I vote for this guy: Robert Crooks. 
Posted on 02/16/2008 10:37:56 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Traditionally tight-knit anti-illegal immigration organizations are roiled in internal conflict.
Struggles for power and finances have led leaders in the movement to split ties with Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project.
Bickering continues over who has control of the original Minuteman organization and once faithful members are now deserting the group. Barbed e-mails and accusations fly among the former Minuteman loyalists.
“I’m fighting on three fronts,” Gilchrist said. “I’m fighting the Federal government, I’m fighting the reconquistas, and I’m fighting the people defecting from my own organization.”
Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project, which has become nearly synonymous with the anti-illegal immigration movement, is under fire from many other like-minded groups.
William Gheen, of the North Carolina-based Americans for Legal Immigration political action committee (ALIPAC), said Gilchrist is a threat to the anti-illegal immigration movement. Gheen said people in his organization receive bizarre e-mails from the Minuteman founder.
“We see Gilchrist as prone to act against the good of the movement,” Gheen said. “He has a pattern of broken alliances and relationships.”
Gilchrist said groups like ALIPAC see him as competition for fundraising dollars.
“As long as the Minuteman Project exists, we take away from their donor base,” Gilchrist said.........."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailypilot.com ...
McCain will deport him, B.O. will deport him and hellery will kill him.
Oh, but didn’t you get the memo, on White House stationery, saying the Minutemen are vigilates?
Bump
We need people watching the border no matter who they are.
Gilchrist endorsed Huckabee...why, I’ll never know, considering how weak Huckabee is on immigration.
I vote for this guy: Robert Crooks.
They look like fine upstanding citizens to me; I commend them.
Conversely, I consider their detractors to be traitors.
Gilchrist and Simcox are nutcases, Simcox moreso and he’s also cheated his followers out of hundreds of thousands of $$$s in that private property AZ border fence boondoggle (The fence his people “built” was a sham). Simcox also invested in the Declaration Alliance of Alan Keyes. There are links you can find at Google on the Simcox-Keyes alliance that are very troubling. I lost respect for Simcox long ago, and more recently, Gilchrist. This Eileen Garcia is SMART!! As is Dana Rohrbacher. The fact is, neither Simcox nor Gilchrist are important anymore. The movement HAS “gone mainstream” and there are splinter groups that are doing good work. Save Our State folks are terrific, gutsy people getting in the faces of the gang banging reconquista scum at protests. It’s pretty scary and some have already been severely injured (One 70 year-old patriot lady has permanent brain damage fr. a bottle thrown at her).
<< “We see Gilchrist as prone to act against the good of the movement,” >>
He needs a good PR firm to wrangle his image.
Bush first read it here at FR
The minutemen being vigilantes was first mentioned on this website before Bush said it.
It all started with Simcox who had been on the border, living on beans and tortillas for quite a while.
Gilchrist comes along and repackages/promotes Simcox's group as Minutemen and the money starts flowing in. Then Simcox and Gilchrist split up over the money with Gilchrist as MMP and Simcox as MMDC.
Both have been accused of trying to cash out their groups. Barbara Coe and others tried to remove Gilchrist but he beat them in court. Simcox aligned his group with Alan Keyes' group/sold his donor list to Keyes.
William Gheen/ALIPAC built his group on the back of Free Republic, before he was banned here.
Likewise, Tom Tancredo's Team America PAC began raising a lot of money, except Tom turned Team America over to Pat and Bay Buchanan in exchange for their help in his presidential run. I'm sure he now regrets that.
Good man
>>It has been a food fight with the various Anti-Illegal organizations from the beginning.<<
I’m not concerned that there are divisions and some selfish people - that’s natural in any human endeavor. My concern is that the lack of real progress will allow the whole movement to be regarded as a failure when in fact the private groups were never going to build the fence.
Their job was to raise awareness and pressure the government.
But the voters, on both sides of the aisle have not followed up and this administration has been disappointing on the issue.
There is a limit to what a small group can do in the face of such indifference.
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