Does Campbell have a history of contributing to Democrats or not? He was a Democrat when he was 20. So was Ronald Reagan. What was his record in Congress? (IIRC, he was fairly liberal, so I’m not meaning to argue with the larger point of how well he’d represent the GOP.)
and so was i... Tom Campbell was my Congressman back when i lived in the South Bay... about as conservative as you're going to get in that area of California... after he left, we got Mike Honda--who was the principal of my elementary school... that area will never get another Republican in that spot... i do not consider Tom Campbell a conservative... but i do think the writer of this article is stretching it by including him in this list just because he was a Democrat back in 1970... if they wanted to be intellectually honest, they could have talked about where he stands on the issues... i'm sure they would have found something...