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McCloskey over Pombo
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker May 26, 2006 01:44pm |
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| Category | Endorsement |
| Media | Newspaper - San Francisco Chronicle |
| News Date | Friday, May 26, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | PETE McCLOSKEY defines the term "straight shooter." He has never seen the world through a partisan prism when it comes to delineating right from wrong. As a Republican member of Congress, the decorated Marine Corps veteran spoke out against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and called for President Richard Nixon's impeachment in June 1973.
But don't try to typecast McCloskey as a liberal. He helped push through a capital-gains tax reduction in 1977 and embraced President Ronald Reagan's program to cut taxes and government spending in the early 1980s. His brand of conservatism includes balanced budgets and excludes needless foreign military intervention.
Today, at 78, McCloskey is blunt as ever in what he bemoans as an erosion of "traditional Republican values" in Washington. He is angry about the pay-to-play scandals, the deficit spending, the assaults on environmental protection -- and the war in Iraq. He calls the Bush administration "the worst in history."
It's enough to make him want to leave his small family farm to return to the House of Representatives, where he served from 1967 to 1983. |
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