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We know this because, in keeping with a morbid convention in media coverage of executions, the condemned person's final meal has already been broadcast to the world by the wire services. And soon it will find its way onto what may be the most macabre culinary site on the...
The Reform party didn't just kick off one unscripted convention on Thursday, but two.
First, just two days before the Reform party convention opens Thursday in Long Beach, some procedural Rashomonics between the party's Perot and Buchanan wings turned into a shoving match that had to be broken up by police. Then the 35-odd Perotistas stormed out of the hotel, went down...
Meanwhile, 115 remaining Buchananites found that the voting - mostly certification of delegates for the party convention that starts tomorrow - went much more smoothly without the Perot people around, and at the end of a long day Bay Buchanan was declaring "It's over now... We've won fair and square...
Still, $12.6 million is a lot of dough. It's why Buchanan, who was having trouble raising money from a very pragmatic Christian right, came to dinner with the Perot crowd in the first place. He roused enough rabble to stack the national committee with allies and the convention with...