Reformers Reject Proposal to Bolt
Members of the California Reform Party decided against a proposal to split away from the national organization as a way to deny Patrick J. Buchanan the party’s spot on the presidential ballot in the nation’s most populous state.
The rejection came Sunday on a show of credentials after some said they could not bear breaking up the party, however temporarily, to thwart the conservative commentator. The party members were meeting in Los Angeles.
“I will not dissolve this party on a whim because we are in the middle of a bit of turmoil,” said Valli Sharbe-Geisler of San Jose, who is undecided on Buchanan. “We disaffiliate, [then] we create a vacuum. Fools rush in where a vacuum appears.”
Buchanan, a former GOP candidate, is in line to receive the Reform nomination at the party’s August convention in Long Beach.
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