1008, Nashua, NH 03061 Street Address: 17 Executive Dr., Hudson, NH 03062 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright © 1997-99 ----------------- end ------------------------ Help Pat and the Brigade in our Battle for the White House... Go to: http://www.gopatgo2000.org/000-v-helppat.html Spread the word -- forward this email across the USA! *********************************************** Don't Miss Out - Join the BRIGADE Email List! - Visit: Official WebSite for Patrick J. 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