Santa Cruz joins fight against property-rights Republican Pombo

santa cruz sentinel.com ^ | May 10, 2006 | GENEVIEVE BOOKWALTER

[EggsAckley]

*ping*

[EggsAckley]

Thanks for pinging this. I don't have a list. Needs to be seen by lots of Bay Area folks.

[American Quilter]

Many in town remember McCloskey's more than seven terms as a Republican congressman from the San Francisco Peninsula. He was a strong voice against the Vietnam War, started the first Earth Day in 1970 and made the first House speech in 1973 suggesting the impeachment of President Nixon.

Only in California would this guy be considered a Republican.

[FOG724]

I pinged CA folks interested in property rights but only two are from the bay area. I did ping freepatriot32 who has farmfriends old rights list.

[EggsAckley]

Thanks again.

[tom h]

He doesn't have a chance. McCloskey is 79 years old and looks worse than Ted Kennedy. Pombo is a young, vibrant, conservative Republican who is popular in his district.

This is just an example of the lefties looking for news positive to their side. It's also a sign of desperation because if they have to resort to UCSC students doing brownie bake sales to raise money for a campaign in another distict, it's because they KNOW they can't raise money in the district at stake themselves.

[FOG724]

Only in California would this guy be considered a Republican.

What state does Olympia Snowe represent again?

[American Quilter]

It's also a sign of desperation because if they have to resort to UCSC students doing brownie bake sales to raise money for a campaign in another distict, it's because they KNOW they can't raise money in the district at stake themselves.

My sister has the misfortune to live in Santa Cruz County (only until her husband's able to retire), and she tells me it was a conservative county until the 1960s, when liberals began flooding in, first to the US Santa Cruz campus.

When she moved there 3 years ago, she stopped at a voter registration booth one day and asked for a registration form. When they handed it to her, the Democrat Party block was already marked. She handed it back, saying she was a Republican. "Then you'll have to go somewhere else," she was told.

She and her husband wouldn't dare put any kind of conservative bumper sticker on their cars--the cars would be keyed to ribbons within 24 hours.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

She and her husband wouldn't dare put any kind of conservative bumper sticker on their cars--the cars would be keyed to ribbons within 24 hours.

America has only ever been the land of the free for those with the numbers and the means (or lack of means) to make the other side think twice about messing with you.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The Federal government NEVER had the constitutional right to own more property than enough to put a building and a parking lot on. It did not own land in the 13 state that created it but had to beg for a place, not exceeding 10 miles square, to put its capital. But it extorted all the new states by claiming almost all of their land as property in return for the grant of state sovereignty. And then over the years it took most of that back.

[Czar]

McCloskey is a left wing jackass who is going nowhere.

On the other hand, judging by what we see in the Big Tent Party-Above-Principle GOP these days, perhaps Petey isn't all that far left any more...

[scripter]

The last paragraph in the article says:

"Such a win over Pombo, by a progressive like Pete, will send shock waves through the corrupt Republican power structure in the Congress, into the White House, all the way to Karl Rove's desk," reads Wasson's fundraising invitation.

But Wasson, Pete McCloskey has to win, first, and there's very little chance of that happening. McCloskey is nearly 80 years old and he has a 98-year-old Wasson throwing him a fundraiser. While Santa Cruz is definitely progressive, I can't see this group putting together a winning strategy against Pombo.

[dersepp]

I lived on the west side (Chico and Auburn, across from the little octagonal house) for over eight years.You have to get a tough skin there and give back better than you get. I had a "Welcome U.S. Navy" sticker on my car most of the time and never had any trouble. I also had a little picture of my beautiful Browning 9mm Practical on each side of the car and a little disclaimer saying:

"This is the gun you will be shot with if you mess with this car"

Wonder if that had anything to do with never getting keyed.

[American Quilter]

"This is the gun you will be shot with if you mess with this car" Wonder if that had anything to do with never getting keyed.

I'm willing to bet it did! Liberals are cowards, after all.

[angry bastard]

Isn't it nice that they live in such a tolerant place? I can concur with her sentiments. I work in San Francisco, and wouldn't dare put *anything* on my car for the same reason.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

HEY! EGGS!
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[Regulator]

McCloskey is nearly 80 years old and he has a 98-year-old Wasson throwing him a fundraiser

That's the way all the leftists in Santa Cruz look. Aging Shambalistas, lumbering towards death, no children around...they aborted theirs. Schools are closing because they never had any children.

Just a matter of time, the garbage will take itself out.

[Regulator]

Isn't it nice that they live in such a tolerant place?

The depiction of Santa Cruz in the The Lost Boys is much more accurate than the popular misconception.