CARSON CITY -- Ron Paul advocates say a Reno hotel-casino room big enough for nearly 1,400 Nevada Republicans is available June 7 for completion of a state GOP convention that ended in chaos April 26, but a party official says that won't work.

The state party plans to reconvene somewhere in Reno in the coming weeks to complete the event shut down prior to final votes on what was turning into a Nevada delegation to a national convention with more backers for Paul than presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain.

Zac Moyle, the state party's executive director, said Tuesday that the idea is "to maximize participation, not to pick a random date," and various dates and locations remain under consideration with that goal in mind.

Jeff Greenspan, southwest regional coordinator for the Paul campaign, said an anonymous Republican donor in the Reno area told the state GOP that a large room at the Grand Sierra Resort had been booked to complete the convention on June 7.