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Article: Ventura camp wrests power from Perot in Reform Party
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 26, 1999
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DEARBORN, Mich. -- "The Body" slammed the billionaire yesterday,
as Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura's forces seized control of the
Reform Party from its founder, H. Ross Perot, in a coup that all but
guaranteed Perot will not head the party's presidential ticket in
2000.
The crucial blow came as Ventura's choice to take over as the
party's national chairman soundly defeated the Perot camp's candidate
in the final hours of the party's chaotic annual convention.
The repudiation of Perot's control of the nation's third political
party was complete. And Ventura began to preside over the "post-
Perot" era of the Reform movement, whose only significant victory
has been Ventura's stunning rise ...