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August 11, 2004
Nader | Reform Party Coup D'etat

Apparently without the blessing of other party officials, the Reform party’s treasurer told federal election officials that the party should be terminated because it only has $18.18 in the bank. The Associated Press reports:

William D. Chapman said in a telephone interview Tuesday that he sent the Federal Election Commission a “request for termination based on guidelines the FEC had established for the Reform Party.”

According to the Associated Press Reform party leaders suspended Chapman as treasurer;

Reform Party Chairman Shawn O’Hara accused Chapman of leading a “minor coup.”

“I love him and he’s my friend, but he did wrong,” O’Hara said in a telephone interview. While the national party’s bank account was small, “we are in the process of rebuilding and raising money,” O’Hara said.

from California Yankee.



Posted by Dan Spencer at August 11, 2004 09:10 AM | TrackBack
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That would be “coup de grace.”

TRP was always a nonentity, once Aitchross took away his money.

Posted by: Don [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 11, 2004 11:07 AM

Wait a minute! What happened to the Dem’s assertions and accusations that TRP was financed by the GOP? If that was so, surely there must be more then $18.18 in the kitty? Could the Dem’s have been WRONG? Nah… Never… Move the goalposts, check the weathervane and Moveon.org…

Posted by: v [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 11, 2004 01:07 PM

Clearly TRP was not financed by the GOP when Buchanan was running against Dubya from The Right.

This year, Ralphie briefly tried to use TRP as a means of getting to the ballot, but the effort didn’t fly. No reasonable person suggested that the GOP was funding TRP in the process. Besides, TRP wouldn’t have much cared for Ralphie anyway. That came up only in the conspiracists’ wishful thinking, but there was never any substance to it.

OTOH, the instances of the GOP attempting to get Ralphie to the ballot by helping him with funding and signature gathering are well documented.

TRP always was pretty much of a Nothing after Aitchross left. It will probably hold on for a while, but won’t be much more than a cipher.

Posted by: Don [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 11, 2004 01:26 PM

Don, - “No reasonable person suggested that the GOP was funding TRP in the process. [snip] OTOH, the instances of the GOP attempting to get Ralphie to the ballot by helping him with funding and signature gathering are well documented.”

Which one is it Don? Your compass is spinning wildly - looking for direction?

Posted by: v [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 11, 2004 02:36 PM

Your confusion is, alas, entirely of your own making.

Try it like this:

Don’t conflate TRP with Ralphie. They are not the same entity at all.

The R’s didn’t fund TRP. They certainly did provide funding and signature gathering for Ralphie. Out here on the Left Coast, they said so directly and publicly.

Does that help?

Posted by: Don [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 11, 2004 09:18 PM

Maybe they could send the $18.18 to that feller from Washington state that is gonna turn this country around and have Bush and Co. arrested.

(snickering)

Posted by: No Party [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 12, 2004 07:56 PM

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