Buchanan Names Schoolteacher as Running Mate

— -- Amid chaotic, dueling Reform Party conventions, candidate Pat Buchanan hastapped a little-known school teacher as his running mate.

By Carter M. YangABCNEWS.com11— Reform Party presidential contender Pat Buchanan has named schoolteacher Ezola Foster as his running mate.

Foster, virtually a political unknown, is a black single mother from Louisiana. For the last three decades, she has lived in Los Angeles and was an active supporter of California’s proposition 187, the 1984 ballot measure that sought to deny most forms of state aid to illegal immigrants. That measure passed but was later invalidated by the courts.

She is a graduate of Texas Southern University and earned a master’s degree from Pepperdine University. She has 33 years experience as a school teacher.

The announcement comes as Buchanan, a three-time Republican presidential candidate, is embroiled in a bitter dispute with a rival Reform Party faction that is opposing his candidacy, arguing that his socially conservative views would take the party in the wrong direction.