The cofounder of the Minuteman Project of armed citizen border patrols stepped up campaigning Monday for a special congressional election.
Jim Gilchrist, a 56-year-old retired certified public accountant, is running in a special election Tuesday to fill a vacant seat in the House of Representatives representating Newport Beach, Irvine and other areas.
He faces Republican John Campbell, a state senator who’s favored to win the seat. Democrat Steve Young, a lawyer, in a district that’s historically Republican, also is running.
Gilchrist made headlines last year when he led a posse to the U.S.-Mexican border to combat what he says is lax enforcement of the southern U.S. border.
Gilchrist calls for increasing Border Patrol and customs enforcement spending by five times, and says he would put thousands of troops on patrol along the 2,000-mile southern border and deport the more than 11 million people in this country illegally.
From United Press International.
