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32-615: James Gilchrist may refer to: Jim Gilchrist (born 1949), American activist and co-founder, along with Chris Simcox, of the Minuteman Project Inc. James W. Gilchrist (born 1965), Maryland politician James Gilchrist (tenor) , British tenor James Gordon Gilchrist (born 1928), Canadian Member of Parliament James Gilchrist (tennis) (1919–2004), Australian tennis player James Gilchrist (Royal Navy officer) (died 1777), British navy captain [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
64-613: A Purple Heart medal while in the infantry during the Vietnam War , 1968 - 1969. Gilchrist and Chris Simcox are widely recognized as the founders of the Minuteman Project . They founded the organization on October 1, 2004. The two staged a month-long border watch project in April 2005, and that event catapulted the Minuteman movement into the national spotlight. Gilchrist chose to locate
96-468: A primary election which nominated a slate of candidates including businessman Douglas Heinsohn for governor. However, neither Heinsohn nor any other candidate running on the American Party line achieved the 5 percent threshold in the 1970 Tennessee election, and it likewise failed to do so in 1972, meaning that the party lost its newfound ballot access, which as of 2021 it has never regained. In 1972,
128-470: A special election in Tennessee's 8th congressional district in northwestern Tennessee , where Wallace had done well the previous November, to replace Congressman Robert "Fats" Everett , who had died in office. Their candidate, William J. Davis, out-polled Republican Leonard Dunavant , with 16,375 votes to Dunavant's 15,773; but the race was carried by moderate Democrat Ed Jones , with 33,028 votes (47% of
160-526: A March 2006 interview with the Orange County Register , Gilchrist stopped just short of calling for his followers to pick up their guns : "I'm not going to promote insurrection, but if it happens, it will be on the conscience of the members of Congress who are doing this," he said. "I will not promote violence in resolving this, but I will not stop others who might pursue that." In October 2006, Gilchrist appeared on Democracy Now and abruptly ended
192-506: A significant number of voters registered with the AIP may have done so under the misconception that they were registering as independent, unaffiliated voters, which is officially designated as "no party preference" in California. A poll of voters registered with the AIP indicated that a majority may not have intended to register with the party. The investigation highlighted potential confusion caused by
224-746: Is Operation Normandy , and the children are invading us, wouldn't that make us the Nazis?" Gilchrist warned against the dangers of the "latinization of America" that the young refugees posed and added, to a baffled interviewer, "We're all going to die some day. (...) I'm not giving a death wish on these children coming here (...) I'm saying that there's some things realistically you cannot stop." American Independent Party Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other The American Independent Party ( AIP )
256-438: Is an American political party that was established in 1967. The American Independent Party is best known for its nomination of Democratic then-former Governor George Wallace of Alabama , who carried five states in the 1968 presidential election running against Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey on a populist , hard-line anti-Communist , pro-"law and order" platform, appealing to working-class white voters. Wallace
288-476: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jim Gilchrist James Walter Gilchrist Jr. is an American political activist and the co-founder and president of The Minuteman Project , an activist group whose aim is to prevent illegal immigration across the southern border of the United States. Gilchrist served in the U.S. Marine Corps and received
320-603: The 17 AIP officers, held a convention in Sacramento on July 5, 2008. Issues in the split were U.S. foreign policy and the influence of Constitution Party founder Howard Phillips on the state party. The King group elected to stay in the Constitution Party and supported its presidential candidate, Chuck Baldwin . It was not listed as the "Qualified Political Party" by the California Secretary of State and Baldwin's name
352-649: The 1968 election. In 1969, representatives from forty states established the American Party as the successor to the American Independent Party. In some places, such as Connecticut, the American Party was constituted as the American Conservative Party. (The modern American Conservative Party, founded in 2008, is unrelated to the Wallace-era party.) In March 1969, the party ran a candidate in
