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  Border Activist [Gilchrist] a Wild Card in O.C. Election [CA-48]
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Last EditedArmyDem  Oct 02, 2005 04:06pm
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News DateSunday, October 2, 2005 10:05:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionRepublicans Campbell, Brewer share limelight in a field of 17 hopefuls in Tuesday's House race.

By Jean O. Pasco, Times Staff Writer
October 2, 2005
Latimes.com : Politics

Phones are ringing like crazy and political door-knockers are out in force this weekend in coastal Orange County. But will anybody be home to get the last word on Tuesday's election to succeed former Rep. Christopher Cox?

State Sen. John Campbell of Irvine is wooing cable-television viewers with ads promoting his GOP credentials; former Assemblywoman Marilyn C. Brewer of Newport Beach has passed up the obligatory campaign photos with President Bush to tell viewers that the Republican president she admires most is Ronald Reagan; and maverick independent Jim Gilchrist is on radio attacking illegal immigration.

In recent days, the battle among 17 congressional wannabes has centered on Campbell and Brewer, two Republicans sharply divergent on social issues, and Gilchrist, who is courting GOP voters through his founding of the Minuteman Project, a group of volunteers who patrolled the Mexican border.

Campbell and Brewer have ramped up their campaigns in the closing days leading to Tuesday's special election, hoping to build on efforts to bank absentee votes.

If the election follows recent tradition, most voters in the 48th District will cast their ballots by mail. So far, about 40,000 absentee ballots had been returned — about 10% of eligible voters in the district, which stretches from Newport Beach to San Juan Capistrano.
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