Before they began efforts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot, they first tried to do it to Rep. David Eastman here in Alaska.
The unrelenting effort to purge conservative voices from all walks of life ran into a brick wall in Alaska last year after Left-wing and Marxist groups launched a multi-year effort to vilify Rep. David
Eastman and expel him from public office against the will of Alaska voters.
After they lost at the ballot box they then tried to sue him personally
simply for getting re-elected! He prevailed, and won the lawsuit, but the legal expenses from his serving in the legislature are now well over $300,000. Please help us defend David from these
unprecedented attacks on a legislator, his family, and the right of voters to choose their own elected representative!
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After running socialist and moderate candidates against him three
elections in a row without success, in 2022 they reached back to a law
written in 1950 that forbids Communists from serving in government, and
declared that David should be forbidden from being a legislator because he
attended President Trump's speech on January 6th in Washington, DC.
That was it. They sought to brand him a "disloyal
American" simply for
standing with the president by attending and listening to the president's
speech. For this supposed crime they spent eight months hosting rallies, and
email and phone campaigns to put pressure on the Democrat-controlled House
of Representatives to remove him from office.
Alaskans responded in David's support, and it didn't work. Eight
months into their campaign, when it was obvious they had failed, they pivoted and declared that David had joined Oath Keepers back in 2009, and decided to
add that to their list of reasons he was a "disloyal American". To the left, recommitting yourself to honoring your oath to the United States Constitution
is now an act of disloyalty, tantamount to being a member of the KGB in the Cold War--at least from their
perspective.
To give you a flavor of where they are coming from politically,
the campaign to remove David was started by the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Anchorage, Alaska. They demand the violent overthrow of all
capitalist governments and highlighted their campaign against David on the
Communist News Website.
They brought in a radical law firm (the Northern
Justice Project) and attorneys from Los Angeles, California and Fairbanks to sue David
personally. The Northern Justice Project law office itself is a living shrine to the
Black Panther Party and various Communist revolutionaries. They required David to attend a court-ordered
deposition underneath a poster of communist revolutionary Che Guevara.
At the height of the election campaign, they also required David to locate and submit more than 30,000 pages of documents to the candidate who ran against him and lost in the last election.
Their lawsuit failed. David won in court.
Yet we are told that our family must now bear the weight of hundreds of
thousands of dollars in legal fees because of David's willingness to serve in public office. If David had resigned from office, the
case would have gone away. It is only because he won re-election, and continues to defend the rights of every American that they wanted to put him on trial.
There are no attorneys in Alaska whose job it is to defend whether
or not someone should be a member of the legislature, or whether an election
should be overturned because a legislator is "disloyal" to the
Constitution. The idea of suing a legislator personally for simply being a member of
the legislature is unheard of.
It's a stressful time for our family as we look for
where the money will come from to defend David's continuing to serve in the
legislature against these legal attacks (a textbook example of lawfare if there
ever was one). We believe this is where God has asked us to serve as a
family today, and David will continue to stand, but there is a concerted effort
to silence conservative voices in government today and we are certainly
feeling that as a family. Please help us counter this attack with the resources that David
needs to be able to stand on behalf of every American against these assaults on our constitutional rights.
Your contribution today will be used to help David
cover the legal costs that have arisen from his service as a state legislator as he stands on the front lines
fighting to fulfill his oath to support and defend the Constitution!
-Excerpt of Media Coverage-
Courting disaster: Unseating elected representatives via the judiciary is a dangerous precedent (Anchorage Daily News)
Rep. Eastman supporters pack Anchorage courtroom as lawmaker fights attempt to ban him from public office (Alaska Watchman)
Mat-Su Republican Party leaders blast suit against Rep. Eastman as a threat to constitutional government (Alaska Watchman)
Rep. Eastman: The Left aims to silence those who oppose their shifting ideological whims (Alaska Watchman)
-Legal Disclaimer-
For more detailed information on the lawsuit, including motions
and pleadings, visit DavidLegal.org.
We are grateful for your most generous donation, up to the annual limit of $249.99 per person this year. Thank you.
If you prefer, you can instead donate by check made out to
"David Eastman Legal Defense fund" using the address at the
bottom of this page.
davidlegal.org | 1491 W Gold Bar
Rd., Wasilla, AK 99654.
