Loony election heats up
from the Times-Standard | News Articles | by James Faulk | Jun 2, 2006
Courthouse protest crashed by surfer girls
EUREKA -- You just can't make this stuff up.
Out in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse for the past two weeks, a small handful of protesters have been waving anti-Worth Dikeman signs, some claiming that the candidate for district attorney in the past discriminated against American Indians in jury selection.
Dikeman denies the claim, and points out that the conviction over which the accusations were made have been repeatedly upheld.
But on Thursday, the protest took a turn toward the ridiculous when the party was crashed by four young women, self-entitled “surf divas” wearing bikini tops and waving signs of their own.
The Eureka High School seniors, identified only as Mary, Sara, Julie and Suzie, declined to give their last names but admitted their signs were “a bit sarcastic.”
”We want Gallegos to know he's sexy and that he should call in sick to go surfing with us,” Mary said, referring to incumbent District Attorney Paul Gallegos.
Two Dikeman supporters also on scene did not give their names, had no comment and were later seen running away from the courthouse with the girls.
A call to the Dikeman campaign was not returned by deadline.
Ellie Bowman -- mother of Jeffrey Leonard Bowman, one of the three defendants convicted of the December 1999 stabbing death of Trinidad resident Julius Aubrey -- said she's been standing outside the courthouse for about two weeks protesting comments made by Dikeman that she claims are racist.
