This special section of our site is for members of the Reform Party, the Media, and all American voters. Here you will find under-reported information about the leadership of the Reform Party. It will focus on Russ Verney and his Wrecking Crew -- most of whom are on the RP Executive Committee and "Leadership Council". We will also keep you updated on the RP mail-in ballot and Internet voting scheme. If you have information that would be appropriate for this section of our site, please send it to me - linda@buchanan.org Note: For more information use our Site Search. Try Keywords: Verney; Reform Party; Old Guard; etc. Click here to return to our section on * Cult Leader John Hagelin and The Natural Law Party * 08/06/00  DONOVAN FIRED! ..... It's official -- Donna Donovan has been permanently removed from her position as Press Secretary of the Reform Party.   It is a great day in America! ... 08/06/00  HELP US UNSEAT DONNA DONOVAN! ..... A terrible cancer has grown here in CT that has come directly from the national level. It is so malignant it threatens to kill the reform movement nationally. Our state chairman, Donna Donovan, is also the national press secretary, as you might know. She is one of the key players in destroying the party and Mr. Buchanan... 08/06/00  CT: DONOVAN OUT - REFORMERS IN ! ..... Ring the Freedom Bell! Reformers in Connecticut will finally have a Real Reform Party -- without Verneys CopyQueen, Donna Donovan!!  The NEW Reform Party is called the Connecticut Freedom Party... 08/06/00  DONOVAN TRICKS HAGELIN SUPPORTER ..... The following tells how Donna Donovan tried to trick a CT Hagelin supporter. This lays out a perfect example of the despicable actions of the Verney Wrecking Crew -- a nationwide Reign of Terror that has lasted for too many years. ... 08/06/00  DONOVAN HOODWINKS CONNECTICUT REFORMERS AGAIN ..... Cherilyn Gulbrandsen spoke to the CT Reform Party State Central Committee. She asked the committee if they would support a nomination at the convention and that if that nomination were Pat Buchanan, would they support him and not dissolve the CT RP. The committee assured her that they would not... 08/06/00  SUICIDE: THREE WAYS THE REFORM PARTY CAN COMMIT SUICIDE THIS YEAR ..... The in-fighting leading up to the Reform Party Convention – all caused by New World Order agents of influence around Democratic Party operative Russ Verney – is doing what such contrived infighting is meant to do: prevent the good guys (Buchanan Brigades) from fighting the bad guys (the Bush/Gore ticket). ... 08/06/00  REFORM PARTY 2000: SUICIDE? OR SOAR LIKE AN EAGLE? ..... Eight years of hard work should not end in a "Jonestown" like mass suicide for Americans looking to the Reform Party as a last hope. The "kool-aid" being offered to the longtime Party members is labeled "Hagelin" and "none of the above" and "National Primary." ... 08/06/00  REFORM PARTY PRINCIPLES, ISSUES, AND RESOLUTIONS ..... Hi, I think you might want to add this info I scooped up the Reform Principles from the Platform and the founding Principles. This will back up the fact that Mangia is a liar. "The Reform Party has one of its basic planks of diversity and respect and support for lesbians and gays as a basic principle, and all Americans for that matter...." - Jim Mangia 7/31/00 ... 08/06/00  THE CREW AND CLINTON ..... The Executive Committee is out of control. They are passing numerous Resolutions that are in complete opposition to the rules in the Reform Party Constitution.   Like Bill Clinton, they are issuing Executive Orders that subvert the Constitution. And will, if we permit them to stand, eventually tear apart the the Party. ... 08/04/00  MANGIA'S GAY AGENDA - VIDEO CLIP AND UPDATE ..... This is not a matter of being anti-Gay. I am anti-hypocrite and anti-manipulation. Jim Mangia is currently, and has from the beginning, used his position in the Party to promote his social agenda, yet he has done it "under the radar". View the video. Read the links on our website - the chronology of events from Jim Mangia's first contact with the Reform Party through today. Here is part of what Jim Mangia said on the video clip. ... 