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New vote planned on Reform convention

ST. PAUL (AP) -- Newly seated Reform Party Chairman Jack Gargan plans to take a third vote by the end of this month to definitively determine whether the national convention will be held in California...

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Reform Party chairman plans 3rd vote on site

ST. PAUL (AP) -- New Reform Party Chairman Jack Gargan will take a third vote by the end of the month in hopes...Aug. 10-13. ''We're starting from scratch,'' Jack Gargan said Monday, declaring he would set aside earlier votes...

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Reform Party chairman calls emergency national convention

ST. PAUL -- The latest plan to end Reform Party infighting comes from Chairman Jack Gargan, who is calling an unusual emergency national convention March 18-19 in Chicago. Gargan will lay it all on the line, from...

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Party meeting erupts in chaos, moves to oust Ventura faction

...a scuffle and an immediate effort to remove chairman Jack Gargan, an ally of the party's dissenting top officeholder...would only cripple the party's national growth. ''Jack Gargan was elected through a total, fair process to be the...

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Reform Party wants convention in Minnesota

...Beach, Calif., to an undesignated Minnesota city. The question is whether the vote is valid. Incoming Chairman Jack Gargan of Cedar Key, Fla., believes it is valid and called it ''the will of the members.'' Chairman Russ Verney, a...

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Judge upholds Pat Choate chairmanship of Reform Party

...door is open,'' Choate said after Monday's ruling. ''Our goals are the same.'' But there was no sign that Jack Gargan, who fought Choate for the chairmanship, would accept the gesture. In an interview minutes after U.S. District...

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Ventura, his top aide considering leaving national Reform Party

...said Wednesday. Minnesota Planning director Dean Barkley said he would leave the national party if national Chairman Jack Gargan, who was installed with Ventura's backing, is removed at a dissidents' national committee meeting Saturday in Nashville...

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Pequot area Reform Party member also disenchanted with national party

...faction, which, he said, did not want to give up its power and declined to even give national Reform Party Chairman Jack Gargan access to party records. "I was hoping our party would not be like the other two," Johnson said. "I think they'll...

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Minnesota Reform Party considers disaffiliation

...more civil than in Nashville, Tenn., where national convention members voted in a raucous meeting to oust Chairman Jack Gargan, a Ventura ally. Ventura calmly told the Minnesota group that if they didn't disaffiliate, he would become an independent...

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Outgoing Reform Party chair calls for Ventura to leave party

...national party did ''virtually nothing'' to help him in his upset victory last November. Ventura also supported Jack Gargan's successful bid to replace Verney as party chairman. Gargan takes over in January. Rick McCluhan, chair of the...

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