What is it about attorneys? Are they trained to lie, or is it just that they make a living in the sewer of moral relativism? Some attorneys are solid people with solid grounding, but unfortunately the legal codswallop is the rule and straight shooting is the excpetion.

Perhaps this codswallop concept is why Ashlee Titus (the CRP’s Attorney) thought it was wise to threaten me with some nebulous law enforcement reference rather than simply calling me asking me to stop contacting the CRP’s Staff. Titus is legal demand letter (email) #31 in my political lifetime. As an insurance agent, I have made a career in protecting people from attorneys. As a political operative, I have made a career defeating attorneys in the political battlefield – including people like Wilder seeking to defend fraud in her own self interest and that of Jessica Patterson.

18 likely fraudulent delegates is a lot of delegates.

Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires – Vote Laurie Wallace and Steve Frank

Deborah Wilder sent an email today in a group discussion that was revealing:

I do have some information about the Modoc situation and I am thinking you perhaps did not get all the information to reach the conclusion you did as to the other counties.  Modoc has a total of 5 elected committee members. A quorum is 3. Bob Zane and Jeff had an organizational meeting with just two people and held elections. I got this information from Bob Zane directly. He said he did not reach out to any of the ex-officios  and he acknowledged based on the 5 members of the committee, he and Jeff did not make a quorum. There was no quorum, so that election is not valid. Thus, he was not elected as chair and did not have the authority to appoint delegates. I have put Bob in contact with the ex-officios so that an organizational meeting can take place. The other three members of the Modoc committee were ex-officios, but this whole issue that you are discussing below is not just about ex officios.  Modoc did not have a quorum so any action they took was invalid.

This paragraph is deceptive. The State election code says nothing about quorum. The CAGOP’s staff said nothing about it either. It appears that Deborah Wilder has lined up a dishonest legal tactic to try and protect 18 bogus votes for herself. Modoc was smashed for violating State Election law, See below:

The problem was that this issue did not arise (at least to my attention) until days before the delegate appointment deadline. As Regional Vice Chair, I encouraged all prior chairs to provide sufficient time to have an organizational meeting and delegate appointments for the new term back in November and every month since then. Some did that, others had caucuses (because no election) and some just waited until the last minute.

This paragraph is an outright lie. We’ve (the Frank Team) talked to several county chairs that have gotten nothing other than generic group communication from Wilder.

The amazing this is that the killing of Modoc County has highlighted the primary weakness of Jessica Patterson and Deborah Wilder – a willful destruction of the grassroots in the North State. 10 County Parties had no one file. 17 more had less than half their slots filled by election.

In Deborah Wilder’s area? 14 out of 18 County Parties had 6 or less seats filled by election – including a staggering 44% 8 Counties that fileded no elected members!

And she wants to argue about killing one of those couties after letting 8 die on her watch? AND – she is trying to defend outright fraud in three others?

An organization can not survive fraud. It is clear to me that Deborah Wilder and the consultants that control her want things this way.

Now – what really happened to Modoc County? From CAGOP Exec Director Sarah Nelson:

They held a first meeting, but they did not notify all of the “members” of the committee which includes the ex-officios. (Elec. Code sections 7413 and 7425 both provide that ex-officios cannot be removed.)  

 

The ex-officios were unaware of the election of any members, and they attempted to revive what they believed to be a dead central committee by holding a meeting and making appointments to fill vacancies. In doing so they failed to notify the elected members.  

 

Both sets of meetings failed to properly notify all of the members of the central committee, therefore their actions in purporting to appoint officers and fill vacancies were both void, and had to be redone in a properly noticed meeting open to all of the members. The party notified both the ex-officios and Mr. Zane of this.