08/04/00  RESOLUTION ON THE MERGER OF THE NATURAL LAW PARTY WITH THE REFORM PARTY ..... On August 8th, our National Committee will have an opportunity to decide if the Natural Law Party will be merged with the Reform Party. ... 08/01/00  LACC: CREW HOODWINKING VOTERS ..... The LACC endorses a Vote of No Confidence for National Secretary Jim Mangia, and requests the National Committee members on August 8th to recall and remove Mr. Mangia... Mangia's renegade actions have tainted the current July mail-in balloting by hoodwinking many would-be Buchanan voters to abstain ... 07/30/00  MCLAUGHLIN: CREW IS OUT OF CONTROL ....."The National Secretary is responsible for maintaining the list of National Committee Members. He is a "scribe" and nothing more. He has no power to determine who is a member of the National Committee..... I call upon ALL National Committee Members in every state to attend the August 8 National Committee Meeting in Long Beach and rein in this out of control Executive Committee" ... 07/30/00  WEST VIRGINIA RP RELEASE: NC CORP PERPETUATES "MEDIA HOAX" ..... Saturday in Dallas, TX, members of an obscure North Carolina corporation, calling itself the "Reform Leadership Council, Inc.", issued a "media hoax" claiming that on their own they had 'disqualified' presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan from the Reform Party nomination. ... 07/30/00  CREW HAS GONE TOO FAR ..... The article does not mention that two of the seven members had been removed from office, or that a quorum was not present, or that it was not an official meeting...  As a consequence of the Verney/Mangia Great Media Hoax, thousands of otherwise likely voters will not send in their ballots. With this stunt, Verney and Mangia have fatally corrupted the national primary vote. ... 07/30/00  HOTTER! FROM CEDRIC SCOFIELD ..... "Any reports you get, that this group has taken any action as the RPUSA Executive Committee should be ignored.... should also be aware that Donna Donavan, the on again, off again, on again, off again Reform Party "Press Secretary" is not a good source of media information. Donna is too emotionally and personally involved in internal disputes to be objective as a public relations person" ... 07/30/00  HOT! DALLAS FIELD REPORT .....I thought you might be interested in a field report from the Verney Crew's meeting in Dallas... 07/30/00  ALABAMA LOSES RESPECT FOR THE CREW ..... "Its unfortunate, but in the past six weeks or so, it seems that a growing number of elected state party leaders, including myself, and National Committee members have less and less respect for the decisions made by our National Executive Committee members", said Bob Belcher, a CPA and executive recruiter, who serves as state chairman of the Reform Party of Alabama" ... 07/30/00  MANGIA'S MEDIA HOAX ..... "Joe Sansone, Chairman of the New Jersey Reform Party, said " I will personally make the motion to remove Jim Mangia from the position of National Secretary. His actions, along with those that went along with this hoax, are a national disgrace to a party that prides itself on the highest ethical behavior" ... 07/30/00  GERRY MOAN STANDS FOR THE CAUSE ..... "Today's actions in Dallas, even though non binding, will be properly reviewed on August 8th and the members of the National Committee and possibly the delegates to the National Convention will take whatever action they deem necessary. Although I was initially against the August 8th meeting, it is clear now that the NatCom meeting must take place" ... 07/30/00  HAGELIN WINS RP NOD! ..... "The disqualification of Buchanan leaves candidate John Hagelin as the only candidate in the party's primary...."  Get a load of what the Crew decided today in Dallas. They must have been in a bubbling state of bliss! ... 07/30/00  THE RECALL OF JUNE SPINK ..... Please contact June Spink, and tell her what your state feels about this illegal meeting.... Suffice to say, that if June Spink attends this meeting on Saturday, I will personally call each of you, and demand that she be recalled... 07/30/00  CREW LETTER TO MOAN ..... The Crew, who supports Hagelin, is putting the screws on Gerry Moan. See email below from Donovan pal, Bob Davidson, and also a column on the Dallas meeting this weekend. ... 