Posted on 09/27/2019 8:30:52 AM PDT by DFG
Darrell Issa, a nine-term congressman who retired last year, will run against fellow Republican Duncan Hunter in California’s 50th district. Republicans Carl DeMaio, a former city councilman in San Diego, and state senator Brian Jones are also challenging Hunter, who is not giving up his bid despite a looming trial on corruption charges.
The “GOP Brawl,” as Politico put it, enhances the prospects of Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, who lost to Hunter by 3.4 percentage points last November. As Robin Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times explains, Campa-Najjar has been telling voters “Whether in two years, four years, or 10 years. I’m going to be your congressman one day.” So the “Palestinian Mexican,” as he sometimes bills himself, has been playing down his terrorist family members.
His grandfather, Muhammad Abu Yousef al-Najjar, was a commander of Black September, the Palestinian terrorist cell that abducted, tortured and murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A veteran of the Muslim Brotherhood, he coordinated the military arm of Fatah, served on the executive committee of the PLO and was a member of the Palestinian National Congress. “Not exactly a small fish,” as the intrepid Pedro Gonzalez notes, and the father Yasser al-Najjar is also of interest.
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Issa is a Bush League Republican.
Stay out to pasture, Issa.
[Issa is a Bush League Republican.]
Issa was useless when he was Oversight chair...
Duncan Hunter is a real p.o.s. He won’t go away. The guy is broke and is living paycheck to paycheck. He is going to get convicted. Later he will be a homeless bum sleeping under a freeway overpass in San Diego.
I do lose track of some politicians, but I though Duncan Hunter was a pretty solid Conservative. Am I thinking of someone else?
Yes you’re thinking of his father Duncan Lee Hunter a real stand up Conservative.
You are thinking of his father, a solid conservative who held the seat from 1981 to 2009. Duncan Hunter the father ran for president in 2008, and the son ran for his congressional seat.
The son has represented the district from 2009 to present, and is currently under indictment for misuse of campaign funds.
Thanks
Seems like the sentiment here is for the Democrat Palestinian Mexican terrorist-in-waiting over any Republican. Bodes well for Warren in 2020
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