Modesto Bee no longer supports Pombo!

[Kadie]

Out with Pombo,in with McNerney


Last Updated: October 10, 2006, 04:15:26 AM PDT


During his 14 years in the House of Representatives, Richard Pombo has usually earned guarded support from The Bee to represent the 11thCongressional District — which includes most of San Joaquin County.

Along the way, though, he has earned other types of support — significant contributions from development interests, Indian gaming tribes, oil companies, foreign mining concerns and some of the most corrupt people in Washington, D.C. To earn that support, Pombo has embraced potentially disastrous environmental policies; suggested selling off national parks; tried to engineer giveaways of natural resources, and embraced drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off both coasts. The Resources Committee he chairs has made a few favored gaming tribes extraordinarily wealthy.

All have returned his support in the form of contributions. Various lists put contributions to Pombo at $7.3million during his congressional career — including mountains of money raised at lavish events hosted by lobbyists and those who have business with his committee. He has taken money from admitted political fixer Jack Abramoff, and he was a protégé of disgraced House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Their support has cost him ours. We can no longer embrace a politician who appears to put special interests ahead of the interests of his district. It's also troubling that one watchdog group listed Pombo among Washington's 20 most corrupt representatives.

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http://www.modbee.com/2006/election/recommends/story/12858784p-13541818c.html

[greeneyedboy]

1. hallelujah! (it's about time.)

[Kadie]

3. Welcome to DU greeneyedboy!

:hi:

[greeneyedboy]

4. thanks! n/t

[senseandsensibility]

2. It's sad that I feel compelled to praise

them for doing what is, after all, the only moral thing. Shows how low standards of morality have become since 2000.

[davidinalameda]

5. simply amazing

never thought I'd see the day

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

6. Yeah, Baby!

I hope this starts a landslide..Pombo and Doolittle are going down!

[Kickin_Donkey]

7. The Modesto Bee is part of the McClatchy chain ...

whose flagship is the Sacramento Bee. The McClatchy chain is liberal.

[senseandsensibility]

8. Then I wonder why they supported Pombo

until just now.:shrug: Pombo has never been liberal and his ethics problems have been well known for a long, long time.