07/30/00  REFORM PARTY - NATURAL LAW PARTY: THE UPCOMING MERGER .....Concerns continue to mount that some within the Reform Party USA executive committee are orchestrating a takeover of that Party by the Natural Law Party of John Hagelin. It is a move they hope they can control, but the potential for that effort to backfire is tremendous ... 07/30/00  GERRY MOAN ON THE DALLAS MEETING ..... Fellow Reformers; You all have a right to know why I will not attend Saturday's meeting in Dallas... 07/30/00  ILLEGAL MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ..... Joe Sansone, Chairman of the Reform Party of New Jersey released the following statement on behalf of the National Committee Members...   "The Reform Party of The United States of America's Executive Committee meeting scheduled for Saturday July 29th is illegal. The purpose of the meeting is to attempt to disqualify Pat Buchanan from the Reform Party mail in primary. This is clearly a last ditch effort to derail the Buchanan juggernaut and deny the American people a real choice in November... 07/30/00  DALLAS CREW MEETING THIS WEEKEND ..... Boss Verney has called a meeting of the (ExCom) Executive Committee in (where but) Dallas. This way all he has to do is drive across town to give instructions to his ExCom puppets. The ExCom Kangaroo Court plans to strike names submitted by the Buchanan Campaign, claiming that they were fraudulently submitted... 07/16/00  HAGELIN GIVEN PAT'S DATABASE .....This is bizarre. The leader of another political party seeks to audit the voter lists of our party's leading candidate and our ExCom agrees to force it.  The key item for the evening was whether the Reform Party would turn over to John Hagelin the list of members in the Buchanan Brigade... 07/16/00  TEXAS SHELLGAME: VERNEY CREW'S LATEST MANUEVERS .....The Crew is busy again changing rules and trying to invalidate and overturn elections, this time our victory in Texas.   In America we have due process. That means that when a state delegation is challenged, they have the right to confront their challenger and their allegations. Dot Drew and Verney's Crew make a mockery of what America is about. Read what follows... 07/16/00  OUR LEGAL FUND - BUILD OUR WARCHEST! .....The attempts by the Wrecking Crew to disrupt our Convention, change state party rules, overturn elections and committee votes, and create general havoc within the party is escalating.  I am working with key members of the Brigade and Reform Party and we have decided that there are two important things to do right now.... 07/16/00  MORE ON THE CORRUPTED PRIMARY ..... Despite what you read below, Hagelin has the Reform Party list and he has already used it. He also has the NYIP list, which Kresky and his people control (170,000 names).     Most important, Fulani and the NY Party will not put Pat on the ballot after Long Beach. They have endorsed Hagelin and publicly say that if Buchanan wins the nomination of the National Party they will disaffiliate... 07/16/00  A LIBERTARIAN COMMENTS ON THE REFORM PARTY PRIMARY CORRUPTION ....."The RP's own rules invite participation by outsiders.... If the RP is silly enough to wish to invite nomination chaos by outsiders, they are free to do so. The RP knowingly assumed the risk of setting up their presidential nomination process as they did" ... 07/13/00  SILENCING LINDA MULLER AND THE BRIGADE .....Immediately an all out assault by Verney's Crew, led by Lou Anne Jones (Northwest Regional Representative) was launched to force the shutdown of our Brigade Website and email lists... 07/13/00  MANGIA'S SOUTHWEST EXCOM MEETING RULING .....Mr. Mangia's note is just another example of the current ExCom's hypocracy. They get together (on the phone), form committee's with themselves sitting double and triple duty, they make decisions and ruling that run contrary to our Party's Constitution, and then act shocked when the members decide take actions... 07/13/00  TRUE RECALL; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE VIOLATION OF THE LYNCHBURG DECISION .....The germain issue is: Can two individuals that the party succeeded (at considerable expense) in gaining a legally binding court order to cause Ronn Young and Sue DeBauche to cease and desist being party reps be ignored for the purpose of election manipulation? ... 