USA: REFORM PARTY FORCES OPPOSED TO PAT BUCHANAN TRY TO STOP HIM GAINING CONTROL OF KEY COMMITTEE AND GAINING THE PARTY'S PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION

Record ID: 584708

  • Title: USA: REFORM PARTY FORCES OPPOSED TO PAT BUCHANAN TRY TO STOP HIM GAINING CONTROL OF KEY COMMITTEE AND GAINING THE PARTY'S PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
  • Date: 8th August 2000
  • Summary: LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 8, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. CLOSED HOTEL DOORS OF COMMITTEE MEETING BURSTING OPEN ANTI-BUCHANAN REFORM PARTY MEMBERS WALKING OUT OF THE MEETING 0.24 2. SLV ANTI-BUCHANAN PEOPLE SHOUTING AT BUCHANAN SUPPORTERS 0.31 3. SLV MORE ANTI-BUCHANAN FORCES PUSHING THEIR WAY OUT OF THE MEETING 0.54 4. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANTI-BUCHANAN REFORM PARTY MEMBER SHAWN O'HARA LEAVING THE MEETING SAYING "What's going on in that room is Buchanan fascism that wants to keep people like you in the news media out. Buchanan fascism that doesn't want the public to know." 1.08 5. MV O'HARA AS HE SPEAKING GETTING SHOVED BACK BY A BUCHANAN SUPPORTER 1.10 6. MV BUCHANAN SUPPORTER YELLING "LET'S NOT REVERT TO NAME CALLING." 1.14 7. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) O'HARA SAYING "I demand that he (Buchanan)is tarred and feathered and run out of this country because he is not an American citizen. He does not believe in freedom of speech. It's time that we the people and you that news media know what's going on rather than Nazi-styled Buchananism." 1.41 MANCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, USA (FILE) (POOL) 8. MV REFORM PARTY CANDIDATE PAT BUCHANAN 1.48 9. LONG BEACH POLICE STANDING GUARD IN FRONT OF ENTRANCE TO THE COMMITTEE MEETING (2 SHOTS) 2.05 10. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) PAT BUCHANAN'S SISTER, BAY BUCHANAN SAYING: "This is not how you win elections. How you win elections is what Pat Buchanan did. He went from state to state and won delegates and these people came out here to be at this meeting. People sat down and listened to debates and did not cause the least bit of trouble and voted." 2.23 11. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) BAY BUCHANAN SAYING: "It's that simple: we won fair and square." 2.33 12. MV REFORM COMMITTEE MEETING IN SESSION AFTER ANTI-BUCHANAN DELEGATES LEFT THE ROOM. 2.51 13. LV EMPTY SEATS AS THE MEETING IS IN PROGRESS 3.01 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd August 2000 13:00
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  • Location: LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, USA
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA4R2ACTP2H2D5MCYQ5H2P7CGHO
  • Story Text: In a day of shouting and political posturing in a
    hotel hallway, Reform Party forces opposed to Pat Buchanan on
    Tuesday tried to stop the ex-Republican from gaining control
    of a key committee in a major step toward his winning the
    party's US presidential nomination.



    With the Reform Party convention starting on Thursday
    (August 9), the anti-Buchanan forces staged a last ditch
    effort to keep Buchanan followers off the party's national
    committee which will decide important procedural issues,
    including whether to recognise the delegates Buchanan won in
    the party's primaries.

    Buchanan's sister, Bay, who is his campaign manager, told
    reporters that the conservative columnist had sewn up the
    party's nomination if his delegates were recognised, but that
    forces loyal to party founder Ross Perot and to opposition
    candidate John Hagelin were trying to stop him.

    The meeting finally moved into a locked door hotel room
    where reporters could hear arguments over whether there was a
    legitimate quorum or not.

    Anti-Buchanan forces then stormed out of the room and
    moved to a different hotel to stage their own national
    committee meeting.

    "I demand that he is tarred and feathered and run out of
    this country," anti-Buchanan delegate Shawn O'Hara said after
    storming out of the meeting.

    The move left Buchanan's people declaring victory and
    claiming they had control of the only legitimate national
    committee.

    "It's simple, we won fair and square," Bay Buchanan said.

    She claimed that Perot's supporters were trying to cling
    to power that they had lost in the party's primaries.

    Perot, a Texas billionaire who received almost 20 percent
    of the vote in the 1992 election, is not attending this year's
    convention and has not commented on the dispute.

    The party received eight percent of the presidential vote
    in 1996 and many say it is fighting for survival in this
    year's election.


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