Founder Jim Gilchrist said the initial goal was to bring attention to undocumented immigrants who were crossing the border illegally. This is the spot where Morones and his Border Angels group confronted Donnelly and his Minutemen, who were there to symbolically guard the border against undocumented immigrants trying to cross into the country.ĭonnelly was part of the initial group of Minutemen who massed along the Arizona border in April 2005. Immigration reform advocate Enrique Morones points to the spot where the fence abruptly ends, and to the white Border Patrol jeep slowly making its way along the structure. Tumbleweed is skipping across the desert and piling up against the fence guarding the United States-Mexico border. It’s a windy day in the eastern San Diego County town of Jacumba. Republican leaders are concerned about Donnelly for a range of reasons - but primarily because of Donnelly’s history as a leader of the controversial Minuteman movement. Brown,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican strategist who isn’t affiliated with either Donnelly or Kashkari. “I think Republican Party leaders, donors, candidates, elected representatives - a great number of them would be alarmed if Donnelly is representing the Republicans in the fall against Gov. This was the cause of the first revolution.”Īnd this is certainly not good news from the Republican Party establishment’s point of view. “We’re trying to unite people under a banner of liberty. “What we’re doing is not trying to elect a different guy with a better haircut,” Donnelly had told a group of 30 campaign volunteers that morning. While TARP may have saved the country from a depression, the 12-figure bailout remains toxic among conservative voters. Kashkari, who ran the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program, clocked in at just 2 percent. Seventeen percent of likely voters supported Donnelly in the last Field Poll. Donnelly’s last campaign finance report showed he barely had enough cash on hand to pay the annual salary of a single minimum-wage employee.Īnd yet, with less than a month to go before the June primary, it’s Donnelly - not former Bush administration official Neel Kashkari - who is viewed as the favorite to advance and face Gov. Craig Constantine is our Vice-President.This is the Donnelly campaign in a nutshell - it isn’t pretty, it’s being run off an iPhone from the driver’s seat of an SUV, and it can sure use $40 cash infusions. The location will be determined at our next organizational meeting. Our next scheduled event will be a fundraising benefit for Tim Donnelly Oct.15th. We welcome you to attend and invite others to join us. We are planning many more events throughout the coming year. Sandy Lampe, the President of the group said, “It was exciting and rewarding to launch our new chapter with the Meet and Greet Tim Donnelly for Governor of California 2014. Guide and assist conservative Republican candidates in their campaigns for local, state, and national offices.Seek out and encourage qualified conservative Republican candidates to run for public office.Review the performance of our elected leaders and ensure the adherence to conservative Republican principles.
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