07/13/00  RP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DICTATORSHIP .....The RPUSA Executive Committee has resorted to desperate measures to block the results of three regional National Committee recalls and elections in violation of our party constitution and in ignorance of the infamous Lynchburg decision... 07/13/00  WHY IS THE NATURAL LAW PARTY ON THE REFORM PARTY CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE? .....Verney's Crew leader on the Credentials Committee is Dot Drew. She has usurped authority to put 5 Natural Law Party members on the committee... 07/12/00  THE HAGELIN CAMPAIGN BROCHURE .....Have you wondered how so many of us received this Hagelin material in the mail? Thousands of Brigades and Reformers have asked how their name became part of the Natural Law Party mailing list....Look at the return address. It is meant to appear that it is a Reform Party mailer. Verney and his Crew have given Hagelin, the Natural Law Party candidate permission to use the Reform Party logo on his campaign material.... 07/12/00  JIM MANGIA'S GAY AGENDA FOR THE REFORM PARTY .....Have you wondered how so many of us received this Hagelin material in the mail? Thousands of Brigades and Reformers have asked how their name became part of the Natural Law Party mailing list....Look at the return address. It is meant to appear that it is a Reform Party mailer. Verney and his Crew has given Hagelin, the Natural Law Party candidate permission to use the Reform Party logo on his campaign material.... 07/08/00  BOSS VERNEY OUSTED FROM REFORM PARTY .....Bending to wishes of Pat Buchanan campaign, the chairman of the Reform Party has ousted a longtime supporter of Ross Perot from a crucial committee post.    Perot backer Russell Verney had already been removed from the party's national committee, and on Friday he was also removed as co-chairman of the credentials committee... 07/05/00  GARGAN ON PEROT/VERNEY: DIABOLICAL DISHONEST... .....This selfish, mean spirited, diabolical, dishonest, dishonorable group from Dallas, and I don't have words bad enough to describe them, just look at what they're doing they're publicly showing theirselves for what they are. Now that they snookered Buchanan in, now look what they're doing to him.... 07/05/00  CULTIST HAGELIN FOLLOWING ORDERS .....Gathering behind John Hagelin, the founder and the 1996 presidential candidate of the little-known Natural Law Party, the group is planning to turn the convention into a raucous mob scene that will be portrayed as a party of disorganized rabble by the Establishment media and thus destroy Buchanan's chances in November ... The Maharishi ordered his followers to enter politics to reshape the "world consciousness" by means of government institutions. Hagelin is following his master's orders.... 07/02/00  NORTHWEST REFORM PARTY RESOLUTIONS .....RESOLVE to instruct the RPUSA and its 2000 Presidential Nominating Committee to strike and defund the RPUSA Primary and Balloting process as fraudulent and urged National Committee Members in other regions to make a similar demand... 07/02/00  SO LONG ROSS PEROT...'TWAS NICE KNOWING YA' .....When the Verney & Co. skullduggery & maneuvering was going on I presumed that you were not a part of it. I reckoned that you were busy running your businesses and were not aware of, nor an active participant in, the low-ball stunts that Verney & Co. and the Reform Leadership Council were pulling almost daily... 07/01/00  PEROT BREAKS HIS TOY .....If Ross Perot's suggestion succeeds it means:   That the Bush/Gore New World Order ticket should be unopposed.... That the 12+ million in federal funding will be flushed down the crapper....All the work and money spent by Reformers for this election was wasted....The credibility of the Reform Party will be forever shattered -- no candidate or member will ever put their trust in this Party again.... 