4/27/2008 RENO, Nev. - Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders shut down their weekend state convention and now must resume the event, probably in Las Vegas, to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention to be held in September in St. Paul, Minn. State Sen. Bob Beers, the convention chairman, was booed loudly as he called for a rece More.. ss Saturday evening, saying the party's rental contract for a big meeting room at a Reno hotel-casino had expired and there was too much work left to complete. The abrupt shutdown ended a long day that pitted outnumbered supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain against well-organized Paul supporters - whose large share of the more than 1,300 state convention delegates enabled them to get a rule change positioning them for more national convention delegate slots than expected. State GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden said the rules change wasn't anticipated. She denied any anti-Paul bias, saying expected slates of national delegates were prepared through a fair and open process by the convention's nominations committee and the party thought the convention would accept them. Jeff Greenspan, regional coordinator for the Paul campaign, said Paul supporters had the ability to finish the voting before the convention ended, adding, "This is highly irregular." Paul supporter Chloe Leavitt said, "They hijacked the party away from the people. We were winning and they shut it down." Less..