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Reporters were promised high jinks at the Reform Party National Convention. "Bring your asbestos suit," chortled Phil Madsen, an aide to Jesse Ventura, relishing a skirmish between his boss and Ross Perot, the party's founder. "Its going...
...leisure suit would have been more appropriate. First of all, Ventura, the party's highest-ranking elected official and the repository of its presidential urges, didn't show. Bad weather and a bad back kept him in Minnesota. When they got him on speakerphone, instead of taking on Perot, Ventura promised not to run for President; his grab for power was more a wink and a nudge. He pitched Jack Gargan, a retired financial consultant, as party chairman, but then swaddled the endorsement in protestations that he wasn't telling the fiercely independent delegates how to vote. The room, which...
...wasn't all about Jesse. The two Perot-blessed chairman candidates had problems of their own. Thomas McLaughlin, a quiet man known for doing the party chores, seemed too retiring in a party where more than a few delegates think the presidency should be filled by Donald Trump. And the other candidate, Pat Benjamin, the sitting vice chairman, was busy tamping down a war between members of her New Jersey delegation. Accusations swirled that Benjamin had kept delegate contact information away from Gargan. "Such lies," she hissed. Not a great backdrop for a woman promising to be a unifier...
...look at for instance other third party candidates, like Jesse Ventura or Ross Perot, the people that came out for that were new voters," Snowberg said...
...look at for instance other third party candidacies, like Jesse Ventura or Ross Perot, the people that came out for that were new voters," Snowberg said...