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Red Bluff activist won’t give up effort to topple assemblyman
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| Contributor | Bob Sacamano |
| Last Edited | Bob Sacamano Jun 10, 2009 03:59am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Robert Speer |
| News Date | Thursday, June 4, 2009 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It's been a year since the June 3, 2008, statewide primary election, and Charlie Schaupp still hasn't conceded to Jim Nielsen, the man who beat him in the Republican race for termed-out Doug LaMalfa's District 2 Assembly seat.
The Yolo County farmer and retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel isn't going to concede, either, because he’s convinced Nielsen's victory was based on fraud—specifically, that Nielsen lived (and still lives) in a gated community in Woodland, outside the district, not in the Gerber-area mobile home inside the district that he claimed (and continues to claim) as his official domicile.
Schaupp is far from alone in this conviction. The firebrands up at the Pioneer Press in Fort Jones, which back in early 2008 first broke the story of Nielsen's dubious residency claim, continue to hammer on the issue, and there are numerous people in the Gerber area who are familiar with the mobile home and are convinced Nielsen doesn't live there.
Chief among Schaupp's allies is Don Bird, an activist from Red Bluff with a bone-deep belief that nobody is above the law. So far, he’s filed complaints against Nielsen with state and local agencies, forced the state Attorney General's Office to do an investigation and, most recently, taken out and begun circulating recall petitions on three Tehama County officials—two judges and the district attorney—who, in his opinion, refused to uphold the law. |
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