Is Assembly candidate Dave Wilcox just pretending to be a Republican?

Califronia State Assembly; District 44 (Los Angeles County)
Candidate: Dave Wilcox
Party: Republican
Occupation: Business Owner
Phone: 818-790-3844
Addess: 5354 Palm Dr., La Canada, CA 91011
Email: dave@dcwindustries.com
http://smartvoter.org/2004/03/02/ca/state/race/caasm44r/

Wilcox, who is locally registered as a Republican, is a member of the National Libertarian Party. Their extremist party platform calls for the legalization of all drugs and the elimination of all restrictions on immigration including the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol. Wilcox has sought to place Libertarian Party members inside local Republican campaign operations despite the fact that Libertarian Party candidates are currently attempting to defeat local Republican state legislators. Wilcox's own Web site at http://www.dcwindustries.com/ offers a "quiz' whose primary purpose seems to be to convince Republicans that they should become Libertarians.

The word "Republican' appears nowhere on his site which claims to offer "Conservative/libertarian books and information.' On the site, Wilcox actually sells and aggressively promotes the atheistic and anti- Christian writings of Ayn Rand, the high priestess of libertarianism who contemptuously said, "The concept of God is degrading to men' and who proclaimed that selfishness was a virtue.

Wilcox has even provided free copies of Rand's anti-Christian literature to incarcerated juvenile delinquents. Wilcox's Web site also has links to several extremist groups that promote private armed militias and anti- Semitic crackpot conspiracy theories involving international bankers and the Rothschilds. Wilcox promotes the speeches of Ron Paul of Texas, a former Libertarian candidate for president who now masquerades as a Republican and who has the dubious distinction of being the only member of Congress to vote against honoring Pope John Paul II.

When Congress voted last year to condemn Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for making anti-Semitic remarks, Ron Paul was the only congressman that refused to condemn the remarks. Wilcox describes Ron Paul as "one of the foremost defenders of both economic and personal liberty in America.' Wilcox clearly seems to be more interested in advancing the Libertarian cause than in pursuing the best interests of the Republican Party.

Finally, Wilcox (who claims to be a supporter of small business) has lately been explaining to Republican groups that his criminal record as a convicted felon and the year he served in state prison for burglarizing small businesses is actually an inspiring tale of rehabilitation. In this Assembly district, Democrats outnumber Republicans by 12 percent and Libertarians are less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the vote.

Is a crypto-Libertarian extremist with a prison record who advocates selfishness as a personal philosophy and promotes atheism to teenage criminals the best candidate to represent the Republican Party? Decide for yourself.

Martin R. Truitt
Pasadena

They talk "freedom" but look at Ron Paul. He went Republican and went pro-war and anti-abortion.

This guy is running as Republican but talks Libertarian. He talks Libertarian, but has burglarized a small business, though Libertarians are supposed to hold property rights "sacred."

Can't trust them! If you're remotely "liberal" and find some affinity with the Libertarians, bail out now. Join the Greens or go independent.

Assuming that one's choices are limited to the Republicans (ugh!) or the Libertarians (ugh!) is a little bit like Solzhenitsyn's assumption that Russians' political choices are limited to Stalinism or Czarism.

LIES and the LYING LIARS who tell them.

I don't think that is what Catholic theologians have in mind when they speak of the Holy Trinity - three persons in one God. Mabe it really symbolizes Three Dunces of the Delta. Or Dopes on the Corners. Or the Iron Triangle of Reaction. Or the three lowest scorers on the 1964 SAT test. Or maybe it is the three moron brand used on the Bush ranch.

I don't think that is what Catholic theologians have in mind when they speak of the Holy Trinity - three persons in one God. Mabe it really symbolizes Three Dunces of the Delta. Or Dopes on the Corners. Or the Iron Triangle of Reaction. Or the three lowest scorers on the 1964 SAT test. Or maybe it is the three moron brand used on the Bush ranch.