Plaintiff Jim Gilchrist will try to convince a Judge later today that he is the “sole director” of Minuteman Project, Inc. at a hearing in Orange County Superior Court, Department C-19, at 1:30 pm. He’ll try to do that in spite of a DVD already submitted to the Judge of the October 6, 2006 Neil Cavuto Show on Fox News Channel where he introduces Defendant Marvin L. Stewart to a national viewing audience as “a member of my Board of Directors.”

I’ll be representing Stewart in Court today. Orange County attorney Guy Maille is representing Gilchrist.… Read More

The Honorable Justice Randall Wilkinson, Orange County Superior Court, took "under advisement" the decision on the preliminary injunction in the Minuteman case today, wherein Plaintiff Jim Gilchrist is suing his former colleagues on the Defendant Board of Directors for control of the organization he founded.

It is very unwise for a lawyer in a case to speculate on a Judge’s decision (I represent the Defendants!). And I will not speculate. But I will observe for my readers that Gilchrist lost a motion for a temporary restraining order in late February, and the Judge today decided to not rule from the bench on the "shortened time" hearing on Gilchrist’s request for a preliminary injunction. Preliminary injunctions are based in part on urgency and need for "immediate" relief.

But, on the other hand, anything can happen ina California court. Just ask OJ!

I’ll report on the decision in the case, which is expected to be received in the mail in a few days.

It was a busy day at Orange County Superior Court Main Branch in Santa Ana today! As I was "enjoying" my egg salad… Read More

In today’s Stockton Record, Hank Shaw broke the story that Assemblyman Greg Aghazarian (full disclosure: he’s my boss) will run for the open Senate seat of term -limited democrat Mike Machado in what will be the premiere Senate race in the state. Below is Greg’s statement to the readers of the Flashreport:

"In this era of term limits, we elected officials are faced from time to time with opportunities about our future. Sometimes the decisions are easy, sometimes they are not. As I come to the close of my time in the Assembly, it is no secret I have some opportunities. A Congressional run against a vulnerable freshman democrat in the 11th District or a Senate race in the open 5th District – That’s right, Machado is FINALLY terming out. At first blush, the decision seemed daunting, but it really came down to priorities. My top priorities: FAMILY, FAMILY, FAMILY … Read More

Today’s Washington Times featured an article on Ward Connerly, the former UC Regent who successfully led California’s Prop. 209 campaign in 1996. This year, he followed up his success in California and Washington State with a big victory in the state of Michigan. You can read the whole article here, but here are a few interesting quotes about the Republican Party:

Connerly says the opposition he has faced by many GOP officials has "led me to conclude that conservatives are to the Republican Party what blacks are to the Democrat Party — both are taken for granted. Just as the Democrat Party doesn’t have to worry about the black vote,… Read More

The Governor appeared on the Today Show yesterday to talk about his philosophy of government. During the course of the interview, the interviewer asked the Governor to comment on the criticisms of conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh, that he is not a Republican, and that he is not governing as a Republican. In essence, the Governor responded "Republican or Democrat is not relevant, Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant. All that matters is the people of the state of California. I represent the people." That may not be an exact quote, but I think it is fair representation of what the Governor said. This, of course, was not his attitude during the recall, when I endorsed him, or even during his re-election campaign, when he actively sought the help of Republicans. I don’t know if it is his attitude now, but that is what he said.

I recently went to see the movie, Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce, whose decades long struggle to end the slave trade in England is one of the great political… Read More

Fresno Mayor Alan Autry, the latest in a long line of Republicans supported by the local Party and Lincoln Club only to disappoint on easy issues, clearly doesn’t have a clue on how to fix immigration policy, only that he doesn’t like anyone being deported. All around us here in Fresno there are Republican farmers supporting amnesty, called "adjusted status" now in a sleight of hand change of nomenclature. Of course, this will not work, and is a disaster waiting to happen in Washington.

We’ve gone almost six years now past 911 and Congress nor the President has moved to fix immigration. Add this to a long list of problems not solved. Autry’s actions don’t solve anything either.

What needs to take place is simple. We need to cut the wait time for entering the country legally from eight years to six weeks. Who can accomplish this? Silicon Valley tech leader can. They need to examine all of our duplicative bureaucracies, overlapping procedures, and outmoded technology and put the fixes on a fast track, without government intervention. Only until… Read More

LA Communist Party Passwords

Next time you are in Sacramento and run into the Speaker, say these words ‘Kur-heiny’ and see what his answer is. Apparently that is part of a code exchange of the LA branch of the Communist Party USA. LA Observed notes the exchange in discussing the New York Times article about the party donating its records to NYU. See it here.

Disclaimer: Of course I don’t really want to imply that Nunez is a communist. That would be wrong. I don’t want to be accused of the horrible sin of "McCarthyism". Communists are very upfront about controlling all aspects of our lives in order to serve their statist ideology. In no way do I imply that Nunez and his fellow travelers are upfront.… Read More

"Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."

This so-called "11th Commandment" was created during the 1966 Gubernatorial campaign of Ronald Reagan. Then California Republican Party Chairman Gaylord Parkinson came up with the idea as Republicans around the country had just watched GOP Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater lose his race after prolonged, vicious attacks from the left within the Republican Party.

How ironic that over the years, this mantra has become something used by liberal Republicans, interested in fending off criticism from conservatives in the Grand Old Party.

Last weekend, United States Senator and Presidential aspirant John McCain invoked Reagan’s "11th Commandment" in a stinging criticism of the Club for Growth (CfG). For those who are not familiar with CfG, they are not a "Republican" organization, but rather a grassroots-based, non-partisan group that is focused on economic issues and whose membership often times focuses funds to help elect candidates for office who will fight to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. In… Read More