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#1732851529197384-694: The AP nominee in Louisiana for the United States Senate but finished last in a four-way race dominated by the Democratic nominee, J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. In 1976, the American Independent Party split into the more moderate American Party , which included more northern conservatives and Schmitz supporters, and the American Independent Party, which focused on the Deep South . Both parties have nominated candidates for
416-507: The American Independent box thinking that was what independent voters were supposed to do." This confusion results in accidentally registered AIP members being unable to vote in presidential primary elections and, in prior years, in all partisan primary elections other than those of the AIP. A number of California registrars of voters had expressed concern over the confusion that the party's name causes. Kim Alexander, president of
448-472: The American Party nominated Republican Congressman John G. Schmitz of California for president and Tennessee author Thomas Jefferson Anderson , both members of the John Birch Society , for vice president, winning the party over 1.1 million votes, the highest vote share the party has ever achieved since Wallace's run. That year, Hall Lyons, a petroleum industry executive and former Republican, ran as
480-493: The California Secretary of State as (outgoing) party chairman, Keyes was added to the state ballots as the AIP candidate. This group elected Markham Robinson as its new chair at the convention. (America's Independent) ( Republican ) ( campaign ) ( Independent ; Birthday) Following the split within the American Independent Party into factions led by Jim King and Ed Noonan, the Noonan faction has maintained control over
512-603: The U.S. Taxpayers Party, whose founders included the late Howard Phillips . A split in the American Independent Party occurred during the 2008 presidential campaign , with one faction recognizing Jim King as chairman of the AIP with the other recognizing Ed Noonan as chairman. Noonan's faction claims the old AIP main website while the King organization claims the AIP's blog . King's group met in Los Angeles on June 28–29, elected King to state chair. Ed Noonan's faction, which included 8 of
544-652: The interview after Karina Garcia started accusing him of being a murderer and said that he has ties to the white supremacist group National Alliance . In May 2010, Politico reported that Howie Morgan, the Minuteman Project's political director, may have solicited donations from political campaigns in exchange for Gilchrist's endorsement. Rick Perry , Parker Griffith , and Tim Bridgewater were all recipients of Gilchrist's endorsements in 2010. Mo Brooks , an Alabama politician running against Griffith, said that Morgan indicated Gilchrist would endorse Brooks if Morgan
576-712: The military. He announced his endorsement of Mike Huckabee for President in December 2007. The personal endorsement of Huckabee by Gilchrist met with strong criticism from other Minutemen and anti-illegal immigration activists. During the 2016 presidential election , Gilchrist felt that the building of a wall and mass deportation directly aligned with the Minuteman Project's missions. Gilchrist stated that he felt that his goals were reaffirmed and accomplished upon his observation of such widespread awareness of immigration issues. He initially supported Ted Cruz for president, who openly criticized Barack Obama 's policy of amnesty, and he
608-451: The nonpartisan California Voter Foundation, said that the California voter form was "confusing and somewhat misleading." However, since the advent of the "top-two" blanket primary in California in 2012, all voters may participate in non-presidential primary elections where nominations for public office are to be made. Presidential nominations and elections of members of party county central committees are still restricted to voters registered in
640-733: The party's name. A 2016 poll conducted of California voters registered with the AIP showed that 73% identify themselves as "no affiliation" and 3% identify themselves as "undecided." Upon learning the AIP platform, 50% of registered AIP voters wanted to leave the AIP. A Times review of voting records revealed a wide array of Californians have fallen victim to this error, including celebrities such as Sugar Ray Leonard , Demi Moore , Emma Stone , and Kaley Cuoco . Similarly, in 2008, Jennifer Siebel , then-fiancée of San Francisco 's former Democratic mayor Gavin Newsom , attempted to change her party affiliation from Republican to unaffiliated, but "checked
672-431: The party's operations and ballot access in California. The party did not nominate Chuck Baldwin , the 2008 Constitution Party presidential candidate, nor Virgil Goode , the 2012 nominee, and both candidates were unable to secure independent positions on the California presidential ballot. In 2016, approximately 3% of California's 17.2 million voters were registered with the American Independent Party (AIP), ranking it as
