Posted on 05/10/2006 10:25:38 AM PDT by EggsAckley
SANTA CRUZ — It may not be a local race, but some in Santa Cruz are lining up to support congressional hopeful Pete McCloskey, the Republican primary challenger to Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy.
Pombo, who has proposed bills to sell 15 national parks, abolish protection for 150 million acres of wilderness and weaken the Endangered Species Act, has irked the national environmental community to the point that it is rallying for his Republican opponent, even here in Santa Cruz.
Pombo is "not a desirable congressman," said Democrat and Santa Cruz resident Eleanor Wasson, 98. Wasson is hosting a fundraiser for McCloskey on Saturday and expects many in the county to turn out.
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
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Thanks for pinging this. I don't have a list. Needs to be seen by lots of Bay Area folks.
Only in California would this guy be considered a Republican.
Thanks again.
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.
What state does Olympia Snowe represent again?
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.
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.
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...
"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.
"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.
HEY! EGGS!
http://tinyurl.com/mvkqn
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.
The depiction of Santa Cruz in the The Lost Boys is much more accurate than the popular misconception.
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