Did you know that Yuba County had only one person file for electon? That is the father of David Stafford Reade’s staffer Stephen Heter. Stephen is amazingly the chairman of the Yuba GOP.

Heter must have thought the rules don’t apply to him like they do to Modoc County. Heter and the Yuba GOP did not notice their organizational meeting and did the same exact thing that caused Modoc County to get stripped of their delegates.

Here is the scarlet letter from CA-03 Nominee Tamika Hamilton (ironically is now a Jessica Patterson supporter), she says flat out she was not invited to an organizational meeting in Yuba County. Whoops. Modoc did not invite the Dahles or LaMalfa to theirs and were stripped of their delegates. Hamilton represented 25% of the members of the Yuba GOP at the time.

The Staff of the CAGOP made the unilateral decision to strip Modoc. However, when this complaint came in against Yuba for the same violation as Modoc County, the Staff referred it to the Proxies and Credentials Committee – where Modoc should have been sent to. I can only conclude that the CAGOP’s staff is in on rigging the election for Jessica Patterson. There are too many things happening to not be a coincidence.

The excuse the CAGOP staff used to slit Modoc’s throat with no way to fix the issue was that they did not notice the problem with Modoc until the deadline and there was no time to cure the problem. Well guess what, same goes for Tehama and Yuba County – so why didn’t the same staffer that stripped Modoc County do the same with Tehama and Yuba?

February 16, 2021
Patricia Welch, Proxies & Credentials Committee Chair
California Republican Party
1001 K Street, Fourth Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814

Madam Chair:

Sections 7400 to 7470 of the California Elections Code governs county central committee membership, elections, meetings, and general business. In Yuba County, a single candidate filed for the county central committee in the March 3, 2020 Presidential Primary Election: Duane Heter (SD5).1 The committee also includes three ex-officio members: Tamika Hamilton (CD3), Sen. Jim Nielsen (SD4), and Asm. James Gallagher (AD3).2 According to the elections code, “At the first meeting, a committee shall organize by selecting a chairperson, a secretary, and any other officers and committees as it deems necessary for carrying on the affairs of this party.”3

Tamika Hamilton is on record stating that she did not receive any notice of an organizational meeting for the county central committee in Yuba County (see document Tamika Hamilton Email Dated February 11, 2021). Hamilton’s vote would have represented twenty-five percent (25%) of the total vote in the initial balloting at the organizational meeting. This raises some relevant questions.

1. Was an organizational meeting held? If so, when and where was the meeting convened? Note there is no provision in the elections code for anything other than an in-person meeting, which was still possible in that part of the state.

2. Was the organizational meeting noticed to all members? Is there a date and time stamped record of the notice such as an email or stamped mail?

3. Were bylaws adopted? If so, were the officers of the county central committee selected in accordance with the bylaws?

4. Are there minutes of the organizational meeting?

The answers and the corroborating evidence are germane to determining if the organizational meeting was held correctly or was defective. There is no time to cure a defective organizational meeting before this upcoming convention.

If the organizational meeting in Yuba County was defective, then regular delegates Stephen Heter (Yuba county chair) and Duane Heter (Yuba county treasurer) must be removed from the CRP delegate list as with the associated appointed delegates (Mandy Edson, Damian Fussel, Joel Heter, Tiersa Heter, David Higgins, and Bryan McPartlan).4

My purpose is to make sure all county central committees are held to the same standards and I am sure you will agree. If you have any questions, I can be reached at cbrickey@XXXXXXX.com or (XXX) XXX-XXXX.

Respectfully submitted,
Carl Brickey
Appointed Delegate, California Republican Party (2021-2022)

1 Yuba County Elections Office, phone conversation with staff, February 12, 2021.
2 Cal. Elec. Code § 7404.
3 Cal. Elec. Code § 7441.
4 CRP Delegate List, accessed February 8, 2021.

The CRP Staff waited until 12-23-2020 to send notices to appointers going in to Christmas Weekend. Add in waiting until today to start sending election credentials. Waiting until 3PM 2-5-2021 to send us the final delegate list, perfectly timed to prevent Steve Frank getting a mail piece out (and it appears that Jessica Patterson got her copy a day or two before we got ours). Multiple techincal issues. Bad Phones, and email addresses galore. Ignoring several of my follow up questions for information about how they are verifying the delegates county parties receive. Stonewalling requests for information about the voting system. Enacting rules making observing proxies nearly impossible.

This is beyond incompetence, at some point it is no longer concidental. Then add in that we are catching cheating in real time, this is the CAGOP as we know it now. However, unlike President Trump we are airing the issues BEFORE the election. Oh and I am not done, the cheating IS significant enough that it could impact the outcome of the officer elections easily.

Modoc killed, Tehama and Yuba caught bogus? That is more than enough votes to decide the Northern Region Vice Chair Race (16 total) – and the beneficiary? Deborah Wilder and Jessica Patterson.

But wait, there’s more. By the end of the day tomorrow, you will learn that as much as 3% of the entire delegation to the CAGOP may well be bogus. This is beyond the corrupt proxy system that is frequently abused as well…

You need to know what is being done to you and who is doing it. The only way to stop this is to elect Steve Frank for CAGOP Chair.

P.S. We’ve proven that the staff do not follow up on much at all and the consultants apparently know this and have taken advantage of it. To be contiued…