BLOGGER’S NOTE: I DO NOT DO ANYTHING ANONYMOUSLY. Unless my name is signed to it, I did not write it.

In my lifetime as a blogger, I have received 27 legal demand letters. Most are bully moves from butthurt targets of the blog, while still others were smokescreens for power plays. This is why when I see legal demand letters flying around, I get very skeptical.

For those of you that have never been “threatened” by a law firm, take it from this blogger – I have never been sued, deposed, subpoenaed, etc. in 22 years. But, I have a collection of legal demand letters – including one where an attorney stipulated that their client – (Karen England) – “Ms. England is not mentally ill”. I have that letter in a frame somewhere.

If you receive a legal demand letter, the smartest thing you can do is to make it public and share it with a ton of people. This is why when Mohammad Ali Mazarei published his poorly written legal demand letter targeted at your intrepid blogger (that was liked on facebook, by several local electeds in Riverside County all of whom I have on a list), it was 100% clear it was a BS bully tactic. My response was to double down and hammer Mohammad as much as I hammered Stan Sniff.

Which leads me to AD66. I have a bunch of lawyer letters, including one sent to several elected and ex-officio members of AD66. Just dumb.

Then, even worse, the legal demand letter was used as a pretense to exclude people from a cent com meeting. Listen here to LAGOP Chairman Richard Sherman citing “Ongoing Legal Matters” in the meeting that Rick Marshall and others were excluded from. What it looks like is that they sent a legal demand letter in order to have the cover to exclude people from the March meeting.

I have reached out to people within the LAGOP to get their side. As best I can tell – these are the facts of the matter. The AD66 Cent Com held officer elections in November of 2018, which is unusual as it is usual and customary to organize after the election is over and certified, not before. The dissidents within AD66 do not recognize the slate of officers that were elected with a one-vote margin.

The dissidents attempted to organize and have been met with a blizzard of legal demands and tactical maneuvers.

When I spoke with an LAGOP leader – the message was clear. The November election was valid, Rick Marshall and crew have no grounds to challenge it. They indicated that the heavy-handed tactics that included armed security guards at the last AD-66 Cent Com Meeting (once again excluding members from participation), and legal demand letters were a direct response to Rick Marshall’s pattern of disruptive behavior. Please note, that the legal threats were directed at 8 people, not just Rick Marshall.

The whole lot of them should all congratulate themselves. They have made Rick Marshall, Omar Navarro and others in to victims. Regardless of who is right and who is wrong, this is the reality: there were 8 people on the original letter sent out from Chuck Bell’s law firm. (Chuck Bell is the CAGOP’s attorney as well as the Chairman of the Republican Lawyers Association in CA) Regardless of who is right or wrong, there are Attorneys and armed Security Guards involved.

Enter former AG Candidate Steven Bailey who is helping the 8 people that the LAGOP targeted with their legal action. He responded to a variety of demands in an attempt to de-escalate the situation. It did not work as the aforementioned incident with the Armed Security Guard at the AD-66 Meeting happened after Mr. Bailey sent the response to the Chuck Bell crew.

Having legal demand letters and Attorneys involved in party business is all too familiar. It also begs a few questions, why are “they” fighting so hard to keep control of the AD66 Central Committee. Is there money involved? Control of Delegates? There is almost always an end game in a political war.

With the CAGOP in tatters, this is not a good look to start out the tenure of Jessica Patterson with. It is even worse as Jessica’s top operative is 100% in the middle of this situation (weather Andy Garakhani wants to be or not his name comes up in everything LAGOP) and this will spill over on to the leadership of the State Party.

On March 18th, Steven Bailey sent another legal letter, this time to Richard Sherman (LAGOP Chair) and Ashlee Titus (the partner in the Chuck Bell Crew handling the LAGOP’s side of things), asking why Marshall was excluded a second time and notifying the leadership of the LAGOP that the 8 targets are all coming to the next LAGOP meetings.

Will they be allowed to enter, or will they be met by armed security guards again?

Blogger’s Note: One of my fears about the aftermath of the CAGOP Chairman’s race is that some of the combatants were going to clean house of political opponents. I hope I am wrong, but this sure looks like exactly that.

Anyone willing to shed more light on the situation is welcomed to reach out to me.