"This is God's way of punishing the Federal Election Commission for not doing more about campaign finance reform." — Columnist Gail Collins, on the squabble within the Reform Party over campaign funds distributed by the FEC for the 2000 presidential election. Two factions of the Reform Party -- one headed by Pat Buchanan and the other by John Hagelin -- held their conventions simultaneously just blocks from each other in Long Beach, Calif. (The New York Times, 8/11/2000)
Jury convicts former executives of 
