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McCloskey weighs bid to revive GOP
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Dec 16, 2005 04:59pm |
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| News Date | Friday, December 16, 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | RUMSEY - During his career in politics, Pete McCloskey has gone up against the likes of Shirley Temple Black, Richard Nixon and Pete Wilson.
Now the former environmental lawyer and Republican congressman from the San Mateo area is seriously pondering doing battle in the GOP primary next June against Rep. Richard Pombo of Tracy, whom McCloskey regards as an affront to the Republican principles of his day.
McCloskey also is taking aim at a Pombo ally, GOP Rep. John Doolittle of Roseville, by financing acerbic billboard ads and scouting for primary election challengers.
"You've got everything I've spent my life involved in since I was 21 years old -- the Marines, the environment, honesty in government, independent judiciary -- all of those things are being challenged by a Republican Party of which these are ringleaders in Northern California," McCloskey said during a long conversation last week on his back porch. |
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