Jerry McNerney, CA--The man who took down Pombo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hand]

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[sinkingfeeling]

1. All the creatures on the earth are clapping too!!

[kwolf68]

2. This one does my heart so good...

As someone on the "other coast" living in Virginia, Richard Pombo was PE#1 for environmental minded folks like myself. To rid the US House of such a vile, disgusting man like Pombo was good enough, but to do it with someone like McNerney is just icing on the whole damn cake.

Maybe the environment does stand a chance afterall....

[ProudDad]

3. And it wasn't even close!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Jerry: 53%
Pombo: 46%

[David__77]

4. Amazing.

I m genuinely surprised at this victory and its margin. Wonderful news.

[Cha]

5. Yes! It looks like a great

site. http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/

And here's a juicy little article on McNerney's win over pombo in the
San Jose Mercury News..

"LOS ANGELES - Jerry McNerney was an unlikely candidate to take down a powerful GOP committee chairman.

He has never held elected office. He has written novels and a satire diet book, and is a wind energy consultant who named his daughter Windy. He started several companies that haven't gone anywhere, has almost no income and lives off a family trust.

McNerney did not even have the support of Democratic Party leaders in the primary, and he lost badly two years ago to the man he soundly defeated Tuesday: House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo, R-Tracy. He beat Pombo 53 percent to 47 percent.

The unconventional resume didn't matter as national environmental groups made the race a referendum on Pombo, angry over the incumbent's support for energy and gas drilling, privatizing public lands and rewriting the Endangered Species Act to add protections for landowners."

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15959927.htm

Edit~ Again, Karma's a Bitch!

[kwolf68]

6. Got a call from Big Dawg

"Unlikely candidate?" Why is that? He is EXACTLY the type of person the founders had in mind when they devised up the US House idea.

His vote in for Pombo is like winning the lottery.