3pm Update: I have now attached Dec Relief and P&A’s (for you lawyer types)
2pm Update:  I have now attached the filing.

Today a group of attorneys has filed suit to try and have Jerry Brown disqualified as a candidate for State Attorney General.  Apparently, according to Adam Abrahms, a state board member of the California Republican Lawyers Association and a plaintiff in this action along with fellow GOP attorneys Tom Del Becarro, Mark Pruner, David Prince and Carl Burton, the law requires that you may not qualify as a candidate for the office, “unless he shall have been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the state for a period of at least five years immediately preceding his election or appointment to such office.”

FR friend Tom Del Becarro, who is Chairman of the Contra Costa County Republican Party and also was elected by California’s 58 GOP County Chairmen to serve as President of the State Association of County Chairmen, is also a plaintiff in the case and has been doing heavy lifting to get the case together and filed today.

Tom has his own website, Political Vanguard, and makes the moral and legal case for this suit in a column he penned today.  I suggest you check it out.

Abrahms told me when we spoke that right around the time that Brown was readmitted to the Bar a few years ago was when he first remembers Brown talking about running for Attorney General.  It seems like maybe Brown is an "attorney in name only" — which would technically be legal except that Brown apparently waited too long to file his bar paperwork.

Here is a statement released by Brown’s opponent, State Senator Chuck Poochigian, on this matter:

We’ll keep on this story and let you know how it develops..

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.