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Tancredo's Campaign Manager Bay Buchanan Champions Cause of Grassroots Candidates; Rebukes Fox for Initially Trying to Limit Those Who'll Debate Next Week During Interview on ETV's "The Big Picture"

For Immediate Release
May 11, 2007

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Columbia SC...During an interview on Friday with ETV news and public affair's Managing Editor and Host Andrew Gobeil, on "The Big Picture on the Radio," Bay Buchanan, longtime Republican Party advisor--and current campaign manager for the Tom Tancredo campaign--cited Ronald Reagan as a reason why grassroots candidates should be given parity when it comes to media exposure.

"Look at Ronald Reagan, he was a grassroots candidate and he had no chance, they said, in '76, but as a result (of media exposure) in '80 won the presidency and became a great president. You have to give these grassroots candidates an opportunity. They represent the base of our party more than anyone else out there. If you look at our 10 candidates now, the top 10 do not represent the base of our party, as much as the next three or four do."

Buchanan went on to sternly rebuke Fox for what she says was their initial decision on whom to include in the Republican presidential candidates' debate in South Carolina on May 15.

"There was an effort by Fox just to have the top three. That would be such an outrage. Who are they to decide at this early stage who the most likely winners are. What if we all don't like any of them?"

And still later, she said, "On what basis are those the top tier candidates? On one thing. They can raise a $100 million. Well, then we are saying basically that the only people who can win the White House, are those who are in corporate America's back pocket.

"Well, are we ready to turn over our White House to corporate America? It's bad enough that Congress and the United States has been turned over, now we lose all opportunity--the American people's will will be completely ignored forever. I think it's time the America people stepped up to the plate, especially Republicans, and said, 'We're not accepting this. We are going to look at all the candidates. We're going to decide the best ones. We are not going to let the media and the corporate interests decide this.'''

Buchanan, in her role as Tancredo's campaign manager, also weighed-in on the possibility that there might be a Republican primary in SC in 2007: "I gotta figure out how to get my matching funds six months early," she said, "in case it's a December primary..."

The Big Picture on the Radio can be heard Fridays at 9 a.m. on ETV Radio's four news formats: 88.1-WRJA Sumter, 89.1-WLJK Aiken, 89.9- WJWJ Beaufort, and 90.1-WHMC Conway. The program can also be streamed from www.myetv.org.

The Big Picture can be seen on ETV Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., with encore presentations on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m.

For more information, contact Catherine Christman at 803-737-3259 or christman@scetv.org.