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Border Activist [Gilchrist] Needs Outside Help [CA-48]
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 25, 2005 12:53pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Friday, November 25, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Running to succeed Cox in the 48th District, Independent candidate Gilchrist must woo major-party voters if he hopes to top Campbell.
By Jean O. Pasco, Times Staff Writer
November 25, 2005
Latimes.com : Politics
Garden Grove Baptist minister Wiley Drake summed up the only hope for congressional candidate Jim Gilchrist earlier this week as he delivered grace before a fundraising crowd of 120 people at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.
"Pray that they might have the courage to vote for the man, not vote for the party," intoned Drake, speaking of voters in the 48th Congressional District, where Gilchrist has been courting Republicans and Democrats in a Dec. 6 special election.
Gilchrist is running a longshot race as the American Independent Party nominee for the coastal Orange County seat formerly held by Christopher Cox of Newport Beach. In July, Cox was approved as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minuteman Project, a volunteer group that patrols the border with Mexico, is reaching out to voters across party lines with his anti-illegal immigration message.
In stressing his activism, he hopes major-party voters will choose him over state Sen. John Campbell (R-Irvine) and Democrat Steve Young. Five candidates are on next month's special-election ballot. They represent each party's top vote-getter in an Oct. 4 primary with 19 candidates. |
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