Who is John Yob and what has he done?

'Voting rights is a bigger issue than John Yob or anyone else - it is a fundamental right that should not be infringed upon by biased officials.'

John Yob has become the center of a legal battle involving the Virgin Islands and a restraining order against a man determined to keep Yob out of politics.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - John Yob is the owner of the Michigan-based consulting firm Strategic National and has traveled to the Virgin Islands on multiple occasions.

Yob permanently moved his family to the Virgin Islands on December 28, 2015 and on Friday stated: "We have been coming to the Virgin Islands for a very long time and last year finally made it our home. Our children absolutely love their school and we are thankful to the vast majority of Virgin Islanders who have welcomed us to the community."

"It is important to encourage more families and job creators to travel to the Virgin Islands, experience paradise, and consider making it your home as well!"

Comments such as these - paired with his work to help the Virgin Island economy - have earned Yob quite a bit of popularity around the Islands, leading to his sweep of the Republican delegates.

Though six delegates were available in the Islands, no nominations went to one of the four Republicans still running for the presidency; instead, voters flocked toward Yob.

Both Yob and Holland Redfield, a Republican national committeeman for the Virgin Islands, claim Yob was elected to the delegation but VI Republican Party Chairman John Canegata claims the group failed to file paperwork, making them ineligible.

After stating they were unable to move forward, Canegata chose his own group of delegates for the national convention in Cleveland and accused Yob of being an "outsider" since he previously lived in Michigan.

Yob and Redfield have moved to seek a temporary restraining order from Canegata to keep him from "subverting the democratic process and form disenfranchising Republican voters" and wants Canegata to certify them as delegates.

In a letter released last week, Canegata wrote Redfield to say they missed the delegation election. Had they attended, they would have seen that Canegata was unanimously elected chairman of the Virgin Islands delegation.

He added, "This frivolous lawsuit, which was leaked to journalists in Washington before it was even served, is nothing more than an act of desperation by the same people who failed to follow basic rules and even swore false oaths in their attempt to cause, in their own words, chaos at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland."

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