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#1732851529197704-479: The presidency and other offices. Neither the American Party nor the American Independent Party has had national success, and the American Party has not achieved ballot status in any state since 1996. In the early 1980s, Bill Shearer led the American Independent Party into the Populist Party . From 1992 to 2008, the American Independent Party was the California affiliate of the national Constitution Party , formerly
736-624: The project in Arizona because there was a disproportionately large number of undocumented immigrants crossing the border in that state. Gilchrist holds conservative views on education, health care, and taxes. He was registered with the American Independent Party , the California affiliate of the Constitution Party , but has since re-registered as a Republican, and is an adamant supporter of immigration enforcement, law enforcement, and
768-409: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Gilchrist&oldid=1217268946 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
800-600: The third-largest political party in the state by registration, following the Democratic (43%) and Republican (28%) parties and those who registered as "no party preference" (24%). However, it has long been proposed by political analysts that the party, which has received very few votes in recent California elections, maintains its state ballot status because people join the American Independent Party mistakenly believing that they are registering as "independent" voters . A 2016 Los Angeles Times investigation suggested that
832-565: The vice-presidential candidate. Wallace ran on every state ballot in the election, though he did not represent the American Independent Party in all fifty states: in Connecticut , for instance, he was listed on the ballot as the nominee of the "George Wallace Party." The Wallace/LeMay ticket received 13.5 percent of the popular vote and 46 electoral votes from the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Mississippi , Georgia , and Alabama . No third-party candidate has won more than one electoral vote since
864-426: The vote (a total of 13,423 votes). He was the only one running for his party, and therefore automatically advanced into the run-off. Gilchrist lost to Republican state Senator John Campbell in the December 6 general election, receiving 25.5% (26,507) of the vote. Campbell received 44.4% (46,184), Steve Young (Democrat) 27.8% (28,853), Bea Tiritilli (Green) 1.4% (1,430), and Bruce Cohen (Libertarian) 0.9% (974). In
896-490: The vote). The party flag, adopted on August 30, 1970, depicts an eagle holding a group of arrows in its left talons, over a compass rose , with a banner which reads "The American Independent Party" at the eagle's base. The American Party had gained ballot access in Tennessee in 1970 as the result of George Wallace's strong (second-place) showing in the state in 1968, easily crossing the 5 percent threshold required, and held
928-633: Was a consistent opponent against Obama's push for immigration reform. Gilchrist unsuccessfully ran as an American Independent Party candidate for the United States House of Representatives representing California's 48th congressional district to replace Republican Christopher Cox , who resigned to become Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . In the low-turnout open primary for Cox's seat held on October 4, 2005, Gilchrist finished behind two Republicans but ahead of all other candidates, including Democrats. He received 14.8% of
960-569: Was best known for his staunch segregationist stances. In 1976, the party split into the modern American Independent Party and the American Party . From 1992 until 2008, the party was the California affiliate of the national Constitution Party . Its exit from the Constitution Party led to a leadership dispute during the 2008 election. In 1967, the AIP was founded by Bill Shearer and his wife, Eileen Knowland Shearer. It nominated George C. Wallace (Democrat) as its presidential candidate and retired U.S. Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay (Republican) as
992-506: Was hired. In September 2014, the Daily Show made a segment about the Honduran children's immigration featuring an interview with Jim Gilchrist, who compared the recent events at the border with a Trojan Horse situation, the vanguard of a Latino invasion of the United States. The correspondent Michael Che poked fun at Gilchrist's "Operation Normandy" initiative against immigrants: "If this
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1024-407: Was not printed on the state's ballots. King's group sued for ballot access and their case was dismissed without prejudice. The Noonan group voted to pull out of the Constitution Party and join a new party called America's Party, put together by perennial candidate and former United Nations Ambassador Alan Keyes as a vehicle for his own presidential campaign. Since Noonan was on record with
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