Buchanan Fights to Stay on Reform Ballot
PHILADELPHIA — A combative Pat Buchanan said Sunday that a weekend attempt to throw him off the Reform Party presidential ballot was the work 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.
Moan said that balloting will continue and that both sides will argue their case when the party’s national committee meets Aug. 8 in Long Beach.
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