Posted on 11/10/2009 8:28:46 PM PST by pissant
Decorated Marine veteran Nick Popaditch on Tuesday announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 51st Congressional District seat held by Democrat Bob Filner.
Nicknamed “Gunny Pop,” Popaditch served two separate stints in the Marines. He was a tank commander during the Persian Gulf war and honorably discharged in 1992 after six years.
Tiring of civilian life, he rejoined the Marines in 1995. A widely circulated photograph after the fall of Baghdad in 2003 shows the tank commander and platoon sergeant smoking a cigar in front of the statue of Saddam Hussein just before his unit helped tear it down.
Popaditch, 42, was awarded the Silver Star for combat actions during the battle for Fallujah. During that battle he was blinded in one eye by a rocket-propelled grenade to the head and given a medical retirement.
He announced his candidacy at events in Chula Vista and El Centro. He was introduced at both events by retired Rep. Duncan Hunter.
“Since returning home, I’ve seen our liberties under assault and our children’s future being sold away by an expanding government that limits individual freedom and responsibility,” Popaditch said in. his announcement.
Filner’s 51st District runs the length of the California-Mexico border and is 48 percent Democratic to 27 percent Republican. The Chula Vista Democrat was re-elected in 2008 with 73 percent of the vote.
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Me and mine are doing very well, no thanks to the Obama depression though. But I’m seeing some good signs out there that give me hope that we’ll turn this ship around. Keep praying!
That's my best weapon. I'm concerned about the Warriors in harms way and praying that they don't lose hope.
Stay well and keep a Godly hope alive. Mar
Will do. Don’t be such a stranger, stanger!
Dr. Rand Paul has asked Sarah Palin to come here to Kentucky to assist with his campaign.
She seems to be a good egg. We’ll see how she weathers the next wave of media BS coming her way.
I like her, she’s wonderful plus she is classy.
Wow. Would be great if we could get him elected in 2010. Time for all of us to band together and charge the gates (metaphorically of course). People are tired of the status quo. They want “change”. Time to oust the incumbents!
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Gunny Pop is a great guy.
Like to see him in the same room with anti war Rand Paul,
but guess it wouldn’t be fair. Gunny Pop is a man and Paul isn’t.
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