INDEPENDENT: Republican stronghold in California at risk as environmentalists go on the attack

[arenean]

"In a year of unpopular Republican incumbents, perhaps no congressman is more reviled than Richard Pombo of California.

Environmentalists loathe him because, as chair of the House Resources Committee, he advocated selling off one quarter of the country's national parks and pushed for oil and gas drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and the Pacific Ocean. The media has been gunning for him because he took money from the disgraced Republican Party lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Republicans in his district have been made queasy by his deals with developers, who have increased the value of his family-held landholdings while contributing to his political campaign fund.

He has put family members on his congressional payroll at salaries so high that two years ago they outstripped the entire campaign budget of his Democratic Party challenger. And now he is pushing to build a freeway which would require the state to purchase land from his family at a premium rate.

In the words of the Sacramento Bee newspaper, Mr Pombo is "the diseased heart of the quid-pro-quo process that defines Washington today" - one of the reasons Congress has only a 16 per cent approval rating. But his defeat in next week's mid-term elections is far from certain. If anything, the odds still favour him."

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Republican stronghold in California at risk as environmentalists go on the attack

[Royal Sloan 09]

1. Pombo must go!

Pombo must go!

President Bill Clinton will be helping campaign for Jerry McNerney for the Congress CA-11 district, Wednesday Nov 1st, 9 pm in Stockton Metro Airport. Pombo must Go, GOTV!!


also checkout the webpage for Jerry McNerney. http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/

[Sequoia]

6. Indeed, that little troll must go. He doesn't even need to dress up for Halloween.

He's just scary to look at if you askk me.

[acmavm]

2. Will someone please explain to me what the deal is with California?

Schwartzy, Cunningham, Pombo, Billbray?????????????/

[bemildred]

3. California historically has been a Republican state.

Three of our last eight governors have been Democrats.
Some of the wierdest nut congressmen come from here.
In certain parts of the state everyone has a KoolAid drip.
That is changing, but it is far from a done deal yet.

[acmavm]

4. Thank you.

[Sapere aude]

5. San Diego, Orange County, the whole Central Valley are red in CA.

Los Angeles, San Francisco and other major cities are Blue. The thing that turned the state against repukes was prop 187, the anti illegal immigrant initiative. That put an end to Pete Wilson and gave the Dems the control of the state as Hispanics turned against the repukes. Enron helped to get Gray Davis ousted when the right successfully blamed the power black outs on him and the liberal conservationists.

So now we have a repuke Governor and sec of state so watch your vote carefully here.