Buchanan's Running Mate's Comp Claim

Pat Buchanan's Reform Party running mate, Ms. Ezola Foster, who is longtime conservative and purports to be skeptical of most government social programs, admitted in August that she had submitted a false document in 1996 in order to get California worker compensation benefits. According to a Los Angeles Times report, she claims now that she never had the 'mental illness' that entitled her to draw money for about a year before her retirement as a schoolteacher in 1997. She says: 'I (had) two choices to survive. Since (my condition) wasn't physical, they make it mental, don't ...