Bob Dornan was first elected to represent a district along the coast of Santa Monica Bay in 1976. I was active in this campaign—on Halloween, I went door to door placing doorhangers that read “even the Great Pumpkin is voting for Dornan” on the front doors of homes in Venice. Some of my colleagues went over to the Sepulveda Tunnel, a tunnel that carries traffic along Sepulveda Blvd. beneath the runways of LAX, and plastered it with hundreds of Dornan signs, making the airport authority, Caltrans and the highway patrol hopping mad. But it did get the word out to thousands of commuters.
Dornan won re-election against Carey Peck, the son of actor Gary Peck, in 1978. However, he later ran in Orange County when his original district was gerrymandered by adding some deep-blue neighborhoods immediately to the east to turn it blue.
Although subsequent redistricting brought the district almost back to its original boundaries, the demography has changed, and it is now represented by Comrade Ted Lieu, who is one of the worst Congressmen.
Bomber Bob. We traded letters, re protecting our bridges.
The actor, was Gregory Peck (not Gary Peck), IIRC.
Gregory Peck’s father had a pharmacy near the downtown, San Diego.