Environmentalists Attack Republican Stronghold in California
In a year of unpopular Republican incumbents, perhaps no congressman is more reviled than Richard Pombo of California. Environmentalists loathe him because, as chair of the House Resources Committee, he advocated selling off one quarter of the country's national parks and pushed for oil and gas drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and the Pacific Ocean. The media has been gunning for him because he took money from the disgraced Republican Party lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Republicans in his district have been made queasy by his deals with developers, who have increased the value of his family-held landholdings while contributing to his political campaign fund.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110106EC.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pombo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110106EC.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pombo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff
rudkla - 2. Nov, 10:57