06/30/00  PEROT'S "GROUNDSWELL" OF SUPPORT .....Below is from their chart listing the states and the amount of signatures they have decided will "qualify" Perot to be on the mail-in Primary ballot. Make note of the comments stating that they don't even have one volunteer to collect a paltry 100 signatures in several of the states... 06/28/00  ASTOUNDING EVIDENCE OF BEHIND THE SCENES PLOT - VERNEY CREW SECRET DOCUMENTS REVEAL EVEN MORE THAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED .....This is the actual hidden website titled "Diplomat" operated by the Verney Crew. The documents were saved just moments before Verney's order to destroy them were carried out. Looking at the HTML code reveals that not only is Russ Verney on the Perot payroll but Reform Party Webmaster Dror is as well. Dror Bar-Sadeh is listed as a Perot Systems Associate working for the company Perot Systems as recently as May 23, 2000....oh the evil web we weave when first we plot to deceive...stay tuned as we uncover more on this mystery... 06/28/00  VERNEY SITE SHUTDOWN; SECRET DOCUMENTS REMOVED .....Well Brigade, as I predicted The Verney Crew are in total dissaray after we broke the story about their secret website.   Panic stricken that Reformers and the Media would find out about their deception and behind-the-scenes skull-duggery they have removed the evidence...But never fear Brigade... 06/28/00  BEHIND THE PEROT CURTAIN .....I alerted Robert to the secret website address and documents mentioned below. The directory called "Diplomat" has the same name as the top-secret email reflector run by Verney's Crew and this site is used by Perot operatives for strategic planning. All of the documents reside in a sub- directory on Dror's (Perot/Verney webmaster) business website where you will notice that he is an importer of cheap goods... 06/27/00  HOW VERNEY'S CREW PLAN TO DISRUPT AND DESTROY .....Several top officials in the National Reform Party leadership seem to have entered a strange political pact with each other - either kill the Buchanan campaign or destroy the Party.    The undisputed leader of this small group is Russell Verney, an experienced politician who chaired the New Hampshire Democratic Party before he chaired the National Reform Party... 06/27/00  MORE ON THE RP BALLOT SCHEME - TRANSPARENT PROCESS, PRIVATE BALLOT .....Today is our second in a series on the upcoming vote by internet and mail-in ballot for the Reform Party National Primary preceding the Reform Party National Convention in Long Beach, California... 06/27/00  MORE ON INTERNET OFFICIAL CONDEMS INTERNET VOTING .....There’s apparently a LOT of incentive for companies like eBallot.net Inc. to push voting over the internet.   But WHY is the Reform Party falling for this unverifiable farce?... 06/27/00  ENDING REFORM PARTY CENSORSHIP .....As soon as I began receiving posts from I-R, I realized why the OG didn't want me to join. Not only were they using the list to bash Pat and the Brigade, but also there was something else they wanted to cover up - Censorship... 06/27/00  VERNEY AND COMPANY - A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE .....If Perot and Verney are unwilling to build an independent and inclusive Reform Party, then why did they recruit Pat Buchanan to join the Reform Party in the first place? ... 06/26/00  CULT ALERT - MONTANA PATRIOTS ON DUTY! .....I just got word that cult leader John Hagelin and his Maharishi Flying Carpets from the Natural Law Party will attempt to take over the MT Party. All Brigades and true Reformers MUST go to the RP Convention and prevent the merging of the Natural Law Party with the Reform Party... 06/26/00  REFORM BALLOT SCHEME CORRUPTED .....The GOP has sent a massive mailing announcing that they will further corrupt the integrity of the Reform Party mail-in ballot scheme.  They are telling Republicans to stuff the ballot box with votes for cult leader John Hagelin... 06/22/00  EZOLA FOSTER'S LETTER TO LENORA FULANI AND .... ..... Will the Reform Party become the laughing stock of the 3rd party effort by selecting an unknown candidate to take the Party into oblivion all the while the media ridicule the Party and its "rejected" popular candidate, Pat Buchanan?.... 06/22/00  RAIMONDO ON FULANI, HAGELIN, AND VERNEY'S WRECKING CREW .....Here is the leader of an obscure Marxist-Leninist grouplet who has somehow managed to finagle herself into being a factor in Reform Party politics... 06/21/00  PAT CHOATE ON THE REFORM PARTY .....Once upon a time the Democrats and Republicans were excited about ideas, policies, and personalities and it showed at their conventions — outside and inside. That's where the Reform party is today.... 06/21/00 PAT BUCHANAN RESPONDS TO LENORA FULANI'S RESIGNATION .....I have received your letter of resignation as campaign co-chair, and, and do not dispute your rendition of events -- except to say this... 06/16/00  VERNEY AND REFORM PARTY BOSSES ADMIT DECEIVING REFORMERS AND BUCHANAN .....The Verney machine welcomed Pat if the Brigades would reorganize the Party in those states where the Old Guard had allowed it to fall into disrepair... 06/13/00  MOAN AND VERNEY SHOW CONTEMPT FOR REFORMERS .....On Saturday June 10th, the Texas Reform Party ousted Russell Verney as National Committee Member and succeeded in breaking Verney's Machine nationwide.... 06/13/00  CANCEL THE CONVENTION? OLD GUARD OPENLY PLOT TO DENY REFORMERS NATIONAL CONVENTION .....At the June 5 Executive Committee meeting, Verney ally and ExCom Member Paul Traux asked the National Executive Committee to cancel the National Nominating Convention in Long Beach... 06/12/00  CBS VIDEO: OLD GUARD FIGHTING FOR THEIR FIEFDOMS - CONTINUE TO BASH BRIGADES .....Russ Verney and his minions continue to feed the media... PJB stays focused on issues and the White House... 06/06/00  RAIMONDO: OLD GUARD CHEATING PAT .....A small cabal of Reform Party bosses – now there's an ironic phrase for you! – is trying to cheat Pat Buchanan out of the party's presidential nomination, by hook or by crook to block him from raising the key issues this election year. From Connecticut to Georgia to Colorado, and now California, the entrenched leadership is determined to keep out supporters of Buchanan's candidacy by simply disenfranchising anyone but themselves... 06/06/00  OLD GUARD IN THE NEWS .....Pat Buchanan has always said that he would not change the Reform Party platform. He said it in October 99. He has said it in numerous interviews. Bay put out a statement. Why are these people lying about what Pat actually says? And why are Donna Donovan, the National Press Secretary, Jim Mangia, National Party Secretary, and Russ Verney, National Committee (TX) spreading these lies? ... 06/05/00  CALIFORNIA REFORM DELEGATES VOTE TO UNITE WITH BUCHANAN ..... Led by Jim Mangia, eight of the state board's 13 directors signed off on Saturday on a resolution that said the California chapter of the Reform Party would split from the national organization -- and thus provide no ballot in California for its nominee's name on Election Day.... When the measure came before the state convention today, Mr. Buchanan's supporters responded with shouts and boos... 06/05/00  CALIFORNIA BRIGADES SAVE REFORM PARTY - THROW OUT MANGIA PLAN TO SHUT OUT BUCHANAN ..... Members of the California Reform Party decided against a proposal to split away from the national organization as a way to deny Patrick Buchanan the party's line on the presidential ballot...The authors proposed to soften the language...Convention delegates rejected that, too... 05/30/00  FAILED LEADERSHIP OF THE TEXAS REFORM PARTY .....Since a few of the "Old Guard" of the Reform Party seem only too happy to feed the Pro- Bush/Gore Media with continuous fodder to be used against Pat Buchanan and our Cause, I am forced to use this forum to set the record straight.... 05/22/00  SEEKING A RESIGNATION .....Why is the Reform Party Press Secretary distributing hate material about the Party's leading candidate? ... 04/11/00  THE REFORM PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NEEDS TO SHAPE UP .....First, do we really think that a bunch of flaming democrats on the loose, and their compatriots in La Raza, MALDEF, and Act Up -- all in one convenient location -- is a logical place to hold a convention for a political party that supports ending illegal immigration and a potential nominee who stands for equal rights for all and special rights for none?...

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